Good luck in the draw Matt.
I think it was made pretty clear WAY earlier in this thread that it wasn't really raw pork, something we seem to have overlooked as this thread went off the rails.
People
at the contest and in a position to know told us that the pork was on a cooker and the team in question was really trying to cook it. For me, the discussion was over at that point.
The pork was underdone and it was correctly judged/scored as being inedible and scored as such. (Actual score: 42.2400)
The same team cooked and turned in the brisket category too, and didn't DAL it. They made a legitimate effort to cook the category, and I think that's all that matters.
Did they get talked into cooking two extra categories or just decide to try it? We don't know, and I think it's a moot point. We can't start policing intentions here, and can only judge by what happened.
The "adult" question here is: should the GC winner get punished due to another team's fark up? An entry that's judged and found to be a DQ counts, and a late turn in doesn't count. Let's say the pork turn in was late instead of under cooked. Would that have changed the results in a material way? No, but it might have prevented the event from being a qualifier. It seems unfair to the winner to me, and I would hope the rules committees of these large contests considers using another standard. (How many teams showed up at the event? How many head cooks were there? How many meat inspections were successful? How many sets of turn in boxes were distributed?)
Besides, we all know that an experienced team that could impact the results of a contest would never miss a turn in.
roll: Harvard 2013 :becky