Ep. 40: Ian Mccall & Steve Seow - Scoring Senate

Retired UFC veteran Ian Mccall & software developer Steve Seow have partnered together to revolutionize the judging and scoring systems in Mixed Martial Arts with their organization, Scoring Senate. 

The core principles of Scoring Senate are simple: real-time, experts-based, and large panel of judges collectively referred to as the Senate. The members of the Senate are verified MMA luminaries called Senators who not only score a bout live in an open-scoring fashion round-by-round, but also add their commentary and analysis.

Each senate commissioned to each bout comprises of no fewer than 7 senators, although the platform can theoretically take hundreds or thousands if need be. Both points and comments are aggregated and shared publicly via Twitter and on the website in real time, and fans can choose to see the aggregated scorecard or individual scorecards of a senator.

I had a great time discussing how this idea came to fruition and gained a great deal of insight from UFC veteran, Ian Mccall on the impacts of the current system on fighters and their careers. 

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