Hard or Soft (not water or appendages)

So...
How many of you that have entered competitions are hard on yourself or soft?
Meaning:
Do you utilize the BierMuncher (maybe others) recomendation of sampling your submitted brews the same day as jugding, and grading them according to a BJCP sheet, then re-sampling at the time you recieve your results?

Are your personal "judging day" scores better or worse than the competition judges scores?

Wow,
40 views and no replies. I guess that'll teach me to start a poll at 2am CST...