While finishes are up for debate, it seems that crowd reactions are an integral part in determining the final star rating.

“Certainly, it’s about crowd reactions, but it’s not necessarily decibel levels, although that’s a big part of it, for sure,” Meltzer continued. “If you do a lot of unique, cool things and just do things out of the pattern that kind of shock you… If you’re expecting something and they do something different and, ‘Oh my god,’ if they can do that real well, surprise the audience in a good way where they react, I like that rather than just pattern.”

“But pattern when it works, simple pattern, is not wrong either,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s just what’s working and what’s getting the crowd going. It’s a complicated thing, but in other ways, it’s not complicated. You just watch it and where the audience is at that moment.”

Meltzer explained how if he and a friend are sitting at a show and are within 0.25 or 0.5 stars apart from each other, then that means they agree it was a great match.