Re: Jose's comments

["Jose Correa Lohmann" <jcl@pol.com.pe>]

James wrote in response to my ideas:
>Thank you Jose, for your input just now. You want a Plant Only
>showcase/contest, with the emphasis on the showcase concept, where everyone
>is just sharing their aquascaping efforts.
Those are my primary feelings about the event.

>Please read my post Engle, Take II, which should be the immediately
>preceeding message to yours in order. In it, I discuss David Engle's
>suggests that while we allow entries of ALL sorts of freshwater aquascapes,
>we allow ENTRANTS to choose whether or not their images are subjected to
>Judging in a "competition". In that way, those folks who wanted to just
>share their tanks in a showcase could do so while others could compete for
>whatever Awards we decide to offer.
>Would that be O.K. with you? Could you feel comfortable with that
>arrangement?
This is ok with me.

>Also, I notice that you envision an Aquatic Garden Only event. Several
>others have suggested that we leave things wide open, and accept all
>freshwater aquascapes. However, through the use of Weighted Scoring, the
>Judges would place much more emphasis on and award more points to Aquatic
>Gardens, as opposed to, say for example, an aquarium full of plastic plants
>and colored gravel. This would ensure that the only things _likely_ to win
>would be tanks that we, as aquatic gardeners, would be proud to have in our
>own homes.
>Is that OK with you?
I agree with this. Although I prefer live plants, if things are keep as
simple as possible it will be ok to accept any type of freshwater aquascape
and let judges decide.

>If we want to further the popularity of Planted Aquariums, allowing them
the
>be displayed side by side next to other types of aquascapes seems like a
>pretty sneaky but effective way to do it.
Good point on this!!

Jose

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