Re: Mock Judging results

["James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>]

In looking over the results of the Mock Judging, I can see a few main areas
where we will have to discuss/decide a few things. The first is Submission
Guidlines for Entrants, and the second is Judging Guidelines for Judges and
a third is Categories for Aquascapes.

Initial thoughts on these include:

Submission Guidelines
- Explicit statement that altered/faked entries are NOT eligable for the
Contest. (Do we allow them in the Showcase???)
- Clear guidelines provided on the number and viewpoint of individual images
in each submission.
- Tank details that should accompany entries.

Judging Guidelines
- Should entries be pre-screened for altered/faked images BEFORE being
passed to Judges?
- Should Criteria points be expanded upon so that ALL Judges know exactly
what we expect to be consided under each main point? (Jose posted something
regarding this last week (see message 00512, Aug. 4).
- Should we clarify how the Judges are to calculate their "point scores"?
Two of the test judges used non-standard schemes - to be fair, ALL Judges
should be working from the same base and using the SAME yardstick. It is
_my_ view that in anything rated like this, the scoring range starts at 0
and ends at 100, not 0 to 10 or 50 to 100.
-The alternative might be to throw out "points" all together and just
request the Judges to rate things as "Unacceptable", "Acceptable", "Good",
"Very Good", "Excellent". However, this could present problems with deciding
a clear winner in any particular Category.

Categories
- We have to decide what kind of Categories we want to set up, keeping in
mind that this is NOT a typical fish show.
- Do the Judges look at ALL of the entries in each Category or do we have
specific experts/judges examine and rate only those entries in particular
Categories?
- How many entries are required before a Category can be examined and a
winner declared?
- Is only First Place to be awarded, or do we award 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place?
What about Honourable Mentions for tanks which are nice but don't place?

General
- How feasible is it to provide Judges with all entries on CD-ROM for
judging? This is really up to Erik. How much would each CD-ROM cost?

NOTE: The individual Criteria Scores for each Entry is posted under the
individual entries (follow the link GO TO IMAGES and then go to SCORES for
the indivdual entries.)

James Purchase
Toronto





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