Re: Mock Judging results

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

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, James Purchase wrote:

>- Explicit statement that altered/faked entries are NOT eligible for the
>Contest. (Do we allow them in the Showcase???)
We should make this clear.

>- Should entries be pre-screened for altered/faked images BEFORE being
>passed to Judges?
This could be done by a group of the organizers. Someone (I think it was
Erik?) early in the discussion offered his knowledge on this to help
identify faked images.

>- 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).
I think this is _very_ important not only for the judges but also for the
entrants to know what are the general ideas behind the judgment. My post was
based 99% on James' ideas posted early. Since then nobody has comment this
descriptions, I will like to hear something new about them. The descriptions
where useful to me during judgment test.

>- 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.
This should be clarified since the judges maybe are from different countries
and have different experiences. I based my judgment from 0 to 10 on the test
and wasn't sure how it would have to be done.

>-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.
I like more the points.

>- We have to decide what kind of Categories we want to set up, keeping in
>mind that this is NOT a typical fish show.
I could think of three categories General, Biotype/Theme and Paludarium.
This could be divided on subcategories by volume as suggested early.

>- How many entries are required before a Category can be examined and a
>winner declared?
At least 5.

>- 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?
Since the points and comments are going to be public it could be define the
exact place of each entry in the contest and put it behind the points and
comments for each one.

Jose

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