Sweating the details....

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

"I didn't want to announce the winners, just preview the aquascapes on a
monitor there."

No problem at ALL with that.....

"Unfortunately, I guess I wasn't clear enough; you missed my point
entirely. My point was that I think you SHOULDN'T know this.  You
shouldn't choose who to award the big tank to based on knowing where they
live, or seeing their entry.  To me, this plays directly into that trap of
changing the rules midstream you mentioned above.  I think you should
choose based ONLY on the category and how popular the competition is in
the category."

"Sure, we'll have to take consideration of getting the prize to the person
and maybe substituting things, but I think those adjustments should be
made only when absolutely necessary, and AFTER the initial decision of
which prizes go where, not as part of it or before it.  (Just my opinion.)"

My ONLY concern is getting the prize to the person. For example, Dwight and
Robert H. specified that their prizes are to go to U.S. based addresses
ONLY, and All Glass will only ship that tank within the continental US.
Those are restrictions on us that we have to honour.

Maybe all of the winning entries will be from the US, but I'd hate to have
to tell a winner from Australia that they can't have the prize we'd like to
give then because it would bankrupt us to ship it (the aquarium,
specifically). At some point, we will have to know where the winners live -
at least before we give any public hint of which prize goes with which
winner.

I have no problem with not seeing entries either, except why give a CO2
regulator or reactor to someone who won in the artificial category? That's
extreme, I know..... but the prize _should_ be something that the person is
likely to appreciate and can use.

Anyway, plenty of time to worry about this sort of stuff later.....

James



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