Re: Honorable Mention Awards

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> I'm not adverse to the awarding of Honorable Mention prizes, but I don't
> want to offend our judging panel nor to give the public the idea that I/we
> on this committee think that we disagree with their decisions. If we DO
> ultimately decide to go that route, I think that the issue of WHO actually
> gets those Honorable Mention awards would have to be entirely in the hands
> of the Judges and NOT able to be influenced by this committee.

Of course.  It should all be in the hands of the judges.


> In other
> words, we would have to instruct the Judging Panel that in addition to the
> "win, place and show" awards, they have the ability to award "x" number of
> Honorable Mentions as well, each of which would get a merchandise prize. The
> judges would have to be entirely free to decide which aquascapes (if any)
> actually merit such a distinction. With the "win, place and show" awards,
> the Judges have no such discretion - there are 3 awards per category and
> they HAVE to be awarded. With the "Honorable Mention" type of award, it is
> left the the collective discretion of the judging panel to decide, based
> upon the qualities of the aquascapes they are presented with.

Remember also that because the judges are scoring numerically, we
automatically have full rankings for every entry.

> What do you folks think about us allowing/requesting the Judges to award a
> discretionary number of "Honorary Mention" awards? If we agree to this, how
> many such awards should we allow for - 3, 4, 5, 6?

As many as we have leftover prizes?

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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