RE: Honorable Mention Awards

["Ken Guin" <kenguin@bellatlantic.net>]

James wrote: "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?"

Ken writes: I agree that the judges should be the ones who pick the
"Honorable Mentions" awards. I also think the number of HMs awarded should
be up to the judges as well (with an overall limit depending on the number
of prizes we want to award, which might have been your original question).
If we give the judges an arbitrary limit within a class or category, they
might be awarding some pretty awful aquariums HM awards in the lightly
competed categories. Basically, if the judges think that an aquascape is not
quite good enough to place in the top three, but was better than most of the
others in the category or class, then an HM might be appropriate.

Regards,

Ken Guin
Arlington, VA

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