Re: [AGA-Contest] Pond Category for Contest

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Phil Edwards wrote:

> > Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
>
> That's good enough explanation to me and reason not to for me. :)

I've got a few minutes to explain:

As you probably remember, being on the other side of the contest (I 
beleive this was the year I cell phone'd you from Houston to let your 
party know I was flipping the switch on the site), we had the pond 
category in 2002.  James felt it (along with the "art" category) was 
something to expand into.

My read on the dismal turnout, disinterested judging, as well as the 
difficulty I had in "melding" the category in with the other aquascaping 
categories, was that there already was a well-established pond hobby, much 
older than aquascaping, and they had their own contests, methodology, etc.

The criteria was really different.  It didn't make sense in the context of 
the contest.  We had to give the judges separate instructions. What it 
really looked like was a category for aquarists who happened to have 
ponds.

Anyway, I pulled it for 2003.

  - Erik

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