Re: [AGA-Contest] Pond Category for Contest

["Ricky Cain" <rlcain1@earthlink.net>]

That's what I thought. Now that explains why their flag wasn't in the mix.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning" <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Pond Category for Contest


> Oh, you mean the crop?  I needed something small enough to use as a 
> banner, but if I did a straight reduction on the masthead, it ended up 
> unreadable.  Glad to have an official one, though.
>
> I don't think we've ever had an entry from AU!
>
>   - Erik
>
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Ricky Cain wrote:
>
> > Erik,
> >
> > I saw you murdered my graphic on the press kit page. I am making up some 
> > banners. One thing I am looking for is an Austrailian contest tank. I 
> > guess I'm just overlooking it. Can anybody find it?
> >
> > Ricky
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
> > To: "AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning" <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Pond Category for Contest
> >
> >
> > > 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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