Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3

[Bailin Shaw <bailin_shaw@hotmail.com>]

Hi All,

I'd love to be involved in the discussion as well... after the convention of 
course.  :-)

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> From: biotypical@hotmail.com
> To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:35:21 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3
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> Karen,
> 
> I'd be more than happy to help with a rules revision once we've slain the 
> Convention Beast.
> 
> Three weeks!
> 
>> From: krandall@rdrcpa.biz
>> To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
>> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:02:05 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3
>>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> There are no clear rules for paludariums. I can tell you that I would not
>> judge a tank with a simple piece of wood with some plants on it as highly as
>> I would a tank that was otherwise of equal quality, but had a true land
>> area. I also give higher value to a tank with an attractive, natural-looking
>> land-water interface.
>>
>> I would LOVE to re-write both the guidelines and judging criteria for both
>> the biotope and paludarium categories sometime before the next competition.
>> Care to give me a hand with it after we get through the convention? We
>> could standardize what we expect to see in the paludarium category (though
>> that category really hasn't had many problems) and give better structure and
>> much-needed guidance for the biotope category.
>>
>> I would also like very much to see us go to a judging scale of 200 rather
>> than 100. The ratios could be exactly the same, but it would be MUCH easier
>> when sorting out placings to have a little more "juggling" room. As I said
>> to Erik, in one of the categories this year, most of the tanks that I ranked
>> in the top 10 SHOULD be very close together in score. But because we have
>> to rank them 1-10, we end up with one having a score of 100 and the 10th
>> place tank having a score of 91, even if they are much closer together than
>> that in terms of quality.
>>
>> But all of this is stuff we can discuss after we get the "convention
>> monster" off our plates!
>>
>> Karen
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:29:32 -0400
>> From: Phil Edwards 
>> Subject: [AGA-Contest] Rules question
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>> Hey folks,
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>> Does a Paludarium have to have a dry "land" component to be considered a
>> paludarium? Is wood sticking out of the water sufficient to qualify as a dry
>> plant substrate?
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