He cannot judge best of show if his tank is in the running. I would suggest that we also get some alternate judges to provide input for the best of show if this does occur. Just a thought.
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:41:34 -0500 > From: cheryl@dustyuniverse.com > To: aga-contest@thekrib.com > Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 44, Issue 9 > > Bailin, do you mean that Jason cannot judge any Best of Show at ALL or > he cannot judge it IF his aquascape is in the running for Best of Show, > i.e. it won first place in his category? > > Cheryl > > > > Bailin Shaw wrote: > > Cheryl and all. Like was discussed previously, I think we definitely > > allow Jason to judge the contest, but as Karen pointed out, he cannot be > > part of the best in show and cannot judge his own category. There could > > be many complaints from other competitors that I would rather avoid. > > Who can contact him? > > > > Any additional work on other judges? > > > > Bailin > > > > > > i'm EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > > Join me <http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood> > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:54:51 -0500 > > > From: cheryl@dustyuniverse.com > > > To: aga-contest@thekrib.com > > > Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 44, Issue 9 > > > > > > Is there any further discussion on this topic? > > > > > > Bailin, you're the contest decider. What do I tell Jason? > > > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > > > > > Karen Randall wrote: > > > > I agree with Bailin. I don't have any problem with Jason judging > > categories > > > > that he hasn't entered, and have someone else judge the categories > > he IS > > > > entered in. The problem is if he ends up in contention for the top > > prize. > > > > None of the judges know who has entered each tank (unless they've > > seen it > > > > before, in which case we just need to trust them to judge fairly and > > > > honestly anyway) because the names are not revealed until the very > > end. I > > > > suppose we could do something like, if he DID end up in contention > > for the > > > > top prize, then he bow out of picking the over-all winner, and the > > other > > > > judges make that call. Same would be true of Phil, if he judged the > > > > categories that Jason was competing in, but he was competing in > > Biotopes... > > > > If he was one of the top two contenders in Biotopes, he would have > > to sit > > > > out the final decision making round. > > > > > > > > I think that would work, what do the rest of you think? > > > > > > > > Karen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > AGA-Contest mailing list > > > > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > > > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > AGA-Contest mailing list > > > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AGA-Contest mailing list > > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest > _______________________________________________ > AGA-Contest mailing list > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest |
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