Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA2K4 Feedback Summary

[Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com>]

> Well, at least Ghazanfar can take comfort in the knowledge that he was
> fairly even handed in his criticizm of all of us.<g>  Personally, I've never
> seen, read or heard Ghazanfar be rude to anyone.  It doesn't seem to be his
> style.

Thank you Karen! That helps! That comment by Leon is fairly disturbing to me. 
I may be making a big deal of it in my own head but I'm very curious to
hear why he made that comment. I'm usually never rude unless someone ticks
me off - and it takes quite a bit to get me to that point, which usually means
then at that point the rudness is well deserved. I don't recall
anything in the recent
past that's pushed me to that point. Anyway - I've emailed Leon - curious to
see his response.

> On the length of the awards, I had a thought... Some people obviously WANT
> to learn more about aquascaping through the judges' comments, while others
> have little or no interest.  What about: Do the awards Friday night, and
> kept it to the bare minimum... maybe not even have the judges up there, but
> have Erik read some comments as he has some times in the past.  Then have
> one of the focus groups be a chance to go into more detail on the tanks with
> the judges in a small, informal setting where people can ask more in-depth
> questions.

>From the few comments I heard back about the aquascaping awards, what
most people did not like was the 'rush' to go through them, and the perceived
'negativeness' of the comments. There was no option but to go through
the awards quickly due to the schedule changes. If we'd taken our time there,
we'd have even more people complaining about how late Amano's demo was.

We had initially planned a talk by the judges called 'A judges perspective...'.
We took it out to make the schedule a little less intense, but it may be
a good topic for next years AGA.
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