Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA2K4 Feedback Summary

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

But the contest might not yet be large enough to break out
into separate styles for judging. Oh, and fourth style,
biotopes ;-)

sh
--- Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's no way around it. Part of the whole point of the
> comments is to
> provide insight on what would make it better - but people
> perceive that
> in a negative way. In a couple of discussions, a few
> folks have also mentioned
> that Amano's comments on the AGA website on the scapes
> are mostly negative.
> 
> At the AGA convention itself, it may be a better idea to
> just show the winning
> scapes and comments on why it won.
> 
> Some people take criticism well. Others perceive it
> negatively.
> 
> 
> There is one major problem IMO, with how we're judging
> scapes.
> There are three distinct styles....
> 
> Nature Aquarium - that in itself has several sub-styles
> that have critera 
> that they're judged on.
> 
> Dutch - (strict includes no wood or rock as part of the
> scape itself)
> 
> American (Almost Dutch, without the rock/wood
> restrictions and less
> stronger plant groupings)
> 
> To judge all three styles fairly using one criteria is
> probably
> difficult, if not
> impossible.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:59:36 -0500, Karen Randall
> <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > > >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.
> > 
> > I think we all understand the "rush" part, and the
> reasons behind it.  But
> > I'm surprised that people thought the comments were
> excessively negative.
> > I'd like to hear what some of you thought.  I thought
> we tried to give
> > constructive criticizm.  I know I was not the only one
> who mentioned several
> > times that a case could be made for many of the tanks
> being "the winner".
> > But if you don't get nit-picky, there is no way to
> justify picking one tank
> > over another.
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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