Re: Judging at Cordova - Dig 1532

[P3D <Billbowie@xxxxxxx>]

George - Sorry for the delay.  I lost track of this digest.  In answer to
your question.  I guess it depends on several things.  First, your motivation
for entering your slides.  If your main motivation is to win ribbons then you
may ration your good slides.  There is definitely some gamesmanship involved.
 But that leads to the second point, your ability to predict which slide the
judge will like the best.  Many times the judge selects the slide that I do
not consider my best probably based in large part on subject matter or their
own personal experience.  The incentive is then to put in a variety of  your
best slides.  This brings me to the third point.  The larger incentive is for
more makers to enter their slides since one or two people will not be winning
all of the honors.  We have been experimenting on our slide of the year
competition the last two years with a percentage of the slides entered
instead of one award per maker and I haven't really noticed any difference in
participation or strategy.  Bill  (Billbowie@xxxxxxx)
>The judge previews each of a makers entries.  All three slides are shown
>again and the judge selects the one that s(he) "likes" the best.   This
>process is then repeated for each maker.     

Bill, this system does not recognize the possiblity that one person
can have the 3 best slides of the competition.  Why bother entering 3 
good slides when just one will do it? -- George


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