Re: show dq'd
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] show dq'd
- From: G* S*
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 05:58:22 -0800
craigiris@ipns.com wrote:
>
> Betty,
>
> .... At the Portland show, the
> show chairman insisted that the containers all match (what's this? an
> iris show or a container show????) Of course, a basal branching iris
> will not fit into an 7"tall tube 1" in diameter. The stalk was shoved
> into one of these tubes and the judges disqualified it " because only
> one stalk was allowed. It was only one stalk. But the container made it
> look like an extra stalk was placed in it.
The judges should have been dq'd for not asking that the stalk be lifted
out of the container. Specifically allowed in the Handbook, and clearly
called for here.
Both examples given in this thread are irritating, embarassing, and
humbling.
But please, let us not restart the "iris judging is a crapshoot" or
"iris judging is as fixed as figure skating" threads. I am still
recovering from wounds I received in the last go-rounds in these areas.
Gerry, with lush green growth on TB's and LA's
--
g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Director & Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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