Re: SHOW: Tough judges
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vince lewonski wrote:
> There were posts recently on judges judging too harshly,
> and not taking inexperience and weather into consideration.
> I am a newbie judge, and don't consider myself to be a
> particularly good exhibitor, but I don't think that judges
> should have to bend over backwards to overlook faults. When
> you see a stalk with a spiderweb, complete with spider, or
> a spent bloom, or leaning sideways because it was just
> stuck in a bottle with nothing in the neck, I don't feel
> the urge to ignore it. Such things are part of the grooming
> of a stalk, and are easy enough to do. To ignore them
> encourages such sloppiness in the future, and is unfair to
> those exhibitors who have spent time to properly prepare
> their stalks.
> Weather related issues are hard to handle, because NO
> season is ever normal!!! In shows where I am working, I
> will tell judges that it has been a bad year for aphids, or
> there was a storm last night, or that the Siberians are
> growing short this year. BUT, it is up to them how they use
> this info. I think some people have a tale of woe in hopes
> that the judges will somehow ignore the damaged blossoms,
> even though the damage was more likely to be from rounding
> the turn into the parking lot at 47 miles an hour than from
> a freak hail storm localized in one backyard...
> I'd like more exhibitors to be around after the judging,
> to ask the judge why a stalk got a HM instead of a blue,
> even though it had three open blooms. I don't think that
> most judges are quite as capricious as the slighted
> exhibitors think...
>
> Vince Lewonski
> Judge, RVP, collector of pink ribbons, Zone 6a, Secane, PA
>
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