You'd apply that to a CCM????

Who would you be awarding?

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"Mary Lou" wrote in message
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First let me say I have always been against any requirement on how
long the exhibitor has to own the plant for ribbon/trophy
consideration. If the person has the good taste to recognize a
terrific top quality plant why should he/she be penalized for picking
it out a week before the show instead of a year before the show?? For
your Best In Show Specimen plant that can easily be a rule - to own
the plant at least one year. However you must realize that it is going
to be impossible to know if the person is honest and can cause a big
bruuhahaa if there is a fight about it. My recommendation is forget
that rule!!
In the old days our show used to rent convention typewriters to type
the entry tags so that they were very readable from a distance. Now
that the club uses a computer those tags are handwriten and almost
unreadable. I dont think that is an improvement at all.
If your entry team is a good one you just have a page on a clipboard
for the classes, grouped together for the trophies. As: All Cattleyas
together. As the classes are judged the blue ribbon winners are
highlighted on the sheets by the clerks and the judges look over them
to pick the trophies for that Group. If needed the teams can take a
run around and look again at the highest contendors for trophies. This
is all very easy and you don't have to bother with computers at all.
I do speak with some experience having worked on shows for many years
and also clerked and judged. I also wrote a couple of show schedules.
One for a very big show and another for a smaller show. You can have
some genera with more classes and others with fewer depending on what
is usually shown in your area and the time of year of the show. For
instance, we had the Vandas and Ascda. subdivided more here in Miami.
At our shows we do not have ribbons IN the space exhibets, they are
placed in their own individual plant area. But trophies are BEST IN
SHOW so are picked from the entire show.
It wonderful fun to work on shows, good luck with it all.

"The Edgleys" wrote in message
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Dear Experts,

Here are a couple of general show related questions. If you have a
system
that really works well, I would like to know.

1) Does anyone have a computer program that handles show entries well?
I
envision something that would allow us to print sheets of all plants in
a
class by grower category to use for ribbon judging - not AOS. It would
also
be helpful to be able to sort the winners of the classes for trophy
consideration.

2) Do your "Exhibition Rules" contain a provision that stipulates how
long
an exhibitor must own a plant that is shown for ribbon and trophy
consideration? Do your rules stipulate that the plant must have been
grown
and flowered by the exhibitor in order for ribbon and trophy
eligibility?

I would be delighted if some of you would send me copies of your rules
and
show schedules (plant categories). Thank you.

David