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From: "Jim Lewis"

Looking at my latest BCI magazine, I thought that, in general,
the winner trees for the Ben Oki and Award Certe International
were, as a whole, less than sterling for 2003. The Ismail Saleh
award, on the other hand, had a couple of very nice winners --
and they only had 26 entries. (These are, of course, solely my
OWN opinions.) The other two award announcements didn't mention
the number of entries, but I seem to recall a plea for entries
for both the Oki and Award Certe' late in the contest period
because they had so few.

I wonder, are three concurrent annual award programs too many?
Should all or a couple of them be combined?

Or should more IBCers enter. ;-)


Jim & all.

There was a change in the rules for the Ben Oki to encourage entries by
those relatively new to bonsai, rather than a contest among pros and
semi-pros.

I think this is effective in 2004. Yes, more IBCers should enter.

Alan Walker can give you the details.

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