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Wings & Wheels Modelers, in an
attempt to further recognize good modelers and encourage promising
ones, will use an Open System
to judge entries in many categories during ValleyCon (see the category
list).
The Open System does not represent a fixed
number of First, Second, and Third Place awards. In
traditional competition some categories may be overloaded with
excellent work, causing a high quality piece to receive
nothing. The opposite may happen with categories with few
entiries, allowing a mediocre model to take top awards.
The Open System eliminates this and levels
the competition across categories by judging each entry on its own
merits. No entry wins an award at the expense of another.
Therefore the number of of awards will vary and support the goal of no
deserving model will go unrewarded.
In Open System competition an exhibit
(one or multiple entries from a single
competitor) is judged on its own merit of workmanship and modeling
skill. It is not judged against other exhibits in the
competition.
A jury of three Operational Judges and one
Head Judge will be used to determine the award (if any) for each
exhibit based on the QUALITY of an entry in that exhibit.
This is determined using the following five criteria as a
guideline. It is recognized that Judges are people complete
with their own bias, skills and expectations. Judging cannot
be dictated, hence the use of guidelines to provide some level of
guidance. The follow are in no particular order or
importance, but all are a factor.
| OPEN
SYSTEM CRITERIA FOR USE IN AWARD RECOGNITION |
1. Degree of Difficulty
2. Creativity
3. Workmanship
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4.
Paintintg Skills
5. Presentation and overall effect |
The Judging is broken into three phases, The
Selection Phase, the Scoring Phase and the Tallying Phase. The three
Judges will each participate in the first two phases while the Head
Judge does the tallying.
PHASE ONE - SELECTION: If there is more than one entry in the modeler's
exhibit, the three Judges decide as a group which entry is
the best piece. This, then, will be the judged piece for the
entire exhibit.
PHASE TWO - SCORING: The three Judges now work independent of
each other and score the selected piece between 0 and 4. The
Judges may not consult or compare notes but may consult with the Head
Judge.
PHASE THREE - TALLYING: Judges submit their scores to the
Head Judge for tallying. Scores are combined for a maximum of
12 points. The three judges will not participate in the this and will
have no idea of the award value until the medals are presentation at
the end of the show.
| MEDAL VALUES |
Gold Medal
value -- 11 - 12 points
Silver Medal value -- 8 - 10 points
Bronze Medal value -- 5 - 7 points
Certificate of Achievement value -- 1 - 4 points |
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