Category Archives: Competition

Curly topped box

Thanks to Roger for his demonstration yesterday on making a curly topped box, It was well received and even the texturing and colouring was accepted by our non-colouring members.

The club competition, for February, because remember we don’t have a meeting in January, is a curly topped box. The item can be a replica of Rogers box or something very similar but inspired by Roger’s box.  Texturing and colouring is permitted but not mandatory, so consider what your judges will be looking for. Good luck, and remember there will be prizes again for the winners.

Rolf

Competition Scoring

I’ve just been looking at the latest scores for the competition (June 2016: Table Lamp) and am curious about the low scores. It might well be that someone thinks that the competition entries are really not very good (which is fair enough because everyone is entitled to their opinion) but the range of low scores (1, 2, 2, 4, 4, and 5) suggest to me the possibility that someone is marking the entries as 1 for the best one, 2 for the second best, etc.

So for clarity I thought I’d reiterate that the marks given on the score sheets are marks out of 10, not positions of preference. If you’ve been marking them as first, second, third, etc. then the ones you liked best will only have got a score of 1, 2 or 3 out of 10. This could explain why I’ve mysteriously ended up near the top of the table this year!!

If you’re not comfortable making an absolute judgement and would prefer to put them in relative order then you could still do that but remember to start at high and work down rather than starting at 1 and working up!

Finally, if you have been marking the wrong way and you’d like to rectify it, perhaps you could have a discreet word with myself or Carl and we’ll see if we can get the results updated.