OK here is my two cents... The MCC show was participant judged for I believe 12 years. The last few years we had gotten requests from the participants to change to a points system. No biases or cliques, only competing against yourself. Contrary to what most people think the people in shows are always very knowledgable. I have been to many participant judged shows that people would just let their kids pick the cars
Parent: "Which car should I pick?" Child: "I like the red cars!" The car could be a POS and the parent just doesn't care! MCC has switched to a points system and the last couple of years it has been working well. There is less fussing and the participants love it. Especially since we are a two day show, the participants really only need to be there one of the two days. Many times the participant judges would turn their ballots in before all cars were on the show field! I like participant judged shows like Chevellabration, because there mostly everyone knows what makes a quality car. And there isn't the "clique" mentality. Winning there makes a person feel a great appreciation that their peers think highly of their cars. The points shows allow someone to be able to see how their car judges against a benchmark. Both kinds of shows work. I think it all comes down to what the participants want and what works for the organizers. I know that it takes a lot of manpower to judge over 130 chevelles over 2 days! And I really wouldn't expect Chuck to try to organize that for Chevellabration and 400 cars. Besides it all comes down to the feel of the show. Give the people what they want and I guarantee that you'll please at least half of them :o) ok time for someone else's opinion! ttyl JJ Fig On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, 396guy wrote: > Since there is a great variety of members on the list I thought this would > be a good way to get a cross section of opinions on regional Chevelle shows. > Three of the five ACES affiliated Regional Chevelle shows are participant > judged (plus CB of course) and two are point judged. > > As the Chevelle enthusiast, which do you prefer and why? This will probably > boil down to two camps; participant because attendees go to have fun and > welcome the association of others although someone invariably claims "block" > or "clique" voting and point judged for those that want competition of their > car against another and can stand the cut throat approach. Both have their > good and bad sides in my opinion but what do you think? If you had a choice > to go to one or the other, which would you choose? > > Dale > ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
