Every set of historical judges will be different, but without your docs they can't tell how well you did, and they'd just be guessing how well you knew your stuff.
> > Do I need compulsive documentation? >> >> No. If you don't have any documentation, and if you're doing a period the >> judges know a lot about anyway (or is commonly done), and if your >> presentation is good and your construction is right up there, you stand a >> chance to get an award. You just can't get a doc award without docs. And >> you might lose out to another entry just as good as yours where the fact >> that they had docs and you didn't was the tie-breaker. >> > > This can be very important. I've judged two Historic masquerades. We had an > fabulous entry in one of them that would have been a contender for Best in > Show, except the entrant had no documentation. One third of score was > eliminated, removing the contestant from consideration from Best in Show. > The entry did take major awards in both Workmanship and Presentation. But > without documentation it could not be considered for Best in Show. > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
