Edmund,
This is correct. AOS judging is not conducted at the World Orchid Conference because WOC has its own judging system. They award gold, silver, and bronze medals to plants and exhibits, and designate a Grand Champion and Reserve Champion (apparently akin to the Tokyo Dome show). Check the proceedings volumes of past WOC's for records of these medals. As far as I know, the WOC awards are not summarized anywhere, although a few years ago I proposed putting such a historical list on a WOC website.
Link to WOC Trust webpage on judging: http://www.woctrust.com/WhatWOC.html
[has photo of a gold medal from the WOC in Auckland]
Additionally, the judging seems to differ at each WOC, influenced by the country hosting it.
In Auckland, for instance, all judges were invited to participate in ribbon judging, but the medal judging teams were by invitation only. In Vancouver, medal judging was open to any judges who were interested. Most of the time, all plants in all exhibits are eligible. At the Vancouver WOC, only plants specifically entered and left in a special area were eligible for judging. I did not like this system, because we could not judge any indivdual plants in the exhibits. You never know what to expect.
At the last WOC, in Malaysia, they established the new ACE award - award to/for commercial excellence. This will be continued in France. And there is to be a new award for judging orchid websites at Dijon, but only websites created by persons who are registered for the conference are eligible!!!! Seems like a dubious requirement to me.
Certified judges from recognized judging systems are allowed to participate in different aspects of WOC judging. On the registration forms, we are usually allowed to preselect the types of genera we would most like to judge, and are assigned to teams before the judging day.
Sometimes (not always) AOS student judges are allowed to clerk.
Link to page about judging at the WOC in Dijon: http://afjo.free.fr/WOC2005/docs/expl_en.html
Nina Rach
Houston Judging Center of the AOS
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"Edmund Rucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see in the January issue of "Orchids" an indication that the WOC 2005
in Dijon will *not* be judged by the AOS. Surely this is in error?
Does anyone have any information on this?
in Dijon will *not* be judged by the AOS. Surely this is in error?
Does anyone have any information on this?
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