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When you are, as I am, an interested novice sitting on the sidelines, it is
sometimes interesting to watch the experts (and I certainly include Peter and
Andy in that category) pick nits out of a statement or procedure, while
studiously avoiding the obvious intent of the matter under
discussion.
From my point of view, the American Orchid Society may have muddied the
waters by classifying the CBR as an "Award." Nevertheless, those of us
with a little common sense, but not much more except for an out-of-date copy of
the AOS Handbook on Judging and Exhibition, can read the definition of the CBR
and come to the realization that CBR is not a competitive award like FCC or AM
or even CCM. It is merely a means of documenting a species that has not
previously been included in the AOS inventory. My reading of the CBR description
is that it is not optional, but almost required that a judging team
encountering a species on which there is no prior official description (within
the AOS system) record their observation so that future judging teams will
have something to reference while making their evaluations of other
plants at later dates.
If I were to question AOS judging standards and procedures, my question
would be " How
can a judging team award an AM or even an FCC to any plant that has not
been previously described for the record?"
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