A few years ago at an ADS convention classes were set up and judges panels from England, NZ/AUZ and US judged them. As I remember all 3 panels agreed.
Your flowers look great. Of course, if I was scoring an entry I would want to see the back of the flowers.
Naomi
Naomi is correct that the panels organized by Bob Spotts all came to the same conclusion in terms of placing the entries in the same order. However there were four (or five, was Ireland represenmted?) panels – NZ and Australia were not partners in this enterprise! The other interesting point was that in discussion time it was revealed that the same results were reached from different procedures. While I agree with those commentators who have noted that there are big discrepencies in points and that in NZ, Australia, England and Ireland a plus nine or plus ninety point flower is as rare as Hen’s Teeth the conclusions reached in all of the Daff Nations in terms of placings is very similar. Surely this is the most important point to come out of the discussion. In my lengthy experience in showing and judging flowers I have only seen a handful of blooms which scored ninety plus under the NZ system. Those at the Murphys Convention would know that I used an image of a Wayne Hughes 2WW Seedling (now named Crystal Gem) in my presentation which was the closest to perfection that I have seen anywhere. After intensive examination, back, front, both sides, I was able to deduct only six points! Let’s hope that it isn’t a oncer! And as noted above it was a rarity in my Daff experience. But, also as noted above, does it really matter whether we assign points differently, surely reaching the same conclusion is the important issue!
While we are on pointing can I make another point. In many of the photos put up on the Net this year the cups are ragged to say the least. It is my contention that many judges are almost “cup blind” and are more interested in a symmetrical perianth than a symmetrical cup. Any comments?
Peter and Lesley