2011 Forum Competition ? Does anyone fancy joining in ?

[George Foweraker]

The trouble with a competition as i see it is that them that should win: ie the professional turner or extremely accomplished armature might not enter because they would not want to lose.
The new turner or less accomplished turner would not enter because they could have little or no chance of winning.
For them that want critique why not put a pic of your work up for critique as usual and also put it into Blisters thread.Comp or challenge which ever he decides on.

Regards George

 

[Blister]

Blister

So as I see it at the moment we have

Blister

Wood spoiler

Melinda_dd

cambournepete

skeetoids

gus3049

matmac

Pvt_Ryan

callumlovatt

RATWOOD

Jonzjob

TheTiddles

Silverbirch

liamscanlan

SVB

duncanh

Paul.J


Bodrighy

como

whacky

Dust Busker


Haldane

clk230

dennisk

Chrisp

miles_hot

Hudson Carpentry

The Shark

Elaine

chill

babylon355

loz

maltrout512

Daven








We also have the offer of a Judge , cookie777 Thanks Barry PS this does mean you are not able to enter

If we can get up to 12 minimum its a go , the more the merrier , and dont forget its not to be too serious

The aim is to encourage people to make items on there lathes ,
you will have 4 weeks ,
so if you co-k up the first one have another go until you are happy its the best you can do

 

[skeetoids]

Hi Blister,

I'm up for this, sounds good to me.

Cheers,

Lee.

 

[Blister]

Hi Blister,

I'm up for this, sounds good to me.

Cheers,

Lee.

OK Lee , I have added you to the list :mrgreen:

 

[Blister]

Hi Blister and all.

For about a year i organised a fortnightly challenge on the institute forum
It was massively popular and nearly everyone on the forum got involved.
Unfortunately after i stopped doing it and others took over it fizzled out.
This i think was because i always kept on top of it responding to every entry and encouraging members.
It was not a competition and i made sure it never got competitive.
Competition is very good but i think if you have this as a competition it will not work.
If it is to be judged on quality new turners will soon get disheartened and drop out as they would have little chance of winning.
It might be better to do it as a challenge the challenge being to produce the named item to the best of your ability.

Regards George

Thanks for your input George

Competition / Challenge , the aim is to do your best and if it is judged as the best for that month you get the small trophy

Critique / No Critique , The individual could say when posting if Critique is required , If no mention of Critique is in the post then none should be left

 

[gus3049]

Hello people :mrgreen:

How about a 2011 Monthly Challenge

12 different projects . one each month

Sound interesting ?

NO CRITIQUE

If I get enough interest in this , I will post some rules ( as few as possible )

I will fund 13 trophies , 12 small ones and a overall winner over 12 months

If you want to take part copy and past you name in the following posts

I am off out now for a while but will look in later and see what happening

:deer :ho2 :deer

Hi Blister,

Count me in too please.

For a new turner like me, I think its a particularly good idea as, for me at least, I seem to get stuck on trying the same thing all the time. I know we must practice but variety is the spice of life and this will encourage me to try something new every month.

I think the expression 'trophy' may have misled a little. Much as I think your lathe would make a great prize........

I also agree that if one wants 'critique' one can always put in a double entry! As has been said though, this sort of thing does need a driving force to keep it going, so 'someone' will have to keep on top of it and encourage the participants to get their entries in every month.

 

[cookie777]

Hi Allen,
It may be unfair for one person to judge, how about a voting system for turners entering to vote for what they consider to be the best entry, hope that makes sense #-o
Regards Barry

 

[matmac]

matmac

il do wat i can sounds gd. i dont have my own lathe so i will hav a go at sneeking in some time at school

 

[Blister]

33 entrants so far :deer :ho2 :deer

=D>

 

[Pvt_Ryan]

I should have said, I am interested. though I doubt any of my entries will be any good for the 1st few months at least.

 

[callumlovatt]

i'll give it a go

 

[RATWOOD]

Hi Blister,

I'm up for this, sounds good to me.

Cheers,

chris

 

[Jonzjob]

I'm in for it too, but I'm not sure how you would get that lathe of yours over here to me, unless you bought it over I suppose? 8) 8) 8) 8) :roll: :roll:

 

[TheTiddles]

Sounds like fun, I'm in, and I think having one person judging is fine, it's not like it's too serious is it?

If someone can't post a piece that month then they're obviously unlikely to win so the more in the better I guess

Aidan

 

[Silverbirch]

I`d be happy to have a go.

Ian

 

[liamscanlan]

Me too
Blister - Thanks for organising this... I look forward to the challenge.
I am another newcomer to turning - so this will 'force' my hand into new areas
Liam

 

[Chrisp]

Sound great, having just got back into it this could be the kick I need! how will you deal with differing camera qualities?
Chris.

 

[Blister]

Sound great, having just got back into it this could be the kick I need! how will you deal with differing camera qualities?
Chris.

It will be the entrants responsibility to take good photos for submission

Let me know if you want in :mrgreen:

 

[Chrisp]

Ha! there was me trying to get a re-evaluation of my sub standard photos....
Chris.

 

[Blister]

OK people

Looks like we have a Challenge / competition :mrgreen:

Will put forward the 12 projects by 31st for our start in January


As we have a good few entrants ( Thanks ) points will be as follows

1st each month 5
2nd each month 4
3rd each month 3

All other entrants will get 1 point

We have 2 Judges
Barry ( cookie777 )
and
George Foweraker
thanks gents for your kind offers to help out
and I would like them to alternate on a monthly basis , so will judge 6 months each