April's Entries - And Results.

After a promising start the entries rather 'fizzled out' I'm afraid. Still - here are the entries in one thread for you to examine and adjudicate:

Entry #01


Entry #02


Entry #03


Entry #04


Entry #05


Entry #06

Entry #07


Entry #08

Entry #09


Entry #10


Entry #11


Entry #12:

Entry #13


Entry #14


Entry #15


Entry #16


Entry #17


Entry #18


Usual terms and conditions apply - here's a 'copy-and-paste' from an earlier round:

Above are the entries you are being asked to vote on.

As before, please cast your (three) vote(s) for those in preference - in other words please vote - entry number - order of preference (with #1 being your favourite, #2 being your second favourite and - you'll never guess...#3 your third favourite). In other words #1 gets three points, #2, 2 points and =3 one point.

Look them through, make your choices then send them to
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before midnight on Sunday.
Please add your Forum user name to help the process run smoothly. I think that's about it, oh no - a reminder that you may not vote for your own entry.

But do please vote, if we only receive a handful of votes the final result is not really an accurate representation of the Forum membership.

To a small degree I can see why some competitors do not vote - but if everybody votes the poll rather evens itself out and becomes a more equal reflection overall.

Thanks again to the prize donors for this month's round.

John

Thanks go out to the five 'usual suspects' who have taken the time and trouble to vote. Please join them - as mentioned previously, the more people who vote the more representative any result will become.

Voting closes midnight Sunday.

John

Despite leaving the voting line open until this morning I'm afraid the votes count still stayed at a woefully low amount of six people who voted.

Anyway, the final tally was as follows:

First place was a dead heat between photos 3


and 17


Third place was also a dead heat between photos 11


and 13


Fifth was photo 10, Sixth #9, Seventh #12 and Eighth #9.

Congratulations, therefore, go to the members who submitted the entries above.

As to the prizes #3 was from Bill, 17 was from someone who only enters for the fun of it and has told me they don't wish to figure in the prize list so, therefore, it's a bit of a 'toss-up' between Craig fishmad and Jonlate as to who the other prize is given to.

Since Bill is donating the portion of glassworms I rather suspect he'll plump for the Catappa leaves from Ger so if I'm right in this assumption it will be up to Craig fishmad and Jonlate to work out between themselves who will be the recipient of Bill's food treat.

I think it's pretty safe to accept that having this round wasn't exactly the unqualified success we might have hoped for - perhaps because of a lack of a 'Donated' prize from a Sponsor? But the thing is we cannot expect Sponsors to give us prizes for such poorly-supported competitions.

The temptation is to put them back onto the proverbial 'long finger' but in fairness to those who do enter (and vote) in each round we hold I think it should be thrown open for discussion, as I've said on previous occasions, I'm quite prepared to continue running them - question is: do you want them to continue without Sponsors' donations?

John

I suppose that with only six sets of votes it was a pretty easy and quick job to formulate the final positions (every dark cloud having a silver lining)

Do Members want a (short) round for May? One can be started now...

John