2010 Pacific, WA Criteria

1. Theme: "Childhood Fantasies". (Interpretations of this theme can range from story books you may have read to what you wanted to be when you grew up or anything else children may fantasize about... dragons, fairies, monsters.. (Catch that it is children not adolescents. Let's keep it appropriate for the public. Points will be deducted if not.).
2. Design and artistic impact. (Wow Factor)
3. Correctness of form, proportion or anatomy.
   
   Technical criteria's:
   
   Degree of difficulty as related to:
   
   
4. Cuts (How difficult were the cuts to execute?)
5. Complexity of composition.
6. Subject matter and scale.
   
   Craftsmanship
   
   As related to execution of:
   
   
7. Basic cuts (miss-cuts, over-cuts, clean)
8. Difficult cuts (miss-cuts, over-cuts, clean)
9. Consistency of quality and finish

*Well executed joints and structural integrity will have no effect on scores. However if obvious poor execution is exhibited, scores will be downgraded in criteria 7 of 8.

Keeping these nine guidelines in mind, judges will sculptures on a scale of 1 through 7 on each of the nine guidelines, 1 being the best 7 being the lowest.

When all the carving have been judged, the judges must total up the points for each carving and place them in order from lowest to highest. The winner will be the artist with the lowest point total.

In case of a tie, the highest and lowest of each score will be taken out to determine a winner. If the tie continues, we will add back in the high score, if a tie still remains, judges may be asked to re-evaluate the tied artists. Judges will be available to discuss their decisions with the contestants after the judging is over.

The judges' results will be available upon request.