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Table 3
CTPS members on log Impala WC Po-
under other club Points Poition sition
Francois Roux VdBijlpark 117 21 **
Mariana Visser Tafelberg 72 47 6
CCC/
Theo Potgieter 42 72 16
Tafelberg
Evelyn Gibson *Pretoria 20 94 32
Michele-Ann Nel CCC 11 103 42
* Evelyn has since made CTPS her primary club
** Vanderbijlpark club is in Southern Gauteng region
Table 4: Impala Print Top 20: CTPS members Godforsaken by Anna Engelhardt was a runner-up in the print
monochrome section of the Paarl salon.
Impala WC
Name Club Points Poition Position are therefore counted for them.
Kim Stevens CTPS 35 1 1 CTPS members are performing even better in prints (see Table
Nicol du Toit CTPS 16 5 2 4), with Kim Stevens leading the log countrywide, with three
Lesley Parolis CTPS 14 6 3 other CTPS members also among the Top 10 on the Impala log.
While Mariana Visser is a CTPS member, she enters salons as a
Mariana VisserTafelberg 9 7 4 member of her primary club, Tafelberg.
Lambe Parolis CTPS 5 10 8 Last year’s AV winner, CTPS member Ken Woods, is again the

Trudi du Toit CTPS 2 17 13 front runner.
Evelyn Gibson CTPS 1 20 16 Winning performances in Paarl salon
The medal-winning print performances of CTPS members in
Neels Beyers has been the top performer of the 17 members the Paarl salon should boost the print points of our members
who enter PDI salons with CTPS indicated as their club. But, even further.
apart from Neels, there are also 10 other CTPS participants un- Kim Stevens should gain 13 print points by winning the Mon-
der the Top 50 salon participants in the WC (see Table 2 below). ochrome print section medal with Ponte de la Bande, getting a
The points of some CTPS members are allocated to their other COM in the Open Colour print section with VestraDawn, and 7
clubs (based on the first club listed at the start of the year). See more print acceptances for Homage to Church Mountain, Under
Table 3. For example, Mariana Visser enters under her primary the flyover, Edged by frost, Accademia Dawn, Shadow Symmetry,
club, Tafelberg, Theo Potgieter has entered under either Crea- Calatrava Graphics and Trattoria al Ponte.
tive Camera Club or Tafelberg. Evelyn Gibson’s club is indicated Anna Engelhardt was awarded the runner-up medal in the
as Pretoria, but she subsequently made CTPS her main club and Monochrome print section with the image Godforsaken and
some of her points would have been allocated to us. The pri- earned a COM for Sossous Vlei dune scape, as well as getting
mary club of Francois Roux is Vanderbijlpark, and his 117 points To next page

What is the Impala Trophy? How are points awarded?

The Impala Trophy is awarded every year to the PSSA mem- Acceptance points are awarded only for the first three accept-
bers who gain the most points in salons hosted during the ances an image receives overall (across all genres and catego-
Impala year - from July 1 the previous year (e.g. 2022) to June ries). Points are awarded as follows:
30 the following year (e.g. 2023). It is awarded in three genres: Category winner: 4
PDI, Prints and AV. Category runner-up: 3
By far the most members gain acceptance points in the PDI Certificate of Merit (COM): 2
section (this year more than 900) compared to fewer than 30 Other club awards: 2
members with print acceptances and 5 with AV points. This Acceptance: 1
is because very few salons offer print sections and therefore In international salons with PSSA patronage the points are
preference is given to salon hosts that will offer prints when doubled.
applications for more than the 24 salons per year (2 per Judging points are awarded as follows:
month) are received. This year there are only five salons with
print and three salons with AV sections. • For PDI categories: 4 points per category
• For print categories: 6 points per category
During the year all salon participants with acceptances are
listed, but an extra column now indicates if you are a PSSA Provided that you have also have acceptance points in the cat-
member (according to PSSA member numbers on the entry egories you judged. You also may not judge more than 2 cat-
sheet) as a warning that non-PSSA members will be removed egories per salon or a total of 6 categories per year.
from the log at the end of the year.

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