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I am sure that you will agree with recommend that it should take
me that we have been fortu- a member who regularly en-
nate with the top calibre judg- ters competitions about 8
es who agreed to evaluate months to progress from
our competition images, es- the first to the second
pecially some of them from level, 10 months to the
other parts of the country. next level and another 14
Several of them, however, months to reach the senior
commented that they found it level (in clubs with three jun-
difficult to adapt to our 30-point ior levels).
scoring system, which is only used In clubs who follow this system it
by a few Western Cape clubs – clubs in the rest of the would therefore take about 32 competition months for
country and all salons use a 15-point system. a member who joins as a Beginner to reach senior sta-
This makes it much easier to award a score that reflects tus. This timeframe is needed, says PSSA, for a junior to
your comments more accurately. In our system a gold acquire the necessary skills to compete at senior level.
award can signify a score anywhere between 24 and 30 I strongly believe that introducing an additional junior

for a Salon ranked member, but the scores for judging level will benefit all our members – the juniors who cur-
a salon out of 15 is precise: 12 = definite acceptance (e.g. rently compete against juniors with much more experi-
gold), 13 = COM, 14 = runner-up and 15 = winner. There ence than they have, as well as our seniors who would
is a meaning attached to all scores down to 6, which is a have acquired more skills when they start competing at
disqualification. What’s more, it eliminates the 23 score! this level. Food for thought, isn’t it?
Another peculiarity of our ranking system is the fact I like the fact that we use names for our rankings (Be-
that we have only two junior categories, which I believe ginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Salon) instead of
makes us unique. All the clubs I have ever judged at star numbers, because that is unique and has been in
have three junior categories – 1 to 3 star - and I believe use for more than 100 years.
that our two junior rankings put us at a disadvantage. I would therefore like to invite our members to suggest
The PSSA guidelines for ranking systems at clubs, adopt- an appropriate name for a third junior category – should
ed by many other clubs, recommend that the advance- we decide to make this change.
ment system should be based on the approximate time Nicol du Toit
it would take the average photographer to accumulate CTPS President
the points needed to progress to the next level. They nicol@sportstrader.co.za

Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the website www.ctps.co.za .
Contact CTPS Council

President Nicol du Toit 082 377 8285 Outings Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Vice-President Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Archives/Storage Rudi Pothas 082 516 9215
Secretary Sally-Ann Spooner 079 274 2073 Cape Camera Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Treasurer Andre Mouton 071 892 1981 Website/Snapshot Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Competitions Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Venue Mike de Villiers 074 113 1415
E & D Steff Hughes 082 356 3979 Public Relations Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Members & events Anna Engelhardt 082 413 2112

Off-Council workers Editorial team
Weekend outings Richard Goldschmidt Cape Camera Editor Trudi du Toit
Member promotions Jacoba van Zyl Proofreader Lesley Parolis
Members & Events Joyce Goldschmidt (assist) Competition images Lesley Parolis
Body of Work Kim Stevens Judges comments Anna Engelhardt
Facebook Kim Stevens & Steff Hughes Member profiles Dave Gordon
Investments Richard Goldschmidt Snapshot Andre Mouton
AV Group Ken Woods Travelogues Brian Jones
Salon Group Nicol du Toit Events Photographer Joyce Goldschmidt

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