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Compare old and new CTPS Advancement Requirements

Cumulative
New Non- Non- Cumulative Old Non- Non- Salon
Advancement Cumulative Cumulative Salon Advancement Cumulative Cumulative Accept-
Gold Awards Club Points Acceptances
Gold Awards Club Points
ances
Beginner to Beginner to
Intermediate 12 44 0 Intermediate 5 40 0

Intermediate Intermediate
to Proficient 15 55 0 to Advanced 10 50 5

Proficient to 21 77 0 No level None
Advanced

Advanced to 27 99 52 Advanced to 50 15
Salon Salon

A comparison between the new advancement requirements (left) and the old system used until June 2025 (right)
How the new club ranking works

When our new 2025/26 competition year starts next month,
CTPS members will be introduced to our new advancement
system, as well as a revised scoring system for competition

images. We can thank Jacoba van Zyl for all the background
work she did to ensure a smooth transition, as she explained
to Trudi du ToiT

When Lesley Parolis announces the scores at Jacoba van Zyl, who tracks members’ perfor-
the July competition evening, we'll hear sev- mances affecting their club rankings, has
eral new names for the member rankings. been hard at work updating everyone’s
Some members will be ranked Proficient, ranking levels for the new system. She is
and several Masters with numbers rang- one of our members who has for years
ing from 1to 10 will be introduced. been quietly performing time-consum-
This should not come as a surprise, as ing tasks in the background, with few
we agreed unanimously at the AGM members aware of her enormously
last year to expand the rankings in our valuable contribution. She provided
club’s advancement system from four some insights into what was required
(Beginner and Intermediate for jun- to change to the new system.
iors and Advanced and Salon for sen- Changes to advancement levels
iors) to 15 levels. We also decided that
all images would in future be scored out In the new system Points earned by
of 15 instead of 30. a member for Gold, Silver and Bronze
We agreed that the new 15-level advance- awarded in the monthly competitions will
ment system will include an extra junior rank, play a bigger role.
Proficient, plus 10 additional Master Jacoba van Zyl photographed by Jacoba has for the past four years been
levels. As explained in Cape Camera of Joyce Goldschmidt. recording the scores of each image en-
March 2025, these changes were nec- tered in the monthly competitions on a
essary to bring CTPS in line with the 1 to 15 star ranking spreadsheet, originally developed developed by Sakkie
systems used by most other clubs. Smit. She calculates the Points that must be allocated to
Our members can therefore now compete on equal each member after each competition evening and from
terms with members from other clubs and our senior there determines if a member advances to the next level.
members will have more incentives to continue compet- This spreadsheet now has to be adapted for the 15-point
ing after reaching Salon level. scoring system.
Implementing this was, however, no walk in the park. Points are allocated as follows: 3 for a Gold, 2 for a Silver

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