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The new advancement requirements cont. from p5

ber of cumulative salon reflected in the CTPS
acceptances (122, 200, PVO table. Jacoba con-
287, 391 and 513). tacted each of them and
• Level 11 to 15: the next all of them provided the
five Master levels require necessary information.
36 Golds and 132 Points, A mere mortal would just
plus an increasing num- accept that when a mem-
ber of cumulative sa- ber can boast with Hon-
lon acceptances (664, ours like Mille/Mille-Plat-
838, 1046, 1277, 1508). inum they have mucho
The 10 Master many salon acceptances
rankings and allocate them to
the highest rank.
You can see from the Not Jacoba. She
tables and descrip- followed up with
tion on the previous each of them to
pages that there were ask when they
several requirements were awarded
Jacoba had to consid- these Mille Hon-
er to allocate mem- ours (for 1000 or
bers to their new ad- 1750 salon ac-
vancement levels. It ceptances) and
started getting really Jacoba van Zyl receiving an award from Nicol du Toit at the 2023 then added all
complicated with the end of year awards evening. subsequent salon accept-
introduction of the ances from PVO.
10 new Master levels, This resulted in two of our members – Francois Roux and
where salon acceptances play a major role. Evelyn Gibson – being ranked Master 10 because they
This was no easy task for somebody like Jacoba who is passed our maximum number of salon acceptances,
methodological in her approach and meticulously fair namely 1508. Neels Beyers is classified as Master 9, our
when allocating a member to a specific ranking level second highest level.
For example, she has for years been manually updating Some members achieved high rankings in other clubs
a spreadsheet to reflect members’ salon acceptances pre-PVO and were active salon entrants in the past but
recorded on PVO. Each member has an individual tab no longer participate. Due to their former track record
where she records the name of each image that received they cannot simply be demoted and adjustments were
an acceptance, which enables her to check that the max- made. The current equivalent of a 4 Diamond Rating is
imum three acceptances per a DPSSA, awarded for 125 sa-
image is not exceeded. She de- Jacoba is methodological in lon acceptances, and a member
letes the 4th and subsequent her approach and meticulous- who previously held a 4 Dia-
acceptances from the spread- mond rank was therefore placed
sheet. This record is manually ly fair when allocating a mem- at the Master 1 level.
updated after the results of a ber to a specific ranking level End of year awards
salon are announced.
She has also been using this Jacoba’s spreadsheet formula
spreadsheet to identify the Salon level members who has another important function. At the annual awards
qualified for the annual Master award (now renamed ceremony members who were placed first, second and
the Disa award) by tracking who’s achieved 10 new salon third in each ranking in the Open and Set categories are
acceptances in a year. Being Jacoba, she didn’t only rely rewarded. To complicate the calculations, only the 10
on the data from PVO, she also asked members to verify highest scoring images per member in each category
their salon acceptances. are taken into account. The spreadsheet is invaluable for
making these complicated calculations.
Exceptions to the rule Another complication is that members move between
As always, the exceptions created the most work. rankings during the competition year. "Where members
There are, for example, some members who gained were promoted during the year, they were placed in the
salon acceptances before PVO was introduced or who member ranking where they were the longest during
earned them as members of other clubs, which is not the competition year," says Jacoba.

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