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Sorry Will, your inbox is full. I'll reply to your "i'm sorry if you wanted this public" private message here:
I was happy enough to drop it, but if you want to push the issue...
There is nothing at all that leads me to believe they did anything differently from AoB. They screened, you screened, and probably not for ice cream.
But, I appreciate the effort. Funny, you don't seem to be "happy to admit" you were mistaken. You asked for a link to a contest that outdid yours. I provided such a link. If you want clarification then by all means contact them and provide the statistics here if it means so much to you.
I'll wait for the communication from WBC for clarification.
Warmest regards
First, I replied by PM to advoid pointing out the obvious to you, I thought I made it perfectly clear, but let me try again...it is true AoB screened entries and that the WBC screen entries, the difference is, they counted their disqualified and otherwise screenout entries in their total submissions, we did not. I really don't know how I can explain this any clearer.
Let's recap what I said in my PM....
I apologize for the trouble you are having, let's use the lowest number for AoB you came up with, 230.
This 230 is actual entries that were judged, this is not total submissions, which would be a higher number, but inaccurate as far as what the public actually sees and what was actually judged. We do not figure in disqualification, withdrawals, or any other submission that was not judged. The WBC contest did count these.
If you go the the WBC site you are quoting from, you will see that a screening and selection process came before the judging. "Photos which were not clear, lacked basic information, or unknown names were removed from the selection. Imports from Japan were also removed from the selection." You will also see that the total number of photos recieved were counted, not just the ones that actually were in the contest. This can be confirmed on another site where it states, "We selected the best photos for each applicant. Photos which were not clear, lacked basic information, or unknown names were removed from the selection. Imports from Japan were also removed from the selection."
In short, the numbers posted by the WBC were total photos recieved before screening, the AoB numbers posted for total entries are after screening, see the difference?
But I happily concide to you and my friends at the WBC. By the way, the WBC is offering a sponsor award in the AoB Awards this year, I love those people!
But all this is picking nits, WBFF just set a new, as of yet, undisputed record. Good for them!
Thanks for the info,
WIll