1. Theme: “Fish Tales”. (PROS: Bring to life a favorite fishing story you have experienced, read

about or dreamed of! This can include real or make believe. Please read the judging criteria

when designing your sculpture. SEMI-PROS: This will include anything to do with fishing.)

2. Design and artistic impact. (Wow Factor)

3. Correctness of form, proportion or anatomy.

4. Cuts (How difficult were the cuts to execute?)

5. Complexity of composition.

6. Subject matter and scale.

7. Basic cuts (miss-cuts, over-cuts, clean)

8. Difficult cuts (miss-cuts, over-cuts, clean)

9. Consistency of quality and finish

* Well executed joints and structural integrity will have no effect on scores. However, if obvious poor execution is exhibited, scores will be downgraded in criteria 7 or 8

Keeping these nine guidelines in mind, judges will rate sculptures on a scale of 1 through 7 on each of the nine guidelines, 1 being the best 7 being the lowest.

~When all the carvings have been judged, the judges must total up the points for each carving and place them in order from lowest to highest. The winner will be the artist

  with the lowest point total.

~In the case of a tie, the highest and lowest of each score will be taken out to determine a winner. If the tie continues, we will add back in the high score, if a tie

  still remains, judges may be asked to re-evaluate the tied artists. Judges will be available to discuss their decisions with the contestants after the judging is over.

~The judges’ results will be available upon request.

Please take a look at the judging manual.  This is what is given to the judges to explain what to look for when judging chainsaw carvings.

Criteria Manual