North&East Midlands Photographic Federation

PAGB Inter-Club Slide Championship

21 st July 2007

Report by Peter Farnworth

Once more the 2007 event was held at the Arts Centre ay Warwick University, but this year, just for a change, the weather was dull and miserable and there were no regrets about spending a day indoors without seeing the light of day. In fact on the previous evening I was checking on the state of the floods to see if my usual route was still available.

This year’s N&EMPF interest came from Worksop and Rolls-Royce so please excuse my now if I get a little bit biased in my reporting. Peterborough were also there but in this competition batting for EAF.

This year’s judges were Don Byatt MPAGB ARPS EFIAP , Paul Keene MPAGB FRPS EFIAP/p and
Ian Platt MFIAP FRPS HonPAGB HonESFIAP

For some strange reason the rules are very similar to those at Arnold – I just cannot think why!

Round One was for 8 slides – the results were:-

1	Bristol	98
2	Wigan 10	97
3	Amersham	96
4=	Rolls-Royce	94
4=	Dundee	94
6=	Dorchester	92
6=	Oxford	92
8	Stafford	91
9	Worksop	89
25	Peterborough	82

Things N&EMPF were looking good!

Second round is another 8 slides, Chris Forster and I were busy returning slides and loading the new ones. Results –

1	Smethwick	99
2	Wigan 10	96
3	Oxford	95
4	Beyond Group	94
5	Rolls-Royce	93
6=	Dundee	90
6=	Paisley	90
7=	Dorchester	88
7=	Amersham	88
8=	Stafford	87
8=	Worksop	87
8=	Southampton	87
19=	Peterborough	81

The total of rounds 1 & 2 determines where you go next and this came out at –

1	Wigan 10	193
2=	Smethwick	187
2=	Oxford	187
2=	Rolls-Royce	187
3=	Amersham	184
3=	Dundee	184
4	Beyond Group	182
5	Dorchester	180
6	Bristol	179
7	Stafford	178
8	Paisley	176
8=	Worksop	176
24	Peterborough	163

So Rolls-Royce were in the finals and Worksop relegated to the Plate but only missed out by 4 points.

Time for some slide returning, and then lunch before the big load for the afternoon session.

Plate competition was first, 8 slides minimum of 4 to be new ones and the results were –

1	Bristol	97
2=	Paisley	94
2=	Peterborough	94
2=	Stafford	94
3	South Manchester	93
4	Swansea	92
5=	Southampton	91
5=	Ashford	91
6=	Worksop	90
6=	Bebington	90

I find it interesting to do a bit of analysis on the results of this sort of competition – comparing the average mark per slide only 1 club failed to improve from rounds 1 &2 and also half the clubs scored as many as the score of the last club into the final. How different would things have been if different slides had been chosen in the initial rounds?

On to the final – 20 slides with a minimum of 10 slides new – a real trial of the quality of the total stock of 40 slides which clubs had to work with, and the results show who had the stock and who didn’t.

After 10 slides the scores were –

1	Wigan 10	122
2	Dorchester	118
3	Beyond Group	116
4	Smethwick	115
5	Amersham	114
6	Dundee	113
7	Rolls-Royce	110
8	Oxford	104

And at the end

1	Wigan 10	250
2	Smethwick	238
3	Amersham	228
4=	Dorchester	226
4=	Oxford	226
5=	Dundee	224
5=	Beyond Group	224
6	Rolls-Royce	218

So that was that for another year, the winners came from the usual elite group which the rest of us could strive to join if only we could get our hands on a set of cracking slides like they had!

The individual awards were as follows –

Judges awards –

Don Byatt chose –“The Beckoning” by Philip Charnock of Wigan 10

Paul Keene chose – “Skua Harrying” by Barry Mead of Bristol

Ian Platt chose – “The Kiss” by Philip Ball of Oxford

The best slide in the championship was “Looking for Deliverance” by Gary James of Smethwick.

Peter Farnworth

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