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Subject: Re: minstrel: Nature of Bardic Competitions
To: cley@juno.com (cynthia j ley)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <19981003.175127.4791.1.cley@juno.com> from "cynthia j ley" at Oct 3, 98 10:04:24 pm
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> My personal pet peeve as a bardic judge is when someone holds up a book,
> and says, "I found out all about it in this." That's not research--that's
> ONE book, which in itself does not serve as a comparision for study. It
> also makes the unfortunate assumption that the judges know the source,
> which they may not.

Actually, I'd like to defend that person, a little. Many people are
interested in entertainment and not research. If so, they may end up
either reading about authentic works in a book, or doing something
modern. In that situation I try to flip through the book, and if it
has what I think are flaws, I'll try to point out a better source, or
try to explain what the flaws are, and maybe even explain a little
about how to do better research. But I won't get upset by lack of
research if the competition is not about research; if the competition
is about entertainment but allows or requires documentation, waving
a book is a lot better than nothing.

> However, there are venues for research papers in competitions at branch,
> regional, and Kingdom levels, and this opportunity should be taken
> advantage of if possible.

Actually, my kingdom and the other kingdoms I go to events in rarely
have comptitions wtih a "research paper" category. I, being weird,
occasionally hold "documentation-only" competitions, in which you
submit any kind of entry you like, but only the documentation is
judged.  I've also seen "research paper" categories which are arranged
so as to exclude performing arts.

-- gb


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