I wanted to continue in my last post, but my daughter decided that tonight was the night to declare a referendum on the institution of night-night time.
Marty, please bear in mind that I have taken no offense whatsoever at your post. In fact I'm glad you brought it up, it needed to be said.
Anyhow, I must say that I knew ahead of time that getting more participants than judges was an unlikely scenario, but that doesn't bother me so much. For contestants it was a lot of work, with a guarantee of criticism, and with not much in the way of payoff. The flip side is that 8 people studied a topo map, learned a new software program, examined the options, and laid out the best 18 holes they possibly could even with so many reasons not to bother. I say bravo to them!
And Bravo to the Judges! They are having to do nearly as much as the entrants with even less to gain, all in the hopes of helping some dogged souls learn as much as possible from this experience.
By the way, their names are:
Yannick Pilon
Ian Andrew
Rich Goodale
Jeff Brauer
Mike Nuzzo
Tom Naccarato
Dave Schmidt
Paul Cowley
Ron Farris
Take a bow Boys!
Now my hopes/goals for the contest are many even if my expectations are few. I hope everyone involved had/has fun and found it worthwhile. I hope that at least a few of the folks on the board who didn't participate find some utility in what they will see when the results get posted. I hope we've laid the groundwork and infrastructure for future contests, even if they change in form. I hope that the contest helps underscore the difficulty of what the designer has to do. And yes, I hope that when everyone sees what a good time we had with this, that next time we'll have even more participants. (Don't worry, it will be a while before I broach the subject, and hey, maybe someone else will have a better way)
All the best,
Charlie
P.S. Garland, how would JK explain the phenomenon Marty described?