Hi Sharon, I was at said competition and saw your cake there for myself, and I said previously on your wall (if I remember correctly) it was one of my top three fav’s there. I also saw a few strange things during the competition, one was the same thing about the girl walking up and down the middle between the tables not really doing much in terms of keeping everyone entry safe from hands and such. Another thing I saw was that one of the instructors, or whatever his job was, would ask guests viewing the entries about this one cake specifically by saying something like “What do you think about it? Isn’t it wonderful?” and he asked me “Don’t you think it’s beautiful?” but wouldn’t do that for any other cakes there! I did also see people touch the pieces. What I didn’t get was why a Judge would be judging pieces while random people were around him and commenting, when I thought that judging should have taken place before that area was opened up to public. He was also judging pieces that were broken or damaged and some of those didn’t have print outs or photos as a completed whole piece. In my opinion, I think that any competition entries should be in a restricted area so that the general public cannot get up too close to them, as have been done in other well known competition nationally and internationally. I’ve been considering entering a competition for the first time ever, but all the things I saw and the things you blogged about here worry me to no end and add to my nervousness about entering a competition. How can you be assured that after driving X number of miles ever so carefully to bring in your pieces unbroken and set it up proudly, to then have it damaged before or during the judging by onlookers, and thereby having no chance of fair judging? I don’t know. I just know that there are the ‘well-known’ designers our there who got first place because they knew who the creations belonged to.
What are your thoughts on these?
Heba.
Heba Elalfy ***more photos at https://www.facebook.com/sweetdreamstoyou
