Georg and I spoke by phone last night, and I don't think I'm talking out of class when I say that the goal of the judging and comments should be to help modelers improve. As the old saying goes, "you learn by your mistakes, not your successes." I took the comments about my tank seriously and fixed the problems. Clearly the results speak for themselves. So shouldn't the rules allow for an entry to move UP in the judging if it has been reworked? Isn't that the goal of the judging: to help us improve? Why can't we then be rewarded for making those improvements, rather than have to start over with a completely different model?

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Georg and I spoke by phone last night, and I don't think I'm talking out of class when I say that the goal of the judging and comments should be to help modelers improve. As the old saying goes, "you learn by your mistakes, not your successes." I took the comments about my tank seriously and fixed the problems. Clearly the results speak for themselves. So shouldn't the rules allow for an entry to move UP in the judging if it has been reworked? Isn't that the goal of the judging: to help us improve? Why can't we then be rewarded for making those improvements, rather than have to start over with a completely different model?

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You bring up a really interesting point. I think the general fear would be that the same models would be winning the same categories all the time, and the INTENT was to try and prevent the same model from winning the same category. In execution though, your point is super valid in that a bronze at the nats could be worked on twice more till it made gold..... certainly something for the powers that be to chew on a little bit and try to weigh the risk/benefits of making a change. Like Georg said, stay tuned I guess!