there was nothing even close to the krull smith display at this years WOC.
To be honest, this Singapore WOC display was nothing short of a disaster in general. The Grand Champion was another disaster, because it was exhibited originating as a pot plant in Taiwan, and ended up Grand Champion. I guess some Taiwanese had the laugh of their lives when it got the award, though it was a nice plant.
Thw Miami Michael Koopowitz that won the Grand Champion was worth it.
That's another problem people have hard time to understand. A Grand Champion of any exhibition must be spectacular, and able to be understood by both pros, hobbyists, and general public. Michael Koopowitz was such a plant, impressive, amazing, beautiful. At the Tokyo Dome, the Coelogyne was impressive and amazing, many flowers, beautiful. Here, we end up with a greenish thing without leaves, that is far less impressive than a pot plant cymbidium to the general public. That was THE mistake.
Another thing, it would have been very interesting to know the percentage of judges from each country :rollhappy: and in an event such as the WOC, the problem is that they need to accept judges from various systems. If you accept judges from the RHS, AOS, AJOS, they have high standard. If you start to mix them with judges from the Afghanistan Orchid Society or whatever, or different standard of quality, then the mess start. I would suggest too that, to name the Grand Champion, people that are not orchid related could vote or give their opinion, like artists, fashion designers... They would be more realistic in such events to choose something that the general public will like, and understand...
The conference program was apparently very interesting, however it was real fun for me to see that some of my suppliers or former ones needed to choose a speech about orchid conservation and the problem of wild collection... :evil:
I didn't realise somebody had uploaded the pics already... I don't think it is a problem to post GCS links here, I have done so before..
