2006 IPMS/USA National contest results are up!

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Kelly Quirk - 27 Aug 2006 03:31 GMT

THE RESULTS ARE DONE ! ! ! The web guys have finished cutting and pasting,
re-doing and re-doing again, modifying and debugging for the last time.
(Yea!!)

The results from the 2006 IPMS National Convention will be presented as
Flash Slide shows.

To view the slide show, click the buttons on the left for each category. The
show will open in a new window with play and pause buttons below. You can
also adjust the volume on the music or turn it off. The thumbnail or list
view on the right allows you to skip through the slides.

Go here: http://www.ipmsusa2006.org/results/index.html

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Alex Loungeway Sr - 27 Aug 2006 10:57 GMT

Hi,

Kelly and the other guys and gals from Kansas City, the contest results
slide show is beautifully done. It just adds icing to the cake so to speak
of a wonderful show that I really enjoyed.

Alex Loungeway
Secretary/Georgialina Scale Modelers

> THE RESULTS ARE DONE ! ! ! The web guys have finished cutting and pasting,
> re-doing and re-doing again, modifying and debugging for the last time.
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>
> Go here: http://www.ipmsusa2006.org/results/index.html

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Francis X. Kranick, Jr. - 27 Aug 2006 19:08 GMT

    Jeeze - let's simply forget the fact these guys succeeded in getting
results AND images up so soon after the event. Most folks are happy
enough with that. There are several spots on the Web with imagery from
the Nats and I don't recall seeing anything from Kelly like: "Sit back
and experience the sights and sounds of the 2006 KC Nationals!"...
    Remember who we're dealing with; volunteers, giving their time and
efforts. No one's getting paid for this and no one's passing themself
off as Web guru, brightness and contrast notwithstanding.... How about
an 'atta boy' for the effort? No one said they had to do any of this.
Maybe it's best to wait until the Convention issue of the Journal covers
it. Kelly's being a better sport about this than I'd ever be.
    If you don't have anything good to say, please consider not saying
anything at all. Lord knows, my tongue's bleeding from holding it my
teeth on myriad other topics discussed here and on ABMS...

Frank Kranick

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Willshak - 28 Aug 2006 01:06 GMT

> Jeeze - let's simply forget the fact these guys succeeded in
> getting results AND images up so soon after the event. Most folks are
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> Frank Kranick
>

OK, you've changed my opinion.
Atta boy. These are great pictures. The many hours of work that went
into these models produced some really spectacular results. I can see
why they won.

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Willshak - 28 Aug 2006 01:15 GMT

> Jeeze - let's simply forget the fact these guys succeeded in
> getting results AND images up so soon after the event. Most folks are
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> Frank Kranick
>

OK, you've changed my opinion.
Atta boy. These are great pictures. The many hours of work that went
into these models produced some really spectacular results. I can see
why they won.

Sorry, if another reply shows up with a strange subject line. Somehow, a
pasted line got in there.

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Francis X. Kranick, Jr. - 29 Aug 2006 02:36 GMT

(snip)

> OK, you've changed my opinion.
> Atta boy. These are great pictures. The many hours of work that went
> into these models produced some really spectacular results. I can see
> why they won.

Sorry Bill, it wasn't my intention to try to change your opinion - and
your sarcasm comes through loud and clear. My observation was more to
point out your crappy attitude towards the whole affair.
You know what they say about the squeaky wheel needing grease...

Frank Kranick

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Willshak - 27 Aug 2006 14:58 GMT

> THE RESULTS ARE DONE ! ! ! The web guys have finished cutting and pasting,
> re-doing and re-doing again, modifying and debugging for the last time.
> (Yea!!)
>

Too bad the web guys don't know how to crop, resize, and adjust the
brightness and contrast of the photos.
Some are so small and dark that we have to read the text to find out
what they are.
This appears to be just an ego site for the winners and contestants,
since the rest of us can't appreciate them, or see why they placed as
they did.
Just my opinion. YMMV.
Check A.B.M.S. for a quick edit of "MILITARY VEHICLES201b" by just
cropping, and adjusting brightness and contrast.

> The results from the 2006 IPMS National Convention will be presented as
> Flash Slide shows.
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Kelly Quirk - 27 Aug 2006 15:07 GMT

> Too bad the web guys don't know how to crop, resize, and adjust the
> brightness and contrast of the photos.

So sorry to disappoint you Bill. Unfortunately, we are all amatuers here,
especially our photographers who were up until 3:00 AM taking these
pictures, all 2031 of them, then they were edited in hours to be ready for
the awards banquet, then edited again to get the resluts page up as quickly
as possible to please the hungry masses asking for them. But as we have
learned, no matter how hard you try, somebody will always complain.
Congrats.

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Mike G. - 27 Aug 2006 15:15 GMT

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> But as we have learned, no matter how hard you try, somebody will always complain.
> Congrats.

Yup, learned that myself helping to put on and judging model contests for a car club!

Mike

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AMPSOne@aol.com - 27 Aug 2006 18:29 GMT

Kelly,

No matter how bluntly Bill phrased his comments, he does have a point.
If you're going to make a "Best Foot Forward" presentation it has to be
pretty clean and show the models in their best light, and that may take
some doing. I know from the AMPS shows that we had to work at it but
there was usually somebody willing to help out and with programs like
Adobe Photoshop Elements it doesn't take much time or too many "Boffin"
skills to make it work.

Having been an IPMS member for coming up on 40 years now (ouch!) I have
to agree that a dark and dimly lit slide show doesn't give us much in
the way of pizazz when showing ourselves off to the world.

Cookie Sewell
IPMS 1699

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2006 IPMS/USA National contest results are up!