Hello again, it has certainly been a long computer session processing these pictures of the TVR contest held in Bangkok on 4 February 2007. The contest was organized by the Thailand Ranchu Club. The Show was organized at the Rachamankala Stadium on the outskirt of Bangkok. The show itself drew in 160 entries in five classifications namely, Oya (over 16 cms), Nisai (13.5 - 16.0 cms), Tosai (11.5 -13.5 cms) and Small Tosai (less than 1 year old, 10 - 11.5 cms), and Junior (no more than 10cm). However, from what I noticed, there were hardly any small tosai fish at the show.
The fish were all measured by the officials prior to the show for accuracy and the panel of measurement judges did also do a final recheck before the show starts. Even then, I found that the Japanese judges prior to the juding, did disqualify a few more fish due to health concerns. Any fish that has any sort of imperfection no matter how small will be disqualified automatically. The judge will put an "X" on the bowl to signify this fact. (I have taken one picture to show this as well.)
There were 2 round of judging, the first being to classify the fish into A (14-20 points), B (12-13 points), C (10-11 points), and D (1-6 points). The second round of judging is the final placing for each of the Champions. The scores from the first round were thrown out for the second round (exactly the same as the AJRS Show). There were altogether 6 Japanese Judges and 2 Thai judges. The judges were separated in two teams each taking care of 2 divisions. The judges include:
1. Mr. Akira Naitau (Japan Ranchu Society's Judge)
2. Mr. Tatsuo Yatake (Japan Ranchu Society's Judge)
3. Mr. Massahiro Suzaka (Japan Ranchu Society's Judge)
4. Mr. Hisao Kawaguchi (Kannei Ranchu Society's Judge)
5. Mr. Yoshito Yamada (Owari Ranchu Society's President and Judge)
6. Mr. Ryunosuke Hayakawa (Famous breeder from Tokyo)
7. Mr. Chatchai Pornrungroengkul (Thai Judge)
8. Mr. Jatuphol Sunthornwat (Thai Judge)
Each judge has 5 points to give to each of the fish for the first round while the second round the judges will simply put the placing for each of the fish. The actual rules and regulations for the Show are quite numerous. If any member is interested in further details, feel free to drop me a question and I will be more than happy to explain them for you.
Since I have taken quite a lot of pictures, I will break the presentation into a few parts. For today, I will be presenting pictures of the Show starting from the registration process and later on I will continue with the other pics all the way to the final placing for all the champions.
I was fortunate enough to win the prize for Oya No.7 and No.9 respectively, thus you will probably get to see a lot of my fish pictures as well. I managed to get B grade for my Nisai and Tosai, which also made me quite happy. (Just want to warn you ahead of time, since I am very proud of them.
) I have tried to capture all the pics of all the champions, and also most of the fish that participated to show all members. I think that the showing of all the fish that participated will definitely go a long way to prove to those skeptics about the quality of fish bred outside of Japan. You can also breed beautiful fish where ever you are in the world as long as you study up on the standards and breeding and keeping techniques. These beautiful fish should provide ample encouragement for all you experts, and novices breeders out there. Keep up the good work, and I promise you that one day you will surely reach your desired goal.
I will try to commentate as much as possible. Some of the pictures will not be as nice as I want, so please kindly bare with me aight.
Here we go, I hope that you will enjoy the picture show. I will start with the atmosphere of the early morning at the show, and move on from there.
The first two pictures are of the measurement of the entries, then afterwards the participants will head to the registration desk for the formal registration and payment of member ship dues and contest fee. For members it is 300 baht per fish, and for guest it is 400 baht per fish. The Show is open to all to participate.