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Originally Posted by ranchu8

Hi AbsoluteRanchu, can you elaborate on the points (1 to 5) and the points for classes A to G pls? Are points 1 to 5 only for swimming and are there swimming points in classes A to G? How do the swimming points affect the Ranchu for the rest of the show pls? For classes A to G, is there fixed no of points for different categories, eg for body, tail, scale etc? Thanks.

The points award is the opinion of how good the fish is overall. Swimming is one aspect of the fish. For fish that are equally perfect (such as most of the fish that entered the AJRS Competition), swimming action on that day will decide who is more majestic and win. The point is the result of the consideration from the combination of all the standards, sideview consideration, and swimming. Then the points from all six judges will be combined. Such as if all the judges did not take any point off at all, you will have six judges giving 5 points each, for the total of 30 points for the fish, which represent a perfect score.

The 20 - 30 seconds provided (after the sidview of the fish has been presented by the Fish Judge) is the time for the judges to consider the fish, guage the quality and render their decision on how much points to award the fish.

The many fish that enter the AJRS competition get judged at many steps of the competition. In order for the fish to be presented to the Panel of Judges for each classification already means that it is already a strong fish. The expertise of the Panel of Judges can be highlighted by just looking at the amount of time each Panel of Judges has a chance to consider the fish. Most of the fish will spend no more than 1 - 2 minutes in front of the Panel of judges, and in that short a time, the quality will be precisely guaged and translated to points.