This is a collection of suggested amendments to the Ordinances and Jurying criteria, submitted by Company members. Comments are invited, below.
Submission 3 – Master Hugh de Calais and the Provost Secretary
Adopt the Lochac A&S competition judging criteria and submission formats in place of the jurying criteria suggested by the Company of Broiderers. The advantage is that the Lochac A&S judging guidelines are better described. It also allows members to additionally submit their company entries to Lochac A&S competitions without much change needed (if any).
The disadvantage is that the scoring criteria needs to be analysed to determine what would represent Apprentice/Journeyman/Master levels. Indeed would we average the score across the criteria, weight some criteria better than others, or require a consensus of results across the criteria (i.e. Master in 4 criteria and Journeyman in one would only allow a ranking of Journeyman).
May I suggest that 1.3 read “at least one competition each SCA year”.
I agree with the above proposition.
I concur too.
“Any change in these ordinances may be made by the majority of Guildmasters.”
I wonder if this clause will become troublesome in future years, as old guildmasters become inactive?
I suggest “Guildmasters in good standing” might help with future changes.
“Guildmasters: a group of members in good standing; each of which is the highest ranking member of a specific discipline, as described in the Ordinances. Where a discipline has multiple members at a particular rank, those members will organise themselves to serve as Guildmaster for the discipline on an annual or semi-annual basis.” So a Guildmaster is an officer, not a ranking (The ranking is ‘Master’). If somebody goes inactive, then the ranked members of a discipline can appoint a new Guildmaster.