We've been through the photograph issue more than a few times. Since you are here as spokesman for two aggrieved parties, I'll offer up a brief explanation if you'll please carry it back to them.
Last year we received photos of bows on deerskins, draped with quivers and arrows, or hanging off of whitetail deer heads, or being drawn in a trophy room with a backdrop of mounts, or in a hunting pose, partially obscured by brush, etc. and so forth. It's hard to see the bow when the bowyer wants us to see other things instead. What else can we go by but the photo? Clearly, we'd rather not have to judge a bow at full draw when it's canted severely. Perspective changes. It's a distortion to suggest this is a photography contest. It is not. We don't want bows by photographers. We want photographs of bows.
We did not specify clearly enough the photos for ABC 1. Now that we know better, we've made the photo specs clear this year. They are there for anyone to read if it matters to them.
Obviously we would not have chosen a bow for the final test if we knew it was under weight. We have addressed the problem this year in the criteria.
Finally, we have no knowledge of an entry that was never entered, but we'll try to do better this year there, too.
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