Bards - Competitions

[Fitzmorgan at cs.com]

In a message dated 1/12/00 4:12:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ldcharls at swbell.net writes:

> I'm curious about what the bards of this Kingdom think about
>  competitions. I have recently been asked to put on two competitions, and
>  wonder what other bards think should be the main consideration in a
>  competition, performance or documentation of style/material. My personal
>  opinion is that the focus should be on performance, since the main aim
>  of bardic is to entertain. What does everyone else think?

    I'm all for bards doing research.  I feel that the results of that 
research should show up in the performance.  I don't think that there is any 
good way to verbaly work the research into the introduction.  And I don't 
think that handing in printed documentation really adds much of anything to 
the performance.  The judges don't really have time to be reading your 
documentation, they need to be paying attention to your performance.  After 
the performance they will be listening to the next performer.  I can't 
picture the judges putting everyone on hold while they study your 
documentation.  If your research and work don't make themselves apparent in 
your performance then they aren't relevant to that performance.  The 
performance should stand or fall on it's own merits.
At least that's how I see it.

Robert Fitzmorgan
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