Rosebowl Round 3 - Amanda Wright's Report and Results

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On Thursday 3rd October EHHPS hosted on Zoom our final round of the Rosebowl where we were drawn against Windsor PS, Field End and Kidlngton CC. The judge was Rojer Weightman from Stoke Poges who had an extremely difficult task on his hands with the superb quality of images submitted and he certainly seemed to find the evening hard work.


Rojer used a very narrow band scoring between 16 - 20 with only 3 20’s and 4 19’s which given the nature of the competition (the best of the best) and 60 images in total was quite unusual. However Rojer clearly wasn’t quite so impressed with 73% of the images scoring 17 or less, awarding 20 16’s and 24 17’s.

The 20’s were

  • Peonies by Linda Webb from Kidlington

  • The Unmade Bed by Alan Cross from Windsor (also awarded a star)

  • Into The Light by Neil Mountford also from Windsor (also awarded a star)


The four highest scorers from Ealing thankfully were

  • Shaping Up by Paul Mason scoring 19

  • Feeling Blue by Kris Mason scoring 18

  • Hawthorn Of The Minions by Shaun Hodge scoring 18

  • Ludlow Lane by Jenny Fenton scoring 18

With the score band being so narrow it was hardly surprising that all 4 clubs were separated only by 1 point

  • 1st Windsor 258

  • 2nd EHHPS 257

  • 3rd Field End 256

  • 4th Kidlington 255

As EHHPS didn’t do so well in the first and second rounds we were never going to make the top 12 clubs and go forward to the final as the scoring is 5,3,2, and 1 in each round. We came joint 3rd in our first round (1.5) and last in the 2nd(1) and 2nd (3) in this one giving us 5.5 in total. We needed at least a 10 or more for the final.

(Amanda Wright)