AV News 186 - November 2011
C h a irm a n 's C h a tte r
Keith Scott FRPS
Congratulations to Richard Brown, Linda & Edgar
Gibbs and Suzanne Walker for their success at the
17th National AV Championships, achieving the Gold,
Silver and Bronze medals respectively. Our National
AV Championship during September was the first
under its new management of the RPS AV Group. It
also returned to its former home at Sutton Bonington.
Most comments received have been favourable
especially towards the quality of the projection
facilities, which provided ample space for viewing.
Projection and sound quality was excellent and the
overall standard of sequences was quite high.
Although it's nice and reassuring to be well
supported we actually received too many sequences, or at least too much
running time and therefore pre-selection was activated under rule 10.
Whilst pre-selection helped manage the running time for the two day
competition it also meant that unfortunately not everyone had their sequence
included. This inevitably leads to some disappointment. Pre-selection is
always going to be controversial but no one h