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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