A major part of the HANDBOOK deals with the COMPETITION. Many aspects of the COMPETITION have been well defined, either by precedent or by agreement among the Provinces. Class definitions and what points count for which Championships are two examples. These have been laid out in detail. Comments concerning changes and contentious items are dated. Some are no longer relevant but are retained for historical purposes. As far as reasonable, separate topics in the HANDBOOK have been kept on separate pages. . It is hoped that the HANDBOOK will not remain static, but that as ideas grow and change, and as new and better ideas emerge, pages of the HANDBOOK will be re-written or added to reflect this. Thanks are due to various people who have provided contributions in the early days. Such contributions are followed by their initials. These must include the re-drawn AWC Logo (D. F. P), the scalable font and technical support (T. P. R.) and pretty picky proofing (S. J. R.), (D. O.). Charles Plant. Feb 2000. Some consolidation has been done for this version, to cut down on the number of pages Dec 2001.In 2001 Medal Judging was used for the first time. This was agreed to by all participating Provinces. However, there is no agreement up this point (December 2001) as to how Medal Judging should be carried out. This includes cut off levels for Bronze, Silver and Gold. Dec 2001 - May 2003. Some changes have been made between Dec 2001 and May 2003 to entry rules.

May 2003. Other aspects of the COMPETITION such as Judging and Scoring Systems have not been agreed upon. Neither is such agreement wholly necessary.

Thus the Judging Systems included are only suggested ones. A number of Scoring Systems are included, for it is felt that the individual Judge must be allowed to use any Scoring System he or she feels comfortable with.

In an attempt to avoid having the Reader scurrying back and forth through the pages too much in search of the details for a particular job, some information is repeated in more than one place.

June 2004. Changes were made to reflect the new BY-LAWS December 2003 and the new Page F e) i 3 - II. ENTRIES. The previous have been voted on and passed. Some housekeeping changes (possibly incomplete) have also been made to associated items. G d) has been updated but is still missing some phone numbers.

Sep. 2004. Major Revisions, deletions, page consolidations, intra document links, creation of Archive etc.

Nov 2004. Bylaws updated to reflect changes passed October - November 2004. Larry Paterson is of great support, and the internet version of this Handbook is online at:

http://www.littlefatwino.com/awchandbook.html

May 2006. Many changes from the last year and a half have been incorporated. Check the date (MAY 2006) at the page bottom to note changes.

MAY 2006

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