wallflower wrote:
Aylin, while i agree that it should be your best work, put your best foot forward, not everyone can do things across the categories that they would be proud to enter into competition. However, they may still want to try for the awards that would lead them to a serpent belt. ex. if someone excels at performance, but can't sew or craft well, they can still get their belt some day and are more likely to get better feedback, and possibly more likely to be awarded by entering into dragon master. The same can be said for a lot of specialties (sewing, leather working, clay work, ect). I like that the standard that has been started that to win the title you must enter a minimum across the categories and still keeping the max on the entries per sub-category because that means who wins is going to be a master of the arts, but i don't want someone who excels at their craft to not enter because they can't do other things of high quality, or make them come up with utter crap just to enter their really good stuff (because the second is the more likely outcome).
I think there are good arguments to be made on either side of trying to direct the focus/flavor of any single A&S tournament.