Но совершенно покорил меня способ отбора на конкурсе в городе
Pisek (Чехия). Видимо город славен песком, а не тем, что сразу приходит в голову сдавянам.
Отсюда же наверное и пошёл совершенно оригинальный способ "жюрения". Система есть, но никаких баллов. Как я понимаю, членам жюри раздаются совочки и ведёрки с лимитированным кол-вом песка, а возле каждой работы ёмкость, народ ходит, смотрит и отсыпает понравившейся работе песочку по своему усмотрению (а может и какой-то нормой). Потом взвешивают, и всё встаёт по своим местам, граммы решают всё! Самое интересное, что и в каталоге можно увидеть, сколько песка получила твоя работа (даже не призовая), насколько тебя оценили, как близко ты был к победе. Это же здорово, обратная связь!
Вот фото и страница с результатами из каталога:
Ниже приведён текст из каталога, тут всё объясняется гараздо лучше и подробней, но из-за незнания языка привожу только оригинал на англ. Если кто сможет и не поленится, пусть переведёт пожалуйста, мне тоже будет интересно ознакомиться.
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How heavy are jokes or Pisek worth its weight in gold
(translator's note: the name of the town Pisek means ”sand”)
No, really! Don't worry that you have before you some difficult, deeply serious and seriously tedious essay about the role of cartoon humour in the post-modern world or in post-communist society. There won't be any mention here of the cultural weight of cartoons, let alone of creative art. Just the opposite. You are about to read a very precise report about how much each of the 40 drawings that made it past the ruthless elimination round to the finale actually weighed. Then, as usual in Pisek, the sand pails took over. Not really. Those were big, heavy buckets of sand. And shovels. 9 buckets and 9 shovels in the hands of the 9 judges. The hands of an Englishman, 3 Slovaks (including a Ruthenian) and five Czechs shovelled sand for jokes (or shovelled jokes for the birds). The better the joke (at least according to the opinion of the judges) the more sand. The motto was ,,Sand worth its weight in gold."
(Note: The city of Pisek was the site of the first attempts, in 1968 and 1970, to start a tradition of international cartooning contests. Two years ago, after a quarter of a century, the current International biennial of Cartoon Humour Pisek was born. This is going to be the second such event. Fortunately, nothing indicates that this biennial will share the fate of its unlucky predecessor by getting only one reprise. See you in 1999!)
81 cartoonists from 9 countries submitted a total of 360 works for prize judging. Besides Czechs, there were participating cartoonists from Slovakia, the Ukraine, Croatia, Germany, Holland, Cyprus (Turkish zone), Russia and Taiwan (!). There were two themes. ,,Across the beery waves..." and the ,,Joy of life." Both the authors and the jury often got these topics mixed-up. In truth, there were far more beer jokes (the sponsor - Southern Bohemia Breweries - was pleased with this) than ,,Joy" jokes (223:138). But let's move on to the finale:
A closer examination of the forty most successful jokes revealed 17 jokes by 12 Czechs, 13 jokes by 9 Slovaks, 5 jokes by 3 Ukrainians, 3 jokes by 2 Germans (of Czech and Slovak origins) and 2 jokes by a Taiwanese named Zolo Zu. From those numbers it may be judged that certain authors were successful more than once - in fact, Maria Plotena had three entries in the finale. 11 more contestants had 2 jokes in the finale. Three of them got right down to the top ten with two drawings: the Ukrainians Savilov (3rd and 5th) and Dergacov (6th and 10th) and the Czech Vyjidak (8th and 9th places).
By far the ..heaviest" joke was by the Slovak author Dusan Polakovic: ,,lt weighed 9.3 kilos. Do I have to round it off?" said the judge at the scale. That settled it (In comparison with the winning joke from last time, it weighed less by 1.29 kilos!). The cat can smile victoriously at his beer mug full of white mice as well as at his competitors, colleagues, fans and the readers of this catalogue. The Prize of the City of Pisek went to a drawing on the subject of the ,,Joy of Life" - a boy on a rocking horse - by Sergey Saviloff. (otherwise given 5th prize by the jury). The second ..heaviest" joke was by Pavel Vorel on the theme of a beer-drinker ,,be-aring his cross." This joke took the Had'ak Award. Overall, Czechs and Ukrainians sandbagged everybody else (4 prizes for each out of 10 total). You can have a laugh at all ten of the jokes from the final round on the pages of this catalogue - and you can judge the judging for yourself. We added a few other jokes from the original 200 that appeared in the September exhibition in the Pisek Museum. Preparations are already underway for the next biennial - Pisek 1999!
Ivan Hanousek
secretary of the jury
vice-chairman of the CUK."