MERSEA ISLAND CHALLENGE TROPHY
Mersea Island Photographic Society
Affiliated to the P.A.G.B. through the East Anglian Federation
Affiliated to the P.A.G.B. through the East Anglian Federation
Challenge Trophy 2023
Competition has now concluded
congratulations to
Colchester winners of the
Challenge Trophy 2023
congratulations to
Colchester winners of the
Challenge Trophy 2023
Competition Results
2022 / 23 CHALLENGE TROPHY RULES
The Mersea Island Challenge Trophy, is open to 12 clubs including the organising club Mersea Island Photographic
Society, for 2023 12 clubs have confirmed entry.
1. Each club shall submit 5 digital images for the core competition plus an additional image to be used in a tie break
competition (6 images in total). The maximum number of images from any one member for the core competition is 1.
But the 6 th (tie break) image can be from any author.
Images shall not have been used in any previous years MICT competition.
Images must reach Dick Waylen by Saturday 31 st December 2022. images may be on disc or emailed including the
use of cloud services (example dropbox or https://wetransfer.com/)
email: dick.waylen@btinternet.com
Size of images, recognising that most federations and some clubs are moving to 1600 x 1200-pixel image size clubs
are requested to submit two sets of images, one set at 1600 x 1200 pixels and a second set at 1400 x 1050 pixels in
jpeg format Colour Space should be sRGB. This will allow for those who are unable to project at the higher
resolution to participate.
2. Files should be named as follows:
Number – First 3 letters of club name – Author - Title.jpeg
Example; 003 - Mer – B Bloggs - Rusty Winch.jpeg
Please include a space either side of hyphens. (It is important that apart from where shown no punctuation marks are
used within the title i.e name is B Bloggs not B.Bloggs.) Numbers will be used to determine the running order of
each clubs’ images; they will be allocated a different number when assembled for the competition to reflect the actual
running order as shown on the score sheet which will be issued when the entries are distributed at the end of
December / Early January. Images numbered 001 to 005 must be by different authors, image numbered 006 will be
used in the “tie break competition” and may be by one of the authors of images 001 to 005 or another author.
3. Each club shall appoint a judge for their round and judges shall award each image a mark 1-20 (no half marks
allowed) Judges should have previous experience at judging interclub competitions. Each round can be judged live,
pre-judged and displayed at a live meeting or via a digital meeting (example Zoom, MS Teams or other), or any mix
as determined by the host club.
4. A copy of the completed scoresheet must be emailed to all other clubs.
5. The main contact for any queries will be Dick Waylen from Mersea Island Photographic Society.
dick.waylen@btinternet.com
6. In the event of a tie between clubs in the main competition, the tie break competition scores will be used. If a tie still
results then the lowest scoring images from each tying club will be discarded until a winner results. The challenge
trophy shield will be held by the winning club for 1 year and engraving is the responsibility of the winners.
7. Copyright of images remain with the authors.
8. By entering the competition, each participating club authorises the other participating clubs to display the images for
internal club meetings at the resolution submitted. (Not for open public display).
9. Each participating club will hold the images and author data in confidence paying due respect to the GDPR
legislation. If a club wishes to put any images from the competition on it’s club website then they must take action to
prevent unauthorised copying, for example by inserting a watermark, or displaying low resolution images.
The Mersea Island Challenge Trophy, is open to 12 clubs including the organising club Mersea Island Photographic
Society, for 2023 12 clubs have confirmed entry.
1. Each club shall submit 5 digital images for the core competition plus an additional image to be used in a tie break
competition (6 images in total). The maximum number of images from any one member for the core competition is 1.
But the 6 th (tie break) image can be from any author.
Images shall not have been used in any previous years MICT competition.
Images must reach Dick Waylen by Saturday 31 st December 2022. images may be on disc or emailed including the
use of cloud services (example dropbox or https://wetransfer.com/)
email: dick.waylen@btinternet.com
Size of images, recognising that most federations and some clubs are moving to 1600 x 1200-pixel image size clubs
are requested to submit two sets of images, one set at 1600 x 1200 pixels and a second set at 1400 x 1050 pixels in
jpeg format Colour Space should be sRGB. This will allow for those who are unable to project at the higher
resolution to participate.
2. Files should be named as follows:
Number – First 3 letters of club name – Author - Title.jpeg
Example; 003 - Mer – B Bloggs - Rusty Winch.jpeg
Please include a space either side of hyphens. (It is important that apart from where shown no punctuation marks are
used within the title i.e name is B Bloggs not B.Bloggs.) Numbers will be used to determine the running order of
each clubs’ images; they will be allocated a different number when assembled for the competition to reflect the actual
running order as shown on the score sheet which will be issued when the entries are distributed at the end of
December / Early January. Images numbered 001 to 005 must be by different authors, image numbered 006 will be
used in the “tie break competition” and may be by one of the authors of images 001 to 005 or another author.
3. Each club shall appoint a judge for their round and judges shall award each image a mark 1-20 (no half marks
allowed) Judges should have previous experience at judging interclub competitions. Each round can be judged live,
pre-judged and displayed at a live meeting or via a digital meeting (example Zoom, MS Teams or other), or any mix
as determined by the host club.
4. A copy of the completed scoresheet must be emailed to all other clubs.
5. The main contact for any queries will be Dick Waylen from Mersea Island Photographic Society.
dick.waylen@btinternet.com
6. In the event of a tie between clubs in the main competition, the tie break competition scores will be used. If a tie still
results then the lowest scoring images from each tying club will be discarded until a winner results. The challenge
trophy shield will be held by the winning club for 1 year and engraving is the responsibility of the winners.
7. Copyright of images remain with the authors.
8. By entering the competition, each participating club authorises the other participating clubs to display the images for
internal club meetings at the resolution submitted. (Not for open public display).
9. Each participating club will hold the images and author data in confidence paying due respect to the GDPR
legislation. If a club wishes to put any images from the competition on it’s club website then they must take action to
prevent unauthorised copying, for example by inserting a watermark, or displaying low resolution images.
