mr x wrote:All I was saying, and this is really to the credit of our own people, is that if the objective of club rankings is simply points, then I don't agree with that. I don't feel that overall points is an accurate representation of quality per entry, unless you have a hard limit of entries per club per competition (of which most clubs would meet the minimum number of entries to make results valid), or a way to scale results to achieve the same goal.
I've spent many years in amateur winemaking competition, and it operates very differently. Nobody sends wines across the country for
club competition. You might have more than one
local club that you'd submit to, but I don't know many people doing even that. Then, the club winners would submit to provincial competition, and provincial winners to the national competition (Amateur Winemaker's of Canada competition is in Nova Scotia, again, this year—I'll be judging, and I expect Jeff Pinhey will too).
Rob (Rubbertoe, other Rob) is right that a Brewer of the Year contest that is based on entries to any number of club competitions is biased towards clubs "
out west" (where I think "west" is defined as west of Quebec city).