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> I would suggest to make 1st, 2nd and 3rd awards automatic, based on a
> single note for each image/voter, and use a small jury (3 or 4 people) to 
> award the T-A-C mentions.

One possibility would be to get rid of Technical/Artistic/Conceptual 
mentions altogether but entitle the panel judges to award mentions on 
whatever criteria they want, like the "special mentions" in the Cannes Film 
Festival.
For instance one entrant in the POVCOMP was a little girl. It was difficult 
to rank her image with the rest but on the other hand her image had a real 
value (for instance it showed that POV-Ray and Moray could be used for 
educational purpose, even with young children). I also remember several IRTC 
entries created with self-made raytracers.
A "special mentions" system would allow the jury to reward images that would 
be significant in some way or another, in fact for any reason that could 
have a particular value beside the overall image quality.

Ideally, voters should be able to have their say here too but I'm not really 
sure of the correct method to do that. There could be some sort of 
"flagging" system associated with tags, for instance. Images that would be 
flagged by enough people for similar reasons could then receive special 
awards.

G.


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