B. L. A. Convention  and 5th International Guppy Show

 Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th October 2010 were the show dates, Gateway Hotel Nottingham the venue, but setting up started on Thursday the 14th October, in fact much earlier than that for Steve Elliott Guppy Show Manager and Dave Macallister
BLA Convention Manager with venue, transport and water etc to  be arranged. 
                                                                                                                      All hands on deck !                                                    Where do we start ?                   

             Chief water carrier and his apprentice                                    The "A" team

 

 

 

 

 

                                                      Show and Convention in full swing  
Judging of the 181 entries took place on the Friday by  five I.K.G.H. judges, due to the Polish judge being unable to make the show, Derek Jordan kindly stepped in at the
last minute. The judges were: Malcolm Clarke, Derek Jordan, Denis Barbe, Hermann Magoschitz and Stephen Elliott.

Once again it was a truly international show with entries from the:
UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Slovenia, Poland, Italy and Czechoslovakia,
the great deal of effort made by all exhibitors is greatly appreciated.

Winners:
Broad Tail:  Derrick Clayton   GB/BLA, 
Sword Tail  Heike Bergner      D/DGD
Short Tail:   Christian Solgoni  I/IND 

 Best In Show  a Red Delta
 bred by Derrick Clayton                  

 

On Saturday the show was open to vistors,
in addition to the Guppy show there was a Guppy Sales Table, and Trade Stands including a stand by our sponsors JBL.
There were several lectures during the day including one on Guppy Genetics by Claus Osche
Saturday evening was the Gala dinner and presentation evening, an enjoyable event rounded off  by a clever and funny speech kindly given by Peter Burgess.
                                                                                              Selection of the showfish
On Sunday was again well attended, with
many new faces and concluded with the B.L.A. auction,
Derek Jordan kindly acted as auctioneer for the Guppy  section.                                 

The show was also the final leg of the BLA 2010 Guppy League, congraulations
must go to Malcolm Clarke on winning both the Broad Tail and Sword Tail Classes. Steve Elliott won the Short Tails just beating Malcolm on the final leg.

The event was enjoyed by all, not only for hobby of fish keeping but also for the chance to socialise and exchange stock and information with like minded hobbyists .

                 The best yet ??   - Comments welcome on the site forum . 
      Also photo's of entries at the show would be most welcome to add to this report
                             

                
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