Sweeting Rules and Scoring

SCORING SYSTEM AND RULES APPROVED BY PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES AND USED AT ROPEX 2004 FOR MULTI-STATE POSTAL HISTORY EXHIBITING COMPETITION
Points for Medal Levels:
Gold – 10
Vermeil – 8
Silver – 6
Silver-bronze –4
Bronze – 2
Bonus points for Grand – 4; Reserve Grand – 3; Grand single frame — 4
Best in multi-state multi-frame P.H. competition (unless already receiving Grand or Reserve Grand) -3. Best in multi-state single frame P.H. competition (unless already receiving Grand) -3. One bonus point to be added to the medal level points if at least 80% of the exhibit relates solely to the state of the exhibitor’s participating postal history society.
Rules of Competition:
Only exhibits by Society members will be eligible to participate in the competition.
Exhibitors belonging to more than one participating State Postal History Society may exhibit postal history from more than one state and have the exhibit and exhibitor’s participation counted for each Postal History Society to which the exhibitor belongs.
Exhibits of U.S. postal history not specific to a single state are eligible to compete as long as the exhibitor belongs to one of the Societies invited to compete. In order to be eligible for the best in multistate postal history exhibiting awards (multi-frame and single frame), at least 80% of the exhibit must relate solely to the state of the exhibitor’s participating postal history society.
State-specific illustrated mail exhibits, as well as display class postal history exhibits; by participating society members are eligible for the competition.
Previous multistate postal history single and multi-frame competition winning exhibits will not be eligible for the same award for five years, but can still compete in the interim and contribute to the point scoring for their Societies.
Scoring will be done by a panel consisting of one representative from each participating society.
“Postal history” will be given a broad definition, but will not include exhibits generally classified as traditional, thematic, postal stationery, revenue, Cinderella, aerophilatelic or
astrophilatelic. Issues as to an exhibit being “postal history” for purposes of the competition will be resolved by the scoring panel.
Societies participating at ROPEX ’04: ME, MA, VT, OH, NJ, NY
Revised May 2011