Behind the Scenes of the 2015 EAPLC | ScapeFu049

Published: Jan. 18, 2016, 6 a.m.

b"In 2015, the third edition of the\\xa0European Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (EAPLC)\\xa0was held for the whole of Europe.\\xa0In this episode, Jurijs and Art share with you a behind the scenes look at at the EAPLC from their perspectives as event organizer/judge (Jurijs) and independent judge (Art). In ScapeFu episode #49, you will learn: The history of the EAPLC The 2015 judges\\xa0(what a group!) How do judges go about scoring the works What's in store for the 2016 EAPLC Show Notes We discussed\\xa05 Reasons to Join an Aquascaping Contest\\xa0in the past. The 2015 Judges Panel: ADA Japan (in deputy for Takashi Amano) Oliver Knott (Germany) Viktor Lantos (greenaqua Hungary) Ralf Gerlach (Tropica,Denmark) Dave Chow (China) Luca Galarraga (Brazil) Jurijs Jutjajevs (Germany) -\\xa0Jurijs! Art Pennom (USA) -\\xa0me! George Farmer (UK) Adam Paszczela (Poland) The 2015 Organization Team: Boris Hildebrandt J\\xf6rg Buhlmann Jurijs Jutjajevs The 2015 Sponsors: Aqua Design Amano Twinstar LUPYLED Flexi-M Tropica aquadeco D\\xe4hne Verlag\\xa0(exclusive media partner) WABIKUSA - Category This year Wabikusa category received almost twice amount of entries. This leaves no doubt Wabikusa is trending! Platz 1 \\u2013\\xa0Frederic Fuss\\xa0(Germany) Platz 2 \\u2013\\xa0Andre Franken\\xa0(Germany) Platz 3 \\u2013\\xa0Peter Slacka\\xa0(Slovakia) Platz 4 \\u2013\\xa0Albert Escrihuela\\xa0(Spain) Platz 5 \\u2013\\xa0Pedro Rosa\\xa0(Portugal) Platz 6 \\u2013\\xa0Roberto Bielli\\xa0(Italy) Platz 7 \\u2013\\xa0Enrico Fortuna\\xa0(Italy) Platz 8 \\u2013\\xa0Wilco Piest\\xa0(Netherlands) Platz 9 \\u2013\\xa0Sascha Hoyer\\xa0(Germany) Platz 10 \\u2013\\xa0Miguel Angel Garcia\\xa0(Spain) NANO \\u2013 Category \\u201cLess is more\\u201d is how to describe\\xa0the Nano category. Presented works look huge and are more difficult to accomplish compared to regular sized aquariums. Platz 1 \\u2013\\xa0Frederic Fuss\\xa0(Germany) Platz 2 \\u2013\\xa0Vladimir Tomek\\xa0(Czech Republic) Platz 3 \\u2013\\xa0Alexander Maletin\\xa0(Russian Federation) Platz 4 \\u2013\\xa0Mikolaj Weterle\\xa0(Poland) Platz 5 \\u2013\\xa0Andre Franken\\xa0(Germany) Platz 6 \\u2013\\xa0Daniel Nagy\\xa0(Hungary) Platz 7 \\u2013\\xa0David Barandiaran\\xa0(France) Platz 8 \\u2013\\xa0Swee Lim Cheah\\xa0(France) Platz 9 \\u2013\\xa0Lajos Nincsics\\xa0(Hungary) Platz 10 \\u2013\\xa0Tamas Janos Danicska\\xa0(Hungary) STANDARD \\u2013 Category Finally the top 10 of the most desired category. Making a head to head race, the winner is\\xa0Gregoire Wolinski! Three times in a row winning EAPLC is such a great achievement, for this reason we decided to nominate Gregoire Wolinski as a honor member of the judges board\\xa02016. \\xa0 Platz 1 \\u2013\\xa0Gregoire Wolinski\\xa0(France) Platz 2 \\u2013\\xa0Ulrich Poupin\\xa0(France) Platz 3 \\u2013\\xa0Annika Reinke\\xa0und\\xa0Marcel Runde\\xa0(Germany) Platz 4 \\u2013\\xa0Julien Voultoury\\xa0(France) Platz 5 \\u2013\\xa0Michael Reinke\\xa0(France) Platz 6 \\u2013\\xa0Olivier Thebaud\\xa0(France) Platz 7 \\u2013\\xa0Serkan Cetinkol\\xa0(Turkey) Platz 8 \\u2013\\xa0Amparo Piera\\xa0(Spain) Platz 9 \\u2013\\xa0Grigoriy Polishchuk\\xa0(Ukraine) Platz 10 \\u2013\\xa0Vladimir Trcka\\xa0(Czech Republic) For pictures from the EAPLC, please go to the main ScapeFu049 show notes page."