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SCPF Season Results 2026

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SCPF Championships

22 March 2206, Littleton Memorial Hall

This year’s championships, hosted by WPS, saw 41 clubs entering PDIs and 22 clubs entering prints, a total of 600 PDIs and 299 prints.  

With such a lot of competition, WPS as a club did well to come first in the Print Section and second in the PDIs.

More details of the event in the SCPF April 2026 Newsletter

  • SCPF Championships 2026 - Prints - Winner
    SCPF Championships 2026 – Prints – Winner
  • SCPF Championships 2026 - PDIs - Second
    SCPF Championships 2026 – PDIs – Second
  • SCPF Championship 2026 Judges
    SCPF Championship 2026 Judges: Sandie Cox, Ralph Snook, Eddie Hyde
  • Sandie Cox presents Pete Whieldon's certificate
    Sandie Cox presents Pete Whieldon’s certificate (accepted by Carey Wall)
  • Sandie Cox presents Tony Cowburn's certificate
    Sandie Cox presents Tony Cowburn’s certificate (accepted by Carey Wall)
  • Eddie Hyde presents Simon Merryman's certificate
    Eddie Hyde presents Simon Merryman’s certificate (accepted by Eric Blake)
  • Eddie Hyde presents Tony Smith's certificate
    Eddie Hyde presents Tony Smith’s certificate (accepted by Mike Lane)

 Credit: David McKibbin

The judges were Sandie Cox ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAP/s, Eddie Hyde FRPS, and Ralph Snook ARPS EFIAP/s DPAGB.

Who were the individual WPS stars on the day?


PDIs:
 

  • Gold Medal, First Prize: Pete Whieldon 
  • Highly Commended: Tony Cowburn

Prints

  • Highly Commended: Tony Smith
  • Highly Commended: Simon Merryman

Highest placed WPS images

 
Congratulations to all these prize winners!

Thanks from Suzie Kirkby (SCPF Vice President) to the WPS Team who put on the event:

Thank you so much, Gordon/Carey/Mike/Ann.
 
You and your teams have worked extremely hard over the last few months and it was fantastic to see another superb Federation event. The management and compering of the day was nothing short of excellent. I was particularly pleased at how deftly the prints were handled and the catering was equally impressive. Everyone was so friendly and helpful with you all working together so seamlessly and flexibly.
 
Please could you pass on my heartfelt thanks to everyone in Winchester PS who contributed to such a brilliant team effort for the most complicated event in our season. It has been very much appreciated by Council and the competing clubs.
 
Best wishes,
 
Suzie

Here are the people who helped on the day:

  • PRESIDENT
    • Carey Wall Scorer
  • CATERING TEAM
    • Ann Erkut Team Lead
    • Stella Chandler
    • Gay Hopkins
    • Anne Ruffell
  • PRINT TEAM
    • Mike Lane Team Lead
    • Eric Blake Sorting and Judging
    • Damon Elliott Sorting and Judging
    • Corinne Kozok Sorting and Judging
    • David McKibbin Sorting and Judging
    • Alexandra Lofts Sorting and Displaying
    • Helen Otton Sorting and Packing
    • Chris Breeze Sorting and Packing
  • MAIN HALL
    • Gavin Bowyer First-aider
    • Chris Smith Main Hall setup and Print Judging
    • Harvey Arber Main Hall setup
    • John Greenwood Main Hall setup
    • Jo Grimes Main Hall setup
  • MARSHALLING
    • Jill North Door attendant and Print Organizer
    • Peter Henderson Car Park
    • Bruce Mackay Car Park

Plus Gordon Brown as Project Manager and some other roles.

SCPF League Results 

WPS is second in SCPF 2026 Print League Division 1

Having come just ahead of Chichester Camera Club in 2023, our positions were reversed this year.

After 8 rounds, Winchester, on 45 points finished behind winners Chichester CC on 55 and ahead of New Forest CC in third place on 39 points.
Full details at SCPF 2025-2026 Print League

WPS is third in SCPF 2026 PDI League Division 2

The top four teams in PDI Division 2 had been swapping places throughout the competition. A win in round 7 left us in first place with one round to go.

Then a sixth place in the final round dropped us out of the top two promotion places, holding on to third place under the countback rule.

Full details at SCPF 2025-2026 PDI League

How do the SCPF League competitions work?

At the beginning of each season, our Competition Secretary convenes a panel to select images to represent the society in the SCPF inter-club Print and PDI competitions – eight Prints and eight PDIs.

  • The SCPF member clubs are split into divisions of eight clubs.
  • The member clubs in each division take turns to host a round.
  • The same eight images take part in every round, but there is a different judge for each round.
  • The judges should be senior judges, at least SCPF Level 2.
  • They must apply the same scoring system
  • At the end of a round, the individual images scores are added up. The winning club takes 8 points, second place gets 7 points, down to last place which receives 1 point.
  • If there is a tie for any place, the club with the greater number of 10s in that round wins, and if equal on 10s, then the greater number of 9.5s, then 9.0s etc are taken into account.

   Scoring System

  1. Mark as Advanced Class
  2. Use a relative scale where each image is marked relative to one another
  3. Marks should range from 10 – 6 in half mark steps
  4. Images at base competence for advanced work score 6 (images below base competence may score less than 6)
  5. Images at the highest standard score 10
  6. At least one 6 and at least one 10

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