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On Saturday the 24th October the National Inter-Club Print Championships were held in Newport, Shropshire. Only a select few clubs from each Federation will have qualified so just being there is a result in itself. The competition involves each club selecting a bank of up to 50 prints from various club members and then choosing the top 12 from that. The 12 prints have to include at least 5 mono and no more than 3 nature, they have to be from at least 5 club members with no more than 3 from any individual. The prints are then put in front of 3 Judges who will award each with either 3, 4 or 5 points resulting in scores ranging from 9-15 points for each print. The 8 clubs with the highest scores will then compete in the final and the rest will then compete in the Plate. We scored 154 points averaging nearly 13 which was very good but 5 points short of making the final. We then had to choose 8 prints for the plate, 4 of which could be from the first round and 4 new ones, bearing in mind the judges perceived preferences. We came 11th out of 35 in the plate which was a decent result given the competition. The final was won by Arden with Chorley and Southport both in second place. Tynemouth and Evolve won the plate. We used images from Barry and Christine Dickinson, Tim Gilbert, Peter Knight, Alan Storey, Tom Richardson and Gill and Richard O’Meara whose Waders of the lost Ark (pictured) was one of our top scorers.