Looks like Chick didn't like the Peter Putnam thread since it was deleted. Seems to me whenever there is a legit thread concerning the obvious corruption of placings with the judges (Manion) they get deleted.
The NPC was caught in an obvious scandal concerning Putnam and his placings and they really made no bones about it by giving him ALOT of publicity before the class he obviously did not deserve to win. There was a guy on here who posted who placed 8th in Putnams class and could have either won or placed a close second or third.
Anyone who knows anything should know that if someone is givin that much publicity before a major show, that person is destined to win no matter what that persons conditioning, people coming out of the woodwork to win a major show is long gone, there were quite a few competitors that couls have won Putnams easily and to be honest, the dude who won the overall was a nice surprise considering HE SHOULD HAVE WON. With the bullshit judging I would guess to say that the overall was already won by another well known highly publicized competitor until they other dude (can't remember his name) stepped on stage and blew everyone away. My guess is they changed the overall because they knew if it would have gone any other way the shit would have literally hit the fan and the house would have came down.
They did however HAD to have givin a class to another highly visable competitor just to please the publications that gave that competitor the publicity. Someone had to got screwed, it might as well have been the Lt. Hvy class.......congrats to Putnam on an undeserving win and congrats to Manion for making it happen.
BTW Bob, you know as well as I do Manion doesn't have to be on that panel to call the shots!!
