I just judged a local show and believe me it is not easy, you are given a list of items to check and give a number value. All of the quilts entered were great and it is very difficult. You have to check so many things and I felt like all but 1 entered deserved a ribbon, but they won't let you do that so you end up having to find a small imperfection to keep from doing that. I don't ever want to do that again. At least they did have a seperate class for hand quilted.