JURY SESSION 2011

Jury members:

Břetislav Kovařík (Czech Republic, chairman of Czech Union of Cartoonists)
Ryszard Blazynski (Poland)
Gerhard Gepp (Austria - JURY FOREMAN)
Miroslav Barták (Czech Republic)
Lubomír Lichý (Czech Republic)
Ondřej Veselý (Mayor of the town of Písek)
Miroslav Krejča (Councillor of Písek and member of Senat)
Ivan Hanousek (Secretary of the jury and Czech Union of Cartoonists)

The international jury met in Písek on July 18, 2011 to review a record number of 942 drawings from 281 cartoonist of 57 countries and 5 continents. Collections for the exhibition and the catalogue were chosen. Then for the final round the jury selected 20 cartoons which were evaluated by local method of pouring sand with following results:

1st place: Leslie Ricciardi, Spain 407 g

2nd place: Ross Thomson, Great Britain 378 g

3rd place: Slawomir Luczynski, Poland 349 g

4th place: Seyran Caferli, Azerbaidjan 296 g

5th place: Raul Fernando Zuleta, Colombia 284 g

Further finalists were placed according to amount of sand poured by the jury as follows:

6. Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz, Poland 271 g
7. Pawel Kuczynski, Poland 235 g
8. Witold Mysyrowicz, Poland 220 g
9. Andrey Klimov, Russia 215 g
10. Nikolai Arnaudov, Bulgaria 209 g
11. Nikola Hendrickx, Belgium199 g
12. Doddy Iswahyudi, Indonesia 198 g
13. Maciej Trzepalka, Poland 187 g
14. Valentin Georgiev, Bulgaria 186 g
15. Nikola Hendrickx, Belgium 159 g
16. Vladimir Sivtsevich, Serbia 114 g
17. Alexander Dubovsky, Ukraine 67 g
18. Yuri Kosobukin, Ukraine 61 g
19. Walerian Domanski, USA 60 g
20. Pol Leurs, Luxembourg 33 g 

Two special awards were given

Senator Krejča Award: Jana Maťátková, Czechia
The Town of Písek Award: Stanislav Ashmarin, Russia