European major contests
Historic/adjacent: TGISC awards often appear in magazines and international distribution. A breeder may compete abroad; competition venue is not breeder's national origin. European event name aliases must not be conflated with the separate European Discus Championship, European Nano Aquascaping Competition, or German Betta Contest at the same Aqua Expo.
TGISC 2026, Hamm (source: Garnele Online result gallery)
TGISC 2025, Hamm: results in include 1st Dark Green Demon — Michael Häsler; 2nd Green Jade Extreme — Philipp Baumann; 3rd Green Demon — Michael Häsler for Neocaridina external pigmentation, and 1st Yellow Neon OE — Chen Wei Wei; 2nd Blue Demon — Michael Häsler for internal pigmentation.
Major North American contests
Coverage boundary: Large documented ornamental shrimp breeder contests in South America have not yet been verified from a trustworthy organizer in this sweep; don't invent a Brazilian or Latin American championship based on unrelated shrimp fisheries/food festivals. Maintain an open search watch for future continent expansion.
A specialist retrospective credits translations/videos from Carbon Chen (judge). Use the claim source level contest-judge-supported-secondary, not official-score-sheet
Primary result comparison and missing contest classes required before declaring an exhaustive scorebook. Source
Judging rubrics and evidence fields
Core judging factors extracted from organizer guidelines: breed category/legality, color strength, coverage/opacity, pattern consistency, symmetry, health/vigor, homogeneity within group (often best 3 judged), innovation for experimental classes. Requirements differ by edition; never import TGISC 2026 class descriptions unchanged into NAISC 2024.
eventid / eventyear / citycountry / classid / classnameoriginal / place / entrantidentity / breederstockorigin / strainlabelonentry / originalcreatorclaim / evidencestatus / sourceurl / publishedat / capturedat / conflictflag.
Link the award to a breeder only when the entrant identity and stock origin are both known and explicitly typed. A breeder maintaining a winning lineage is not automatically inventor. Do not create gene-tree edges merely because two lines resemble each other.
Public research references
Listed research leads are not automatically supporting evidence for every individual claim.
No eligible public supporting URLs are attached to this summary yet.