since not all koi are entered into shows, and since koi shows are like judging cut flowers on a particular day, and since different koi shows are held on different days during different seasons of the year, and since different koi are entered in different shows, and since different people judge different koi on different days, and since judges from different associations have different organizational, regional, national, and cultural biases, and since individual shows have different flavors in different years, and since no one person sees for themselves all the koi from all the ponds and all the shows from all the regions from all the countries for several years running -- then how in the world can anybody even begin to approximate the truth?
That would be like trying to choose the most beautiful woman in the world from a sample of only two Playboy articles: The Girls of the Big 10 vs. the Girls of Wal-mart.
Don