Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Wednesday and Awards Dinner
Original sender: Ellen----
Today's "Time Gamble with a Twist" challenged people in a different way. It's described here: http://www.usdaa.com/article.cfm?newsID=351, with a course map, too, but the essence is that you had to complete a numbered course--with some obstacle choices (somewhat like CPE's Wildcard class)--in as close to 30 seconds (time plus faults) as you could manage. Most folks I spoke to had trouble bringing in a time of much over 20 seconds on the course, and people with faults were ending up closer to the tops of the heaps.
A couple of people's views are expressed in the USDAA blog here: http://blog.usdaa.com/?cat=3
I don't believe that results had been posted here by the end of the day, and I don't see where they're posting results on the web site, but they claim they'll be posted at some point.
The awards dinner showed just how much the sport has grown. With so many dogs competing and so many opportunities to compete, they posted a list of over 50 dogs who had earned their lifetime Bronze awards, about 30 who had earned their Silvers, 21 Gold earners, and seven new Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award earners.
Bronze requires 150 Masters (or P3) Qualifying scores (with certain distribution among classes required). Silver requires 250, Gold is 350, and Platinum is 500. So this is a lot of course walking!
Bay Teamers and local Friends Of Bay Team on the lists:
Bronze:
Cindy Glantz and Jagger
Karey Krauter and Bump
Kathy Leggett and Heather
Katy Robertson and Twig
Sandy Rogers and Brink
Sharon Freilich and Rip (?)
Tania Chadwick and Kidd
Bill Gignac and Bert
Silver:
Candy Gaiser and Bounce (?)
Erika Maurer and Chase
Sarah Johnson and Cruiser
Gold:
Candy Gaiser and Pivot?
Gail Mahood and Flint
Nancy Gyes and Riot
Rob Michalski and Hobbes
Platinum:
Jim Basic and Swift
The Bay Team also had quite a few Top Ten dogs but I'm tired, it's late, I have to be at the site about 6:15 tomorrow--so good night!
Added Wednesday, November 8:
Today's "Time Gamble with a Twist" challenged people in a different way. It's described here: http://www.usdaa.com/article.cfm?newsID=351, with a course map, too, but the essence is that you had to complete a numbered course--with some obstacle choices (somewhat like CPE's Wildcard class)--in as close to 30 seconds (time plus faults) as you could manage. Most folks I spoke to had trouble bringing in a time of much over 20 seconds on the course, and people with faults were ending up closer to the tops of the heaps.
A couple of people's views are expressed in the USDAA blog here: http://blog.usdaa.com/?cat=3
I don't believe that results had been posted here by the end of the day, and I don't see where they're posting results on the web site, but they claim they'll be posted at some point.
The awards dinner showed just how much the sport has grown. With so many dogs competing and so many opportunities to compete, they posted a list of over 50 dogs who had earned their lifetime Bronze awards, about 30 who had earned their Silvers, 21 Gold earners, and seven new Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award earners.
Bronze requires 150 Masters (or P3) Qualifying scores (with certain distribution among classes required). Silver requires 250, Gold is 350, and Platinum is 500. So this is a lot of course walking!
Bay Teamers and local Friends Of Bay Team on the lists:
Bronze:
Silver:
Gold:
Platinum:
The Bay Team also had quite a few Top Ten dogs but I'm tired, it's late, I have to be at the site about 6:15 tomorrow--so good night!
Added Wednesday, November 8:
