Don't give up!! That's what "they" want us to do.
Kathy Martin
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Jen Proud <proudk911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Even regardless if it is legal or not- if the change was made on the 20th,
entries weren't closed could be said... And the information wasn't passed
along until 21:30 on 9/21. Late- for those in the eastern time zone (10:30
at night), and late- for those in my time zone... But perhaps still "legal"
that entries didn't close til midnight. Lots of time to think about
cancelling. (As if that would happen with how much money is already spent
out for accommodations, vacation time taken, banquet dinner tickets, etc)
besides the legal... It's not RIGHT to do it!!! It's not right to be the
most expensive entry all year for an agility trial, and then to give flat
ribbons- two layered or not!!!
It's not right to send the information late at night (perhaps the
secretary didn't get it until tonight either for what we know) on the
night the shows close. Though the site says "updated 9/19" I know it
wasn't there after midnight on Tuesday night... I was looking! And, then,
it's not even in the right place on the website!
I find it just a shameful thing to do something so unethical to the
agility competitors. The great majority of people who show in agility do
NOT show in confirmation, but come to the nationals just for the agility
trials! It is just an embarrassment on the club to change the premium at
the last minute when everyone has already made all their travel plans and
the checks are cashed.... All that expense atop the entry fee to go home,
at best, with a flat ribbon. A great many agility clubs/trials hand out
rosettes- for placements, for the 2Q, for new titles. I wonder if the
GSDCA is prepared for someone to earn their MACH/PACH at the trials? I
know there are people who save those last legs just for titling at the
national trial! Or, those who save that last excellent leg for at
nationals to complete their PAM! (Like the young lady I am bringing to the
trials is going for) or myself- already going for lure coursing, and
traditional obedience this year, so I'm starting my very first agility dog
that I started training with a few weeks ago just so I could enter the
agility trials-- for the first time for me too -- and now not even agility
"newbies" get the encouragement of earning a rosette with a placement! ALL
the trials I have accompanied my protégée to at least offer rosettes for
Novice, especially the A class, even when the higher classes get flat
ribbons! And the higher class people love that the novice people get those
rosettes! It's encouragement to keep going! I hadn't planned on starting
my dog until the winter, but hurried up & have trained every single day
just to get ready for the national agility trial and at best, we will be
rewarded for our hard work and my expense with a flat ribbon. :(
I am just twisted out of shape upset, not only for myself, but especially
for the people who are truly just starting "in dogs" and make the effort to
show-- what encouragement the GSDCA is giving the exhibitor. Perhaps
that's part of why there's a problem with declining entries, membership,
participation, the club's money problems. I just can't understand how
whoever made that decision. Whoever you are, shame on you! And I'll say it
right to your face too if I knew who you were!
I am entered in 3 venues with 8 entries for ONE dog at this year's
national trials. My protégée is entered in 2 venues for 9 entries with ONE
dog at the national trials.
At $20-35 per entry (coursing entries are $20, the rest $35), that's some
good money just for 2 dogs! You can bet we will be spending all of that
somewhere else next time where we don't drive 8 hours each way and have the
expense of travel, accommodations, etc on top of the entries. I am this
-> <- close to sorry I renewed for 3 years in December 15. I am right
now, embarrassed to represent this club, even just as a member. I always
held such hope that all would work itself out, but this is the slap in the
face that broke me.
Sorry y'all. I just had to rant. Thanks for listening. I give up.
Jen P & her Pack
On Thursday, September 22, 2016, R. Steiner <mobilegrmr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm confused.....how is it legal to change the awards in the premium
after entries close?! How is it even possible to do such a thing? Might
sound minor to some, but it isn't.
- Regina
On Sep 22, 2016 12:06 AM, "Jen Proud" <proudk911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Isn’t that interesting? I was on the same very page last night & that
link wasn’t there.
I would already had something to say yesterday if it were there!
JP&P
On Sep 21, 2016, at 22:56, Cyndi Flautt <caretti1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
looks like the premium was revised and put under another link.
http://www.gsdca.org/images/2016Natl/GSDCA-2016-Final
%20Premium%20w%20Match.pdf
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*From:* showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:showgsd-l-bounce@freel
ists.org] *On Behalf Of *Jen Proud
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:22 PM
*To:* DaList
*Subject:* [ SHOWGSD-L ] Seriously?....
Is the GSDCA trying so hard to save money they're chintzing the agility
competitors out of a rosette for a class placement and instead, as of
today, when entries are closed, offering a ribbon instead? YES. And when
the agility & obedience trophy donations are over filled as to flow into
the general fund to boot, AND when the GSDCA agility trials are the most
expensive of the year! People were willing to PAY for the opportunity at a
rosette in class placement, and now all one gets is a ribbon, when one can
get a ribbon (and sometimes a rosette) for an entry that costs half as
much?
I am embarrassed. I am carting a young lady across the countryside for
an overpriced agility trial for her to get the chance at a ribbon after
telling her, "it's the nationals- see here in the premium? Placers get
rosettes and so do qualifiers." Now even DOUBLE QUALIFIERS (that's entered
and qualifying in BOTH the standard AND jumpers classes the same trial same
day for those of y'all not in the know) get a "double ribbon". Really?!?
Won't a first-timer at the nationals coming just for agility be thrilled
to have burned up her precious college budget for flat ribbons when she
could have shown for 2 weekends at the price instead of 2 days, not to
mention missing school and the travel !
How in the world did an event with a surplus prize budget get the prizes
cut? Hmmph. Perhaps it was no coincidence there was a constant contact
begging for more sieger show trophies- 70 of them- that the agility prizes
got cut. Perhaps not. That's for all of you to decide.
A very frustrated
Jen P & her Pack starting a brand new agility dog at nationals
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