Well, the only way to get points toward a Championship from the group or by going Best is if you are a class dog and you win the group or go Best..... it doesn't happen too often. The other points you get from placing in the group don't count towards your championship...they count towards dogs defeated in the national rankings.---not too many people who ask how you get championship points need to be concerned with this kind of points............unless they were born under the luckiest star of all....... Peggy arycrest@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >AKC's website page, COUNTING POINTS AT DOG SHOWS, only contains partial >information. The information supplied only goes thru counting championship >points thru BEST OF BREED competition. To find the complete information about >counting championship points you have to go to the January 2006 RULES APPLYING >TO DOG SHOWS - CHAPTER 16 - SECTION 2 where they explain that points can also >be earned at GROUP and BEST IN SHOW levels of competition. >http://www.akc.org/pdfs/rulebooks/RREGS3.pdf >http://www.akc.org/events/conformation/counting_points.cfm > > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================