Carol You must not have read all my posts regarding this subject, taking one sentence of several posts does not give the entire picture. Over the years I have traveled to several far away futurities, as far as NM a few years back. The only ones I've never attended is the East Coast and West Coast ones. As I stated in another post, there is NO easy answer and I totaly sympathize with people driving great distances, been there and done it myself several times!!! There used to be only 6 Regions, now there are 9. I was just throwing out some thoughts, and just as the great debate on National Location, there will never be a perfect and pleasing everyone answer. Chris Chris S. (Jolley) Kimerer www.tanbarkgsd.com Ch. Trotwood's Emerald v Tanbark Joelle Aramist Tanbarks 2MuchBling V Joelle Aramist CaralonQED Tanbarks Treasure Island v Joelle Aramist Tanbark-Joelle Tanzanite of Chablis AOE Sel.Ex.Ch.Carousel Farms Samantha, PT, TC OFA H/E Ch. CaralonQED JD Drew Bleibtreu OFA H/E Ch. Cresthers Blast V Kenlyn OFA --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Scharo777@xxxxxxx <Scharo777@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Scharo777@xxxxxxx <Scharo777@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Futurity Maturity Results To: tanbarkgsd@xxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 8:08 PM In a message dated 4/5/2010 12:21:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tanbarkgsd@xxxxxxxxx writes: If there is one or more regions with consistenly low numbers, I think those regions might have to be taken out of the system. If Chris - the regions that have low numbers are the ones in the West were people have to drive great distances to reac h a show. If you eliminate their region,l numbers will continue to decline, because they will not enter anywhere. Also, so far,futurities do not loose money. The shows with them are usually large also. The income from a Futurity weekend keeps many clubs operating. I simply do not understand why you want to deprive isolated regions. They still have excellent dogs. I was in New Mexico. Carol Moore ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2009. 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 - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================