In a message dated 6/3/05 10:45:15 PM Central Daylight Time, Gsdman2@xxxxxxx writes: ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no reason to believe that more central locations would exclude people on the coast. However, when you put a national specialty on a coast, you are most definitely excluding people who live too many hours inland to make the drive. Find out how many hours people are, in general, willing to drive, and draw a driving circle using those distances. If you find a location relatively central to that, you will actually be including more people, without excluding people who live on the coast. I disagree with the belief that the size of the national doesn't matter. I think the show has been dying a slow death, and the evidence for that has been dwindling entries. The national is one of the few showcases that the GSDCA has to offer. If you let it fade, so will the club. Tom Langlitz I have to respectfully agree! Randy Chesnut ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================