Thank goodness for Michael!! Yesterday I went to the Rau web site and I understood immediately why people entered the specialty instead of the National by mistake. I do expect there will be some irate people at the National who didn't get notified and are in the wrong show but we did the best we could under the circumstances. If there is a specialty next year with the National, things will undoubtedly be done differently. Tish In a message dated 9/23/2009 8:52:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, InquestGSD@xxxxxxx writes: I told him Mike Cheeks screwed the whole thing up....hahahahaha.. Mike, lunch is on you. We are going to give you a trophy for single handedly saving the National <G> ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================