Surely that is a good idea. Especially during Futurity season regional specialty clubs that are not hosting a futurity cannot get enough of an entry to support their club. Look at the number of regional specialty clubs that are folding. In Louisiana we have two regional specialty clubs left and neither one have stand alone specialty. They do their shows with AB shows either as a night time show or a supported entry. I think it will come a point where exhibitors will need to decide what is more important a match placing/win or a win/major at a point show. Lee Brown Too far from the womb and too close to the tomb to care about what anyone thinks of me. In a message dated 5/6/2011 11:06:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time, jim_barnhart@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I support the futurities and plan to show four of my own youngsters in my region but looking at the futurities held so far I have to wonder about the future of this event. The MA Regional had thirty-seven dogs shown in their futurity which looks good when considering that the SE Regional had sixteen dogs shown in the their futurity with no class having more than three entries and five classes having one or two shown. The SP Regional had only eighteen shown and five classes with one or two shown. Hopefully the remaining futurities will do better than this. Maybe time to reduce the number of regions. Jim Barnhart ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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 P ROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================