[ SHOWGSD-L ] national agility judges
- From: EJDegen@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:17:31 EDT
It is very difficult to get agility judges to commit to being willing to
judge a national. First of all, many of the good ones are booked several
years in advance, so they may not even be available. If they are willing to
do a national and happen to be available the week of the national, they lose
several days of work since the national is in the middle of the week.
They have to design between 15 and 18 courses for a 2 day trial and they will
most likely have under 200 runs. We give them barely enough money to break
even, much less have it be profitable! Think about all that, now you are
asking them not for a guaranteed "booking" to judge, but to commit to being
available to judge ONLY if they're elected. So, they save the date (for
a trial that's not exactly a "plum" assignment) and then they aren't chosen
anyway but they may have already had to put in for the vacation time at
work. When a lot of judges find out all this (and the GSDCA national judges
contract isn't really inline with what agility judges get elsewhere), they
just say "no" to even being on the ballot! When I was more involved with
trying to find judges, we decided to find ONE judge, tell them the "facts",
hope they'd agree to be on the ballot, and then pray that no one else
nominated a judge to also be on the ballot :-) Some people are talking about
the benefits of just hiring the agility judges several years in advance and
not voting on them. I think that would be a fine idea as long as the
committee (or person) in charge of that would take input from the active
agility
competitors.
Julie Degen
In a message dated 7/29/2010 10:47:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Msg: #4 in digest
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cheryl May <cmdogsports@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Question about selecting agility judges for 2011 nationa
The letter telling us about the candidates for office and the 2011 judges
only
lists one agility judge as a possibility. In past years, since the
national
wasn't being held in my area, I had no opinion on the matter. But in 2011
with
the national coming to Kansas, I am sad that one of the great agility
judges and
the owner of the first MACH in Kansas, Joan Meyer, wasn't listed as a
possible
agility judge.
Can anyone tell me why only one judge is selected for agility and we don't
have
a choice?
I have nothing against the judge who is listed, am just wondering why we
can't
select from more than one name.
- Cheryl May, Manhattan, KS
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