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aardogsI really don't understand how AKC Nationals works...how exactly is it determined who gets to the finals? Is it just cumulative from all of your runs over the weekend? And Friday is a team kind of thing? And the challenger round? USDAA Nats is so easy; Quarter, Semis, Finals, simple and linear!
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Date: 2011-04-02 10:05 am (UTC)Friday doesn't really 'count' - it serves as the team tournament day and an ISC day, with one round of jumpers and one round of standard.
Saturday there are two rounds, jumpers and standard (shocking ;)), and Sunday there is hybrid (which is typically a standard course without a dogwalk; supposed to be a hybrid of jumpers and standard - maybe there are more jumps too? who knows). These three rounds, jumpers, standard, and hybrid, determine who makes the finals. Typically you have to run clean in all three (or you have to, not just typically; I don't really know) to make the finals, and there is a certain percentage who will get in per jump height. So 26" has 62 dogs - I think only 5 dogs will move onto the final. 20" has 343249320842908432 dogs, so a lot will be going. The highest placing dogs who do not make the finals will progress to the challengers round (usually teams who have run 2/3 clean; again, I don't know if these are general trends from past competitions, or actual rules of how many classes you must run clean to move onto _____). Then the challengers winner will also get to compete in the finals (so, 26": 5 + 1 = 6 total finalists).
It's confusing, for sure. lol
Short FAQ for "really don't understand how AKC Nationals works"
Date: 2011-04-22 10:32 pm (UTC)Saturday/Sunday is the AKC National competition. There are 5 rounds. Everyone runs the first three rounds; jumpers, standard, and hybrid. None of the courses count towards AKC titles, most aren't all fully AKC legal. The table isn't used at all. The hybrid contains only 2 of the 3 contact obstacles.
For each course you are scored by time and faults. Your score starts at 100 and decreases with each fault. The rankings are done by score then time. A slower consistent dog is ranked higher than a faster dog that earns faults.
The total number of dogs that earned a spot in the Finals round from the first three rounds varies by class/jump height from 4 in all the preferred classes to 22 dogs in 20" class. The top 7% of each jump height goes to the finals. The minimum for each jump height is 6 in the regular classes, 4 in preferred.
There is one more dog from each jump height that gets into the finals, the challenger. Any dog that has at least two clean runs (no faults) AND earned a placement (1st - 4th) in the first three rounds is eligible to run in the Challengers round.
Note on the placements for the Challengers round; if you placed say 5th and the 1st place dog from that round is already in the finals or challengers round, then you are considered to be a placement dog and are qualified to enter the challengers round. There were dogs that were outside the top 8th place spots that made it to the challengers round.
The Finals round is a lot like USDAA Nats Finals. Everyone starts from scratch. You run in reverse ranking (except the challenger who they seemed to put into the running order at different places.) Placements are awared by by score then time with the top 8 dogs earning a placement.
Hope that helps. This was Stealer and my first year qualifying and attending AKC Nationals. We did much better than expected and look forward to the next one. Mike Lifer
Re: Short FAQ for "really don't understand how AKC Nationals works"
Date: 2011-04-22 10:35 pm (UTC)