renegade
10-04-2007, 08:37 AM
Now that Splash Dogs is doing annual awards and qualifying for worlds, we want to make sure that all jumps that your dog does in a year counts towards these events. I wanted to let everyone know how this is going to work moving forward.
Rankings & Annual Awards: You will start accumulating data for the 2008 rankings and awards as of October 1, 2007. So basically the 2007 Rankings and Awards are complete as of now and the period for 2008 Rankings and awards will begin 10/1/2007. We need to do this so that we can give the awards out at the awards dinner and not ignore any great feats that occur between Oct and Dec! This means that the Garland, TX jump will be the first jump at which jumps will count towards 2008 rankings and awards. The cutoff date for the end of the period for 2008 rankings will be determined once we determine the dates for our 2008 World Championships.
Qualifying for Worlds: You will start accumulating qualifying jumps for 2008 World Championships after November 4th (the end of 2007 World Championships). Since we are counting the jumps at Cynosports (10/31/2007-11/3/2007) towards qualifying for 2008, the calendar won't "roll" till after that event. This means that the Garland, TX jumps will count towards qualifying for 2007 worlds, but the Turkey Splash in November will count towards qualifying for 2008 worlds. We will be announcing qualifying criteria for 2008 World Championships early in 2008.
I hope this all makes sense! Please let me know if you have questions.
Rankings & Annual Awards: You will start accumulating data for the 2008 rankings and awards as of October 1, 2007. So basically the 2007 Rankings and Awards are complete as of now and the period for 2008 Rankings and awards will begin 10/1/2007. We need to do this so that we can give the awards out at the awards dinner and not ignore any great feats that occur between Oct and Dec! This means that the Garland, TX jump will be the first jump at which jumps will count towards 2008 rankings and awards. The cutoff date for the end of the period for 2008 rankings will be determined once we determine the dates for our 2008 World Championships.
Qualifying for Worlds: You will start accumulating qualifying jumps for 2008 World Championships after November 4th (the end of 2007 World Championships). Since we are counting the jumps at Cynosports (10/31/2007-11/3/2007) towards qualifying for 2008, the calendar won't "roll" till after that event. This means that the Garland, TX jumps will count towards qualifying for 2007 worlds, but the Turkey Splash in November will count towards qualifying for 2008 worlds. We will be announcing qualifying criteria for 2008 World Championships early in 2008.
I hope this all makes sense! Please let me know if you have questions.