2. At least 20 points must have been earned in the current year, at the Open or Elite level, in each of the following classes: Tunnelers, Touch N Go, Weavers, Jumpers, and Chances.
So.. strategically, if one really wanted to go and could go to Champs, one could drop the dog back to Open to get the last 20 points needed in one class(es).. like Weavers or Tunnelers?
I doubt we could go just because of the traveling issues with the special needs dog, but in her first 3 runs in Elite Weavers, she just has not yet made time. Not due to weave entries or popping out or any course fault. Even most of her turns on the videos are tight. We hate to drop her down because she is good at weaves. Looking at the videos, even most of the turns are tight.. it seems to be more an issue of confidence running between the hoops and tunnels. For training, we hate to drop her down just because it seems that the jump from Open to Elite tells us more where we need to improve more than we saw moving from Novice to Open. It seems fairly typical with our dog that we need a few times running in Elite for them to start making time. She is just getting ready to move to Elite Tunnelers so I expect that might a time issue too t he next couple of trials.
We do not have that many NADAC trials in the area and some are in 100+ degree weather --she does not run fast in that kind of heat. So if it came down to the wire and we could go, could we drop her down to Open?
Hope Champs gets closer in 2015. :-)
