NADAC News

Announcements and Updates

2022 Pre Trial Info

Hi All, Some info for Pre Trial: 1) We will NOT be doing a briefing in the morning.     Everything you need to know will be in this email. 2) First walk throughs will be at 6:30 AM.   We know this is early, believe me, we don't wanna be up this early either.  But...

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2021 Raffle Info

Hi Everyone,Are you gearing up for this year’s raffle?? Saving up your money?? Printing your name labels? This year's raffle is going to be the best ever! For those first time Champs people, the raffle consists of state baskets donated by a club, person or group...

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Grounders Info

This is going to be a info post regarding the new combined hoopers and barrelers class, hereby known as Grounders. For more info on what led to this change you can read this news article: https://www.nadac.com/barrelers-and-hoopers-voting-results/ The new class will...

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Gamblers and SCT Updates

We've got some updates going into effect very soon that we wanted to let everyone know about. To reiterate one thing so no one freaks out too much, what we call positive updates are NOT constrained to our rule of only being done in January and June. A positive update...

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Minimum age change for Intro Level

Starting June 1st, 2021 dogs may now enter the Intro level when they are 15 months old.   This is for all classes. This is a change from the current age of 18 months. This change is in it's testing phase.  We will see how it affects trials and dogs over a period of...

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Barrelers and Hoopers Voting Results

Barrelers and Hoopers Voting Results

We recently held a vote to determine whether competitors had a desire to merge Hoopers and Barrelers into one class. There are multiple positives to a move like this, along with some negatives.  We're going to go through a few of those, and then we'll share the voting...

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2020 Survey Results and discussion

2020 Survey Results and discussion

Hey Everyone, So our results are in from the most recent survey regarding 2020 and everyone's thoughts. Normally we do this in video form, but we did get some requests to have more written articles, so here we are 🙂 In this article we're going to discuss some of the...

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Honorary Championship Awards

Given the circumstances of this year we have an announcement for dogs who are no longer competing, have retired or have passed. If you were close to getting a NATCH, V-NATCH or AA-NATCH when trials were shutdown, and during the period of the quarantine your dog was...

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COVID19 Guidelines

Following are the guidelines NADAC is listing for any and all trials going forward.    Some of these are things we'll be doing in the office, followed by mandatory guidelines, and then finally suggested guidelines What we'll be doing in the office and allowing at all...

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2020 Championships Qualifications

2020 Championships Qualifications

Hello Everyone, We’re getting to the point where it seems much clearer what the impact is going to be from cancelled trials.   At this point we’ve lost 6 weekends of competitions.     I’m keeping hopeful that some form of trials might be able to be held again by mid...

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Dog Agility’s Impact on the US Economy

NADAC recently sent out a survey in regards to certain expenses that agility handlers have, on average. This survey was meant to be used to get a baseline of the possible economic impact that agility has on the US economy. Full disclosure in that we did this because...

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New Trial and Judging options for clubs

Some new options for clubs when hiring judges, run limits, and class choices We have a few new options that we're allowing clubs to use when hiring judges.1) Clubs now have the option of listing a 'overflow' judge in their premium.    This...

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2020 NADAC Championship Hotel Information

2020 NADAC Championship Hotel Information

NADAC 2020 Championships Cam-Plex Event Center Gillette, WY September 22-27 We currently have three hotels who have agreed to work with us during our 2020 Championships. The first hotel we have a contract with will be the Arbuckle Lodge, the second is the Ramada. and...

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Price Increases for January of 2020

Price Increases for January of 2020

It was recently announced that starting in January of 2020 NADAC would be increasing it's fees to clubs to $1.50 per run.    We would also be increasing the fee to judges to $1.50 per run.      There are a few reasons for these increases and we want to address them...

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January 2019 Announcement Video

January 2019 Announcement Video

  Highlights from Video: June 2019: Tugging allowed at all levels Toys allowed at Intro and Novice for training runs only Varying run limits dependent on number of total rounds offered Mandatory refund for BIS Auxiliary judges to help give breaks to main judges,...

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January 2019 NADAC Voting

January 2019 NADAC Voting

Each year we open up certain decisions in NADAC up to the public.   It's that time of the year again, so let your voice be heard! The three things up for voting and then consideration are: 1) Announcers at Championships 2) Extra points for Regional winners coming to...

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