Agility trial results and videos

[agilityretrievers]

January 13-14 (Dusty only)

Saturday
Standard - off-course which was my fault, and a late front cross which was an overly happy A-frame's fault, but still 19 seconds under time.
JWW - equipment failure resulted in a very long wait before his run, so he was tired and knocked a bar

Sunday
Standard - Q, 3rd place, 12 MACh points
JWW - Q, 5th place (less than .3 second behind 4th and less than a second behind 3rd), 11 MACh points

17 double-Q's and 485 points towards MACh, 3 double-Q's and 90 points towards qualifying for 2008 nationals (which will probably require 6 double-Q's and 300 points, but don't know yet if it's staying the same or not).

Videos of Saturday Standard and both runs on Sunday are on http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=agilityretrievers

 

[adojrts]

Oh thats AWESOME!!!!
I don't compete in AKC agility, could you please explain the point system, how many you need for a MACH? And how do you get double Q's?
In the different levels, what is considered to be a qualifying score? clean and under time would be my guess lol.
Thanks
Lynn

 

[agilityretrievers]

A MACh is 20 double-Q's and 750 points. Whenever you qualify, you get a point for every full second under the course time. A double-Q is qualifying in both Standard and Jumpers with Weaves on the same day.

In Novice you can have 2 refusals and still qualify, refusals aren't counted on the weave poles, and you can also have table faults and/or time faults as long as your total score is 85 or above. A perfect score is 100 and then you subtract 5 for refusals, 2 for jumping off the table, and 1 for each second over time, and that has to be 85 or above to qualify.

Open works pretty much the same way except you can only have 1 refusal, refusals are faulted at the weave poles, and for each second over time you get 2 time faults. In Excellent A the only fault that is allowed is time faults, and for each second over time you get 3 time faults, and in Excellent B you need a perfect score of 100 to qualify.

 

[Riptide]

Whoa, awesome runs! Congrats!