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by grimmdog on 01 March 2012 - 05:03
Welcome to the 2012 AWDF Championship and Team Challenge! www.2012awdf.com
Let me be the very first to introduce myself and personally welcome you to the 2012 AWDF being held May 9-13th, in Indianapolis, Indiana! My name is Nate Harves. I am the Training Director of the host club, OG Landshark, and the Event Chair of the 2012 AWDF Championship and Team Challenge.
OG Landshark Schutzhund, Polizeihund, und Rettungshunde is extremely honored and excited to be selected as the host club for the 2012 AWDF. The AWDF has always been an awesome event bringing in huge numbers of top competitors of all breed backgrounds and is routinely the largest entry IPO event in the United States. As individual handlers and breeders we all have our personal favorite breed that defines our passion, however, the AWDF is where we all come together in support of our common passion: working dogs and dog sport! This culmination of so many beautiful and skilled working dogs promises something for everyone, helping to positively promote our breeds, our organizations, our dog sport, and assist in educating the public, ensuring the future for our belief in the absolute need and value in the continuation of the working dog.
An event of this magnitude is as you can imagine a tremendous amount of work and preparation. We are working hard and extremely elated to be offering some things others trials don't, to give the 2012 AWDF that extra touch and mark of excellence. It truly will be a trial you won't want to miss. When we set out on the path to host this event, my mission statement to my team was simple and clear. I wanted the 2012 AWDF to be the very best and would accept nothing less. It is our goal to host a well run and competitor friendly event, professional in every way, with world class judging and quality leadership, focused toward offering competitor and spectator alike an amazing event that is fair and balanced in every way, hugely exciting and entertaining, with high value for the dollar spent, and no detail overlooked. We will accept nothing short of this as a promise to you. We demand of ourselves that every person leave the event and say "That was the best dog trial I have ever been to."
I have personally assembled my team of professionals to oversee certain aspects of this trial. I would like to personally thank each of these individuals for the dedication, work ethic, and extreme commitment they have shown to the success of the 2012 AWDF. Each of them have been empowered to do whatever is necessary to make it right and make it happen, and have been tasked with making the 2012 AWDF the best trial ever. Please allow me to introduce them in no particular order.
Lorna Thomas, Assistant Event Chair
Mohawk John, Catalog and Trophy Coordinator
Charlie Snyder, Website Coordinator
Brandon Wilson, Tracking Coordinator
Lillian Hardy, Tracking Liaison
Jeremy Leming, Stadium Coordinator
Michelle Testa, Trial Secretary
John Sluss, Festivities Coordinator
Kyle Schaefer, Event Security
As part of this top notch world class team, we have brought in for the first time ever in the United States, four foreign judges to judge our event. Handpicked for their impartiality and fairness to offer every competitor their fair chance of retaining their 100 points per phase the same as everyone else, these judges were all selected for their honesty, morals, reputations, and dedicated promise to me personally that no favors existed, no special treatment of any kind, if points taken from one they are taken from them all, best team wins. Period. Our club and our judges are very proud of this commitment to our competitors. As another integral part of our 2012 AWDF event team, take a moment to familiarize yourself with our helpers. They are all top notch and we're excited to offer them to test these dogs. As with our judges, our helpers were selected for their dedication to safely and fairly test the dogs, without bias or agenda, to ensure the very best handlers and dogs have their chance to showcase why they are truly the best of the best.
Enjoy your look through our website. I hope each of you attend in whatever way you can. You have my personal promise that the 2012 AWDF Championship and Team Challenge will be an event you won't want to miss! We'll see you there!
Nate Harves
Event Chair 2012 AWDF
Training Director, OG Landshark
by dogladyj on 01 March 2012 - 06:03
by grimmdog on 01 March 2012 - 08:03
by Slamdunc on 01 March 2012 - 13:03
Jim
by gagsd4 on 01 March 2012 - 13:03
by laura271 on 01 March 2012 - 14:03
http://2012awdf.com/
(The url that Nate listed takes me to a website offering single girls and spyware removal- 'cause those things are always linked. :) )
by grimmdog on 01 March 2012 - 18:03
The website listed put a period where there shouldn't have been.
The correct website is :
www.2012AWDF.com
by grimmdog on 08 March 2012 - 02:03
2012 AWDF "Early Bird Entry" Weekly Giveaway!
Get your on-line entries in!! Because each week in March we will hold a drawing from the entries we have received so far for an exciting prize sponsored by several of our loyal sponsors! The earlier you get your entry in for the 2012 AWDF, the better your chances to win! Your name will remain in the pool and you will be eligible to win each week! So the earlier you send in your entry, the better your chances to win…once, or even multiple times!
One name will be drawn from received entries each Friday at 2:00 p.m. beginning March 9th and every week thereafter… March 16th, 23rd, 30th.
To be eligible for the weekly drawing, your on-line entry must be submitted by midnight the Thursday night before the drawing. All entries, even previous week’s winners, are eligible to participate in the weekly drawing.
Weekly prize winners will be announced on the 2012 AWDF website (www.2012awdf.com), on our Facebook Page and Tweeted at @2012awdf! Be sure to sign up and follow us on Twitter, @2012AWDF, for continuous exciting trial updates!! Special trial information released almost daily!
Prizes will be handed out at the 2012 AWDF Draw Night.You must mail in your official entry as outlined on the Entry Information page of the website and you must be present on Draw Night to receive your prize. If your name is drawn in one of the weekly drawing dates listed above and you do not mail in your entry and payment, or you are otherwise ineligible to participate in the trial for any reason and/or you are not present at Draw Night, your prize will be forfeited and another drawing for any unclaimed prizes will be held from the names of entrants present at Draw Night.
Don’t hesitate! Enter now… the early bird may get the worm, but the early 2012 AWDF competitor may get a nice dumbbell set, sleeve, or other great training package!
March 9th "Early Bird Entry" Giveaway is graciously sponsored by the good folks at Elite K9! Show support to them as they have us by visiting their website today!
Elite K-9
Police, Miltary and Working Dog Equipment
Elite K-9 offers a wide variety of equipment designed for the working dog. You will find sleeves, training collars, and many police and tactical specialty items.
Website: www.Elitek9.com;
by grimmdog on 09 March 2012 - 00:03
Be sure to be getting your entries in early to account for the early cut-off dates. All entry cut-off dates are on the website. Some are as early as April 2nd, so don't delay! Enter today!
(Entries must first go to breed clubs, then to AWDF, then to us, so the dates are early to accomplish all that. All instructions available on the website.)
This event is regularly the largest in the US and will be the trial you don't want to miss in 2012! OG Landshark is working feverishly to make sure this event will be tremendous in every way and that there will be something for everyone! A FAIRLY RAN, COMPETITOR FRIENDLY EVENT LIKE NONE OTHER!
- Music played throughout the trial
- Biergarten
- Winegarten
- Tons of vendors
- Exciting raffle and free giveaways
- Delicious venue food (affordable, too!)
- Shade
- Tons of room to air your dog
- Practice field on site
- Top helpers
- Top Judges
- Awesome Judge's dinner
- Free Draw dinner
- Draw, restaurant, and bar at host hotel
- Host hotel is extremely affordable, 5 mins from trial field, 1 min from interstate
- Exciting event shirt (sold pre-sale, too!)
- European-style decorated trial field
- Ringsport, AKC agility, and Police SWAT K9 demos on site
- Much, much more!!
Be sure to check out our website at www.2012awdf.com and follow us on Twitter for constant updates at @2012awdf !!
by Bob McKown on 12 April 2012 - 18:04
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