North Central Regional Championship this weekend! - Page 1

September 18 - 20th, 2009
Geller Field, Harris MN

USA Judge Mike Caputo
SchH1, SchH2, SchH3 and BH

www.mvsv.org/2009_regional.htm

how come there is only one judge? should there be more for championships?

I'm not exactly sure why only one, but the entry is not huge so that could be a factor.  Originaly Mark Przybylski was booked to judge....

 Not all regional championships have  more than one judge.  Multiple judges is not an absolute  requirement.

Would be nice to have that kind of money and entries to have 3 judges at one time. But then for the few entries they would be drinking too much beer! Historically this region does not have large entries to consider having multiple judges.

Denise:

Its not rude for someone to have an opinion on what they think is their favorite region. It's kind of like having a favorite football team.

Congratulations to all the competitors this past weekend at the USA North Central Regional Championship.

Results link: http://www.mvsv.org/champsresults.htm

It was a great event at a beautiful location and very well run.
A big Thank You goes out to Minnesota Valley Schutzhund Verein for hosting this event and the Gellers for allowing the use of their beautiful trial field and facilities. Both the club and the Gellers are gracious hosts. If you are ever lucky enough to meet them, the Gellers make everyone feel like family. Very nice people!

A big Thank You is also due to Mike Caputo for stepping in on very short notice to judge this event after the sudden loss of Mark Przybylski a few weeks ago.

Congratulations to the North Central Regional Champion Bob Cook and his dog, Akki vom Haus Ehrenreich. Akki's protection routine (98) was a pure pleasure to watch, including a ferocious long bite/courage test where he knocked a somewhat surprised back-half helper flying onto his butt. A very nice recovery was made by the helper and both the dog and helper were un-injured and beautifully finished the rest of the routine. It was also very nice to see Bob and Nate, the helper, speaking to each other like gentleman at the end of the trial. You both are to be commended for this and your sportsmanship is something others should take note of and learn from!

Bill Kulla and his dog Arrek had a nearly flawless obedience routine (97). Other than Arrek needing a second platz command after a really, really nice send-out this team's obedince routine was perfect. 

Kudos are also in order to a couple of Auslanders, Tom Schmitt and his Malinos, J ot Vitosha, who also knocked one out of the park with a 96 in ob (3rd overall) and Jessy Gabriel with her awesome female GSD, Aline von der Wolfsmilch. Jessy and Aline travelled all the way from Texas to Minnesota for this trial. They were 2nd overall, High in Tracking and High Auslander.
Both Jessy and Tom (and his lovely wife) were extremely nice people!

Congratulations to Jennifer Acevedo on becoming the new North Central Regional Director and a big Thank You to Gordy Esselmann for all of your help running our region and the many years of service to the USA organization!