Qualification trial - Page 12

I feel the same way as Wallace does. Of the teams I saw the best won. The ones with a big difference in points wouldn't have made the team. BOOBOO shows his bias towards UScA saying Caputo should be stripped of his SV cred. Why not WEST? It could have easily been his bias for the WDA that made him give extra points to their members. No one will ever know why. What matters is the the best U.S.A. team was made to represent their country at the WUSV.

Good luck to all of the USA competitors at the worlds.

Our dog scene has become a mirror of our political scene.....partisan and bickering first priority.

Thomas???????? The top qualification score was from a WDA member???????? What trial are you talking about? Certainly not this qualifier. You also state that the best UScA had to offer was ALMOST beaten by a MAL. Yeah from one of the best Mal handlers out there. Ivan and his MAL that placed """"5th"""" behind 4 GSD's from UScA. (Funny how we never have any DOBBIE's in this discussion.) Let's face it if many from WDA think they have the best, same with UScA and the DVG. It's only natural to have that bias. It's a shame that it will most likely will never happen that the U.S. will have only 1 IPO club. Because then everyone can forget the politics and train their dogs.

Oh who am I kidding? If that happened they'd just find something else to argue about.

so US has 6 seats in WUSV?

Caputo did not follow the IPO standard in the protection phase.  He made up a new rating system on the spot.  Caputo gave 63 points less in protection to the 7 WDA participants than did West but he gave 3 more point to the USCA participants than West.  That is a 66 point spread in favor of the USCA or 33 points taken from the final scores of WDA participants in protection or almost 5 points per WDA contestant from their final scores.  West is an experienced and stable judge and Caputo is a hack.  But that is why the USCA picked him to judge I suppose because they wanted an edge and to cheat.  Wallace Payne is as usual serving himself and the USCA in saying the right people got chosen.  Dwight McKnight was robbed of his spot by Caputo and Sean O'Kane should not have made the team.  An 18 point spread between West and Caputo for McKnight and a two point spread for O'Kane with O'Kane getting 14 points more than McKnight due to Caputo in protection.  McKnight should have had a final score of 287 but Caputo stripped him of his win and handed it to O'Kane.  Nothing new about that though as O'Kane has been the recipient of a lot of freebies in the past as well for his Roetemeyer loyalty.  Wallace likes to rant about integrity but when asked if the protection judging was fair he says the right people were picked.  That is not the answer of a man with integrity but if you join the USCA you quickly learn that integrity is not valued but punished.  It matters a great deal that the judging is fair and unbiased and a judge like Caputo should not be a judge.  The USCA always breaks the rules and then rewrites the rules to lie their way out of it but this time the numbers tell the tale.  So whine and try to divert attention from what the USCA always does by attacking me and others but it won't work.  Everyone knows what Caputo did was cheating but the USCA membership likes it and the USCA leadership promotes it.  Attack me all you want because I have no interest in IPO while the USCA makes a joke of the IPO standard and the WUSV rules. 

I got it booboo!  Did somebody from UScA leave you standing alone at the prom? or did they make you pay for the room?. 

I know these routines were video taped, they should all be put on youtube and let everyone judge for themselves.

 

Wallace .. was the protection judging by Caputo according to the IPO standard only and was it fair and unbiased??  Did your friend Dwight McKnight deserve to have a 14 point spread in protection points between him and Sean O'Kane deny him a spot on the team??  You know it stinks but I guess all that integrity stuff is just talk??

RamGSD (who ever you are)

http://www.2013qualificationtrial.com/results.html

Diehl and Meverden are tied with 291.5
West scored both as 98 protection
Caputo scored Chris M 4 points less in protection ??????
He also scored the WDA team an average of 11 points less/per competitor then West
West scored the UScA members an average of ONE point HIGHER then Caputo.
If you don't see preferential treatment you're blind.

As far as Ivan. There was a 4 way tie for 2nd-5th place

http://2013awdf.com/Results.html

The AWDF posts the top four scores that happen to be GSD's but not the fifth place dog with the exact same total score that happens to be a malinois or the 6th place malinois that happened to be high obedience?  No preferential treatment there. You guys wouldn't know what to do with impartial judging and consistent decoy work at the  big events.:-(

It's not a tie, 284 but the protection score dictates placement, if the protection score is tied then the obedience score is used, been that way for 2 decades.