Congratulations Cranberry!

what?.............

 

well, I didn't even know that they ranked rally......
I've seen your flyball posts with the rankings and I've seen links to agility rankings on websites but had no idea that rally was also ranked.........

 

Wow! Way to go!

 

There must not have been a lot of Adv A dogs in 2014....

here's how the dogs are ranked:
Front & Finish® Rally Advanced A Ratings

A: The Front & Finish® Rally Advanced A Ratings rank dogs in AKC Rally Obedience competition that place first through fourth in Rally Advanced A classes during a given calendar year. One point is earned for each dog defeated within a class. For example, in a class of 20 competing dogs, the first place winner would receive 19 points as it defeated this number of other dogs. The second place winner would receive 18 points; third place, 17 points; and fourth place, 16 points. After points in each class are determined they are compiled across a given competition year and published in reports listing the top ten dogs across all breeds, the top ten dogs within each group, and the top ten dogs within each breed. All dogs tying for a given position are listed.


so it says during a calendar year: in 2014, Cranberry only competed three times in Rally Advanced A. He only competed four times total in Rally Advanced A but one trial was in 2013. At the two smaller trials, I believe that he did place first but there weren't many dogs in those classes- I'll have to dig up the catalogs to be sure but there were probably only 2 dogs in the one class. Even at the big trial that we went to where he got his title, there were only 5 dogs in that class- he got third there.

Dixie also competed three times in Rally Advanced A in 2014. I believe that she placed in two of those and didn't qualify at all in the other trial.

surprisingly to me, it mentions nothing about scores. I know that one of Cran's first places was with a score of 99 but I don't remember for the others....

maybe they'll both be in the rankings for Excellent A next year- if we don't need to worry about scores.....

 

Go Justice- that is awesome

and that is actually how Cran got 3 trials in 2014. his first leg was in fall 2013. after he got his title in October, I just didn't bother to move him up for our trial in November. he definitely wasn't ready for Excellent yet.....
I would be hard pressed to enter 12 shows in a year without some traveling- (more than 3 hours).......