A NEW KIND OF FIELD TRIAL TO INCREASE ENTRIES=PATENT PENDING

Ralph Pearson · Post by **Ralph Pearson** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:04 pm

I just got home from runnin Chicken George and was shocked to learn that some of the club entries has been goin down in recent years and some of your clubs are on the verge of collapse and since my wife thinks its a good idea, I have decided to offer up some of the ideas I have been thinkin up to help your clubs grow and prosper. I take all the beeglin magazines and see all kinds of differant trials in them and it occured to me that we ain't even scratched the surface of the differant type trials we could run and so I am offering up one I seen in the hounds and hunting magzine and will try to relay it to you word for word sort of so to speak etc. Now this comes directly out of hounds and hunting so if it don't work you can't blame me! Now the way this looks to me, the way you run your trials could use some improvement and the one thing I noticed that might be keeping your entries down is the way you run the dogs in the first series and then keep the best ones and run them in the second series and then keep the best one out of the second series and run them in the third series and so forth and so on down the line etc. This is easy to see that if a good dog draws out with some good runnin mates that it makes it a lot easier for him to look good since he don't have no bad packmates to mess him up and seems to me that a dog that draws good packmates is going to make field champion pretty easy whether he wants to or not. This is causing you to have way too many field champions and is making some of the boys that don't have no good dogs kind of jealous etc. Well, after thinking about this for a long time, I have come to the conclusion that field trials run along those lines ain't much of a test for some of those good dogs and I would like to offer a suggestion that will keep some of these good dogs from winning so easy and also keep from making too many field champions. I suggest that instead of running the best dogs from first series together in second series and so on down the line, that the judges take the 2 best dogs from the first series and run them with the 2 worst dogs in the first series and so forth down the line. They would take the 2 second best dogs in the first series and run them against the 2 second worst dogs in the first series etc. until all the best dogs are matched up with all the worst dogs. This would balance up the competion as every good dog would be handicapped by having to run with the worst dog according to his ability etc. This would be a big break for the fellers who ain't got no good dogs because thay would have a chance to run in second series which is something they are being deprived of now and it would make the game a whole lot more interesting for them. I know of one feller who ain't never had no good ones and ain't run in second series for over 10 years now even though he goes to about a dozen trials a year and as faithful as this feller, is it is awful hard for him to find anything to brag about on his dogs which is one of the main reasons a lot of people go to field trials. The closest I ever heard him brag on any of his dogs was last year when another boys dog made field champion with 500 points and he said that he was in 9 trials against that dog and that he was 9 of that dogs 500 points. Thats the closest I ever heard him brag on any of his dogs. You shouldn't forget that these boys are the backbone of our field trial system and we could never have no field champions at all in the first place if these boys that run losers all the time got discouraged and quit runnin them because they are the points we need to make our field champions. There are a lot of other advantages to runnin the worst dogs with the best dogs in the secong series and one of them would be a big increase in entries from these people I call the Killjoys or the Spoilers. They don't never want anybody to have any good luck or to be successful in anything and will do anything in their power to spoil anything that looks like it might be turnin out good. There are thousands of people like this in the country and I can't think of anything they would like better than to bring an awful bad dog to a field trail and run it against someone elses good one just for the satisfaction of spoiling the good ones chances of winning or making field champion. It is easy to see that you could nearly double your entries if you will take my advice and run this type of trial and give these Killjoys a chance to say" My dog took so and so out of the trial and spoiled his chance of winning". I have a couple other good ideas for some new trials if this one don't work so keep up the good work and let me know how this all turns out. I will be waiting to hear from you. Sincerely, Ralph Pearson.

Randy Phipps · Post by **Randy Phipps** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:12 pm

Sounds like a plan to me

MIKE · Post by **MIKE** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:55 pm

I THINK YOU MAY BE RIGHT RALPH, SURELY WE CAN'T FORGET THE PEOPLE WHO JUST AT ALL THESE TRIALS. YIPHEEEEE FOR THE LITTLE GUY.
MIKE

HOUNDAWG1 · Post by **HOUNDAWG1** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:51 pm

Do you reccon some of my dogs might even make a cast of two ?????????

awful bawlin · Post by **awful bawlin** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:07 am

Ralph
Love the idea but how would Chicken George do in this format? I got a dandy called Periscope Pete but I only got hare here and he would maybe do better on swampers . He has them moveable eyes some bit of gear but they gets hit by sticks so aint much good in the woods. Maybe we could create an event where he could be on the killjoy team. He's a real dandy blocker . Keep george tickin cause petes into lickin . L&S monk