European Open 2010
Liberec, Czech Republic
July 24
& 25, 2010
Regulations
for the European Open 2010
The European Open 2010 is an Agility competition which is
officially recognised by the FCI and is based on the FCI-Agility
regulations of 2007. The competition is OPEN to all dogs,
with or without pedigree. Dogs have to be in possession of a record book
or a license issued by a National Member Organisation of the FCI or a
National Organisation with a close relationship to the FCI. All National
Member Organisations of the FCI or National Organisations with a close
relationship to the FCI are invited to participate in this event. For
logistical purposes the number of competitors has to be limited to
approximately 650 dogs. Of these a maximum of 50% may be in the
category “Large”.
Liberec (Czech Republic)
July 24th + 25th, 2010
All countries showing an interest in participating, will receive an
allocation of 32 dogs (max. 50% in Large). The Czech Republic as
organizing country receives a higher allocation (60 dogs, max. 50% in
Large).
Each National Organisation has the right to nominate competitors to the
extent of the available allocation and to send the entries to the
organiser
A list of all those countries choosing to send entries through their
respective National Organisation will be published separately. Countries
in which the national qualifying results will only be available after
the closing date, have to let the organisers know before May 31st,
2010 how many entries they intend to send. In these cases no late
additional entries can be added. A complete list of all competitors
needs to be handed in by latest end of June 2010.
Competitors of all other countries may send their entries – as before –
directly to the organiser
between May 1st and May 31st.
If the allocation of a country is filled further entries of that country
will be put on a waiting (reserve) list.
The organisers will check how many entries are still available after the
first closing date (May 31st, 2010), resulting from countries not fully
filling their allocations. Any available open entries will be offered to
those countries which have an additional demand for more entries, viz.
all countries with a waiting list.
All countries are requested to nominate a Team Leader. Any and
all communication between the organisers and the country will be done
through the Team Leader. Each Team Leader is asked to bring a flag and a
CD with the national anthem of the respective country with him.
Friday (July 23rd,
2010) is the official training day. The organiser will publish a
schedule with the training time for all countries.
European Open – Individual Competition
The Individual Events take place on
July 24th,
2010
and are held in the categories Large, Medium and Small.
In the Individual Events an Agility round and a Jumping round
is run in all 3 height categories. Both rounds are scored separately
for faults and time for all competitors.
In the category Large the first
25 placed competitors in both the Agility as well as the Jumping
round will have qualified for the Final, in the categories Small
and Medium each time the first 15 placed competitors.
Where a Team qualifies for the Final in both the Agility as well as the
Jumping round, the worse of the 2 scores will be scratched and the next
ranking Team in that class will move up until all 50 places in Large and
all 30 places in Small and in Medium have been filled for the Finals.
In addition, all competitors of every country will be ranked separately
for each round in each height category. The best team (handler + dog) of
each country in each height category gets as many points as there were
competitors of that country in that height category, the second best
team one point less, the third best team two points less and so on. An
elimination is scored with 0 points. The total points gained of both
runs combined determine the internal, country-specific selection order
for the EO Final. In the case of a tie the Agility-run will break the
tie, in the case of a further tie a draw will decide.
The top team from each country and each height category qualifies
for the EO Final, provided they have not qualified in one of the both
“Top 25” (L) resp. “Top 15” (S/M) already. In that case the next highest
qualifier of that country will qualify for the Final, provided that the
total number of points is more than “0”. The qualification for the Final
is not transferable to another team.
Further the EO Winners of 2009 in all 3 height categories (Large:
Krisztina Kabai and „Chilli“ - Germany, Medium: Jari Suomalainen and „Frodo“
- Finland, Small: Nicola Giraudi and „Twister“ - Switzerland) have
qualified for the EO Finals of 2010, without imposing on their country’s
number allocation.
The EO Final is an Agility round at A3 level.
The running order in the Final is determined as follows:
• First the winners of the country qualifiers. They will start in
reverse order of their Individual Agility round. That is the fastest
qualified team will run last, irrespective of the number of standard
faults they had. Qualifiers to the Final without a valid time from the
Individual Agility round will run first.
• The 50 (L) / 30 (M) / 30 (S) Qualified Teams from both Jumping
and Agility in reverse order and alternating (i.e. second to last will
be the winner of the Jumping round, and last the winner of the Agility
round)
• The EO winner of the previous year will run last at the Final.
European Open – Team Competition
The Team Events take place on July 25th,
2010 and are held in the categories Large, and a combined category
Medium/Small.
The total number of competitors per country in the Team Event is limited
by the number of competitors in the Individual Event.
The number of competitors in the
height category Large is limited to 50% of the total number for each
country.
A Team in the height category Large consists of a minimum of 3 and a
maximum of 4 handler and dog teams. A Team in the height category
Medium/Small consists of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 handler and
dog teams, whereby the composition of Small and Medium dogs is not
prescribed.
Mixed Country Teams may also compete (one Team composed of handler
and dogs from different countries).
For the EO-Team Event one Agility round and one Jumping round
will be run.
For each round competitors will be ranked according to faults and time.
The first placed handler and dog will receive points according to the
number of competitors in that round (= number of Teams x 4), the second
placed handler and dog team will receive one point less, the third
placed team 2 points less and so on. A disqualification receives 0
points.
The points of the 3 best runs of each Team will count towards the Team
result for both rounds (= sum of points received).
The Team with the highest point score after both rounds will be the “European
Open Team Winner 2010”.
In the case of a tie, the points of the 4th
Team member will be taken into consideration. In case of
a further tie the highest Individual score will count.
Entry fees
The entry fees will be published on the official
website of the organisers.
Prize giving ceremony
Prize giving for all events will be held on
July 25th,
2010 after
the completion of the Team Event.
The prize giving for the EO-Team
Event will be held first. The 3 top placed Teams in both height
categories, Large and Medium/Small, will be announced and the anthem of
the winning country will be played. Should the winner be a „Mixed
Country Team“, the European Anthem will be played.
Thereafter the prize giving for the EO-Individual event will take
place. The 3 first places of both the Agility and the Jumping rounds in
all height categories will be announced (without national anthems). This
will be followed by the prize giving for the top 3 places in each height
category of the Final round (the National Anthems of the winning
countries will be played).
To conclude the ceremony the flag of the EO will be handed over to the
organising country for the following year.
These notes on procedures are only
valid for 2010 and may be changed for 2011 if needed.
