Fall Foliage Rules

North East Border Collie Association

NEBCA - Fall Foliage Rules

Approved January 2002 at the Annual Meeting

***Approved January 2006 at the Annual Meeting

Qualifying To run in the Fall Foliage Trial (FF) each dog/handler team must meet the following requirements:

Handler must be a member in good standing of NEBCA prior to qualifying.

***A handler may enter no more than three qualified dogs. The Trials committee will decide if handlers may run two or three dogs based on the number of dogs entered that year. Only 2 dogs per handler may advance to the final round.

In a trial of 52 or less dogs, the top 10 dogs will earn one placing towards the FF. In a trial of 53 or more dogs, the top 20% (rounded up) will earn one placing towards the FF. A dog must earn three placings to qualify for the FF. These placings may have been with a different handler.

***If the number of entries is sufficiently low, the required number of placings may be reduced from three to two. The Trials committee will make this determination.

Trial Format Preliminary Round:

The preliminary round will consist of two runs on a national style course with the best of the two scores determining the placings.
The top ten scores from the preliminary round will advance to the finals.
If multiple scores are tied for the tenth place, all dogs with that score will advance to the finals.

Finals:

If conditions permit, the final round will run a double lift course.
The finals will run on a clean slate.
Final round ties for first place will be broken by a run-off with the method to be determined by the judge.
Ties for second through tenth place will be broken by looking at the final round score breakdown.