Post Vegas

After Las Vegas, the core team for the championship will start working toward becoming a cohesive group. We had hoped to bump up a division by running a fast team in Las Vegas a few times, but that was before we realized that we had submitted a seed time based on the four original dogs heading west. I haven't seen the seeding yet for Las Vegas, but it will probably not allow a run at getting into the 18's without breaking out (aka: no official time).

Hyper Flight's October tune-up tournament will be a litmus test to see how we're doing. We had originally discussed using a core group of Burst, Zio, Jean-Luc, and Wisp (with Meekah and Scout as back-ups). Yesterday, we decided we could probably go with five dogs on the Step On It team so that our Off and Running (OaR) team would be a full team and moved Scout over.

In hindsight, we really need to test Burst at the next team practice without the baby gates to see if she will pass another border collie sized dog. If she won't pass, I think we need to think about going for consistency with Scout and move Burst to OaR. We won't have time to train Burst in the last six weeks before the championships if she hasn't gotten it all summer.

Being the new guy, it doesn't seem like it's my place to say anything. On the other hand, Si seemed to be looking to us to know which dogs were going to be on the Step on It team.