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Doris Turner has decided to retire from judging after judging the October 2014 Border Terrier Nationals on 10/23/2014

Nooooooooooo Doris!

Well looks like a lot of people aren't gonna be happy!

Another owner handler judge bite the dust.

Shattered

Lets hope more owner-handler judges are brought in!

Neither Joseph Wilson and autumn fuller are owner handler judges. /:

Dang it

Aw man She loved my Chessies...

Since this retirement the judge buying has been revoked.

I'm hoping that to compensate for the much reduced appearance of owner-judges with the randomization, Admin will adjust the percentages to create a greater number of these judges.

So.... you guys are unhappy when someone sponsors a ton of owner handler shows.... so you get Jeff to change the sponsor system.... now you get less owner handler judges... and now you want Jeff to change the system to create more of them in the randomized system.

Sorry but I have to chuckle a little.

Will

My understand is that its a little more complicated than that. The number of judges who prefer handlers is much higher than owner handlers. However, the whole dang kit and kaboodle is complicated to me.

I could personally care less if a judge prefers owners or handlers. I also personally think that these "preference bios" are absolutely insane. Judge prefers handlers and is serious. Judge prefers handlers but isn't overt and so forth and so on. Why not make it simple? Either the judge LIKES handlers or he/she doesn't?

To give a judge year bogus descriptions doesn't change whether they like handler or don't. If they're not an owner handler judge, everyone is picking handlers off the top lists anyway, regardless how the judge "favors" them. It's all just annoying, complicated and, in m POV and experience, unnecessary and useless.

I wished that the judge bios just hadn't be added at all. Leave it to preferred traits and then leave it alone. Too much headache for too little user base right now. JM2C.

-Four