Marcy Matties

Agility Addict

Asked a question last year

Champs Stakes requirement clarification question…. I understand the part in bold on the Champs page (regarding Stakes qualifications) that if you qualified for stakes using the original qualifications (the ones in the 2021 Info sheet), that you must still enter at your qualified level. Where I get unclear is the new items you have included that will help people who might want to do stakes but haven’t had much of a chance to try bonuses at trials. I think where I need help is understanding “may” vs “must.” For example: For the benefit of those who haven’t had a chance to trial much, you say Silver Stakes must have 250 lifetime points in Chances, and 2 bonus or distance challenges of any value. Since that is considerably less than the qualifications in the Info Sheet, I interpret that to mean .. If you have 250 points in CC and you have 2 bonus or distance challenges, you MAY enter Silver Stakes, but not that you MUST enter Silver Stakes. (Otherwise that would be a stricter qualification than what is in the Info Sheet) So with 250 CC and 2 Bonus/DC, you COULD enter Silver if you wanted, but you could also enter Starter. Am I interpreting that correctly?