Showing Grand Champions
Effective as of the 2004 Show Season, the National Cockatiel Society
will be adding a fifteenth section to its show classifications, ‘Section
15 – Grand Champions’.
This amendment will renew the eligibility of any cockatiel, which has been
shown to its NCS Grand Champion title. The NCS Board of Directors
felt it necessary to instate this section to allow for the renewal of the
NCS Hall of Fame, and to give exhibitors a living standard by which to
measure their own stock.
Section fifteen has but one class which is a ‘catch-all’ for all mutations
and sexes. It was constructed in this way to alleviate the process
and to save time, rather than have classes of single entries, which would
ultimately be judged against one another.
It is important to note that the Grand Champions cannot disqualify the
placing, points or awards of an entry on the Top Bench, be it Novice or
Advanced. They are, in effect, co-sharing placings on the Top Bench
and earning the equivalent amount of points for the position as its
‘co-share’. This will allow the Grand Champions to compete, but not
inhibit others from reaching their Champion or Grand Champion title.
Top Novice entries will also have the ability to advance to the Top Bench
without the concern of being displaced by a Grand Champion.
At this time there are no plaques or rosettes given for Section 15 winners
or Grand Champions that share placings on the Top Bench. The Grand
Champions are only vying for points towards their qualifying for the NCS
Hall of Fame.
The only exception where there would be no Grand Champion Section would be
at The National Cage Bird Show, or at any specialty show designated by the
NCS Board of Directors as a National Show. In those instances the
Grand Champions would be shown in the standard mutation classes according
to mutation, sex, and age, as they have been previously.
Effective January 1, 2005, a Grand Champion cockatiel must have
accumulated at least 150 exhibition points to qualify for the Hall of
Fame. To qualify for the Supreme Hall of Fame, a Grand Champion cockatiel
must have accumulated a total of 200 exhibition points. NCS to present a
certificate to each Grand Champion upon entrance to the Hall of Fame. Any
plaques are to be purchased by the exhibitor.
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