You can qualify for the OPEN Agility Final through two OPEN runs on Friday (Agility) and Saturday (Jumping).

The qualification runs will take place on two different rings: one for Small,  Medium, Intermedium classes (identical course), the other one for Large class.

Upon each of the two qualifying OPEN runs the first 6 classified Small and 6 classified Medium and 6 intermedium teams will gain access to the Final, for a total of 12 finalists in Small class and 12 finalists in Medium class and 12 finalist Intermedium. 

In Large class the first 15 teams of each qualifying OPEN run will gain access to the Final, so totally 30 Large teams will access the Final.

Those teams which already will be qualified for the Final following their result of the Friday’s qualifying OPEN Jumping run, in case of a renewed qualification also on Saturday following the qualifying OPEN Agility run, will move their Saturday’s spot to the first following and not yet qualified team(s).

Sunday’s OPEN Final will consist of a single Agility course.  Only those teams which have subscribed also Sunday’s National competition will be allowed to run the OPEN Final.  Any rules which are not listed on this page may be found in the Regulation of the Italian Kennel Club (ENCI). 

The Agility courses of the OPEN Final will be different for Small and Medium (identical course) and for Intermedium and Large classes.(identical course)

The Open Juniors competition will have a semifinal and a final both on Saturday afternoon. The Junior handlers will first run an Agility semifinal identical for all categories Small/Medium/Intermedium and Large.

The first 5 binominals of each category will access the Open Juniors Final on Saturday afternoon.

The winner of each size of the Open Juniors Final will be qualified for the Individual Open Final on Sunday.  

Teams:

Also this year we will repeat the Teams Final which will be held on Sunday afternoon. There will be a sole Agility course with a specular run to be faced in relay mode.

Part of the run will contain the obstacles for the Small or Intermedium, the specular part will have the obstacles for Medium or Large.

The total time will sum the start of the 1st dog until the finish of the 3rd dog. In case of elimination the run has to be finished and 100 penalty points will be assigned. In case the run will not be finished the entire team will be disqualified independently of the remaining two results.

The Teams Final will admit the first 7 classified teams of the categories Small/Medium and the first 10 classified teams Intermedium/Large. The teams will consist of 3 binominals belonging to Small/Medium categories or 3 binominals belonging to Intermedium/Large categories. Each team may contain dogs of different degrees.  

Each team member can gain points during the individual ENCI competitions (not including the Open qualification runs) on Friday and Saturday, both results in agility and jumping will be taken into account.

In case of equal result of the 5th and 6th team or beyond, all these access the Final.

The following points will be assigned::

1st 15 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

2nd 12 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

3rd 10 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

4th 8 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

5th 6 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

6th 5 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

7th 4 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

8th 3 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

9th 2 points multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

10th 1 point multiplied per total number of competitors in the ENCI run

For instance: 

A team of 3 binominals competing in Medium category: A in 1st degree, B in 2nd degree and C in 3rd degree:

Agility (or jumping) 1st degree – Medium – 30 participants

Agility (or jumping) 2nd degree – Medium – 40 participants

Agility (or jumping) 3rd degree – Medium- 25 participants

Results of the team members:

• A – classified 5th in 1st degree: 6 points x 30 participants = 180 points
• B – classified 7th in 2nd degree: 4 points x 40 participants = 160 points
• C – classified 1st in 3rd degree: 15 points x 25 participants = 375 points

In this run the team has totalized 715 points. The grand total will sum the totalized points of the remaining 3 runs.