NEW RULES as of August 16th - Please Read

[Sabella]

NEW RULES
If everyone could quickly skim the new Rules of Entry which can be located in the ASDF Office that would be great. There are quite a few important changes that everyone should be aware of, so please go take a look.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reply to this post, or the new Rules of Entry thread and I'll get back to you ASAP.

Thanks for reading,

Sabella

[Alix]

Wow, ten wins is a lot. I like a challenge! :]

[Sabella]

Mmm, I know it is, huh? I wanted it to be a bit more special than just 'oh, I think I'll put this horse in Grand Prix now'. But we'll see how it goes, if people think it's too much after a while, I'll drop it to something more attainable But this is kind of why I made the ASDF- to put more structure into sim dressage and give more clear goals, etc. This way, if a horse is competing ASDF Grand Prix it will kind of mean something.

I'm actually updating a lot of the rules to add in age rules to the FEI levels and age guidelines to the lower levels, so this way there won't be five year olds in FEI, not that there are that I know of anyway, but a bit more structure won't go astray, I don't think.

[Lin Ryder]

So it can be ten wins in any dressage association, or in this one alone??

[Sabella]

Just ASDF classes, most likely. If you have a horse already competing at a higher level (in ASDF now) you can just go from there, no need to start from Fourth II. If you're starting to show a new horse in ASDF and they've shown a great deal in other dressage shows then just let me know about it and, most likely, you can start from whatever level that horse has been competing at.

What I'm trying to do is make the FEI levels mean something more than I feel they have in the past in all-sim. And at this stage it shouldn't take too long to accumulate ten wins at any level above Fourth II because there aren't very many entries.

If you have any concerns about any of this please let me know, either here or through pm. This is obviously very new and if it doesn't work out in the end then no harm done and we can just go back to how things have been.

Also, wins in the FEI Freestyle classes do count towards your ten-wins, so this means that you have two chances every show to win another count towards moving up.