This is sort of an epilogue to Zero Point Snooker Runs from June, 2012 [hmm, my stats from that post don't match the stats here; there, I say *two* with Jake...]. I competed only another two years, and that last year, 2014, was sparse. But--here's my agility competition tracking database's info.
Posted June 15 on FB;
> Theory #1 from another discussion was that anyone who plays snooker is bound to get 0-point Snooker runs;
> Theory #2 is that no one else has ever gotten two 0-pointers on the same day with the same dog on different Snooker courses, like I did with Tika:
OK, those of you who play Snooker in agility, two questions:
1) Estimate how many snooker runs you have done.
2) Of those, how many do you think have been zero points: A. At least one. B. none. C. [Fill in whatever number you estimate you’ve done]
3) Have any of you had two 0-point Snooker runs on the same day with the same dog (on different snooker courses, not just reattempting the same one)?
I blame Julie Rice for taunting me into posting this!😉
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| A Snooker course. Snooker has three (or more) red jumps worth one point (red flag). You have to start with a red jump, then take a non-red (e.g., the tunnel for 3 points). Er...you have to start with a correctly executed red jump. So, if you knock the first one, you have to take a different one before you take the #3. If the dog hits #3 after a knocked red, oops, all done. |
I received several comments, including some people who've never had a 0-pointer, or maybe dogs with no 0-pointers, which astounded me. Until I looked at my own stats, which I posted in response on June 16:
Here are my stats (except for the last year or so [of competition]). Because, if I'm going to have kept track, I might as well use the info. Envy me, database mortals! 😉
- 15 out of 530 snooker runs were 0-pointers
- 1 with Jake,
- 3 with Boost--2 comments that I thought her first bar stayed up--
- the rest with Tika [who is still the #11 all-time USDAA Snooker P3 22" dog despite that]
- None with Remington! out of 46 runs--but he did get one 1-pointer. (He hardly ever knocked bars and, if he did, he was slow enough that I could redirect him.)
- My comments on those 15 runs:
- kn[ocked] 1st bar & I didn’t realize it soon enough.
- kn 1st bar & I didn’t react
- 1st bar ticked, thought it was staying up, fell as she took next obstacle
- knocked first bar & I didn’t react quickly enough. A billion [people got the full points of] 51s...
- knocked first bar and while I was stunned he went into next obst [Jake *never* knocked bars!]
- set her up to go past 1 rather than over. Very amazingly stupid [Human].
- Ran past 1st (angled) jump & into tunnel before I could stop her.
- Knocked 1st bar & hit tunnel before I could stop her.
- Tried to do angled lead-out pivot & she ran past first jump. Dagnabbit. But a nice SL[start-line] stay!
- kn first bar & couldn’t react fast enough. Sigh. Nice SL stay, too
- thought she had gotten 1st jmp and heard it fall just as she was making perfect wv[weave] entry...
- kn first bar and I just quit crap
- moved at SL so kn 1st bar, veered to right instead of “come” with me standing still & facing her
- kn 1st bar.
- kn 1st red & over next jump before I could move.
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| Tika taking a 4-point obstacle. (Brown flag = 4 --flag colors are consistent no matter where you go. MOST flags also display the number on both sides, not just one side.) Color rules and numbers match actual billiards-type Snooker! (except agility has fewer Reds) |
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