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Originally Posted by FerrisCat  CFA awards two different kinds of points to cats in competition; Regional/National points and Grand points. The Regional/National points are earned for defeating any cat in competition and they count towards the Regional/National end of year awards. They are calculated exactly as they are won, and some years it is just a tenth of a percentage point that will prevent a cat from making a top award. These points expire at the end of the show season, with the exception of some kittens who will carry their points into the following show season if they are still competing as kittens when the new season begins
Grand points are only earned when a Champion/Premier defeats another Champion or Premier. These points are rounded to the closest whole number. They also do not expire at the end of a show season. Cats earn grand points for taking best Champion/Premier in the breed judging and for taking Best or Second Best Premier in the finals (there is a third place in Championship.)
If a Premier does not take best or second best Premier in the final but still makes the top 10/15 final, they will still be awarded points for each Premier they defeated. It would be like they were the judge's third best Premier. . . or fouth or fifth and so on.
So Merlin will get one point for defeating the other Aby in one ring, but he can't count the other point because he made the final. Was the final AB or Speciality? Since he made a best, he will get one point for every Premier entered, minus himself of course.
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Thanks, FerrisCat. I'm still trying fighting my way through the confusion, and every little bit of information helps. So let me see if I've got this right.
The unofficial count before the show was 26 entries in Premiership with 13 of them being Premiers. The actual count was apparently 24, but I don't know how many of those were Premiers. (Wasn't listening to the announcements
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The ring where Merlin finaled was SH Specialty. That would make him 9th out of 24 cats. Does that mean the 13.80 points that Jacky saw on the list are Regional points? The most Grand points he could have gotten would be 12, or if both cats who didn't show were Premiers he would have gotten 10, I think. Either way, it's a lot more points than he's ever gotten before
I don't know how many grand points it gives him. I didn't pay any attention to the official show count because I never dreamed he'd make it to a final.
