[NPI]/Media/0/jpg/2008/12/GoVote.jpg[/NPI]Go vote Thank you readers for a phenomenal response to the 1st Annual GoHorseShow.com TRAINER BOWL 2008 presented by Kendalls Western Hats. We are down to four great horse trainers in the 2008 Trainer Bowl presented by Kendalls Western Hats. This last round of competition was the toughest we have seen and we have received well over 100,000 total votes during the competition.Thank you to everyone involved! Submit your votes to get it down to the final two by Sunday, January 4th at 10:00 pm Eastern.
We are extremely proud to announce that all four remaining trainers have offered to make the Trainer Bowl about charity. Heckaman, Pait, Martin and Searles agree that whomever wins the Kendalls pure beaver hat valued at $1100 will allow GoHorseShow.com to auction the hat to the highest bidder with the proceeds to be donated to the winner’s charity of choice. Stay tuned for the details.
There are no horses in this horse show, we will rely upon the experience and perception of our readers to decide who’s at the top of the horse training trade. The winning trainer will receive a pure beaver cowboy hat (retail value $1,100) and the runner up will receive a 20X cowboy hat (retail value $450) from Kendalls Western Hats.
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CONTEST RULES
The competition is split into four categories – Western Pleasure, All-Around, Halter and English. The winner of each category will face off in a multi-round bracket style system until an overall champion is crowned. Contestants have been selected on a first-come, first-serve basis so only the first 16 trainer names nominated per discipline were accepted (64 total). Nominations received after the initial 16 for each category were added to a waiting list in the order they were received. All but one trainer from the initial list of 64 trainers said yes, so we only had to go to the waiting list for one name! Unfortunately, that left many deserving trainers off the list.
After the 64 nominations were secured, each trainer was seeded in his/her respective category in reverse alphabetical order (i.e. A versus Z) with the trainer’s last name. GoHorseShow.com readers will vote on their favorite trainers in each round and the results of the reader’s votes will determine the champion.You may vote as much as you like but no more than once a day.
Voting will take us from the list of 64 to a single champion through 6 rounds of voting that will span through the week of January 5th. The winning trainer will receive a pure beaver cowboy hat (retail value $1,100) and the runner up will receive a 20X cowboy hat (retail value $450) from Kendalls Western Hats.
VOTING SCHEDULE
Dec 15-19, Round 1 (64 to 32)
Dec 20-23, Round 2 (32 to 16)
Dec 24-27, Round 3 (16 to 8)
Dec 28-31, Round 4 (8 to 4)
Jan 1 – 4, Round 5 (4 to 2) **Sun, Jan 4th at 10:00 pm Eastern**
Jan 5 – 11, Round 6 (Championship)
Jan 12 – Winner Announced
Click here to see the bracket and start to vote!
