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So sorry you feel I'm harassing SKA that instead should be commended. Yet, I don't know why you would bring up the point that you hope there are no other shows the weekend of your club show. Is that supposed to be supportive of whose point? As for having an agenda I do and it certainly isn't only to get along or cowtow to the koi hobby powers that be. I spend my own time and money promoting many clubs and their functions including your clubs. Thanks for affording me the opportunity to promote TKFG and Project KHV. Someone asked me just last week in what I took as an offensive posture why their event wasn't highlighted like others they thought were paid ads. As I told this person no club has to pay us at the Koi Club of the Air to promote their events and I'm usually contacting them asking to promote their events. Call me crazy,...

BTW: The club event that I was questioned for supposedly having not promoted had been.

Quote: Originally Posted by RayJordan John, You are starting to appear to have an agenda. Just look at the title you gave this thread. Every club show that I am aware of does everything possible to set the dates of their show not to conflict with other shows/koi events. Why make a difficult event to organize and administer even more difficult? It is hard enought to get vendors and koi hobbyists to bring koi to a show without competing for them on the same weekend as another koi show. The same weekend as the Texas Koi & Fancy Goldfish show this year there were two other koi shows. To my knowledge we set our show dates before any others were published and have used this same weekend for several years. There are many things that control the show dates. Site/hotel availability, other local events that might compete with show, organizer/workers personal calendars, judges availability, etc. etc. You would be amazed how difficult it is to pick a weekend that meets even the majority of these needs. The TKFGS show will be the 2nd weekend in October in 2007. I hope our show will be the only koi show that weekend in the U.S. If there are others that same weekend I will assume that they did not pick that same weekend to compete with us but because they were also trying to meet the needs of their members. I commend the SKAZNA organizers for reccognizing and trying to minimize the impact of their show on the NF Koi Show. They should be patted on the back for bringing a new koi show to a new area of the country instead of being harrassed and challenged to explain their clubs' private business.