[cheekylemur]

I'm truly sorry you had not heard about the show - it was been announced here on Koi-Bito (which is what I had attempted to point out above by posting the link), on Koishack, and I'm not sure where else Sue posted it (probably also ******* because I think she participates there but I don't). I know she has made an effort to let people in other regions know as well as she has been traveling.

I also make an effort to promote the show on two goldfish forums I partake in, and our local aquarium society. The club has just finished it's first year of existence and this is really the first time anyone here has put on a koi show. Many of our members have never even attended a koi show, but everyone pitched in and tried to make this work.

Are there other venues we should have used to advertise that would have reached you better? If there are suggestions for improvement, I'll make sure those get into the meeting we have scheduled next week to debrief and collect notes on what to change next year.

Even for people who got to us very late about wanting to exhibit we waived the deadline as long as we had tank space to make sure we were open to anyone who wished to participate. I'm sorry I may have been too flippant about posting the link to the thread on this board that has been up since December, but that was in no way intended to say we intended to go to this much effort and keep it a secret.

I'm very new to koi, this club, and this is the first fish show I've attended, so I really can't answer more than that right now, but if you do have suggestions on how we could promote the show more next year, please feel free to let me know and I will pass those on to our membership.

And in case it wasn't clear, UMKC is an acronym for the Upper Midwest Koi Club in this case, we're a solid 7 hours north of Kansas City, so it isn't very close for someone to stop by.