AKCA Champion of Champions

[carolyn swanson]

Just for fun, go to akca.org and look at the Champion of Champion candidates for the last few years. I don't know if they can be posted here, maybe someone knows who has more tech savy and we can all take a look.

It is interesting to see the change in quality over the last few years. What do you think?

[mstrseed]

They do have some nice ones......but I want to see this years winner, its from Texas ya know!!!

[schildkoi]

The Champion of Champions was from the San Diego show and a Southern California koi (maybe NoCal, not eaxcatly sure but a Cal koi just the same).

You must be thinking of the AKCA Club Koi of the Year which was the McWhirter's Shiro Utsuri of Dallas. Two totally seperate awards.

Steve

[aquitori]

Kind funny seeing the Champion of Champions was Perry's San Dawg GC Kohak over Duke Nguyen's Dainichi ABAKS GC....I have seen the 2 fish in person and I have to say that one fish was raised by the dealer and the other raised by a the hobbyist....

36" with superior conformation and quality or 34" with average quality?....you decide...

Well whatever, to bad we'll never see these 2 Kohaks go head to head at a show...

[KoiCop]

Duke's fish wins -- no comparison between those two fish -- but was it even nominated for C of C?

I know it's weird, but sometimes they haven't even been entered in the competition.

[RayJordan]

Remember these are photo contests. Excellent photo usually ranks above a average photo. Photography skills make a big difference.

[carolyn swanson]

. . . and they all look about the same size in the photos.

[MacKoi]

Quote: Originally Posted by mstrseed They do have some nice ones......but I want to see this years winner, its from Texas ya know!!!

Toomey, you are a dumb A but I can send you one of this years shirts if you want to go to Denver and work. Mac

[jnorth]

Quote: Originally Posted by MacKoi Toomey, you are a dumb A but I can send you one of this years shirts if you want to go to Denver and work. Mac

Um I hope you all are friends or something.

[jnorth]

Yes it is a photo contest. The photos Tony posted though are not the photos I saw being judged in AZ. Not to take anything away from either koi or their owners but I really thought based on the photos that Dukes Kohaku had the best photo by a wide margin. I've attached a photo of a photo of sorts. This was taken last weekend and as it happened when I took the shot Dukes kohaku was being projected on the screen. So you can see it was a heck of a shot even in this horrible photo of a photo. The body is dead straight with the pecs out and there is no glare. That koi posed for this shot.