Quote Originally Posted by Macker View Post
It's nice to see a dog get his or her dues and the DOY award but I honestly think the important title the dog earned was the 7xw status. The main thing about these dogs is that they undisputedly earn all there titles i.e 1xw, 2xw, Ch, Gr Ch, POR, ROM and so on, these are the titles that really matter, the DOY title is the only one that comes down to people's actual opinion rather than the proving ground, there for in my opinion it's the absolute least important of all the above along with the BIS title.
People's opinions will always differ or be bias so those titles can always be taken with a pinch of salt and a 7xw should always be taken very seriously.

I agree with the gist of what you're saying: facts vs. opinions.

Becoming a 7xW is a fact, winning DOY is an opinion.

However, to suggest opinions don't matter at all is wrong I think.

If a dog wins BIS, yes that's an opinion, but it shows the level of win. A dog may "win," factually, but be unimpressive in the win.
Another dog may win also, but this dog has everyone going crazy with excitement as to his ability.

Both dogs are winners, factually, but it's how they win that impresses (or doesn't impress).

If a person is going to run a mag, and give out awards, then he has to have "reasons" for giving these awards that are easy to understand for the readership.

It is easy to understand why a dog winning his 5th over an 8xW would qualify him for consideration for DOY status.

However, when one of your own mag's DOYs faces the next year's DOY, for a clash on the following year, and they're two 6xWs Gr Chs going at it ... I don't see how that is not the bigger of the two great stories.

It is subjective in a sense, I agree, but FACTUALLY it is also the only time two successive DOYs faced each other in a head-to-head ... and therefore the biggest story of all.

Jack