How to Earn your Conformation Champion & Grand Champion Titles

An Easy-To-Use Guide to Earning Your Conformation Champion Titles.

Point System (1) for breeds without varieties

First place class win	10 points
Best Male or Best Female (aka - Best of Sex)	15 points
Best of Winners (Must have Best Male/Best Female compete against each other for class to be held and for points to be awarded)	10 points

Point system (2) for breeds with varieties

First place class win	5 points
Best Male of Variety or Best Female of Variety	8 points
Best Male or Best Female (aka - Best of Sex)	10 points/*12 points
Best of Winners (Must have Best Male/Best Female compete against each other for class to be held and for points to be awarded)	12 points/*10 points

*point schedule change on July 31, 2009

There are no additional points for any other wins (BOB, Groups or BIS wins).

Here is how competition is calculated and Championship requirements.

The requirements for a Championship are a minimum of 100 CH points and three wins with competition under three different Judges. Competition is defined as follows:

As long as the Judge does not withhold a placement or higher award, the appropriate points will be awarded to the dog regardless of how many dogs are entered at the class level in a breed. However, there are no additional Championship points awarded for going Best of Breed nor will a
Best of Winners class be held or points awarded if the Best Male and Best Female winners are not present for this competition.

Competition is credited in one of the following manners.

1. The class dog must win a minimum of their Best of Sex (Best Male or Best Female) and win over another class dog (any class) of the same breed, same sex.

2. If the dog is the only one of its sex it must also win a minimum of their Best of Sex and beat the other Best of Sex for Best of Winners. In other words the Best Male and the Best Female would compete, and the dog awarded the Best of Winners would receive an appropriate competition win.

3. If the class dog is awarded the Best of Breed win OVER either Champions or Grand Champions of the same breed, competition would be credited.

Here is where it can get more complicated . . .

If yours is the only dog entered in your breed, in order to gain competition the dog would have to either:

a) Place in Group competition if groups are held, beating another dog in their respective group or

b) Be awarded a Best In Multi-Breed Show or Reserve Best In Multi-Breed Show.

c) There are NO additional Championship points awarded for placing in group competition or for being awarded Best/Reserve in Multi-Breed Show.

Here are the requirements for a Grand Champion (GRCH) title.

The requirements to earn the GRCH title is as follows: A Champion dogs must win the Champions class a minimum of 5 times with competition (a minimum of 3 Champions shown in this class) under 3 different judges. A Champion dog may earn a competition win towards its GRCH title if it wins BOB over a Grand Champion and the total number of dogs entered in the both the Champion class and the Grand Champion class meets or exceeds the minimum 3 dog requirement.

Title certificates.

Once the requirements for a UKC title have been met, UKC will automatically mail a Certificate of Honor indicating the award to the dog’s owner on record.