McFarland CA 2025
Located just outside of the bird-haven of Kern National Refuge, McFarland sits within San Joaquin Valley. Gentle hills with washes, it hosts various undergrowth.
McFarland is the DARPG NOFCA home base and is open to all competitors at any time, assuming their hounds are an accepted breed, have a registered name, and the owner is happy to create an entry image or story.
Hosted by the Northern California Whippet Club.
Judge: Fervious
McFarland
Rules
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Info
Entry Type: Heads, words, or CACIT style
Head linearts may be reusued, but coat types and anatomy changes should be depicted properly (elbow floof, chest hair, leg hair).
Both Breed Stake & Mixed Stake
Both regular stakes are offered. Classes are offered on a week-to-week basis.
Pedigree-Club rules apply
No tracing, smudging, or photomanips. All entries must be original. If the image is referenced, you are to credit the reference image(s).
Any entries depicting violence, injuries, or capturing prey must be marked mature.
Collab entries will be accepted, but cannot be awarded CACIT.
Blankets do not have to included but count towards your effort score.
Hares do not have to be depicted but count towards your effort score.
Multiple dogs can be depicted but each dog will earn a different score depending on their poses/etc. Hunting hare is a team activity. Max four dogs offleash per image (RNG headshots don't count). Also, I will honor the fact these dogs hunted together in my show judging.
RNG - CACITs for acceptable effort entries
RNG art entries must be colored. Linearts may not be reused between shows, venues, or rounds - but edit(s) must be made to the lineart to make it work between different breeds within that round. RNG written entries must be 100 words or longer.
Effort Entries & CACITs
This show is RNG only - however entries which meet the requirements for PC CACITs will have them awarded.
The McFarland judging rubric for effort entries is on the Judges Handbook page.
Backgrounds
Entries with inaccurate or low effort backgrounds will never be awarded CACIT. This event is held in sparse grass, lots of bushes, and dry "hostile" brushland. There are some old fences but there should never be barbed wire depicted and depicting fences should be avoided. There are some old run-down historic houses, but drawing modern buildings and houses is strictly prohibited. Clouds will NOT count as an element. There should be a clear ground, sky, and foliage. Drawing blobs for foliage will not be awarded CACIT. Detail is rewarded. If you think it's borderline, then add more detail.
Equipment
Dogs may not be wearing muzzles. If depicting more than one dog, the dogs off leash cannot exceed four at a time. Only one of the four actively dogs coursing may be without a blanket, but drawing them is not required. Blankets (if drawn) may not have numbers. Dogs can only wear plain collars with no tags (or with nameplates), an electronic collar, or a coursing slip. No collar is preferred.
Composition
Drawing the gallery rousing hares rather than an active hunt is explicitly permitted and encouraged.
All dogs wanting CACIT must be fullbody, though shading is not required it is encouraged.
Collab entries can win Judges Choice over non-CACIT entries.
Collabs are permitted but cannot be awarded PC CACIT.
