I think that is just completely ridiculous. There are 2 shows that I know of that require you to scan and send copies of papers. Houston and San Antonio, though admittedly its been a long time since I did entries for most of them. Unless I am mistaken I still think SA requires hard copy of the papers at check-in. But regardless, to require scanned copies of the papers, most originals these days are printed with special paper that make parts of the papers illegible when copied or scanned so that they can not be forged, so its understandable that they are going to receive images that arent legible. There are numerous other things as well, operator error on the scanner, older scanners that do not scan as well. I remember early scanners blurred things badly and you could hardly read any writing on things that were scanned unless the font was huge. As long as the entries were filled out correctly and the only problem was that they couldnt read the scanned image clearly then I think they should allow the kids to show, at the very least they should notify you and allow the chance for you to send a better copy. We had a similar situation with Ft Worth this yr, I forget what was wrong exactly but for one of our entries they couldnt read something, we got a letter from them explaining what the issue was and were given a chance to correct. I was even gone out of town when it came in the mail and didnt return home until after the deadline to send the corrected entry. I called them up and they said it was no problem, they could tell what class the heifer was supposed to be in so just bring the corrected info to the office when I got there. Seems to me Houston should do the same.
I have always thought that the sale prices were low for the lower end at Houston, but I always thought it was one of the smoothest running shows of that size around. After hearing stories of what a disaster move-in and check-in was for the Open Show last week and now this I am more inclined to believe that Houston is trying to ruin their show. I was not aware of this issue until I read this, my roommate is an Ag Teacher and we are leaving with Heifers in the morning, he didnt know anything about this until I just told him, so it seems like only those who got letters saying they couldnt show and the people they told are the ones aware of the issue. I bet if word got out and enough people said something then this may change.
I do agree it seems like shows are trying to find more and more reasons to disqualify people and take them ot of the running, and in my opinion this is no doubt thanks to the highly political people who have lots of pull with the management at these shows. The VIPs as they were referred to earlier. Just one more way for them to insure that they have a lock on the wins.
