The GCCF Virtual Show 2021

02/09/2021

All certificates have now been emailed. If you placed in a class and have not had one please message us and we will sort it out

31/08/2021

Class certificates will be emailed out over the next few days, there are a lot so please bear with us.

21/08/2021

And there you go, our Overall Best in Show winners are up!

BOV https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show/copy-of-results

Best A/N/K/NP/PP https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show/copy-of-best-of-variiety-best-in-show

Overall BIS https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show/copy-of-best-in-show-results

Congratulations to all the winners, at whatever stage, commiserations to those not so lucky but remember the best cat is always the one at home with you/at your side/on your lap.

Thank you all for entering so many of your fabulous felines.

Thank you SO much to all our wonderful judges for giving up their spare time to judge for us.

Thank you to my team of uploaders/checkers/general catsbodies - Corinne Bromley & Georgine Anderson-Keeble, I could not have done it without you.

Thank you to Rosemary Fisher for designing, and then taking on the HUGE job of producing, all the virtual certificates, NOT an easy task.

Thank you to the GCCF board and Agria for the sponsorship for prize money.

We will be in touch with winners for prizes, certificates etc over the coming week.

Thank you all again

Carol Walker, virtual show manager

21/08/2021

We are down to the last 5!​ Congratulations to the lucky owners

Overall Best in Show at 7pm UK time!
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Don't go away!

21/08/2021

BOV results are now live. The final 5 cats - Pedigree Adult, Kitten, Neuter, Non Pedigree, and Pedigree Pet follow at about 6.30 pm, then at 7 pm our 2 Overall Best in Show cats will be revealed.

21/08/2021

BOV results will go up at around 5pm today UK time. This will be followed at about 6.30 pm with the final 5 cats - Pedigree Adult, Kitten, Neuter, Non Pedigree, and Pedigree Pet, then at 7 pm our 2 Overall Best in Show cats will be revealed.

Can you wait??!! 😂😂

20/08/2021

Section & class results are now up!!!! https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show

Congratulations to all the winners and those placed, especially in the big classes, commiserations to everyone else but as you all know, the best cats are ALWAYS the ones you have with you :-)

We hope we have it all right but if anyone spots any errors in names etc please let us know so we can correct it

Random £10 prize draw goes to entry number 155, we have emailed the winner and will announce their name at the end of the show if they are agreeable

20/08/2021

Hoping to publish results today around 5pm UK time 😁

19/08/2021

Today's update!

We are hoping to publish all the Section/Class results sometime tomorrow afternoon (Friday 20th August). We will announce it on our show website and will also let you know here when they are up.

It's the final countdown!

18/08/2021

Update 18th August 2021.

We now have all the Best of Variety pedigree results back including the Overall Best Adult, Kitten & Neuter . BIG shout out to our BOV judges for getting everything back to us so quickly. These are now with the Overall Best in Show judge . We are now very hopeful that we are on track for publishing all section results on Friday 20th with the BOV and BIS following on Saturday 21st!

As always we will keep you updated here and on our show website
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It is now getting really nail biting!!!!!!!!!!

17/08/2021

We now have all the Best of Variety results back for each section and these are with the 3 judges who are deciding on the Overall Best Adult, Kitten & Neuter (all the Household Pet judges are finished and we already have our Best in Show HP). We are still hoping to publish on the 20th and 21st but if the final results do not arrive back in time then this may be pushed back slightly, but hopefully by no more than a day, or two at most. As we have already explained, we cannot publish the results with names etc until ALL judging has been completed.

As always we will keep you updated here and on our show website.

​WHO is going to win!!!!!!

16/08/2021

UPDATE!

We now have all the Section results back, and we are hoping that we are still on track for publication of those on the 20th with BOV/BIS on the 21st. This does depend on all the Best of Variety then Best in Show judges getting their classes to us by the 20th though, as we cannot publish the results with names etc until ALL judging has been completed. We do already have some BOV results in, however, so fingers crossed.

If the results aren't back in time then we will have to push publication back a little but we will let you know here and on the show website.​

It's getting exciting!

09/08/2021

Quick update for you all.

We now have half the results back, at the halfway point of the 2 weeks allotted time, so we are hoping that we are still on track for publication of section results on the 19th or 20th with BOV/BIS on the 21st. This does depend on all the judges getting their classes to us by a week today though, as they still then have to go to the BOV/BIS judges and it does take some time to get the results up, but hopefully they will :-)

If there is looking to be a delay we will, of course, let you know as soon as it becomes clear that we cannot keep to our hoped for timetable.

01/08/2021

BREAKING NEWS! Our wonderful GCCF bookkeeper, Leanne, has been a total star and sent us the last payment spreadsheets tonight! YES! On a SUNDAY bless her.

We have tallied the payments and entries and they all match so we can now instruct our judges and judging will commence on Monday 2nd August! No further changes can be made.

We will announce when results will be published, at the moment we are still hoping for 19th/20th August.

01/08/2021

OK, as we cannot check the last lot of payments until we get the spreadsheet from the office tomorrow the judges will commence judging on Tuesday 3rd August. So make the most of this time by checking your entries carefully and letting us know of any errors or omissions so that we can correct/add them before sending them to the judges, once the judges have the entries no further changes can be made.

We hope to have all the results back within a couple of weeks so the rough timetable will be all section results will go up on the 19th or 20th of August with the BOV results and BIS results being released in 2 phases on Saturday 21st August (we want to keep you in suspense 😂😂😂).

If our judges all send their results in very early, or if any are struggling and are a bit late, this may change but we will keep you informed on here and on the website.

Good luck everyone!

01/08/2021

Thought you might like to see the cat counts for the show. If the numbers change it is because we are finding the odd one that for some reason didn't come through to us even though entered so we have added them. This is why it is so important to check your entries are there!

Section 1- 27
Section 2 - 100
Section 3 - 50
Section 4 - 74
Section 5 - 81
Section 6 - 30
Section 7 (NP) - 42
Section 8 (PP) - 38
YES - 7
Total 449

01/08/2021

All entries are now uploaded. If you have entered and your photos have not gone up then it means we have not got the entry so please check that your photos ARE there and that all details are correct, any problems please contact us on [email protected].

Watch this space for further announcements about judging timetables etc!

31/07/2021

THE SHOW IS NOW CLOSED! Thank you for your amazing entries. We will now finish processing entries and uploading them, there are a lot so please bear with us. If you have entered and your photos have not gone up by midday Sunday 1st August then it may mean there is a query so please check your spam inbox and contact us on [email protected]. Please also contact us on that email if there are any errors in your entries.

Watch this space for further announcements about judging timetables etc!

31/07/2021

Less than 2 hours to go, entries WILL close at 9pm prompt!

30/07/2021

Just a quick note, if you have entered and your photos have not gone up within 48 hours then it may mean there is a query so please check your spam inbox and contact us on [email protected]. Please also note that different people are uploading different sections and they are online at different times occasionally so if you enter cats in more than one section and only some go up, give it 24 hours to see if the others go up before contacting us. Thanks.

29/07/2021

It's the final countdown! Only 2 days left to enter and we still have some empty or very small classes! There's £50 for EVERY class winner so get your eligible cats in our empty/small classes for your chance to win! All entries so far can be seen on the website under "Section Entries"

23/07/2021

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Random £10 prize draw goes to entry number 155, we have emailed the winner and will announce their name at the end of the show if they are agreeable.

Congratulations!!

22/07/2021

We now have the cut off point for the random draw at entry number 163. The draw will be done by random number generator and filmed and the winner will be notified tomorrow morning. As we cannot tie in names with numbers until after judging we won't be publishing the winner's name until after the show (and even then only if they agree) but we can publish the draw video and the winning exhibit number tomorrow :-)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

22/07/2021

Will everyone who has entered please keep an eye on your spam folders in case we need to get in touch, we have sent email queries to a few people but have had no response so can only assume the email has landed in their spam folder.

22/07/2021

21/07/2021

Apologies to anyone who has entered today, we were hoping to get your entries up tonight but your "sow manger" is having computer problems so is unable to process them, hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

20/07/2021

Ok folks, get those entries in, everyone who has entered by the half way point of the show, which is 9pm this Thursday evening (July 22nd) will be entered into a spot draw to win £10, it could pay for all or some of your entry :-).

Draw to be done by random number generator of all exhibit numbers entered by that time.

17/07/2021

If anyone wants to speed up their photos being uploaded please reply to the acknowledgement email you got and attach screen shots of your payments and we will see what we can do to get some more up tonight

13/07/2021

Apologies to anyone entered so far and not had the email response, there appears to be a glitch in the automatic sending of this which we are currently working on fixing.

13/07/2021

Please share!

The show is now open! Let's see all your lovely cats :-)

https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show

12/07/2021

Entries open at or around 9am tomorrow! Have your photos ready!

06/07/2021

Apologies for anyone viewing the website on a phone earlier and being unable to see past the header, hopefully it is sorted now :-)

06/07/2021

The first ever cat show was held on the 13th July 1871. To celebrate this historic 150th anniversary, and in the absence of real GCCF shows for a month or so yet, the GCCF are holding a virtual cat show to run from the 13th to the 31st of July 2021.

Entries are welcome from all GCCF/WCC members worldwide and the show is open to all breeds recognised by the GCCF, along with household pets. There are also a couple of free classes for our young YES members (parental consent required). For all other classes there is an entry fee of £6 per cat with cash prizes ranging from £50 to £150 for all class, Best of Variety, Best in Show winners, together with a £25 Amazon voucher for each of the two YES class winners. The Best in Show prizes have been kindly sponsored by our partners, Agria Pet Insurance.

The show is website based at https://gccfvs2021.wixsite.com/gccf-virtual-show and all entries can be made from there via the dedicated entry page which will be live once entries are open. Payment is by Paypal, you will receive an email with the link in once you have entered your photos. Please feel free to browse the site beforehand to familiarise yourself with the classes, rules etc. Any questions can be directed to us here by messaging us or by email to [email protected].

We hope that as many of you as possible will join us in this celebratory show but please note that there is an entry limit of 500 cats. Each entry will require 2 photographs - a full face and a full body shot - and photos can be uploaded via the website when entries are live.

Entries open at about 9am next Tuesday, 13th July.