New England Trailblazers, Bennington, VT- May 22 & 23 2004:  Our first tournament was the New England Trailblazer's tournament the end of May, 2004.  Since all the dogs and handlers were new except for Sally and I, there was much chaos.  We ended up with one point from the experience.  Shrek was having problems hearing the boxloader call him with all the noise, so was doing two jumps, turning around and coming back.  He finally made it down to the box one race, got so excited that his friend was down there he did his happy aussie dance.  This intrigued his opponent so much that the dog crossed over to see what all the excitement was about (causing interference).  That gave us our first race 'win' and we got a time of 31 seconds :).  Even though we did not come away with many points or titles, we came away with experience which was invaluable for the new handlers and dogs.