• Digital Ad Book - Why waste all that paper we throw away after each show! We will supply each exhibitor with a CD that you can run in your computers at the show and also bring it home to look at throughout the year. This lends itself to many added benefits. First and foremost each and every sponsor gets a color ad! Because we are going digital, we will also run all sponsor ads on the North American Alpaca Show home page for all of 2012. In addition we don't care how much space we take up in the book so all of the seminar notes that presenters give to us will be included on the disk so there will be quite a few reasons to go back to the disk many times to use it's resources.
• Digital Class Listings - Commonly referred to as the Show Book, usually you race to get to the barn on Saturday morning to have your first look at where your animals are placed and who the competition is. well if that is your game then we never want to take that thrill away from you. However, this year we are adding a little tweak to the process. Once our Show Superintendent - Melissa Young, finishes all the changes (sometime in the middle of the night) she will upload the class listings to this website so when each of our exhibitors wakes up in the morning you can get on your laptops or better yet your smart phones and keep track of everything right away. Are you sitting there ringside and don't have the paper version of the class listing in your hand? Not to worry just pull out your phone and you will always have that vital information by your side.
• New Sponsor Perks - All sponsors receive color ads in the Digital Ad Book as well as in a rolling ad space on our home page for all of 2012. Since Alpaca Show Management Services (ASMS) also runs the North East Alpaca Expo in Syracuse in the beginning of May, we are offering an awesome benefit for those farms sponsoring either Platinum or Gold levels at both shows in 2012. All farms that do Platinum Sponsors at both shows will receive 2 free stalls at the North East Alpaca Expo and all farms that do Gold Sponsors at both shows will receive 1 free stall at the Expo. Just an additional Thank You from the ASMS team.  Lastly, the first 14 top level sponsors will receive rotating ad space on the show registration site.  This is certainly a benefit to the farms that hop to it and get their registration in early to maximize their exposure.  Yet another way to maximize your marketing efforts.
• Check in Day - This year we are giving folks the option to check in on Thursday or Friday, your choice, we are easy! We will again have 2 days of judging alpacas but if you think back to 2011 there was a huge storm barreling for Springfield, MA and if it hit it would cause major stress to all our exhibitors (silly us for running a show in March in the Northeast)!  New England Alpaca Tours was nice enough to allow exhibitors to check into the building on Thursday to get ahead of the monstrous storm that never came. The point being that exhibitors seemed to really enjoy it, they had time to mingle and we actually discovered that at least 13 animals were sold at the show because of that extra time.  We understand that all sorts of folks attend alpaca shows, ones that want to spend as little time at a facility and some that want to maximize their time so we will try to cater to both.
• One more HUGE change - We almost have the finishing touches on one final ASMS brainstorm that we believe will revolutionize alpaca shows. This is something that we are really excited about and will be making an announcement in the next couple of weeks. You will be blown away!

This year's show will be judged on a 60/40 basis with alpaca judging happening on Saturday and Sunday.  The official check-in is on Friday but as mentioned above you may check-in after 3pm on Thursday.  We are going to have three rings; one for huacaya males, one for huacaya females, and one for suris and performance classes.  We have secured three highly regarded judges to assess your alpacas:

Amanda VandenBosch- Huacaya Males & Huacaya Production Classes
Jude Anderson - Huacaya Females & Huacaya Production Classes
Helen Humphreys - Huacaya Grey & Multi, All Suri Classes, Performance

The show will be offering some new and exciting seminars, all free of charge. Please look at the schedule of events and seminar outlines which will be online. Due to space limitations some seminars will be limited to 30 attendees on a first come, first served basis.

Please remember that the weather in early spring can be unpredictable in New England, so come prepared! Should you have any questions relating to the show, please don't hesitate to get in touch with one of the organizing farms.

Don 't forget to send your ARI's, Exhibitor's Disclosure Form, & Owner of Record for Show Entry Form (if applicable) to the Show Superintendent.

We look forward to seeing you in Springfield at the 2012 North Amercian Alpaca Show!