After months of preparation and witnessing the infection rates decreasing steadily, it is with pain in our hearts that we have to inform you that the Continental Sheepdog herding Championship of 2021 has been cancelled.
In a extremely short time and completely unexpected, the number of infections in the Netherlands has risen suddenly and quickly after the government decided to open up. This fact makes the Netherlands a high risk country to travel to at the moment our participating European handlers. All countries have rightly so expressed their concerns, since travelling to the Netherlands in a couple of weeks is not without consequences.
This fact makes the situation uncertain and impossible. For this reason, we have called an emergency meeting with all competing countries and the European committee. After hearing all the input, we have decided to cancel the CSC 2021. The event can only be an official European Championship if there are enough competing countries and suddenly we do not have this certainty anymore. The CSC 2021 was meant to be a tribute to this wonderful sport, and we can not be sure it will be right now. This decision howeve