FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ Happy August 12th.. here is your mid-month Freestyle Royale check-in with some bonus links! AUGUST IS ALL ABOUT BRINGING THE HEAT! Get your brain fired up: this is a CRITERIA round with a TEAM CONNECTEDNESS theme! What’s that cover?? Check it: Handler and dog are in constant communication (verbal and nonverbal) Dog checks…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ LEADERBOARD – June & July Our Leaderboard has been created and updated for JUNE and JULY of the Freestyle Royale! Now, before you ask how the math math’d, please know that it’s quite mathy and our resident math expert Jack Fahle and resident spreadsheet master (that’s me) worked for quite awhile to ensure it was…
FREESTYLE ROYALE RESULTS ⚔︎ First things first! A reminder of the website link with all Freestyle Royale history: https://updogchallenge.com/category/freestyle-royale JULY RESULTS: SUMMER & CELEBRATION! Please give a huge thank you to our amazing judges: Andrea Morrissette, Jack Fahle, Andrew Han, and Kat Fahle! They crushed this month’s judging and we are excited to share the results with everyone! July Scores …
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ AUGUST IS ALL ABOUT BRINGING THE HEAT! Get your brain fired up: this is a CRITERIA round with a TEAM CONNECTEDNESS theme! What’s that cover?? Check it: Handler and dog are in constant communication (verbal and nonverbal) Dog checks in with handler and switches focus between disc retrieval and handler cues Team highlights…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ JULY UPDATE! PLEASE READ! Due to widespread heavy wildfire smoke that has prevented teams from playing for days to a week-plus depending on location, the Freestyle Royale team has decided to EXTEND JULY’S DUE DATE! Please keep reading for the details on what that means for you. The new due date will be end…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ Happy Friday! It’s the last weekend to film before your videos for July are due at Midnight (eastern) on Monday July 20th! Here are some helpful reminders below for July, as well as an introduction of our awesome judge panel for this round Catch up on all Freestyle Royale posts here (including your…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ We’ve got one week left until your July Freestyle Royale videos are due… who all has finished filming?! Who all has a plan for filming this week (meeee )?? Before I jump into some exciting news, don’t forget you can catch up on all FR posts here: https://updogchallenge.com/category/freestyle-royale July Sponsor Each month will feature…
FREESTYLE ROYALE JUNE THEME WINNERS ⚔︎ June’s Freestyle Royale theme was all about INGENUITY and INNOVATION! Our winners really fired up their brains last month! They were incorporating unique throws, sequences, team movements, taking standard tricks and making them unique, and more! Their creativity was shining and really set them apart during judging. Please give a…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ JUNE RESULTS: INNOVATION AND INGENUITY! Results are ready for our first month of the Freestyle Royale! Please give a huge thank you to our amazing judges: Andrea Morrissette, Jack Fahle, Aura M. Moreno, and Kat Fahle!! They crushed judging in a short amount of time and we already have the scores to share with everyone! June Scores …
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ July is just a day away… and so is our next round of the Freestyle Royale! Our summer long Freestyle adventures continue with another virtual round leading up to our yearly October Freestyle Crown! JULY IS ALL ABOUT SUMMER & CELEBRATION! Get your brain fired up: this is a PERFORMANCE round! Start thinking..…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ Your registration link is LIVE for June! Reminder that you have until the end of the day on MONDAY June 22nd to submit your June round! That’s midnight, eastern time, on Monday. REGISTRATION LINK! ICYMI Annnnd… In Case You Missed It… here are the links to the two previous posts with details on…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ Hey Freestylers.. who has finished filming for June’s Freestyle Royale installment?! Don’t worry if you haven’t filmed yet… you’ve got until JUNE 22nd to get that round on camera and uploaded to the internet for judging. Wondering what on Earth I am talking about? Check out this post for all the good info:…
FREESTYLE ROYALE ⚔︎ It’s June 1st, which marks the first day of the 2026 FREESTYLE ROYALE! Who is ready to Freestyle all summer long, with virtual rounds leading up to our yearly Freestyle Crown?? Wait.. what? You don’t know what the Freestyle Royale is?! You haven’t heard of it?!?! That’s okay, Andrea Morrissette and Jack Fahle have you covered with…