TICA Southeast 2025/2026
Regional Awards
What is The Regional Banquet?
Every show season, 1st May – 30th April, all cats are scored for regional points.
At the end of the season the Top 25 Kittens, Cats, Alters, LH Cats not in top 25, SH Cats not in top 25, HHPK & HHP will earn the title of Regional Winner if they have achieved the minimum of 1000 points.
These awards are given out at the Regional Awards Banquet.
This is where we all get together to celebrate our cats and our friends. There will be a dinner and awards presentation.
Best of Breed rosettes are also awarded to cats that didn’t make it into the top 25.
Clapping, cheering, whooping and hollering are all strongly encouraged! It is traditional to stand up for the Best in each category.
Favors
Favors are a TICA tradition.
These are little gifts, prepared by the Regional Winner owners, which are collected before the Banquet so they can be sorted into gift bags ready for the Banquet guests.
As a RW owner you can prepare a small gift for each attendee, current guidance - 150 pieces
(the exact number will be confirmed once the Banquet bookings have closed).
These could be little gifts for cats, charms, key rings, pens, badges/pins, catnip toys, handmade thingies, sweeties, chocolates etc. Most people also add a little business card or note to share their own wins, so receivers know who each of the items are from. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to create a sweet and thoughtful little gift. It’s all about celebrating our cats.
We would love everyone to get involved, so we can get back to the old days when the bag of favors was huge and you’d spend all evening going through all the lovely little gifts inside from all our wonderful winners.
You can also bring your gifts to the banquet and put them into the bags.
Regional Banquet 2025/2026
INFORMATION COMING SOON
The awards not collected at the Banquet will be brought to the show next morning - you/ your representative can collect them there. Should you be unable to collect or arrange collection at these shows, please get in touch with Laurie Patton at regional.director.se@tica.org .