I believe the reason that they are seperating the pointing breed and the flushing breed is more because of style and ability. It's not that they do that to put the flushers in the backseat, and true that the pointer guys do look down on the flushers but it is also vice versa as well. What you didn't mention is if they were timed or not. If they were it was for the reason that generally a pointer would cover more grounds than a flush would and also sometimes faster. That is just the breeds are built, but not always true. Do they score you on how many birds you took or how many shells you have left over. Is the time stopped once you killed x amount of birds or not. You have to take all this into consideration. As for Mite, how much do you know about pointing dog field trials? As for me I have been actively running trials for several years now and also have been training dogs for about 10 years now. I am also an AKC recognized judge for field trials and also hunt test pointing dogs.