Sheltie Nationals Next Week!

Moto, Pinch and I depart next Friday for St. Louis for the Sheltie Nationals. I'm looking forward to it and I'm not looking forward to it.
The Looking Forward To It part includes sharing a hotel room with a sheltie club member. Her dog and my two get along famously. She loves obedience so we'll have fun discussing the sport and of course all things Sheltie. It'll be fun seeing Sheltie friends from near and far and of course....the shopping.
The Not Looking Forward To It is for the first time ever I'm not entered competitively in anything. Ever since I had Dusty I was able to enter the Best All-Around Sheltie and dream of the elusive Silver Bowl in some venue. This year, the timing just isn't right and what with our major budget down-size, I just can't hang out and enter and/or do all I wish we could do.
But so be it, we get to go and I should stop grousing about that.
Pinch and Moto are both entered in the Herding event, at the Herding Test level. Again another first: it's quite possible neither one of them will pass, each for a very different reason. With Dusty and Shiloh, there was no question they would pass their Herding Tests. Moto continues to confound me. This dog is absolutely brilliant on sheep. If he just believed in himself, it's possible he could go all the way to being a nationally-ranked herding dog. When he's confident, the sheep sense him and he has power from a great distance. Yet he doesn't scare them, he's able to move them with great ease. But we have days when he a) just doesn't feel like applying himself; or b) something is scaring him (could be a horse in the next pasture, a tarp flapping loudly, you name it); and the sheep sense this and just stand there and laugh at him. He is coming more into his own and the bad scenario is melting away, but heck this is a strange place, strange sheep so it can go either way.
Mr. Pinch on the other hand has TONS of confidence....BUT...no stock sense. In time he can probably do some of the lower-level herding but it's going to take time and training. He's also a bit of a bully. He likes to peel one sheep out of the flock, pin it against the fence and hold it there. No matter if it stomps its feet or charges at him, he'll bite it on the nose and put it back in the corner. Mr. Pinch, that is NOT herding, thank you. So, IF the sheep are nice "school sheep" and will stay grouped, we may qualify if Pinch doesn't manage to find the weak link in the flock to bully.
All the while, it will be fun to explore the show site, see some really talented dogs and watch some dreams come true. Always fun to discuss, meet and greet people with the same passion for Shelties that I have.
So I pose the question again: What is going to happen?