I have seen super qualities from both but don’t know of any US bred dogs that have gone back to Germany. Not to say that there hasn’t been. I have only been with the VDD-GNA for seven years so I’m still new myself.
In a group setting, yes it’s like a course. We setup to run multiple dogs through different categories (tracking, search, pointing, blinds, duck search and retrieving) evaluating each and sending them home with some homework.