Sunday, October 22 |
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[Tim] There are swarms of people on creepers and first call is in 15 minutes. Hack hack... ...and a hectic hour later, we are under way, teams are landing and judges are judging...Airspeed Odyssey has some issues early and late and settle for a 15 on round one...DeLand Groove follows with a sweet 21...yes I'm working on getting the draw posted...
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0930 ...round 2 of 4-way Open is in the can and DeLand Groove is two up on Fastrax with GK Black 3 points back of them...I just ducked outside for a breath of fresh Otter fumes and this place is running like a freight train...the eye candy on this page provided by melissa nelson of Skydive Chicago, host of next year's nationals...UPDATE: melissa is no longer with SDC... ...an hour later, into round 3 of 4-way Open and GK Black just drew a nice round of applause from the hangar and posted a 23 to pick up a point on the leaders. But Black Cat (guest) topped them all with a nice 24 on that jump...check that, Team Fastrax just matched that 24 with a nice post of their own...round 3 is in the can and just like that they've tied DeLand Groove for the Open lead...sorry I can't comment on more teams for now, busy finishing the team pages...team 229 has the best team photo so far... ...praise the Lord and pass the mashed potatoes, Momma Waz just pulled into the DZ with a load of her famous fried chicken...the judges are doing a great job of keeping up with the work load, normally they're way behind by this point, but chief judge Judy Celaya has got the program in control...maybe they just want time for a fried chicken break ;-)...
1200 ...in 4-way Advanced, AZ DiveWerkz took the lead in round 1 and has not looked back, now with a 5-point lead over CK Vision...Ranch Pulse likewise has led the Intermediate 4-way from the beginning but holds a slimmer 3-poing er point lead after 4 rounds...Larry says we'll probably finish through round 6 today...I keep hearing people saying something like "I can't believe how well all this is going." Well, it certainly is! On with round five...Fastrax just posted a beautiful 22 that would have been even nicer but for a glitch near the end...GK Black posts a 20...looking ahead to round 10, it's the fastest round of the meet...I talked to a couple of the DeLand Groove guys and they say it should be a low- to mid-thirties jump, so anything but a big lead will be in jeopardy until the last moment... ...round 5 is in the can for 4-way Open, and what has developed is a good old barroom brawl between DeLand Groove and Team Fastrax, tied at 106 points...
1430 1630 I'm really looking forward to seeing the VRW 4-way test competition on Friday. More than 50 skydivers are expected to compete. I'll be sure to post some video. Manifest just announced that tomorrow it will be CF taking off at 0645 and FS taking off at 0800. Oh cool: Norman Kent just came in and handed me some pictures on a thumb drive. These aren't very big but still nice. The first two are of Fastrax and the second two are the Groovy Boys:
Allrighty then, round 7 of 4-way FS is in the bag and this day is DONE. Air Force just finished the day off in style. They went in to round 7 in 3rd place, and they just posted a 26 to vault into 2nd place, just 4 points behind Ranch Pulse. What a great day it was. See ya'll tomorrow! |
Jan Meyer, Chief Engineer and Webmaster |