Monday 23 October |
0730 Good morning! Just getting to work, now setting up the CF team pages. 4-way is on call. Hack hack....okay, the CF Rotation teams have been posted, round 1 is being judged, 2 Stupid just posted a 9... ...an hour later, round one of CF Rotations is done, and AZ Frayed Knot takes the lead with a 12...4-way Open round 8 now being judged, DeLand Groove just did good 19 with a couple of minor glitches...Fastrax does the same...I think one of the impressive teams here is Perris Fury, I don't know how "professional" they are, but they have a 18.4 average through 7 rounds, and they only teams in front of them are "pros"...good job... ...19 is the number: the top 5 teams in 4-way open all posted a 19 for round 8...the next two rounds should be a lot of fun: round 9 is 4 randoms and zirc > zirc, round 10 even faster... ...There is an ESPN truck here, and Michael McGowan is wearing a transmitter for live video, if some one sees it on TV let me know...we were discussing the weather a moment ago, it is supposed to turn cloudy later today with a chance of rain tomorrow. A look at the weather radar shows a system down in the Baja headed north. Maybe it will veer east. But it's pure blue outside right now...yesterday I posted a video of DeLand Groove's round 6. Here is Fastrax's round 8...in 4-way Advanced, AZ DiveWerkz has opened a huge 11-point lead ahead of CK Vision...
1000 ...okay round 8 of 4-way Intermediate is done and Ranch Pulse has padded their lead by another point...word has it that Frayed Knot has made some sort of appearance on ESPN... ...here comes 4-way Open round 9, and Fastrax has a 26 if it's clean, I don't think they had that zircon at 18, and all the judges agree and they get a 25...that was the old failure to catch the leg at the end of the zircon thing, been there done that...and now Groove draws a round of applause with a 27, but the judges popped them twice down to a 25, so they go into the final round with a two-point lead...Perris Fury just dazzled the crowd with a super clean 24, and Odyssey has a 28 busted to a 27, while Black Cat tops the round 9 scoring with a clean 29. Meanwhile, the canopy rotators have finished 3 rounds and Frayed Knot is up by 2. This just found in the mail box:
Pretty cool. Anyone got the video? With their big score of 27 on round 9, Airspeed Odyssey has pulled to within one point of 3rd place, so with 2 points separating 1st and 2nd and 1 point separating 3rd and 4th, this last round will be very interesting. And guest team Black Cat is tied for 2nd in the standings, they are doing very well. A couple of emails have requested where people can send messages to teams. Send them to jump@skydiveaz.com. I have no printer here, or I'd be happy to.
1130 ...wow - in 4-way Intermediate, Air Force CAD posted a big 17 and now trail Ranch Pulse by only 2 points! It's approaching 1230 here and we're on a bit of a break before round 10 of 4-way. AND we're on with round 10 now, Perris Fury just posted the first score with a solid 29. FiaZco sure has a good video guy...oh of course, it's Tony Hathaway...ouch...GK Black's jump has more brain-locks than an Alzheimer's convention...they post a 23...correction, busted down to a 20...double ouch...that may have just cost them the 3rd place medal...here's Fastrax, they post a 30 busted to a 29. So DeLand Groove needs a 28 to win...it's looking really good for them, a huge round of applause from the viewing area, it's a 33 if it's clean...and it is! DeLand Groove is the Open champion. What a great jump to end it, no disputing that finish! Airspeed Odyssey has jumped into 3rd place with a strong finish and Fastrax gets the silver. Here's the video of DeLand's round 10. In 4-way Advance, AZ DiveWerks has sown up the gold and CK Vision the silver, but there is a tie for 3rd between Perris Voltage and Cross Keys O2. If there is no jump-off then Perris Voltage will win based on their highest individual score. OOPS my mistake, the event wasn't finished yet. Perris Voltage wins 3rd place. The tie was after 9 rounds....
1400 Oh goodie goodie. Michael McGowan just handed me a thumb drive with some photos. Great eye candy coming up shortly...
Okay, here come the final jumps from 4-way Intermediate. Air Force CAD has made a tremendous charge on two of the last three jumps, will they catch Ranch Pulse? Pulse posted a 12 a few minutes ago and now CAD...no, they have a 12 too, and Ranch Pulse is the winner of 4-way Intermediate. SCD Furies win the bronze and 4-way FS is IN THE CAN. CF is going to finish though round 6 of rotations today. 1630 Earlier today I asked USPA's Larry Bagley whether or not next years nationals at Skydive Chicago would be a "team selection" nationals. He quickly gave me a lot of information that I couldn't quite digest on the spot so I asked him to email me a clarification. He has graciously provided this reponse:
Thank you for that Larry! So all you teams out there, every year could be considered an "on" year for team selection. 1700 Wrapup |
Jan Meyer, Chief Engineer and Webmaster |