America's
Cup of Formation Skydiving
June 10 - 11, Skydive Houston
Note from the webmaster
- sorry if this page is a little sloppy, Ted is doing
this meet in Texas while I'm in MA covering the S&A
nationals, so I'm copying his e-mail into this page. Hope
you can make sense of it, it looks pretty bad on this little
laptop!
;-) tim
Draw:
1
15 21 5
2 F M 8 6
3 L N 24 20
4 D P 12 16
5 7 K G H
6 Q 14 A 13
2000 AmCup - Skydive
Houston
4-Way Open Final Results, 6/10/00 4:57:49 PM
Rnk No Team Name
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 Cum Avg
1 403 Airspeed Vertical
18 20 20 20 26 19 - - - -
129 21.42
2 402 Deland PD Blue
17 17 19 19 24 20 - - - -
128 21.33
3 401 San Marcos Millennium 5 8
5 5 7 5 - - -
- 123 20.46
4 404 Airspeed Zulu
14 17 18 17 20 18 - - - -
115 19.23
5 405 San Marcos Fast 4War 9 9
11 7 10 9 - - - -
115 19.22
The
weather in Waller is wallowing; lots of rain overnight and
overcast skies this morning. Fortunately the ceiling
is just high enough to permit normal working time in
4-way.
We
had an interesting event occur Friday night during the
draw. Round six came out as 23 O 1 (Snowflake -
Offset, Satellite, Snowflake - Snowflake). This resulted
in a skydive with a condensed block (Snowflake - Snowflake
- Offset), but only after the first time through the page,
resulting in a rules conundrum. I had never seen
this situation before. It was impossible to tack
another block or random onto the sequence, because it
would go into the middle of the condensed block,
eliminating the condensation and resulting in a (illegal)
6 or 7 point skydive. So the chief judge, in a
brilliant move to avoid controversy, substituted round 7
for round 6. This one will go to the IPC FS
subcommittee.
Cheeseburger
time ...
The
two fastest teams, Airspeed Vertical and Deland PD Blue,
both had separation problems going from the Bundy to the
Canadian Tee in round 2. The number 3 person in
that Bundy always wanted to pick up that leg grip too
soon. Drove me nuts! Airspeed Zulu escaped
busting that transition but they did have an illegal fanny
grip building their third Stardian. BUTTSTED.
The
weather has been improving, though getting breezy.
(Obviously the high winds are blowing the clouds away.)
If
you are an FS comp fan ... you should be here.
Airspeed Vertical is six points ahead of Deland PD Blue
in raw score, but Blue, despite a pair of busts, is
showing everyone their improvement, poise and above all
desire. Look for this team to be wearing a medal
at the Nationals and possibly the World Cup -- which
color appears to be up to them.
With
the handicap, the two fastest teams became the two
leading teams after Round 5. Another beautiful
jump by Airspeed Vertical (Craig, Mark, Johnny and
Neal).
Round
6 is going up; if the winds don't get too high we will
have defied the weather.
Saturday
8-Way Open
at Round 1, 6/11/00 10:56:09 AM
Rnk No Team Name
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 Cum Avg
1 801 Deguello
9 - - - - - -
- - - 23 22.85
2 803 Arizona Airspeed
16 - - - - - -
- - - 18 18.01
3 802 Skydive Houston
3 - - - - - -
- - - 18 18.00
4 804 It's All About Me
1 - - - - - -
- - - 16 15.75
Bits:
The
day started with nice, partly cloudy skies, but the
first round was delayed slightly as clouds moved in.
(I still haven't learned why we can only start at 9am!
What are we going to do, wake the cows up?)
Deguello
skydived neat and clean. Alan Metni remarked
after seeing the Round 1 results: "Deguello's
gonna kick our ass." Stay tuned and find
out!
2000 AmCup -
Skydive Houston
8-Way Open at Round 2, 6/11/00 3:00:57 PM
Rnk No Team Name
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 Cum Avg
1 801 Deguello
9 6 - - - - -
- - - 43 21.35
2 802 Skydive Houston
3 1 - - - - -
- - - 34 17.00
3 803 Arizona Airspeed
16 10 - - - - -
- - - 30 15.01
4 804 It's All About Me
1 0 - - - - -
- - - 16 7.88
Two
busts for Airspeed in round 2.
We've
had some serious gully-washers here. I saw a
couple of guys wearing life jackets outside.
Don't know if we'll get any more in ... no word yet
...
2000
AmCup - Skydive Houston
8-Way Open FINAL RESULTS, 6/11/00 4:52:19 PM
Rnk No Team Name
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 Cum Avg
1 801 Deguello
9 6 7 - - - -
- - - 64 21.18
2 802 Skydive Houston
3 1 3 - - - -
- - - 52 17.33
3 803 Arizona Airspeed
16 10 14 - - - - -
- - 46 15.34
4 804 It's All About Me
1 0 2 - - - -
- - - 33 10.83
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