Nationals Day 6, Saturday (10/17)
7:25 am: Welcome back to Spaceland everyone! It's a bright, clear, cool morning, 53°F and loads are already flying! Sorry we didn't have any late updates for you last night; the blogger was having Internet connection issues...
Anyway, things went pretty much as you'd expect, we hung some medals on some very talented skydivers in the vertical formation skydiving (VFS) and 8-way events. Congratulations to everyone!! We'll post some photos of that later on... in the meantime, we'll just note one of last night's surprises. Meet director Scott Smith announced that 8-way open winners Arizona Airspeed have decided to focus their attentions on 4-way, so they passed their World Team 8-way slot to the Golden Knights.
Also, meet management chose to leave 10-way registration open until around 10 a.m. today, so there's still time to register! We're up to 7 teams right now, with 2.5 hours to go. Ten, can I get 10?
Lastly, this is the last day you'll be enjoying this particular blogger's company; I'm headed home and others will be keeping you up to the minute for the rest of Nationals. I hope you've enjoyed the coverage and the photos... oh yea, photos, back to those... Stand by! :)
8:15 am: Photos!!
8:40 am: More photos!
9:20 am: Scores are rolling in for 16-way; Arizona Airspeed topped round 5, but they only bested Deguello by 1 point. The Knights have yet to be scored.
Freestyle scoring is done through round 3; longstanding team Flew Id is still on top by 0.8 points. They've commanded clear leads in rounds 1 and 3, but lost 1.1 points to Dragons in round 2.
10:15 am: We were just discussing this year's online registration/team management system, which was designed brand-new for this event. Overall the response seems to have been quite good, particularly from the meet management standpoint; some of the other regular host drop zones have expressed a strong interest in using this system for future Nationals.
Competitors, what do you think?
Feel free to add your comments at the bottom of the page. (Family friendly, please!)
We've got more 16-way scores in; the Knights topped Deguello on that last round by 2, so they're still in second place behind Airspeed. Round 6 scores are in for a few teams, and Airspeed is still on top with a total of 65 points after their 11 in round 6. Deguello put up a 7 (they are consistent today with 7s in the last four rounds). Their total is one up on the Knights, but the Knights' round 6 score isn't in yet...
10:40 am: Yahoo, the blogger gets to do 10-way!!! Updates might be a bit more spread out this afternoon. We ended up with 9 teams!
16way looks to be about complete except for Havoc SPX, who spent a little time with local Channel 2 this morning--did anyone see it on TV? Comment below with a link if you found it online!
Anyway, it's most likely Airspeed followed by the Knights and then Deguello, scores 65-49-43.
See ya in the air!
11:25 pm: Man, it turned into a busy afternoon! I ended up on the 10-way team Annie's Toys, which was a BLAST!!! Haven't been able to jump a lot this summer, so it was quite a unique and great experience to knock off the rust by competing with that bunch of very accomplished skydivers (including a brand spanking new 4-way world record holder, at least once the paperwork goes through!). Thanks for picking the blogger up out of the media room, guys! :)
So the day's winners are:
16-way: Arizona Airspeed, followed by the Golden Knights and Deguello 17
10-way: Golden Knights, followed by Annie's Toys and Arizona Airspeed
Freestyle: Team Flew Id, followed by Dragons and Suicide Transition
Freefly Open: SoCal Converge, followed by Orlando XP
Freefly Intermediate: IsIs, followed by InLaws and SDH Outlaws
Combined Formation Skydiving Champions: Arizona Airspeed
We'll put up some photos from today and awards photos tomorrow--right now, it's time to celebrate after tonights banquet! Stay tuned to USPAnationals.com for results of canopy formation, style and accuracy, and canopy piloting.
Have a great night!
Anyway, things went pretty much as you'd expect, we hung some medals on some very talented skydivers in the vertical formation skydiving (VFS) and 8-way events. Congratulations to everyone!! We'll post some photos of that later on... in the meantime, we'll just note one of last night's surprises. Meet director Scott Smith announced that 8-way open winners Arizona Airspeed have decided to focus their attentions on 4-way, so they passed their World Team 8-way slot to the Golden Knights.
Also, meet management chose to leave 10-way registration open until around 10 a.m. today, so there's still time to register! We're up to 7 teams right now, with 2.5 hours to go. Ten, can I get 10?
Lastly, this is the last day you'll be enjoying this particular blogger's company; I'm headed home and others will be keeping you up to the minute for the rest of Nationals. I hope you've enjoyed the coverage and the photos... oh yea, photos, back to those... Stand by! :)
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9:20 am: Scores are rolling in for 16-way; Arizona Airspeed topped round 5, but they only bested Deguello by 1 point. The Knights have yet to be scored.
Freestyle scoring is done through round 3; longstanding team Flew Id is still on top by 0.8 points. They've commanded clear leads in rounds 1 and 3, but lost 1.1 points to Dragons in round 2.
10:15 am: We were just discussing this year's online registration/team management system, which was designed brand-new for this event. Overall the response seems to have been quite good, particularly from the meet management standpoint; some of the other regular host drop zones have expressed a strong interest in using this system for future Nationals.
Competitors, what do you think?
Feel free to add your comments at the bottom of the page. (Family friendly, please!)
We've got more 16-way scores in; the Knights topped Deguello on that last round by 2, so they're still in second place behind Airspeed. Round 6 scores are in for a few teams, and Airspeed is still on top with a total of 65 points after their 11 in round 6. Deguello put up a 7 (they are consistent today with 7s in the last four rounds). Their total is one up on the Knights, but the Knights' round 6 score isn't in yet...
10:40 am: Yahoo, the blogger gets to do 10-way!!! Updates might be a bit more spread out this afternoon. We ended up with 9 teams!
16way looks to be about complete except for Havoc SPX, who spent a little time with local Channel 2 this morning--did anyone see it on TV? Comment below with a link if you found it online!
Anyway, it's most likely Airspeed followed by the Knights and then Deguello, scores 65-49-43.
See ya in the air!
11:25 pm: Man, it turned into a busy afternoon! I ended up on the 10-way team Annie's Toys, which was a BLAST!!! Haven't been able to jump a lot this summer, so it was quite a unique and great experience to knock off the rust by competing with that bunch of very accomplished skydivers (including a brand spanking new 4-way world record holder, at least once the paperwork goes through!). Thanks for picking the blogger up out of the media room, guys! :)
So the day's winners are:
16-way: Arizona Airspeed, followed by the Golden Knights and Deguello 17
10-way: Golden Knights, followed by Annie's Toys and Arizona Airspeed
Freestyle: Team Flew Id, followed by Dragons and Suicide Transition
Freefly Open: SoCal Converge, followed by Orlando XP
Freefly Intermediate: IsIs, followed by InLaws and SDH Outlaws
Combined Formation Skydiving Champions: Arizona Airspeed
We'll put up some photos from today and awards photos tomorrow--right now, it's time to celebrate after tonights banquet! Stay tuned to USPAnationals.com for results of canopy formation, style and accuracy, and canopy piloting.
Have a great night!
Labels: 16-way, USPA Nationals
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