Don't expect much in the Tidbits this morning ... we're a little short-handed in the control room as we sort out various problems outside, the most significant being one of my laptops missing from the container next door, which is Not Good ... but scores are being posted, in fact here are the Norgies ... a 19. Minutes later, France Maubeuge, looks like they may have a bust on point 10, the judges are looking at it a third time now ... no, only one judge banged it, a 20, and USA Airspeed follows a 21, two close calls of their own on that one, but another tie ballgame. Stay tuned!

1050
This day has everything! The missing laptop had us scrambling to get the second judging system running for the CF judges. If anyone sees an IBM ThinkPad 240 named OPAL, please return it to us. (Yes, it has a name, but it does not sit or stay.)

What a race in 4-way ... have you checked out the results after 5 rounds? Wow.

And word from across the pond this morning, JK and Michelle Davis have announced the arrival of Morgan Taylor Davis born on October 4th at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville at 7:59 p.m., weighing in at 6 lbs 8 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Congratulations JK and Michelle! (Along with T2, JK was on the 1993 world champion 8-way team while on the Golden Knights.)

1230
After several hours of hacking the code that displays the standings on OmniSkore's DZTV output, I can finally look at some of the competition. Airspeed had a glitch in their first photon-photon in round 6 that cost them a few seconds, while the Norgies, Majik, and Russia Wild Wind had 19s. France coming up ... also a 19. At the end of six, it's USA Majik with a 3-point lead over Norgies, who are one step ahead of USA Airspeed and France Maubeuge. USA Golden Knights Gold are next, 7 off the pace.

1310
Watch Majik go! A 21 in round 7, nice jump!!! Some photos coming soon ...

Music! Music!!!

 

	Fun at the loading area.
	Paul Rafferty and the Golden Knights Black enjoy the spotlight in Round 7.

1400
Round 7 is finishing up and 21 seems to be a popular score for the top teams. What do the rascally Norgies have to say? ... a 19. And at the end of seven ... was I using fuzzy math earlier today? Musta been before the coffee ... anyway, USA Majik enjoys a 4-point lead with three rounds to go. They have looked some kinda good today.

*** 8-Way begins next ***

Well this is also the European Championships 2002, and in that competition, the Women category is the same as the World Cup, but the Open category is narrowed down to 12 teams. Here's how they look after 7 rounds:

4-Way Open - Updated 10/6/2002 2:37:04 PM TOT, AVG and Rank through Round 7 ID Team Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOT AVG Rank 423 France, Maubeuge 17 26 23 20 26 19 21 - - - 152 21.71 1 422 Norway, Deland Norgies 19 26 20 19 29 19 19 - - - 151 21.57 2 419 Italy, Sinapsi PD 17 22 19 17 24 17 18 - - - 134 19.14 3 417 Russia, Evolution 17 19 14 18 25 15 19 - - - 127 18.14 4 412 Sweden, Phenix 13 21 19 17 20 16 17 - - - 123 17.57 5 418 Germany, Eads 12 19 18 17 21 17 16 - - - 120 17.14 6 420 Switzerland, Endeavour 15 18 15 17 19 17 15 - - - 116 16.57 7 416 Spain, Red Bull 11 16 14 14 18 14 14 - - - 101 14.43 8 421 United Kingdom, 4Pak 13 8 12 14 18 13 14 - - - 92 13.14 9 413 Finland, FC Moukko 13 13 12 11 15 13 9 - - - 86 12.29 10 414 Israel 9 7 5 10 11 8 9 - - - 59 8.43 11 409 Turkey 7 7 4 4 5 7 6 - - - 40 5.71 12

1500
The DZ is still taking a siesta while I catch up on odd tasks. The laptop that disappeared overnight is still missing, but I guess that's small potatoes in the big picture here. 8-Way goes on call sometime in the next half hour.

1615
[Yawn] Still waiting for 8-way teams to land ... the wind is picking up a little ... word is now 8-way judging will commence at 1630 ... the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog ...

1700
We are undergoing team number confusion in 8-way ... a team was "added" today, and Pia (the chief judge) entered it as 810, but apparently, someone, somewhere, changed the numbers, and the team slates are different than what's in the judging equipment and on the omniskore.com ... Exi is trying to sort it out ...

The judges are changing all the 8-way team numbers. Boy how did this happen!!! A serious case of the tail wagging the dog. The judges tell manifest what the team numbers are ... not the other way around ... go figure! Hopefully they'll get the scores that are already created aligned in the right slots. Sheesh. All the 8-way team photos will have to be renamed when they're done. That beer is gonna taste better than usual tonight ...

1800
We are on a wind hold shortly into round 2. The 8-way team pages are now fixed (somebody owes us some BEER) and France 8-way looks very competitive. Oops, Klaus didn't get some of the team acronyms right in the name/number juggling ... hack hack hack ...

1845
It has been reported that teams have gone on a call again.

Rina Gallo, Canadian judge, finds out what happens when you visit the control booth ...

1930
They're judging Great Kingdom of United Britain at the moment, I think this will be it for the day, and 8-way round 2 will be completed mañana. Yup, there's the call! See ya'll then --

 
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