The power went out at the competition venue around 6pm, as I was about 2/3 through my rewrite of the Freefly speed round OmniWare. So I turned off all the power switches I could find, walked back to the empty and quiet hotel, and tried to figure out how I could make it to the banquet, in progress at Castello D'Empuries a few kilometers away. While standing at the hotel desk feeling wet, lonely and forgotten, a Russian competitor asked the receptionist if there was a map or directions to the banquet. Hellz bellz, I had that right in my pocket, and he had an empty seat in his car, and off we went.

We got lots of pictures there and hope to get some posted soon.

This morning they still can't get the power working at the competition area north of the soccer field, so I relocated my laptop to the press room in the old DZ building 100m or so south of the field, where hopefully I can finish the AE hacks while the whether clears.

1200
Still on weather hold and trying to sort out the electricity problem and the Freefly OmniWare has an initial and enthusiastic thumbs up from Ruth (AE judge).

I had a pleasant meeting this morning with Patrice Girardin of the Fédération Française de Parachutisme in which we began planning for the Mondial 2003, which promises to be the best organized and best executed world meet I've attended. The good news is that they will have heavy Internet coverage on their web site, carefully planned and with streaming video. The not-so-good news for omniskore.com fans is that there will be no scores on our web page; NetPost will take a rest. There will be Tidbits and commentary, but that's all -- no team photos or scoring results.

1400
Watching the wind blow...

1600
... and blow and blow and blow ...

I just finished the Artistic Events software tweaks, and this included an update that removes guest teams from the ranking. So you'll see a dash next to USA Arizona Freeflight in the rankings column for Freefly.

Freestyle results have been re-posted. My apologies for the absence of those results since last night but I had to get the standings stuff done first. Everyone please note that the standings/results you see on this web site are unofficial. In fact, the only thing that's ever "official" is the hardcopy results with the chief judges' signature on them.

1630
I'm taking a poll. You're a guest competitor at a major competition. (A guest competitor is one not eligible for prizes/medals. But guest is not defined in IPC competition rules.) As a registered competitor, you clearly expect your jumps to be evaluated just like everyone else and displayed along with everyone else's. Here's the question: How do you think your name should appear in a standings report? (Here is an example. Other examples are the "Standings At Round" and "Final Standings" hardcopies that the chief judge signs and distributes.) Do you think your name should always appear at the bottom of the list, or do you think your name should appear at the appropriate place in the list but without a ranking number? Send your response to me here.

Anticipating that the competitors will be released for the day at 1700, I'm shutting down and relocating to a location that has Sangria and a new guitar. I happen to know of one very close by! :)

 
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