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CF is going up. First task today is getting the results pages for the Artistic events complete.
Sifting through today's mail, I had about 42 notices (all of them polite, thank you!) that the FS 4-Way (Open) results page was 404. Sorry about that! It's back up. If it disappears again, please let me know.
The Artistic results are fixed ... the problem was with the ranking indicators for teams that had been cut after round 5 ...
For
those of you curious about Italy's score of 0.0 in round 6 of
Freestyle Female, the story is that they were very unhappy about
their compulsory score in Round 2 (7.5), and left the competition
in protest. Since they missed their manifest call for round 6,
they got a zero, as they will for round 7. Very unfortunate,
because they were in second place after round 5, and looking at
the scores, they had the highest score in round 2! That,
ladies & gents, is poor sportsmanship. The American Freefly team
got hurt a lot worse by their score in the same compulsory round
in their event, but their response has been to hunker down, put
the nose to the grindstone, move on, deal with it, etc.
(In all the Artistic events, rounds 2 and 5 are compulsory rounds, with Freefly doing their "speed" round in round 5. All other rounds are "free" routines, which normally yield higher scores. Italy's team was in first place after each of the first four rounds, didn't drop into second until after round 5.)
0915
CF Sequential just completed round 5. The USA gained a point on Russia, while France padded their lead.
And
now I get another report that the FS 4-Way (Open) page is gone
again. Okay ... wussgoingonhere ... we're not even doing
4-Way, that file was refreshed once last night and once again this
morning ...
Rotations round 6 now in progress, and positively nothing else.
Hacker's lament: competition standings are sooooo much fun. Did you know: there are no rules, official or otherwise, defining if, when, where or how "standings" are to be done? The competition rules have paragraphs which determine the top three places, but even those are for the final placings of the top three (at least in CF). Incomplete rounds, joker rounds, posted scores, protested scores, certified scores, cut teams, withdrawn teams, guest teams, skinny teams, fat teams, tall teams, short teams, vegetarian teams, skinny vegetarian teams, blah blah blah ... if your team is not in the top 8 places and doesn't show up in the right row in the "standings", please write to your discipline's subcommittee chairperson!!!
Sylviane
Jardel, France competition veteran extraordinaire, stays on top of
all goings-on.
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CF Rotations round 6 is complete and Russia is way ahead of the pack. The USA has taken sole possession of second place, a point ahead of Sweden, with two rounds to go.
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CF continues ... USA and Russia both had bad jumps in Sequential round 6, each posting a 7, but that goes down as Russia's "joker" round, dropping USA another point back going into round 8.
VIPs are here today:
Time to take a walk!
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Not much going on here in the early afternoon. Lot of noise in the building's bathrooms as they set up for some doping controls. If I understand correctly, the FAI must administer approved anti-doping measures at its sanctioned championships in order to be a member of the World Games Association.
CF
Rotation is done through round 7, but I don't know why UK didn't
do the round. They weren't cut -- the top 10 teams go to the
semi-final round, but there are only 10 teams.
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Judging 4-Way Open round 8 now, while I try to update standings software to properly handle cuts. Fun fun fun!!
Freefly Round 6 just finished and Rook and Mike hold on to a two-tenths of a point lead with just one round to go!
The Lar' checks his flight status
An ongoing issue I wish I had time to keep up with: the USA won a protest in CF Sequential round 3. While they won the protest, the judges didn't change the score, and a bust still stands in the round. I'll try to get the full story posted here and keep you up to date ...
An upset to report from the Style & Accuracy final results: USA Women's Team Accuracy scored the bronze medal. Congratulations ladies!
On the left, the fans cheer the UK's 4-way
performance in Round 8; on the right, the USA flag flies on the
third tier while the women's style & accuracy team collects a
World Meet bronze.
FS 4-Way Open round 8 is now winding down. The USA did 18, as did the Norgies; France continues to stampede the competition with a 21.
Kurt Gaebel keeps up with the meet how?
In the omniskore.com troll hole, of course!
So, do you think Airspeed (USA 8-Way) is feeling
any pressure? Remember, last time (Spain 2001), Russia was down 4
points to the USA going into round 9, and USA,
who
had rescued Russia earlier in the meet, let 'em sneak up from
behind
and beat 'em in the last round, marking the first time ever that
the 8-Way Ottley Sword was not taken home by the U.S.A. France
will obviously win the 4-Way sword this year, so if the USA cannot
pull it out in 8-Way, it will mark the first time ever that the
USA has not taken at least one of the swords home. But hey ...
no pressure, guys!
In other events: after round 7 of CF Speed, the Russians now trail the USA by only a few seconds, that going into the final round. In Freefly Female, the Italian team did round 7 (the final round), but they still have the zero at round 6. There is a rule now that teams failing to make a manifest call can do the jump later but with a 20% penalty applied to the score (this rule existing for all events and disciplines). I don't know if they're going to do that ...
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... and in FS 4-Way Female round 9... yoos guyz up north (yes you know who I'm talking about): don't break your keyboards pounding the refresh button -- that 150 UK points to Norway's 144 is not a typo!!! UK did a 16, Norway a 12 (one bust), so the UK ladies take a commanding 6-point lead into the final round! USA did a 16 to pull 3 ahead of Italy in third place.
For you UK/V-Max fans out there, you can click here for a full-size version of their photo above.
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I've adjusted the Artistic results pages to include the performer and videographer's names. For all but Freefly, the names appear "Performername / Videoname". For Freefly, the two performers' names are comma-separated as one entry in Pegasus, so on the results pages you'll see "Performer1name, Performer2name / Videoname". I should have done that long ago, sorry for the delay!
All Artistic events except Freefly are done. Note that the official final results won't be official, final and officially final for another hour or two yet. Still some screaming and shouting to be done.
FS 8-Way round 9 is now being judged. Larry, pass the Valium please! France does a 24 on a very nice jump. Here's the USA ... also a 24; they were a little slow on most of the Sidebody Donuts, but good everywhere else. And the Russians do a ... 21! Just a one point advantage for the leaders going into the final round!!!
A quick walk to see what's going on Out There ...
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FS 4-Way Round 9 is in the air ...
The schedule for tomorrow morning:
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All FS finals
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CF Sequential and Rotation finals
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Freefly finals
FS 4-Way semi-final round results coming in now. UK, 19; Italy, 18; Norway, 19; USA is up ... a 19. A few more minutes until we see France ... here they go ... also a 19, a popular score for this round.
I'm now training NetPost to figure out that teams have been cut and that 9 really is The Completed Round ...
... done!
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Left: Brent Carlton, generous bringer
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The
hardcopy posted score in the outside results/info kiosk was
incorrect for the USA 8-Way team. Everyone thought there was a
3-point difference between Russia and USA after round 8, not a
4-point difference, so after round 9, a lot of people thought the
ballgame was tied! *Pant pant pant*
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So, the FS rules say that 8 teams survive the cut before the semi-final round, and 4 teams after. The word in the rules is "placings" or "places" or something like that -- the "top four". I assume all y'all have looked at the current FS 4-Way Open standings? One way to read them into the current situation is that there are three placings in the top four teams -- two of them tied for third. In other words, if you say "the top four placings", that includes Italy, a total of five teams. Are you with me, or did I get too much of a head start on the wine?
Anyway, rumor has it (you did not read it here, at least not tonight) that "they" (<-- use your imagination who) are trying to make sure Italy is included in the finals round. I think that would be great, since they're only two points behind 3d.
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Confirmed! Italy FS 4-Way will do the finals round tomorrow. Won't that be something if they finish in third place!!!
A quiz for you FS lovers who fancy yourselves competition aficionados. Extra credit to participants who started skydiving after 1990. This is not an open-book examine -- answer the questions from memory or not at all:
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What's the difference between a World Cup and a World Championships?
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Who is William H. ("Bill") Ottley? (yes, WHO) (Credit is given only if you name at least one of his major contributions to competition skydiving.)
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What is the FAI? (Short answer accepted.)
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What is the IPC and why should you care to know?
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Who is the current president of the IPC?
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Who is the current IPC FS Subcommittee chairperson?
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Who was the previous IPC FS Subcommittee chairperson?:
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What is the relationship of the IPC to the FAI?
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What national organization is the basic member entity of the FAI?
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What national organization is the basic member entity of the IPC?
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What is (are) the rotating trophy(s) given to FS World Champions at each World Meet?
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Is/are the above trophy(s) sanctioned by the IPC or the FAI?
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What was the first year the above trophy(s) were awarded?
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Who was the first country to win the above trophy for 4-Way?
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How many times has France won the above 4-Way trophy?
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How many times has the USA not won the above 8-Way trophy?
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Name the two years the USA hosted the World Championships and the winners of 4-Way those years.
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Name the winners of 8-Way for the above two years.
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Repeat the above two questions with France as the host.
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Name any other country (besides USA and France) that has hosted the World Championships at least twice.
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What is the airborne velocity of a laden swallow?
No cheating -- trust me, I'll know. See you tomorrow!!!
~t1 (Tidbitateer)
~lucy (Photographeer)
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