We have been unable to get 307 Perris Synchronicity to sit still long enough to get a team picture, so we have plugged in their photo from this year's U.S. Nationals to use until we can get a picture taken here.

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Someone just held reveille in the CF Judge's fishbowl, so we should have some CF 4-Way Sequential results coming soon. Keep hitting Refresh on the CF Sequential page.

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Judging of CF 4-Way Sequential Round 7 has been completed. France continues to hold a 5-point lead over Russian Wolves, and the latter leads Redline CRW by 4 points.

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(LizBits) Good morning everyone.  8-way has officially started.  Deguello have just landed.

Arnaud would like to apologise for not giving an interview yesterday, but he said he slept in.  It was a good thing he did, coz when he saw me last night he was unaware that 4-way was starting at 11am and not midday!  He owes a beer or two.

I've been taking more photos today so will be posting them a soon as I can.

Deguello and Italy have completed Round 9.  Next up are the Russians and the French.

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Here come the French....  They are looking good and picking up the pace on each point.  So far it is nice and clean.  A possible 18.  They got it!

Watching Airspeed at the moment from the ground to air vid.  They are looking hot, well from down here anyway!

Russian vid is on.  2 team members gimping the camera on climb out this time!  They are having fuuuun.

This is it - Airspeed's 9th round. It's just too exciting. OMG - a 16?????   There is 1 point between them now.

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(Roy) The final round of CF 4-Way Sequential is now being judged. Pound Refresh on the CF Sequential page.

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(Roy) The final results -- pending the expiration of the protest window -- are: France wins gold with 74, Russian Wolves gets silver at 67, and Redline CRW takes home the bronze with 65.

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(Roy) We are waiting some activity from the judging stations, but at the moment nothing is going on. FS 8-Way is in the air, so there should be some judging activity soon.

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(Roy) CF 4-Way Rotations is in the air, so we should be seeing some scores from them soon. In FS 8-Way, the judges are waiting until they have the tapes for all five jumps before the begin to judge the final round.

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(LizBits) I will be back - am going to take photos and watch the final round (as we know it) being judged in the hangar.  Roy will be updating the score sheet.  I can hardly type it's so exciting!!!!!

(Roy) Deguello gets a 9. Next is Italy Ex3mo, and they get a 13. Now comes R.T. Evolution. They score 17. Now Lapalisse Maubeuge gets 19 to put the heat on Airspeed. Airspeed follows with 21 and the crowd erupts!!! The judges are reviewing; will it stand? YES IT DOES!!! Pending any protests, Airspeed wins gold with 205, Lapalisse Maubeuge takes the silver with 202, and R.T. Evolution Pro claims the bronze at 164. It was a great final round. Airspeed turned in a very impressive jump. Kurt Gaebel, sitting to my left, could hardly contain his excitement.

Judging of CF 4-Way Rotations Round 7 has now started. Scores are being posted to the CF Rotations page.

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(LizBits) Phew (wiping brow), unoffically Airspeed are the World Cup Champs for 8-way.  The atmosphere in the hangar during the judging of the Maubuege and Airspeed Rounds was tense and you could hear a pin drop.  Maubeuge got a 19 and so it meant that an 18 for Airspeed meant a jump off and a 19 a win.  Clock is ticking, points are turning....  16, 17, 18 aaaaand 19 - YAY!!!  We didn't keep on watching the rest of the round!!!!  As Amy says - "not bad for a bunch of POPS".

Unless any protests are submitted within the next 2 hours, then Airspeed will have won by 3 points and holding their highest average ever.

Check in later for photos, oh and 4-way is starting very soon.

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(Roy) The judges score two jumps in CF 4-Way Rotations and then stopped. So if you are hitting Refresh on the CF Rotations page, you can take a break. We'll let you know when they start again.

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(Roy) Judging or Rots has resumed. You can start hitting Refresh in CF Rotations again.

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(Roy) The judging of Rots Round 7 is complete. Russian Wolves holds first place with 139. Romme Rotation is 13 back with 126, and XMAO holds third, just 1 back with 125. It should be an exciting finish for second place.

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(Roy) FS 4-Way Women's teams are landing, so we should have some scores for their Round 7 before long.

Here comes some scores. Get ready to hit Refresh in the 4-Way FS-W page. Synchronicity gains a little ground and, with 148, now leads Maubeuge by 3. Lady Birds is in third place with 137.

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(LizBits) Things are hotting up in the Ladies' class.  There could well be a jump off yet.  They haven't taken off for Round 10 yet, so it will be a while before getting the final scores of Round 10. 

There will be another cut after Round 9 - the top 6 teams will go through to Round 10.

Everyone is taking a little break before the judging of the 4-way open Round 9.

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Here we go with FS 4-Way. There has been a cut to the top ten teams for this round.

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(LizBits) Things have been hectic here.  The Ladies are up for their Round 10. 

NEWSFLASH - Airspeed got their Round 9 re-judged and they were awarded one more point!  Their lead is now 8.  Fire got busted twice in their 9th round, scoring a 15.  The Black Cats did a clean round posting a 15.  There is one point between both Fire and the Black Cats so they are effectively battling it out for 2nd place, unless, touch wood, nothing horrific happens to Airspeed on Round 10.

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(Roy) CF 4-Way Rotations is now complete. The final standings (pending expiration of the protest window) find Russian Wolves the winner at 158, Romme Rotation is second with 145, and XMAO is third with 143. Congratulations to all you folks!!! Job well done.

(LizBits)  Things are on hold here for about 15 mins due to air space clearance.

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Some people are wondering why they get incorrect results when they click on the links in the CF 2-Way Results Table, so I'll repeat the caveat from Tuesday's Tidbits:

The CF 2-Way Sequential event is a new event. That is the good news. The bad news, from an OmniSkore! standpoint, is that OmniSkore! had no room for a new event, and we had to do some artificial manipulating to shoehorn it in. That is why, when you look at the CF 2-Way results table, you will see one team number in the ID column and another as the preface to the Team Name. The official team number from the meet's point of view is the preface to the Team Name, but OmniSkore! must use the pseudo number in the ID column. For this reason, the links in the Results Table that should lead to each team's page WILL NOT WORK at this time. You will either get an Object Not Found error, or you will get a team page for a 4-Way Sequential team. This will be fixed when the event is completed, but until then there is nothing we can do but live with it. Since the scoring summaries are accessed from a link in the team page, a team's scoring summary cannot be accessed until after the event is completed and we can fix the links in the Results Table. Please bear with us; we will get it working as soon as we can.

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(Roy) We had a computer crash and we had to leave for a while, but we are back now. FS 4-Way Women's is being judged. Results are available at 4-Way W.

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Pending expiration of the protest window, we have final standing in the FS 4-Way Women's event. Perris Synchronicity is the winner with 167, Maubeuge is second with 165, and Lady Birds is third with 154. It was a close race, and congratulations to the winners.

FS 4-Way is now being judged. Deland Fire got a 26 and Black Cat a 25 to tie for second at 212. Jump off!!! Airspeed has the gold locked up with a 24 for 222 total

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Round 7, the penultimate round, of CF 2-Way Sequential is now being judged.

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(LizBits)  Please note that the following places are NOT official until 2 hours after posting. 

 The 4-way Women's was just as tense as the 8-way.Airkix pulled it out the bag and posted a 19 - very nice - which puts them in 4th place.  Lady Birds scored a 17 to retain 3rd place.  Maubeuge ripped it up wtih a 20 which was not enough to take the Gold from Synchronicity, who scored a 19.  Again, it was one of those breath holding moments during the Synchronicity video!  We also have an updated photo of Synchronicity.

There was a bit of a break before the judging of the 4-way open. Fire posted the highest score overall on Round 10 with a 26 and the Black Cats scored 25, so they are currently in the plane to do a jump off for 2nd place.  Wow! (the Black Cats are currently furiously dirt diving outside in preparation).  Airspeed scored 24 and retained their first place.  Eliana Rodriguez - hats off to her for becoming the first female to win Gold in 8-way FS and 4-way Open FS at the same time in a World Cup.  Eliana said she would be more than happy to be interviewed.

We'll let you know the outcome of the jump off as soon as we know!

CF - there are 6 more teams to go for 2-way sequential and then the competition is over, sob, sob.

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(LizBits) Black Cat's jump off round is being judged as we speak.  Will it be a 25? Higher?  Lower?  A 26!!!!!!!   The applause from the hangar is massive. 

Waiting for Fire now.  Kurt (NSL) and I are trying to predict their score.  Here they go. If you could hear the applause  - it's even bigger than Black Cat's....

I'm just posting the last of the photos on the photo page.

Fire posted a 29 and have taken 2nd place!  How close it all was.

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(Roy) The judging of the final round of CF 2-Way Sequential will begin a few minutes. The results will be posted to the CD 2-Way page when the round is complete (six jumps).

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(Roy) They are now judging the final round of CF 2-Way Sequential. I should the result so post to the CF 2-Way Results Table soon.

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(Roy) The CF 2-Way Sequential Results Table has been updated. BBC has first place with 81, France 1 has second with 77, and Russian Wolves is third with 72. The links will be fixed as soon as we can get to it, but that could be as late as tomorrow morning.

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(Roy) The broken links in the CF 2-Way Sequential Results Table have been fixed. Some of the team pages, however, may have a wrong photo. If so, please notify webmaestro@omniskore.com

 
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