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1. USA Team Blog
2. A positive observation on the need for prompt online results
3. Fully formatted Champs Results

 

USA Team Blog – last?

(til next time !)

[7/25/2025 3:33 PM] [Mike Richardson]: Wow…..that ditch you mentioned earlier is far worse than I imagined.
[7/25/2025 3:33 PM] [Tiffaney]: A partial video of the flyoff. Sorry that I’m not a professional, and I was running out of battery. The play-by-play is entertaining though.
[7/25/2025 3:39 PM] [Tiffaney]: There was another one we had to cross between the flight line and the parking lot/porta potties/organizers tent. Andrew spent so much time and effort building beautiful bridges near the middle of the field, a much more practical, and safe, place to put the flight line, but they flew the entire contest from the entrance to the field.
[7/25/2025 3:45 PM] [Dane] They did!??
[7/25/2025 3:48 PM] Bill Booth: Nice bridges Andrew!!
[7/25/2025 3:55 PM] [Mike Richardson]: Great job Andrew, you’re a good man.
[7/25/2025 3:55 PM][Dane]: Agree
[7/25/2025 4:19 PM] [Tiffaney]: Andrew is amazing
[7/25/2025 7:47 PM] [Tiffaney]: Resting up after a. Really tough four days. I’ll write up all the details I didn’t have time to do in the heat of the moment soon.
[7/26/2025 1:56 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: Thank you!
[7/26/2025 1:57 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: Great job everyone!
[7/26/2025 10:44 AM] [Tiffaney]: Some more details from F1A day.

Ken and Shlomi both maxed the sixth round, but Jim had some bad luck and a disappointing result. He towed up and had a line drop across his as he moved toward the flight line. As he dealt with that, his line tangled with the Mongolian flag that was flapping in the breeze, and he couldn’t free it and the model hit the ground for an attempt. On his reflight, he waited at the line for a long time, then watched a model tow upwind. He towed towards it, stumbling once, and having to untangle his line from his foot, giving us a scare. The flyer upwind launched, but the model stalled, making the air hard to judge. It seemed like it might be good, so Jim caught up with the general area, but when he launched, he wasn’t in air and did just 81 seconds.
In the seventh round, just one more max was needed to get Ken into the flyoff. There were good patches of air and lots of gliders upwind. But they came with patches of squirrelly air making towing difficult. Ken had a couple of nervous circles towing to get lined up for a launch, which he eventually did for a nice launch.
Ken was placed at pole 41 for the 6-minute flyoff, putting him at a disadvantage. Not only was he directly upwind, but there was a deep ditch splitting poles 34 and 35, that would be difficult to tow through. Flyers downwind launched early into a thermal, Ken towed upwind to a safe patch and felt something, just over halfway through the seven minute window, but it wasn’t enough and he did 4:28.

[7/27/2025 6:14 PM] Tiffaney]: We awoke to better than expected Challenge France results, finishing second overall. In this Team Challenge the total time for all four Teams is added up. This shows that in the tough conditions every Team had at least one or two bad flights and I’m sure there is a story behind each of those. In our case the mid air collision in F1Q and the Mongolian flag in F1A stick out. I’m happy for the German Team and Their Manager Paul Seren, who is a great guy. During the competition, when  Shlomi’s model was in the tree, they took the time to give us the keys to their van and describe where to find and use their 25m pole, which we used to retrieve the model.
[7/27/2025 6:16 PM] [Catherine Mah]: Congrats on great result ????
[7/27/2025 6:31 PM] [Risto] Congratulations!

Fully formatted Champs Results

The easiest to read final results of the Champs are those prepared by Ian Kaynes on the FreeFlightNews sponsored reference Web site at
https://www.freeflightnews.org.uk/champs/ch25/ff25.htm

A positive observation on the need for prompt online results

We noticed a posting USA Team manager Blake Jensen on a FB stream bout the need to have prompt and accurate results online

Anything that keeps people interested in our sport is good for all of us. The number of comments about this suggest this is something a lot of people are interested in. I remember keeping track of a Junior World Championship this way (round by round updates) while I was at work, and it was very exciting. This is not difficult to accomplish, but those running the competition often have to concentrate more on managing the contest, as they should, when unexpected things pop up. And, to be fair the CD quit and Szijjarto got everything dumped on him at the last minute.
We should not be debating whether this should be done or spend time trying to blame someone for why it didn’t happen this time. We should learn and move on. World Cup contests and Championships should have one computer savvy person, who has nothing to do with running the competition, dedicated to this task.
(Blake through Tiffaney’s Facebook).

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