From: moret@disuns2.epfl.ch (Pierre Moret)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: '92 World Cup in Formation Skydiving
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:15:44 GMT
Reply-To: moret@disuns2.epfl.ch (Pierre Moret)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

'92 World Cup at Gap (France)
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The DZ of Gap-Tallard organized the first World Cup of formation skydiving
(4-way and 8-way). This event was hold the first week of October. 

Known to be a very sunny DZ (300 blue sky days in year), Gap showed us how
the 65 other days are: ...wet, cloudy, foggy and wet (and maybe a little wet!)

This competition was a test for the new judgement rules (only air-to-air
video!) and for a new way to show our sport to the public (real-time air-to-
ground video on a 5x5meters screen!) The judges said it was much more easier
to work with these air-to-air video. The videomen mastered the exit well and
only a few jumps were impossible to evaluate. The air-to-ground transmission
was not perfect, but worked fine in most of the cases. The videomen had to 
carry a transmitter which was connected on the camera and sent the images to
the ground. This made possible to see the jumps in real-time as if you were
the videoman!!! Great!  A video-studio added informations such as the teams
name, countdown and points. This had no judgement value, but was really good.

On Sunday and Monday, each team could make a practice jump (yes...only one!).
The weather was too bad to do more...
On Tue and Wed, we had a lot of time to play hacky-sack and to prepare the 
jumps (creepers, creppers and creepers again...). A incredible number of
Game-Boy were also used (ask the Knights!)...

On Thu, big surprise: IT WAS SUNNY!!! We jumped, jumped and jumped. Three
rounds in both 4-way and 8-way... Incredible! There were four Porter and
many pilots, so it was possible to jump without any interruption.

On Fri, booohoooo... clouds again... We made 2 rounds more, but through the
clouds... (This was only possible with the air-to-air judgement!). At this
point, the competition was not yet valid... we had to do at least one more
jump and the weather forecast was...bad. :-(

On Sat: rain, rain and rain!!! We all thought it was finished... BUT at about
10 o'clock, it was better and we could jump the 6th round in 4-way and 8-way.
In 4-way, it was clear: the French team was simply the best. No discussion.
But in 8-way, the Knights and the French team had the same number of points!!!
We went then for the 7th round in 8-way: USA 19, France...seemed to be about
14-15, but they had really bad conditions...=> rejump (as for Russia and
Norway)!!! We waited for better weather and, at 4pm, the rejumped. What a
tension!!! France was the first team to rejump. They made...20!


Ok. If you want more details about something, e-mail me. Here are the final
results:

4-way:	 1 France Essonne	116	15 23 17 22 19 20
	 2 USA			 97	14 17 14 15 20 17
	 3 Denmark		 91	12 17 13 19 16 14
	 4 OutCast (Italy)	 86	11 15 14 16 16 13
	 5 Sweden I		 84	 9 16 14 16 16 13 
	 6 Russia		 83	 8 13 14 19 14 15
	 7 EDF-GDF Parafun (F)	 78	11 13 12 15 14 13
	 7 Four'n Motion (Switz) 78	11 14 12 15 12 14
	 9 Red Devils (UK)	 75	11 15 13 10 13 13
	10 Stockholm (Sweden)	 71	10 13 10 14 12 12
	11 Air Time (UK)	 63	10 14 11  7 12  9
	12 Paragones (France)	 61	 9 10  0 12 12  9
	13 Tig-Bergerac (France) 56	 8  9  9 11 10  9
	14 Second Chance (Switz) 54	 2 13 10 10  8 11
	14 Modulec (France)	 54	11 12  6 11  2 12
	16 Dark Side (Italy)	 52	 4 13 10  4 11 10
	17 Toy Company (UK) 	 50	 7 11  9  8  5 10
	18 Norway I		 48	 7  9  8 10  5  9
	19 Mind Games (UK)	 47	 6  7  8  7  9 10
	19 Norway II		 47	 5 10  6  9  8  9
	21 Croatia		 25	 5  3  4  2  5  6
	22 Portugal		 16	 1  2  3  5  3  2


8-way:	 1 France Hautes-Alpes	116	17 18 20 17 11 13 20
	 2 USA			115	15 16 18 15 17 15 19
	 3 Russia		 89	14  9 16 12 15 12 11
	 4 Zoolook (France)	 69	12 10 15  9  5  7 11
	 4 Norway		 69	 9  9 13  9  9 10 10
	 6 Second Chance (Switz) 56	 8  9 10  7  5  8  9
	 7 Mind Games (UK)	 52	 7  9 11  7  8  6  4
	 8 Toy Time (UK)	 48	 8  6  4  7  7  8  8
	 9 Armee de l'air (F)	 32	 4  5  8  2  6  6  1


BTW, the next World Meet (World Championship) will be at Eloy, at the end of
October 1993.

Blue skies...

--Pierre     moret@di.epfl.ch
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