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2005 National Rankings

The 2005 year has completed its last competition and the winner is...

Congratulations to those who competed. We'll look forward to seeing you next year! To see prior year rankings, go up one level and select the appropriate year.

Rank	Pilot Name	National Points	Convntn April	Chicago July	Am Flyer ABQ
1	Eric Dufour	1400	701	0	699
2	Jeff Goin	1173	673	500	0
3	Stan Kasica	1062	381	0	681
4	Phil Russman	889	479	0	410
5	Mo Sheldon	793	552	0	241
6	Tim Kaiser	756	246	296	460
7	Dell Schanze	641	0	0	641
8	Max Ladouceur	620	0	0	620
9	Igor Potapkin	575	575	0	0
10	David Sigier	492	0	0	492
11	Stefan Obenauer	351	0	0	351
12	Leon Massa	343	343	0	0
13	Mike Cannella	284	0	284	0
14	Dave Rogers	223	223	0	0
15	Rich Morris	221	0	221	0
16	Steve Tustison	69	0	69	0

Individual Events

Note: "Towards National" means that is the number of points that go into the current standings. It is based on the number of competitors.

Albuquerque Scoring Complete

Nov 29, 2005

Congratulations to the winners of the Albuquerque competition! The results have been verified by George Hawkins and the spreadsheet is included here. This was the last competition of the year and an impressive showing of very capable pilots.

A total of 9 competitors came to see how they compared (11 actually, but 2 were unable to start). Thanks to Mike Thompson and CC Moissant for running things and keeping it fair.

Anyone planning their own competition can download the USPPA scoring system using the blank Excel scoresheet. This can be useful for "gaming" various scenarios to better know where your efforts should be concentrated.

Download: Albuquerque | Blank ScoreSheet.
Note that these sheets incorporate all rule changes that were made just prior to the 2005 convention competition.

#	Pilot	Total	TkOff	Spot L	T&Go	Bomb	Clovlf	Effic	FtDrg	Sl/Fast	Nat'l
1	Eric Dufour	1773	300	48	350	30	500	69	276	200	700
2	Stan Kaisca	1724	300	185	290	150	262	129	282	126	681
3	Dell Shantze	1624	300		350	149	282	114	392	37	641
4	Max Ladouceur	1571	300	66	330	103	160	89	366	157	620
5	David Sigier	1247	300		350	32	484	81			492
6	Tim Kaiser	1164	300	88	330	34	160	92	160	0	460
7	Phil Russman	1039	300		330	146	160	103			410
8	Stefan Obenauer	890	300	112		43			360	75	351
9	Mo Sheldon	610	300		310						241

Harryport Competition Completes

July 10, 2005

1. Pilots and judges from top to bottom. Nick, Tim, Jeff, Mike, Steve, Paul, Jay (leaning over), Rich (far left) and Harry. This waterfall was made by Harry and resides inside the main building.
2. Rich Morris comes by for the touch and go task while Judges and the curious wait.

The flight-friendly farm of Harry Rosset enjoyed its first USPPA sanctioned competition with enough pilots to make it count towards national standings. The grass and beans made for a perfect location to set up the cloverleaf and a large round grass circle worked well for all the other tasks.

New pilot Rick Morris showed enormous promise. With only 65 flights, he showed up expertly doing various maneuvers demanding skill. Since we were looking for more competitors, he was a natural. Another up and comer, Tim Kaiser, who has competed several times now but only has 110 flights, nailed two of the spot landings - a high scoring accomplishment that netted him 2nd place.

This event was worth a total of 500 points towards the national standings. Our next competition is in Albuquerque during the 2005 Balloon Fiesta Fly-In.

Congrats to the competitors who braved the heat and bumps. As always, great fun, sore muscles and much flying (in short spurts!) was accomplished. Interestingly, and as usual, there was no damage until free-flying ensued AFTER the competition.

Scores from this July Harryport event are below:

Pilot	Points	Towards National
1. Jeff Goin	2,170	500
2. Tim Kaiser	1,285	296
3. Mike Cannella	1,233	284
4. Rich Morris	959	221
5. Steve Tustison	300	69

Thanks to Harry Rosset who's property we used and for being the Lead Judge, Also Jay Reynolds, Nick Cannella, Paul Paulikas, and Alex Varv for helping with judging.

2005 National Convention Competition

Scores from this April Convention are below:

Pilot	Points	Towards National
Eric Dufour	1,925	700
Jeff Goin	1,850	673
Igor Potapkin	1,581	575
Mo Sheldon	1,518	552
Phil Russman	1,317	479
Stan Kasica	1,047	381
Leon Massa	944	343
Tim Kaiser	676	246
Dave Rogers	612	223

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