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  1. MaxMen F1A Results
  2. MaxMen F1Q Results
  3. The Printer reports on the Journalist.

 MaxMen International World Cup

 F1A and F1Q Final Results
CD Marty Schroedter

F1A
Max->     240 240  180  180  180  180  180  360  480
Name                         R1   R2   R3   R4   R5   R6   R7   FO1  FO2 Total Place Junior
Jama        Danier     CAN   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  360  397  2137   1
Andrew      Barron     USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  360  243  1983   2
Shlomi      Rosenzweig USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  360  267  2007   3
Jim         Parker     USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  339       1719   4
Robert      Lesko      CRO   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  285       1665   5
Brian       Van Nest   USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  237       1617   6
Jennifer    Donnelly   USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  233       1613   7
Ken         Bauer      USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  221       1601   8
Risto       Puhakka    USA   240  240  180  180  180  180  180  164       1544   9
Lauri       Malila     SUI   240  240  180  180  180  177  180            1377   10
Anat        Goldstein  USA   215  240  180  180  180  180  180            1355   11   J
Enes        Pecenkovic USA   240  178  180  180  180  180  180            1318   12
François    Moreau     FRA   240  240  180  180  137  180  158            1315   13
Steffen     Jensen     DEN   240  170  180  180  180  180  180            1310   14
Jes         Nyhegn     DEN   240  158  180  180  180  180  180            1298   15
Javier      Abad       ESP   240  234  180   87  180  180  180            1281   16
Guy         Goldstein  USA   232  240  180  144   99  180  180            1255   17
Igor        Kuši?ka    CRO   240  240  180  180  180  105  130            1255   17
Yuri        Grushkovsk UKR   240  187  180  180  108  180  180            1255   17
Peter       Allnutt    CAN   214  124  180  180  180  180  180            1238   20
Eugene      Ulm        USA   240  195  180  159  180  180  100            1234   21
Per         Findahl    SWE   240  240  180  180   80   48  180            1148   22
Alfredo     Banos      ARG    75  240  180  180  180  138   99            1092   23
Jasminka    Pecenkovic BIH   234  144  180  180   80  180    0             998   24
Noa         Goldstein  USA   240  240    0  180    0  118  180             958   25   J
Slobodan    Djandara   CRO   240  240  180  180   57    0    0             897   26
Guy         Menanno    USA   240  208    0                                 448   27
John        Cooper     GBR   240   25                                      265   28


F1Q
Max->    240   240   180   180   180   180   180
Name                            R1    R2    R3    R4    R5    R6    R7  Total Position
Dieter      Paff        GER      240   240   180   180   180   180   180  1380   1
Ian         Kaynes      GBR      240   240   178   180   180   180   180  1378   2
Ben         Tarcher     USA      221   240   180   180   180   180   180  1361   3
Jack        Murphy      USA      240   211   180   180   180   180   180  1351   4
Julie       Parker      USA      240   211   180   163   180   180   180  1334   5
Eitan       Habba       ISR       61   240   180   180   180   180   180  1201   6
Thomas      Ioerger     USA      240    26                                 266   7


The Printer reports on the Journalist.

This years MaxMen F1G event was wone by Tiffaney O’Dell, not really a surprise seeing she is a very successful F1G flyer and typically the person to beat. But in spite of winning many F1G events and the America’s Cup many times she had never won F1G at the MaxMen.  Part of “the rest of the story” is that Tiffaney is a newspaper editor and started off her career as a sports reporter. This means that she understands competition, she knows that you need to read the rules and observe all the flyers to figure what the best people do. Her partner Blake Jensen was flying F1H and they both needed to get their early morning tie breaker flight in.  Blake also is in the Newspaper business but works on the printing side.

This year’ field was all top F1G  flyers including 1995 F1B World Champ Jerry Fitch and Geralyn Jones, she’s the FAI Model Supply lady(no Tan 2 there!), Walt Ghio and Evgeny Gorban, the leading F1G factory guy, etc  In the regular rounds there were 40 flights ( 5 rounds , eight people) and only 4 were not maxes.  Of the 8 in the event 5 made the flyoff.

People asked how she did it, in particular the 403 second  flight at dawn.
The Journalist said : Blake summed it up pretty well. It was the morning flyoff. Didn’t really try to pick air, had to leave time for Blake to fly.

So here is the report on the Sports Journalist  from the printer, Blake (stolen off the FaceBook)
From Blake:
She put up a test flight in the morning trying to set the glide close as we could to a stall. But, it crashed! V.I.T failed to come in. (Too cold for the rubber band to burn?) We did a cruise test which just started to stall so we backed off a turn. She used a May 99 motor, got a 50 second motor run, and super high. Glide was perfect and it did 6:43 in the tiebreaker round first thing in the morning. Next closest was Walt Ghio at 5:09. Then she had to max out, along with about five others. They ran a three and a four minute fly off in the afternoon and if it’s not decided by then it goes to the tiebreaker. Tiff made a snap decision and snuck in a max on the three minute flight which I had thought might’ve done it. But Jerry Fitch maxed as well. There was no air in the 10 minute window for the last fly off and they both launched with 20 seconds left to go in the round. At first neither looked like they would make it but Jerry went down wind and looked pretty good. Tiff’s plane gutted it out and she made the four minutes as well and won with the tiebreaker.