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AmCup scores and report, Aug 18,2022
Great competition flying in the first 60% of this 2022 AmCup season—18 of 30 contests complete. Overall, there are more entrants, but five events have zero or only one bonus point contest. This even with the new 2022-point allocation scheme that starts bonus points at 5 flyers (was 6 flyers). The separation between position looks closer with the new scoring system of increments now of 2 points opposed to the old 5 points. Now points are given 1st through 5th: 25,23,21,19,17 points plus any bonus points.
The F1A flyers can all fold their hands, Jama has an impressive 19-point lead, his 4 scores all have bonus points, two are 30 pointers. I am in second and will keep flying but a miracle is needed for anyone to overcome Jama.
Not as commanding as Jama’s lead, in F1B Alex Andriukov has a strong 9 point lead with 4 wins, two with bonus points. The flyers below him only have 1 or 2 wins.
In F1C, it looks like Faust Parker will be the only flyer that will meet the 3 flying site rule. Nevertheless, he has 100 points.
In F1P will we get another Mike Fedor vs Bob Hanford shoot out? At the 2021 AZ Champs these two went at it, Bob had a mechanical / set-up problem on his first flight and Mike won the contest and AmCup. Currently these are the only guys meeting the 3 site rule. The group of west coast flyers have spread the wins out between themselves. They also need to meet the 3 flying site rule so unless they burn some gas, (for example, Tangent, OR two AmCup contests this weekend) they do not look to challenge the TX-OK flyers.
Oh boy— better, Oh girl. What a Lost Hills October we will have in F1G. Tiff O’Dell is in the lead with Geralyn Jones close behind with Peter Brocks and Jerry Fitch in striking position. The Columbine and Centennial Denver contests resulted in two ties in F1G with the first 3 mentioned above in them. AmCup approved the tie breaker to be held at Lost Hills in October.
If not for Blake Jensen in F1H, the event would be lacking any luster. Blake has won 5 contests already and will likely add to that at Tangent this weekend. I had hoped as in previous NATs there would be at least one bonus point and that I would win. I did win but no bonus points. Where did all the Top Kicks go? So sadly, F1H has become an event where most contests are solo flyers getting their 25 point wins. Now to Blakes credit, he and I went head-to-head at 3 contests, and he beat me all 3 times. Mike Fedor, 2021 F1H winner is in 3rd.
Substitute Faust Parker for Blake and the F1J story is the same as F1H. Only 3 contests to date with three flyers. the rest had only 1 or 2 entrants, i.e., no bonus points. At this rate Faust will be the only one to meet the 3 flying site rule.
Big “Electric’, F1Q is a bit better than F1H and J but no bonus points (I.e., no contests with 5 or more competitors). There are 4 flyers meeting the 3 site rule. Julie Parker holds a 2 point lead over Jack Murphy. Bob Sifleet and Ben Tarcher (2021 winner) are in striking distance, Both Bob and Ben need a third flying site.
Little “Electric”, F1S. Now we have some life! Here Jack and Julie are flipped, Jack is in the lead by 6 points over Julie. Both have bonus points, but Jack has more wins. Will October Lost Hills set up another end of the year AZ Champs shoot out in F1S?
Now to the top of the hills, F1E. Another Denver-created situation will make for an interesting Lost Hills in October. The F1E USA team was decided at the Denver Finals, Tom Ioerger, Peter Brocks, Gerlyn Jones and Bob Sifleet (only 4 entrants). This was also the Centennial Cup. Only 3 rounds were completed before a total blow out. While this was sufficient for the Team selection with the understanding that the F1E team has the option to send 4 team members since one of the team is female (yay Geralyn!). Anyway, SCAT discussed and decided to stick with the 4 round minimum needed for a valid contest. Therefore, it was agreed that the contest will be completed at Lost Hills in Oct. Plenty of Lost Hills action in October. Oh yea, there’s the USA Team Finals too!
Editorial: While reviewing the NFFs competition calendar and the current AmCup calendar, it became apparent that over the last several years we have lost more contests than have been added. The rules cap the number of contests at 34, we are below that at 30. With 9 AmCup contests at Lost Hills, more there is not needed. Jack Murphy has the newest AmCup contest, the Casino Cup in UT. It is struggling with low attendance due to traveling distance for most, but it does give one more option to meet the 3 flying site requirement. My one observation on the Muncie and Wayawanda reduction of AmCup contests is the lack of CDs willing to run contests. Time for some new CD’s to step-up.
Thanks to all the clubs and CD’s that run our contests, without them we’d all be “fun flyers”.
It is too early to know if we’ll be returning to the Lost Hills Recreation center in February 2023 for the 2022 AmCup banquet. I’d like to do that, but the county Rec Center rules will dictate. The 2021 award ceremony on the Lost Hills field this past February worked out, we had good weather and all who attended enjoyed— and the price was right—SCAT paid for snacks from Gabby’s.
As always, send corrections via email.
Jim Parker
America Cup results – with individual placings
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 9 1
Kiw 14 2
NAC 6 3
MM 15 4
SCA 9 5
SAN 4 6
NCA 1 7
Srn 3 8
Spe 1 9
Act 1 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat 3 12
I-C -x- 13
COL 2 14
CEN 3 15
NAT 6 16
Hur 6 17
Can 0 18
F1A
1 Danier, Jama 112 Kiw-1 NAC-1* MM-1 Hat-1* NAT-1 Hur-1
2 Parker, Jim 96 Kiw-4 NAC-3* MM-4* SCA-5* Srn-2 Spe-1 NAT-2
3 Brocks, Peter 89 NAC-5 SAN-1 COL-1 CEN-3
4 Rosenzweig, Shlomi 78 SWR-1 MM-2 SCA-4
5 Bauer, Ken 77 Kiw-3 SCA-2 SAN-3* NCA-1
6 Barron, Andrew 71 MM-3 Hat-2 Hur-3
7 Puhakka, Risto 69 SWR-4 Kiw-5 CEN-1
8 VanNest, Brian 65 SWR-5 MM-5 SAN-2
9 Pecenkovic, Enes 56 Kiw-2 NAC-2* SCA-1
10 McQuade, Pete 46 COL-2 CEN-2
10 Barron, Peter 46 Act-1 Hat-3
12 Pecenkovic, Jasminka 44 SWR-3 NAC-4
13 McKeever, Mike 26 SWR-2
14 Fedor, Mike 25 Srn-1
15 Secor, Randy 24 SCA-3
15 Lenartovicz, Chris 24 Hur-2
17 Ulm, Gene 22 NAT-3
18 Spence, Steve 21 Srn-3
19 MacKenzie, Patrick 20 NAT-4
19 Nikolajeras, Vidas 20 Hur-4
21 Donnelly, Jenifer 19 SAN-4
22 Langelius, Jan 18 NAT-5
22 Farkas, Leslie 18 Hur-5
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 5 1
Kiw 12 2
NAC 9 3
MM -x- 4
SCA 6 5
SAN 7 6
NCA 3 7
Srn -x- 8
Spe -x- 9
Act 1 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat 3 12
I-C 6 13
COL 2 14
CEN 3 15
NAT 7 16
Hur 8 17
F1B
1 Andriukov, Alex 105 Kiw-2 NAC-1 Hat-1 NAT-2
2 Fitch, Jerry 96 SWR-2 Kiw-3 NAC-3 SCA-4* NCA-2
3 Jensen, Blake 93 SWR-1 SAN-4 COL-2 CEN-2
4 Schlosberg, Aram 92 Act-1 Hat-3 NAT-5 Hur-1
5 Ghio, Walt 89 SWR-3 MM-5 SCA-2 NCA-3
6 Jones, Charles 86 Kiw-5 MM-4 SAN-5* I-C-4 CEN-3
6 Felix, Ron 86 SWR-5 SCA-1 Hat-2 Hur-5
8 Simon, Greg 68 I-C-3 NAT-3 Hur-3
9 Norvall, Larry 61 SWR-4 SCA-5 SAN-3
10 Malkhasyan, Sevak 57 Kiw-1 NAC-5* MM-2
11 Kovhavi, Itti (jr) 52 MM-1 SCA-3
11 Davis, Mike 52 SAN-1 NCA-1
13 Horak, Ladi 51 NAC-2 Hur-2
14 Pivonka, Jace 50 COL-1 CEN-1
15 Simon, Evan 38 I-C-5 NAT-4
16 MacKenzie, Patrick 27 NAT-1
17 Piserchio, Bob 26 MM-3
17 Sifleet, Bob 26 I-C-1
19 Booth, Bill 25 SAN-2
20 MacCleery, Rich 24 I-C-2
21 Schroedter,Martin 23 Kiw-4
22 McGluckin, Derek 22 NAC-4
23 Mathews, Tony 21 Hur-4
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 1 1
Kiw 4 2
NAC 3 3
MM 8 4
SCA 1 5
SAN -x- 6
NCA -x- 7
Srn 1 8
Spe 1 9
Act -x- 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C -x- 13
COL -x- 14
CEN -x- 15
NAT 1 16
Hur 1 17
F1C
1 Parker, Faust 102 SWR-1 Kiw-2* NAC-3* MM-1 Srn-1 Spe-1 NAT-1*
2 Menanno, Guy 50 NAC-1 SCA-1
3 Ellington, Jeff 48 Kiw-1 MM-3
4 Buskell, John 42 NAC-2 MM-5
5 Malkhasyan, Taron 25 MM-2
5 Shvedenkov, Yury 25 Hur-1
7 Chesson, Don 21 MM-4
7 Roberts, Mike 21 Kiw-3
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 2 1
Kiw 1 2
NAC -x- 3
MM 5 4
SCA 2 5
SAN -x- 6
NCA -x- 7
Srn 2 8
Spe 1 9
Act -x- 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C -x- 13
COL -x- 14
CEN -x- 15
NAT 4 16
Hur -x- 17
F1P
1 Hanford, Bob 94 SWR-1 Srn-1 Spe-1 NAT-4
2 Fedor, Mike 68 MM-3 Srn-2 NAT-2
3 Kelly, Jim 49 MM-2 SCA-1
4 Kerger, Terry 45 Kiw-1 MM-5* SCA-2
5 Secor. Randy 26 MM-1
6 Hayden Ashworth 25 NAT-1
7 Schneider, Glenn 23 SWR-2
8 Jim (North) Parker 21 NAT-3
9 Johannes, David 20 MM-4
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 5 1
Kiw 7 2
NAC -x- 3
MM 6 4
SCA 3 5
SAN 4 6
NCA 1 7
Srn -x- 8
Spe -x- 9
Act 3 10
Cas 1 11
Hat 3 12
I-C 3 13
COL 5 14
CEN 5 15
NAT 14 16
Hur -x- 17
F1G
1 O’Dell, Tiffaney 99 SWR-1 Kiw-4* MM-1 SAN-1 COL-1* CEN-1
2 Jones, Geralyn 95 Kiw-1 MM-3* SAN-2 I-C-2 COL-1* CEN-1
3 Brocks, Peter 86 SWR-2 Kiw-5* MM-4 SAN-4* COL-4 CEN-1
4 Fitch, Jerry 69 SWR-4 Kiw-3* MM-2 SCA-1
5 McGrath, John 67 Cas-1 COL-3 CEN-4
6 DeLoach, Don 58 SWR-3 COL-5 CEN-5
7 Rousseau, Don 50 Act-1 Hat-1
8 Horak, Ladi 45 Kiw-2 MM-4
9 Richardson, Mike 44 SCA-2 SAN-3
10 Buss, Bill 42 Act-3 Hat-3
11 Gerspacher, David 30 NAT-1
12 Simon, Greg 28 NAT-2
13 Mills, David 26 NAT-3
14 Markos, Chuck 25 I-C-1
14 Davis, Mike 25 NCA-1
16 Gerspacher, Kyle 24 NAT-4
17 Gross, Jerry 23 Hat-2
17 Clapp, John 23 Act-2
19 Matsuno, Chris 22 NAT-5
20 Pykelny, Mike 21 SCA-3
20 Crowley, Paul 21 I-C-3
22 Ghio, Walt 19 Kiw-6
23 Petersen, Alan 18 SWR-5
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 4 1
Kiw 2 2
NAC -x- 3
MM 4 4
SCA 1 5
SAN 1 6
NCA -x- 7
Srn 2 8
Spe -x- 9
Act -x- 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C -x- 13
COL -x- 14
CEN 1 15
NAT 3 16
Hur -x- 17
F1H
1 Jensen, Blake 100 SWR-1 Kiw-1 MM-1 SAN-1* CEN-1
2 Parker, Jim 98 SWR-3* Kiw-2 MM-3* SCA-1 Srn-1 NAT-1
3 Fedor, Mike 69 MM-2 Srn-2 NAT-2
4 Bauer, Ken 23 SWR-2
5 Reuter, Wes 21 NAT-3
6 VanNest, Brian 19 SWR-4
6 Ulm, Gene 19 MM-4
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 4 1
Kiw 2 2
NAC -x- 3
MM 6 4
SCA -x- 5
SAN -x- 6
NCA -x- 7
Srn 1 8
Spe -x- 9
Act -x- 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C -x- 13
COL -x- 14
CEN -x- 15
NAT 3 16
Hur -x- 17
F1J
1 Parker, Faust 99 SWR-3* Kiw-1 MM-2 Srn-1 NAT-1
2 Kerger, Terry 45 Kiw-2 MM-3
3 Fedor, Mike 39 MM-5 NAT-3
4 Johannes, David 26 MM-1
5 McKeever, Mike 25 SWR-1
6 Schneider, Glenn 23 SWR-2
6 Hanford, Bob 23 NAT-2
8 Secor, Randy 20 MM-4
9 Bartick, Don 19 SWR-4
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 2 1
Kiw 4 2
NAC 4 3
MM 4 4
SCA 2 5
SAN 1 6
NCA 2 7
Srn 1 8
Spe 1 9
F1Q
1 Parker, Julie 98 SWR-2* Kiw-2* NAC-1 MM-3* Srn-1 Spe-1 NAT-2
2 Murphy, Jack 96 SWR-1 Kiw-3* NAC-3* MM-2* NCA-2 COL-1 CEN-2 NAT-4*
3 Sifleet, Bob 75 I-C-1 COL-2* CEN-1 NAT-1
3 Tarcher, Ben 75 Kiw-1 NAC-2* MM-1 SCA-1* NCA-1
5 Richardson, Mike 45 SCA-2 SAN-1
6 Ioerger, Tom 38 Kiw-4* NAC-4 MM-4
7 Schlosberg, Aram 25 Hat-1
8 Seachrist, David 21 NAT-3
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR 10 1
Kiw 6 2
NAC -x- 3
MM 9 4
SCA 4 5
SAN 2 6
NCA 4 7
Srn 1 8
Spe -x- 9
Act -x- 10
Cas 1 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C 3 13
COL 2 14
CEN 3 15
NAT 7 16
Hur -x- 17
F1S
1 Murphy, Jack 103 SWR-2 Kiw-1 MM-2 NCA-1 Cas-1* COL-1* CEN-1* NAT-2*
2 Parker, Julie 97 SWR-4 Kiw-3 MM-1 Srn-1 NAT-4*
3 Norvall, Larry 88 SWR-3 Kiw-4 SCA-2 NCA-3
4 Murphy, Jerry 66 SWR-5 COL-2 CEN-2
5 Sifleet, Bob 48 I-C-1 NAT-3
6 VanNest, Janna 45 MM-5 SAN-1
6 Sechrist, David 45 Kiw-5 NAT-1
8 Menano, Guy 43 MM-4 SCA-3
9 Tarcher, Ben 38 SCA-4 NCA-4
10 Morris, George 28 SWR-1
11 VanNest, Brian 25 SCA-1
12 Donnelly, Skylar (jr) 24 MM-3
12 Kerger, Terry 24 Kiw-2
14 Edmondson, Lynn 23 SAN-2
14 Lorbiecki, John 23 I-C-2
14 Masterman, Paul 23 NCA-2
17 Freeland, Mark 21 I-C-3
17 Pangell, Rick 21 CEN-3
19 Noldy, Maria 19 NAT-5
Key to competition abbreviations and number of sportsmen:
SWR -x- 1
Kiw 5 2
Cax -x- 3
Cal 6 4
AzC 3 5
SAN 6 6
NCA -x- 7
Srn -x- 8
Spe -x- 9
Act -x- 10
Cas -x- 11
Hat -x- 12
I-C -x- 13
COL -x- 14
CEN 4 15
NAT -x- 16
Hur -x- 17
F1E
1 Brocks, Peter 69 Kiw-3 Cal-4* AzC-2 SAN-2 CEN-1*
2 Van Nest, Brian 64 Kiw-2 Cal-5 SAN-3
3 Parsons, David 63 Cal-2 AzC-3 SAN-5
4 Jones, Geralyn 60 Kiw-5 Cal-3 SAN-4 CEN-1*
5 Ioerger, Tom 52 Kiw-1 Cal-1 CEN-1*
6 Terzian, Fred 51 AzC-1 SAN-1
7 Tarcher, Ben 20 Kiw-4
8 Sifleet, Bob 0 CEN-1*
Euro Champs
Hot , some breeze ?
So far one set of results
F1A
1 Per Findahl Sweden 240 240 180 180 180 180 180 1380 360 480 490 2710
2 Boštjan Bagari Slovenia 240 240 180 180 180 180 180 1380 360 480 450 2670
3 Emmanuel Ragot France 240 240 180 180 180 180 180 1380 360 480 38 2608
As we write this F1B is still going on with 12 going into the second FO round
Where to find the results of the Euro Champs
http://www.euchamp2022.prilepcup.info/
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