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Welcome to The Governor's Cup 2010 July 20 - We rolled out the V2 Beta of the site. Most of the functions work OK ... but, we still have to add some sorts and a registration screen - but you can always go back to G-Cup Version 1 from the menu. (Contact KK if you have issues.) June 9-July 7 Update - We had a number of good soaring days in the last month and GC pilots took advantage of opportunities to log 33 flights ... half of these were actually logged during the first week of July - which was wonderful if you could fly during a week day. Greg Leslie captured first place on both North and South courses - driving his ASW-27B at 67 MPH on the GC North to score 1000 points and grab bragging rights for the fastest raw (and handicapped) speed on both courses so far this year. Erik Mann is in second on the North Course - 800 points behind Leslie - although he can easily make this up with a completion. Nikola Gradinski is in a very respectable third place on the North Course - and has room to move up with another completion. It's great to see VSC in the race this year. Leslie is in first on the South course as well, although he is only ~200 points in front of Bud Bauder from PGC. It is interesting to note that Bud has one completion in the new PGC Duo Discus ... we'll have to see if PGC can use the wonderful capability of this machine to develop more XC pilots for the PGC Team. Ryszard Krolikowski from the ACA club is in third place - a few points behind Bud ... definitely within reach of first place with a good flight. ACA continues to dominate the club totals on the South course ... having collected an even 22,000 points. PGC is in second with 8,500 points - but they still have potential as a lot of the XC Crew has not been available for mid-week flying. BSA won the club trophy last year, but they are MIA and have not logged a single GC flight this season. I wonder if we will ever hear from them again? At the half way point, it is pretty hard to complain about the soaring conditions ... except for the persistent mid-week cycle, we have seen a good number of flying days ... we all hope the pattern continues. June 7-8 Update - Six pilots from Blairstown make seven GC completions on two wonderful soaring days. Templin, Hermann and Abreu complete on Monday - and report is was not as good as it looked. On Tuesday, Templin, Mann and Janney drive around the GC South, pumping ACA's score up to a whopping 14,600 points on the GC South. Gregg Leslie, PI (Pudknocker Independent), starts at Wurtzboro and completes the GC South - returning to Wurtsboro for good measure - a wonderful flight. PGC pilots did some local five hour badge flights. BSA is still missing in action - and will be DOA when they show up. May 30 Update - Only 11 additional flights were logged in the six weeks from 4/20 through the end of May - but the activity is noteworthy because the Valley Soaring Club has shown up on the North course. Alasdair Crawford and Nikola Gradinski completed the GC course on 5/16 - driving a classic set of Schleicher sailplanes - ASW-20 and ASW-19, respectively. This effort puts VSC in a very competative third place - a few hundred points behind ACA. However, the Independents rule on the North course and hold first place with 1711 points - thanks to the efforts of the two Painful Poles, Ryszard Kaleta and Gregg Leslie. ACA rules the Southern GC with an impressive 12126 points - a full 8000 points in front of PGC. The Champs from last year, Brandywine Soaring, currently have 0 (yes zero) points - and will have a hard time getting close to ACA, much less passing the ACA mark. PGC still has great resources and a fighting chance - but they have to get moving. April 20 Update - April delivers another excellent soaring day and pilots from PGC and ACA jump out under marvelous cu and complete long g-cups at good speed. PGC's John Cotter drives his new Ventus 2AX (XJ) around a 190 mile course at 66.06 mph ... and reports hitting 12 knot thermals (average) over the ridge at times. XJ is in first place overall with 1000 points. Bud Bauder also has a great day and just finishes off John's mark with an actual speed of 65.65 mph ... good for 989 points. Greg Leslie, an independent at Blairstown, did 188 miles at 59.09 mph ... and Bill Thar drove his SparrowHawk at 45 mph for the third best flight of the day and 907 points. On the North Course, Ryszard had a nice flight in the PW-5 ... and moved into second place with 859 points. More logs are submitted for 4/20, and Ron Schwartz (434) knocks XJ out of first by completing the GC in his 1-26D, driving the Snailplane around the course at an actual speed of 39 MPH - which translates to ~ 63 Handicapped MPH - and 1000 points for the fastest sport class flight of the season, so far. April 20th. was the best day of the season - 12 logs were submitted by the ACA and PGC teams. And yes, BSA is still MIA - maybe they are planning a big sneak attack - we'll have to see. April 12/14 Update - Paul Seifried had the first GC flight in March, but the 2010 season really didn't start until mid-April when a bunch of pilots from ACA and PGC jumped on a couple of good mid-week racing days. John Carlyle from the PGC team did a nice early season completion in his LS-8 ... and Dunning, Seifried and Schwartz from the ACA camp put GC South points on the board. Those 50 mph speeds will surely topple as the season progresses. On the North Course, Erik Mann racked up a nice 63 mph flight to score 1000 points for the Pudknockers. The 2009 Champs are still strangely MIA - but not to worry, the season is just starting. (KK)
The 2010 Guv Cup season opens on March 1st. !!! This years teams again include: The 2009 GC Winners !!! The Brandywine Snifters - Brandywine Soaring Assn
The 2010 GC has the potential to be the hottest season since the inception The Cup ~ 15 years ago. The Snifters will be flying high and fast - full of confidence from their first win ... the Puds will be flying low and fast - full of Budweiser (or some other cheap beer of choice) - looking for revenge ... and the Horde will be launching a new crop of XC pilots in state-of-the-art soaring technology. This season could be fun to watch. Please register and add your sailplane make and model - you can do this when you upload your first flight. Your Competition ID at registration is the primary key used to identify you and link you to a club and sailplane. Create two Competition IDs if you belong to two clubs and will be uploading flights for both. For Example, QV could be QV-PGC and QV-BSA. Create a unique team ID when you submit a two place TEAM FLIGHT ... PGC1, PGC2, Bob-Bill are possible example formats. Team submissions assume you will be flying the same type of aircraft on each flight. The turnpoints for 2009 will remain unchanged. We will review the Kutztown situation perhaps make changes later in the season.
2009 Recap The 2009 G-cup is over and an upstart group of XC pilots from Brandywine Soaring have taken the trophy - ending the dynasty held by ACA since the GC inception. The BSA team accomplished this amazing feat by launching a sustained series of long-winged cruise missiles from their rebel base … taking the overall club lead … and putting many BSA pilots in the top scoring spots. This may not be a fluke as the BSA team members are all accomplished contest pilots and will probably repeat next season. PGC came in a distant third - but should not be counted out as they have a good roster and could easily mount a substantial threat if they get serious about XC. Tune in next season … it should be exciting. Thanks Yous to Dave and John for doing all the work needed to setup the data collection and scoring systems. Ken Kochanski - KK (3/1/2010) Tech Notes: Please enable JavaScript on you client. Link to prior flights/scores at Erik Mann's Guv Cup Site
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