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Paul · Guest

Anyone here seen the results?

Ben Flewett from NZ won. Got a nice chq for his trouble as well. Good on ya
Ben!!

Any thoughts on the overall impression from the website, videos etc?

I thought it was excepionally well done. Congrats to the organisers and
competitors. Hopefully there will be a highlights package shown by some TV
network so we can see all the nifty footage they shot from the helicopters
and cockpit cameras.

Paul

chipsoars · Guest

I thought the website, updates and video were good. Does anyone know
the number of spectators/day?

My hope is someone makes a slick DVD of the contest.

Chip F

csleclerc@hotmail.com · Guest

Yes, maybe something similar to the excellent footage in " Windborne".
Craig

chipsoars wrote:

markus.graeber@gmail.com · Guest

The website was nice but what I missed was the ability to follow the
whole thing online more or less in realtime as you could in St. Auban.
Besides the online tracking they had a great Dynamic Flight
Visualization in St. Auban allowing you to compare who did what when
and the consequences of it - great learning tool Smile

. I guess in
Omarama they had this new real time tracking system from the same
company that does this for the round the world sail boat races but no
online access, only for paying visitors on site... Not having that
availalable online was a step backwards fro me...

Markus

Paul · Guest

You can download the igc files from each day and achieve the same result
with Seeyou.
True it was after the racing has finished but still possible. The St Auban
Grand Prix coverage was delayed by 15mins due to tech issues etc. The
Omarama one was done live onto the big screen with video footage from the
helicopters and cockpit cams edited as they went along. Just like the
Americas cup racing is done. They even had a couple of guys in front of the
big screen giving a running commentry as well. The actual numbers to come to
the event where dissapointing but the big thing is to show a package of all
the infomation is possible which is a saleable item to major networks. Then
with TV comes sponsors and exposure.

Paul
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Bruce Hoult · Guest

In article <1138667058.455405.175360 (AT) g44g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
"chipsoars" <chip (AT) fitzpatrick-family (DOT) org> wrote:

Philip Plane · Guest

Pat · Guest

Hi,

it is definately not the same thing to download the igc files. It is
like watching reruns of some soccer game knowing the result. I know
Paul that you are from NZ and try to keep it up, but that was a BIG
failure.

Web site was nice as far as graphics etc, but many times results were
wrong at first. Many other competitions has done much better job and it
has been much more interesting to follow their web sites.

I got the impression that GP06 supposed to be THE best, easiest to
follow glider competition ever... Sorry guys you failed a bit.

Though all the cameras etc, were very nice, very nice graphics, but
again nobody saw then out side of Omarama... It would been ok to put a
web cam to the big screen or something. Anything...

And congrats to Ben Flewett...

Mal · Guest

The richest prize in gliding history $10,000.00 new Zealand dollars.

Pat · Guest

You are right Mal,

though the whole consept is very good I think. I would of been nice to
see those final glide battles where only I second was separating pilots
(usually Ben Flewett)

I truly hope that the reason that there were no tracking wasn't that
they wanted to so it only to the paid visitors (did I hear 10000-15000)
Ok, divide it by 100 Smile

Unfortunately Omarama is middle of nowhere.
Maybe next issue is, how to get this race closer to the big cities.

Big thank to Mette and Dave who ran very nice web sites too. Lot more
information could be gathered thru there...

jacekkobiesa@raypolandand · Guest

To All:

It should be aired on ESPN, ESPN 2, Sports Channel, Speed, etc.....the
attempt is good but coverage is necessary if we want this sport to be
promoted...

Jacek Kobiesa
Washington State

Philip Plane · Guest

In article <1138902736.544601.53230 (AT) g49g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
[email]jacekkobiesa (AT) raypolandandsons (DOT) us[/email] wrote:

Paul · Guest

Instead of grumbling about the lack of coverage.
Contact ESPN and others by e-mail.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=contact/espntv

Ask them why they didn't show it live and point them in the right direction.

Maybe if we all do it then the networks may do something about it. I am sure
the GP06 team will be working from their end but if there seems to be no
public interest in it then it will never happen.

Paul

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Bruce Hoult · Guest

In article <1138889543.849777.154540 (AT) g49g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
"Pat" <pat_jones_p1 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: