TXDA2000

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Results for the Regional Championships held this past weekend in Sherman.

The weather was fantastic on Saturday, and frankly it sucked on Sunday.

I was personally dissappointed, as many were, to not add an unknown to the
results. But, sometimes you take what you can get!

I appreciate all who attended, it was a great time. I look forward to
seeing you all next year.

Daniel Rathbun, SC Regional Director

Basic:

1.. Joe Buie 4000.0
2.. Mark Cavitt 3889.8
3.. Mitch Kral 3778.7
4.. Scott Shaffer 3638.8
5.. Kevin Braziel 3619.4
6.. Steve Brown 3263.5
7.. Dan Powell 3256.9
8.. Carl Rowland 2468.2
9.. Jarrod Carr 1807.5

Sportsman:

1.. Shawn Best 4000.0
2.. Duane Cox 3866.6
3.. Eddie Bernaldez 3810.6
4.. Mark Gery 3748.3
5.. Jeff Fisher 3655.5
6.. Bobby Folsom 2504.3

Intermediate:

1.. Ryan Gonsoulin 4000.0
2.. Rudy Voldrich 3970.6
3.. Cliff Town 3726.4
4.. Milo Ruch 3645.4
5.. Fred Sweet 3590.0
6.. Allan Smith 3576.3

Unlimited:

1.. Daniel Rathbun 4000.0
2.. Lyndel Roe 3958.1
3.. Bill Higgins 3916.1
4.. Rick Byrd 3901.6
5.. John DuRant 3896.0
6.. Todd Blose 3816.1
7.. Jerry Dellinger 3799.3
8.. Stephen Byrd 3307.0

Redneck Shaun

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It was a real eye opener for me to see all the awesome pilots this last weekend! A lot different then the smaller planes I have seen in the past! You just couldn't ask for better weather to fly in saturday. We were treated to some great flying. Mother nature made up for it on sunday though[:@].
I thing sucked is a understatement!!! I was running from plane to plane trying to make sure none took off from the strong wind. I was really pumped for wanting to see the freesyle on sunday. It was a good call to shut her down though. We started picking things up after the awards. After about a hour later with the wind still blowing like 30mph, The rain started . Added to the dropping temp's. It made for hilarious site. Alot of fat boys running around trying to get all the tents folded up before they blew away. LOL....... A site to behold!!!
I had a great time. Met some terrific people. And saw some wonderful looking planes. I'll be looking forward to giving IMAC a try next year.
Shun Russell

Geistware

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I guess the winners for each class are dominating.
All of them won all the rounds that were not dropped!

TXDA2000

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True,

In the case of Sportsman and Intermediate, Shawn and Ryan are in their first season in that class. Both have been serious competitors all season, and will move up next year. In the case of Unlimited, No one person has dominated the year in the SC. Bill, as always, is the man by which we all try to measure up to. This year we have a load of talent moving up the ladder which should make for an extremely competitive season next year. After six sequences with two dropped, there is only 200 points from first to seventh. Pretty competitive!!

dave_anderson

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Hey Dan, if by chance your regionals are on a different weekend than the SW next year maybe the Albuquerque gang can fly there too!!

I know we plan on making El Paso and Odessa at least next year.

Sorry you guys had bad weather. Vegas was great! Never seen the winds so calm there.

Congrats to the winners!

Dave

TXDA2000

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Lookiing forward to seeing you guys this way, Dave.

As always, I will be trying to make ABQ. Hopefully it will work out and we can come up there again.

Daniel

dave_anderson

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You should have 3 other pilots to fly against. We have verbal commitments from Bill Hempel, Dave Stoik (had to move up) and of course Len Alessi. A four person Unlimited would be unprecedented for our contest. I think its going to be much bigger next year. We had 27 at the last one and I have had a lot of interest as of late. Thanks for considering coming up again.

Dave

texomalaser

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Hey guys..There are some neat pictures of the Regionals on the Texoma RC website. Check'em out...
http://texomarc.org/id75.html