Well this one is in the record book and an amazing weekend.

We hosted 47 pilots from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. This is the largest pattern contest ever for our club and possibly in our state for a number of years and a good tuneup for the nationals in July.

We had perfect weather and moderate temperatures. With the contestants help we got in 4 solid rounds and were finished by ~2:00 PM on Sunday.

I wanted to thank all the contestants for being such a good group to work with and supporting our event. We had 4 father / son teams competing (Harrison, Hunt, Stohr, Lewis) and shows how the sport continues to grow. Also we had a number of new flyers that had not competed before. We had 9 in Sportsman, 12 in intermediate, 9 in advanced, 9 in Masters, and 8 in FAI. Hopefully this confirms that pattern is alive and well and growing !!! Also Keith Black sold a bunch of items for our World Team Fund.

Hopefully everyone had a good experience. We even had a 20 member impromptu steak grilling event on Saturday night.

The trophy winners were:

Sportsman:
1) Carlos Stohr
2) David Ashley
3) Ed Valls

Intermediate
1) Keven O'Connor
2) Jon Martin
3) Brandon Landry

Advanced:
1) Martin Stohr
2) Chuck Hochhalter
3) Stephen Harrison

Masters
1) Glen Watson
2) Arch Stafford
3) Mark Hunt

FAI (2 rounds of "P", 2 rounds of "F")
1) Brett Wickizer
2) Todd Blose
3) Mike Harrison

Overall we had great contestants and a great weekend. Now I can go pass out from sheer exhaustion !!!!

Ron Barr
Contest Director
Team Futaba