My first world championship and hope not the last. First I consider myself a big fan of the sport and then a competitor. The real story about Portugal...well the organisers very nice people and did their best for the event, however the pits should have been covered with carpet to avoid dust both on the planes and the equipment... Also it was a difficult place to fly specially for people like me that did not have much exposure of it prior to official practice.

I don't have much of experience in international events but watched many P flights, I think that T. Onda and CPLR flew very well indeed. CPLR was very graceful but Onda had minimal or no mistakes in the execution part, regarding the big box it is another story but he kept his distance constant. Did not see QQ's flights but saw his practice flights of F schedule at Leiria airfield, HE WAS AMAZING!

About the judges now, have read your comments and will not take a position but will make the retorical question: Why a judge would not have the g....s to downgrade the top names? What's the gain for him/her really? I can not believe that the result of a WCH is not fair as there is too much diversification in the marks due to the number of judges, in the end the result should be fair.

Personally I have faith in the organisers and judging, I am really amazed when I see the top names flying even if they make some tiny mistakes (there is no perfect flight), in the end they are human like all of us. Hope the big names always to be there to inspire most of us, I think this sport needs their innovative approach and contribution. Pattern is not just moving the sticks around and flying an ARF model like most people do nowdays, pattern is "magic" and the "magicians" are the big names fortunatelly.

Best regards to all participants judges and organisers,

Nikos