seems I casn't edit this, but the A team (who won) was:
Carl Wallbank, Gary Wirdnam, Gordon Rigg, Dave Matthews, Malcolm Brown.
The B team came in 7th.
Bruce Kavanagh, Rich Lovelace, Robin Hamilton, Ron Richardson, Dave Shields.
Team scores consist of the top 3 pilots for each team each day. As such the pilots individual placing doesn't directly reflect his team contribution. Looking at he team scores at www.chabre2009.com you will see who scored on which day. You will see that Carl was the star, scoring well for the A team each day, and also placing highest. Carls chances of becomeing world champion are increased as he has avoided winning the pre-worlds. No pre-world champion had ever won the worlds until Attilla finally managed it last year.
The panels selection of the A and B teams was influenced by knowing we were only guaranteed the 5 A team entries, but thanks to careful planning we also got another 5 entires on the first come first served wait list (like the French did). Thus we had some of our world championship winning team on the B team, and Malc Brown on the A team to be sure he got an entry to see how he got on in a big comp with 120 pilots and all the associated pressures (Malcom has won several smaller comps at Laragne, and done well in our nationals).
During the comp we tried to act like one big team with a collective task briefing, sharing retrieves etc.
The good performances by pilots on both teams will make the selection for the worlds interesting in a nice way. The team size should be 5, but it may even shrink to 4…
Lets hope for a lot of tasks in our nationals…
Phil Chett 1215259927|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
