Final Roound of the SWSA F3F Winter League 2013-14

Hi All

Well what a strange Winter League this has been. The SWSA F3F Winter Leagues have always in the past provided some of the fastest flying of the year in the UK. But it just hasn’t happened this year. When the wind has blown it has been either too strong or accompanied with to much rain to get a competition in. When the conditions have been dry the winds have been light.

The final round for this year’s winter league found us on the Ice Cream slope, which traditionally has presented us with some good conditions. However, today the conditions were more akin to the summer competition. This meant a fair degree of thermal activity, which was made worse with quite a bit of west in the wind direction.

This meant we struggled to get a competition in and only managed to get three rounds in.

Round One went to Martin Drewitt with a 55:13. Greame Mahoney was just behind him with a 56:31 just piping Martin Newnham with a 56:49

Round two was taken by Martin Newnham with a 53:70 which ended up to be the Fast Time of the Day. Mark Abbotts was second with a 55:09 and Dave Rumble was third with 58:54.

The third and what turned out for be the final round as the wind went right off the slope was won by Mark Abbotts with a 55:78 with Martin Newnham second with a 62:30 and Greame Mahoney third with a 66:31.

By the time we had finished the third round it was quite late in the day as we had had quite a few refights for wind direction and a sizable hold in the round as well.

It was great to see some new faces on the slope. It was just a pity they really didn’t experienced what the Bwlch is capable off.

It was also great to see Mike Shellim again at an SWSA Winter League which probably means we will have some nice photos of the day’s events to enjoy.

So who won today? Martin Newnham proved that he could handle the difficult conditions best today flying his Freestyler 4 with Mark Abbotts finishing second with his Caldera and Mike Shellim finishing third with his trusty Sting.  (Please see the full results below).

So with a third round in it meant we could discard one so that we would have the best two of three.

So the SWSA F3F 2013-14 Winter League Champion is Simon Thornton with an impeccable 2000 points, flying a Freestyler 4. Runner up this year is Martin Newnham with 1992.88 again flying a Freestyler 4 and in third spot was Mark Abbots with 1988.62 flying a Caldera.

The Fastest Time of the League went to Joel West with a 39:64 in the second league event.

Thank you to everyone who has supported and helped out throughout the Winter league.

Martin will compile the final qualifications for the Winter League Champion or Champions which will be flown next week at the Bwlch.

See you all soon and all the best

Andrzej

Round Three Results

1	Martin Newnham	2871.27
2	Mark Abbotts	2861.25
3	Mike Shellim	2614.83
4	Greame Mahoney	2558.09
5	Dave Rumble	2510.05
6	Martin Drewitt	2449.06
7	Tony Livingstone	2399.41
8	Clive Jones	2340.05
9	Andrew Kayes	2300.46
10	Leigh Tolson	1400.07

Final League Postions after one discard

1	Simon Thrornton	2000.00
2	Martin Newnham	1992.88
3	Mark Abbotts	1988.62
4	Joel West	1986.96
5	Graeme Mahoney	1866.56
6	Tony Livingstone	1858.71
7	Dave Runmble	1787.17
8	Martin Drewett	1747.65
9	Mike Evans	1696.43
10	Clive Jones	1646.61
11	Greg Lewis	945.83
12	John Phillips	914.20
13	Mike Shellim	910.69
14	Paul Stubley	870.59
15	John Treble	829.55
16	Andrew Kayes	801.20
17	Chris Studley	769.28
18	Andrzej Tabero	768.07
19	Leigh Tolson	487.61