2006 World Cup Finals Pictures
| Two time World Cup Champion Judge -Heine Bijker of Holland will judge the 2006 World Cup Finals |
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| 2006 World Cup Finals Pictures |
| WORLD CUP FLY OFF REPORT 2006 |
1. Ferid Catak : Breaks: 5 7 8 5 10 5 8 6 // 13 7 7 14 5 5 11 8 5 // 6 8 5 7 5 6 // 6 7 5 9 10 6 7. Raw: 274. Quality 1.4 Depth: 1.4. Total: 537.04. Ferid flew a beautiful hardworking kit, good teamwork. I think the big difference with most of the other kits was that his birds worked hard the entire 20 minutes of the fly! In some of the breaks a little bit of waterfalling,some of the smaller breaks with lesser quality,what hurts the average quality factor. Still room for improvement, but definately the best kit in this competition! Congratulations Ferid!
2. Brian McKenzie: Breaks : 5 5 5 6 6 10 5 10 5 // 5 7 7 5 5 6 5 5 // 6 11 6 // 6 7 5 7 5 . Raw: 186. Quality 1.5 .Depth 1.5. Total: 418.5. Brian flew a real nice quality kit, with some beautiful spinners! Loose kitting was a major problem with this team this day, with thight kitting this team would have scored more and bigger breaks, maybe the next time! Nevertheless a good result!
3. Kevin McKinney: Breaks: 5 6 5 5 7 6 5 7 6 5 // 6 6 5 5 6 5 8 12 9 // 9 10 // - . Raw : 160. Quality: 1.5 Depth: 1.4 Total: 336. Kevin used broom and flag to get them up,but after 4 1/2 min, the kit lifted some and he called time in! His kit started working realy nice, with good quality rollers. He put them up to late, so about 10 / 12 min in the fly ,when the kit lifted even more it was too dark to continue scoring, you could still see that the kit was working,but quality etc. was guessing, so stop scoring! Too bad for Kevin, but they should have stayed low, or Kevin had to put them up earlier!
4. Jim Taylor: Breaks : 6 5 5 5 5 6 // 12 6 6 5 5 // 6 5 5 5 7 // 11 6 7 9 8 10 6 . Raw 184 . Quality 1.3 Depth 1.3 Total : 310.96. Jim flew a nice active entertaining kit. What hurt his quality multiplier was the fact that too many of the smaller breaks were of less quality, and this multiplier is the average of all the breaks in the fly! Still a real nice result in this competition!
5. Clay Hoyle: Breaks: 5 5 5 7 8 6 // 11 7 5 7 5 5 // 5 6 // 7 5 12 5 5 . Raw: 144. Quality: 1.5. Depth: 1.4. Total: 302.4. Real nice quality kit, with some fast beautiful individuals! It was pretty hot already, but this team was ready to work and did so! The kitting of this team was unfortuenately too loose ,with thigter kitting this team would too, would have scored more and bigger simultanious breaks! It was a beautiful show,thanks Clay!
6. Nick Tsoltoudis : Breaks: 7 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 // 6 9 5 5 5 5 5 5 // 6 5 5 5 // 5 6 6 10. Raw: 146. Quality: 1.3 Depth 1.3. Total: 246.74. Active team, the kitting was too loose, causes waterfall activity and small breaks. Had one outbird most of the time, but it did not affect his score. A few bigger breaks with good quality showed us that the kit has more potential than shown in most of the smaller breaks. Nice entertaining team.
7. Jerry Higgins : Breaks : 6 5 6 5 7 5 // 6 10 6 7 5 // 6 5 5 // 5 7 8 5 . Raw 119. Quality: 1.4. Depth 1.4. Total : 233.24. Nice quality team, flew on a nice height, and in sight and I was happy with that, seen all the trees at Jerrys place. The first half of the fly I was a little disappointed by the quality, but the last part the quality improved and in a few of the bigger breaks we saw some beautiful spinners. A nice active team.
8. Trevor Weaver. Breaks : 6 5 5 6 8 5 6 // 7 9 7 5 13 12 7 // - // - . Raw 126. Quality: 1.4. Depth : 1.3. Total : 229.32. Trevors kit started flying on a nice height, nice pattern with nice breaks, and we saw the quality and breaks improving in the second 5 min of the fly . Unfortunately the team started flying a little nervous and a few birds left the kit and stayed out the rest of the time, no more scoring! Too bad for Trevor, more luck next time!
9. Riaan Kruger. Breaks : 5 5 5 6 // 5 9 5 9 8 // 5 6 9 5 6 5 5 // 8 5. Raw: 111. Quality: 1.4. Depth: 1.4. Total: 217.56. Real active entertaining kit, with quite a few nice fast individuals! Good teamwork was missing most of the time, too many individual rolling birds, and different outbirds too often. On a good day this team is probably capable of a far better performance than this day, more luck next time Riaan,you have the birds!
10. Jose Luis Lorenzo. Breaks : 5 5 7 6 // 5 5 5 7 5 6 // 5 7 8 9 // 5 5 7 5 5 6 . Raw: 118. Quality:1.4. Depth:1.3. Total: 214.76. His kit gave us a nice performance, but flew maybe a little too high. A few birds didnt have the right kitdiscipline and were in and out of the team too often. Still a top ten kit in this world cup fly so you must be happy, with this team!
11. Joe Bob Stuka. Breaks: 5 6 6 7 7 6 6 // 9 9 8 5 6 7 5 6 // 5 // 6 . Raw: 109. Quality: 1.4. Depth: 1.3. Total: 198.38. A nice surprise for me,because Joe Bobs kit flew a beautiful figure 8 pattern on a perfect height and showed nice teamwork. I had seen Joe Bobs birds 4 and 6 years before, for what Ive seen than and now I think Joe Bob improved his overall quality a lot! First 10 min. the kit was beautiful and active, but the second half the kit flew in circles and stopped working, too bad. For Joe Bob to find out what went wrong?
12. Thysie Fourie. Breaks: 6 5 5 7 5 5 // 9 5 5 7 6 // 6 5 5 5 // 5 5 . Raw: 96. Quality: 1.3 Depth 1.4. Total:174.72. His team started with good action,breaks and quality but the further towards the end of the 20 min. less action, less quality as of the energy was gone, the kit landed just after the 20 minutes. The kitting in this team too should be better,the best quality was in the bigger breaks. Thys is new,hell be back!
13. Steve Smith: Breaks: 6 5 5 5 5 // 6 6 5 5 7 6 // 7 9 6 //5 7 5 . Raw: 100. Quality: 1.3. Depth: 1.2. Total: 156. A nice kit, active, and towards the end improving quality and depth. Good height and kitting was nice
,but a few birds in and out of the team. I expect Steve back the next years, and better!
14. Poen Sahabodien. Breaks: 5 6 5 7 5 // 8 5 7 // 5 6 // 5 5 5 5 6 . Raw: 85. Quality: 1.2 Depth:1.4. Total: 142.8. Poens kit flew on a beautiful height and a nice pattern. The kit was working nice, but the kitting has to be tighter and most of the rolling was a little soft! Thigter kitting creates more tension and excitement in the team, and therefore often better quality,and more simultanious breaks!
15. Scott Campbell. (Utah) Breaks : 6 5 5 7 7 // 5 6 6 5 7 // 5 5 5 5 // 5. Raw: 84. Quality: 1.3. Depth :1.3 . Total: 141.96. Scotts kit started real nice and active, unfortunately his team became less active and lifted to high the second 10 minutes of the fly. Still a nice result I would say in the Wcfly!
15. Henk Nijman. Breaks: 5 7 // 5 // 7 6 13 // 9 7 5 7. Raw: 84. Quality: 1.3. Depth: 1.3. Total: 141.96.
Henk was a bit nervous, and everybody in the yard was excited, because Henk has done realy good in
the previous competitions, and certainly capable with his birds to beat the leading team so far. But it was
not his lucky day, his birds flew a strange pattern and werent active as we were used to see at Henks
place. Still a nice score, but we were al a bit disappointed by the final result! Hell sure try to be back in
the top ten next year!
16. Alonzo Cano. Breaks: 5 5 5 5 6 5 6 5 5 // 5 6 5 5 5 // 6 5 7 5 // - . Raw: 96. Quality: 1.2. Depth: 1.2. Total: 138.24. His team started nice and active, the quality wasnt that good in the beginning, but became better towards the end of the fly, they warmed up, a nice active team! A falcon attacked the team , but fortunately in the very last minute and not in the first minutes!
17. David Vang. Breaks: 5 5 6 6 // 5 5 5 7 // 6 5 5 5 // 6 6 . Raw: 77. Quality: 1.3. Depth: 1.3. Total: 130.13. David flew some new birds in his team, because some of his birds were stolen,maybe because of this
reason,his birds werent kitting with a discipline like we wanted to see. Fortunately when the birds
were kitting they did score some breaks and produced a nice total score!
18. Cedric Leighton. Breaks: 5 5 5 5 7 // 6 5 // 9 6 // 6 5 5 .Raw: 69. Quality: 1.3. Depth: 1.4 . Total: 125.58
Cedric flew at the end of the day and his birds started nice and active. He had one outbird often, but it
didnt hurt the score, in some of the bigger breaks we saw the better quality!
19. Charles Joubert. Breaks: 6 6 6 5 5 // 7 // 5 8 6 5 // 6 5 .Raw: 70. Quality:1.3. Depth: 1.3. Total: 118.3.
The kit started with a nice fly pattern and height, and scored some nice breaks but during the fly the kit
changed the flypattern and was like playing with the wind and was less active. When the kit picked up
the good pattern again it started scoring too! Nice kit, but Charles said they could do a lot better, we
hope to see them back next year!
20. Steve Naude. Breaks: 10 5 5 5 6 5 5 // 6 6 // 7 // 6 5 7. Raw: 88. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.2. Total: 116.16.
Steve let his kit out and waited for the kit to gain some height and then called time in, just after time in
the kit came together close and was like exploding in a beautiful break, almost all birds involved, but
sad enough not all in good enough quality to score! I was excited and was expecting more and maybe
even better, but most following breaks were just scorable. The kitting and height was beautiful.
21. Calman Grobler. Breaks: 5 5 // 5 5 5 8 5 5 5 // 6 5 5 6 // 5. Raw: 75. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.2 Total: 99.
The kitting of Calmans kit was a problem, but evenso they scored some nice points, they were
working and deserved the points.
22. Pete Handy. Breaks: 5 5 5 6 // 6 5 // 5 // 5 5 6 5. Raw: 58. Quality: 1.3. Depth: 1.3. Total: 98.02.
Petes kit flew nice and calm, but too relaxed, it was as if the kit had no idea that Pete wanted them
to work for us that evening. They scored some small breaks, but not with the quality Ive seen there
before (same year Pete won the WC.) Pete wasnt expecting a lot more that evening, but I was!
Hope to see him back in the top next year!He has the pigeons for it!
23. Frank Dry. Breaks: 9 5 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 6 // - // 7 7 6. Raw: 70. Quality: 1.1.Depth: 1.2. Total: 92.4.
Frank is struggling too with kitting problems in his birds, experimenting crossing his family!
He still flew an active team, but most breaks (rolls) were loose, still a lot of work to do, but that
is what we know in this hobby its never done!
24. Aris Punla. Breaks: 9 5 7 5 // 5 // 5 7 // 6. Raw: 49. Quality: 1.2. Depth: 1.3. Total: 76.44.
This kit started with some nice breaks in the first 5 minutes with nice pattern and height, but
realy calmed down too much, scored a few more breaks during the rest of the fly but not the same
energy anymore. The kitting was nice!
25. Peet du Plessis. Breaks: 6 9 // 6 // 5 // 5 6 5 5 5 . Raw: 52. Quality: 1.2 Depth:1.2. Total: 74.88.
This kit started with some nice breaks, but went too high pretty fast. Kit came down enough to score
again at the end, but this quality was just scorable. So this kit was, in 20 min.: active, too high
and down again!
25. Paul Chantry. Breaks: 7 5 6 // 5 // 5 8 5 // 5 6. Raw: 52. Quality: 1.2 Depth: 1.2. Total: 74.88.
Pauls kit just flew too low to realy get started , most of the time dancing over the roofs and not a lot
of activity, the times they went up we saw some nice breaks. Paul and Donna are keen fanciers, they
will be back! They were working with some new birds to create better kits, well see!
26. Charles Hudson. Breaks: 5 5 5 7 6 5 // 5 5 6 5 5 // - // -. Raw: 59. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.1 Total: 71.39.
Charles released his kit and they started real active, but the breaks were a little short and loose in the
roll. After ten minutes the birds went too high to score anymore, try to keep them on a scorable
height!
27. Abel Ibarra. Breaks: - // 5 6 // 6 5 // 5 5 5 5. Raw 42. Quality:1.3 Depth:1.3 Total: 70.98.
No scorable activity in the first 5 minutes, towards the end better quality and more action!
Different birds leaving the kit for some time for no reason, no kitdiscipline?
28. Brian McCormick. Breaks: 5 5 5 // 6 // 5 // 5 5 5. Raw: 41. Quality:1.3 Depth: 1.3. Total: 69.29.
Pretty soon after Brian put up his kit we saw that the team wasnt competition topfit, they didnt
work like theyve done before he said. The kit did still score some breaks , but the kitting was too
loose most of the time. I did see some real nice fast deep pigeons, and Brian promised to be back!
29. Donny Faison. Breaks: 5 // 7 8 5 // 7 5 6 // -. Raw: 43. Quality: 1.2 Depth: 1.2. Total: 61.92.
Donny flew a real good kitting team, not very active, and a little too high, they scored some nice
breaks!Try to keep them on better judging height, easier for yourself too, to study your birds!
29. Victor Babilonia. Breaks: 5 5 6 // 5 5 6 // 6 // 5. Raw 43. Quality:1.2 Depth: 1.2. Total: 61.92.
Real strong wind in the morning kept Victor from flying his kit, but in the afternoon the wind was
less strong and he flew his team. Still windy, but they handled it realy nice, he scored some nice
breaks. Victor has a few good spinners in his team, nice birds to work with!
30. Rick Schoening. Breaks: 5 5 8 // 5 6 5 // - // 6. Raw:40. Quality: 1.2 Depth:1.2. Total: 57.6.
Kitting wasnt good and thats what you need for more and better scorable breaks.
Ricks preparation before the fly (not out for 6 days) wasnt normal, so probably this also caused
that he had too often outbirds what hurt his score. One bird landed early.
31. Frank Baker. Breaks: 5 5 5 // 5 // 5 5 // 6 6. Raw: 42. Quality: 1.1 Depth:1.2. Total: 55.44.
His kit did not realy want to work today but it flew on a nice height, majority of the team was
kitting beautiful and tight, a few birds in and out of the kit sometimes. Most birds were short and
loose in the roll. Still some work to do Frank!
32. Manny Manion. Breaks: 5 5 5 5 5 5. Raw :30. Quality: 1.3 Depth:1.2. Total: 46.8.
Same problem here, the kitting was loose and with one bird who came down early, every time a
bird left the kit scoring stopped! Majid had some beautiful fast pigeons in his team.
33. Henri Smit. Breaks: 6 5 5 // 5 // - // 5 6. Raw 32. Quality: 1.2. Depth: 1.2. Total: 46.08.
Most times Ive seen Henris kit , it was a hard working team, but not today, not active at all!
Most activity this time was to much waterfall and the rolling was often loose. I know he could
have done a lot better, but Henri was already happy he qualified and flew in this competition!
34. Johnnie Conradi. Breaks: 5 6 5 5 5 // - // 5 // -. Raw: 31. Quality: 1.2. Depth: 1.2. Total: 44.84.
First 5 minutes Johnnies birds flew on a good height and a nice pattern, the team was kitting good.
The rest of the time the kit flew too fast and no quiet pattern to set up for some more breaks.
35. Alex Hamilton. Breaks: 5 // 5 // 5 5 5 7 // 5 5. Raw: 42 Quality: 1.0. Depth: 1.0 Total: 42.
Alexs birds just didnt want to work hard this day, they were fairly stiff. The breaks they scored
were just scorable, many birds short and loose in the roll. One bird out often.
36. Brad Winward. Breaks: 5 7 8 Raw: 20. Quality: 1.4 Depth: 1.4. Total: 39.2. Brads birds started real
nice with some good breaks with nice quality, some real nice spinners in this team! Too bad his kit
had pretty soon outbirds and later went too high!
37. John Szczurko. Breaks: 5 // 5 // 5 5 // 7. Raw: 27. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.3 Total: 38.61. This team was
kitting realy nice, some nice breaks, but most pigeons were loose in the roll. The kit flew a little
fast and nervous, did not relax enough to set up for some more breaks.
38. Keith London. Breaks: 5 // 6 // 6 5 // -. Raw: 22. Quality: 1.3 Depth: 1.3 Total: 37.18. Keith had
one bird that bumped when he let them out, this bird landed in the first minute. The kit wasnt
realy active and he also lost some breaks because of another outbird during the fly.
38. Joe Urban. Breaks: 5 5 // 6 // 6 // -. Raw: 22. Quality: 1.3 Depth: 1.3 Total: 37.18. The kit wasnt
flying as a team, a few birds in and out all the time, hardly no action, but a few real nice birds!
39. Tom Mendes. Breaks: 5 5 6 // 5 5 // 5 // 5. Raw: 36. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 36. I realy
enjoyed this kit, it flew the fig 8 pattern on a perfect height, the kitting was good and they worked
as a team breaking together like we want them to do. Sad was that there were only a small amount
of birds in the breaks with scorable quality and depth, this is were Tom has to work on, the rest
was beautiful!
40. Hennie Phal. Breaks: 5 5 // 6 // - // 5 5 . Raw: 26 Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.2. Total: 34.32. Hennies kit
flew in circles and too low all the time and wasnt realy active what you see often when a kit flies
only in circles! Hennie knows they can be a lot better, just bad luck this day?
41. Jim Shumway. Breaks: 5 5 5 // 5 // 5 // -. Raw: 25 Quality: 1.1 Depth 1.1 Total: 30.25.
His kit started with some action but that wasnt for long, he had one bird out all the time, and a
second one too often. The kit landed at 19minutes 59seconds!
42. Justin Okerlund. Breaks: 5 6 // 5 5 // - // 6 . Raw: 27 Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 27.
Justin flew a good kitting team, I scored some breaks but the kit went to high and he missed
because of this some breaks.
43. Gary Richards. Breaks: 6 5 // 5 // 6 5 // - . Raw: 22. Quality: 1.1. Depth: 1.1. Total: 26.62.
The kit wasnt used to the deadstill weather, they had to fly in it this morning and werent realy
active. In many of the breaks the birds were following through, so not scorable.
44. Dave Gehrke. Breaks: 5 5 5 // - // 5 5 // -. Raw: 25 Quality :1.0 Depth:1.0 Total: 25.
Daves birds were having a good time, playing in the wind, in good shape but not in the mood to
give us the show we were hoping for! They scored some breaks but only just scorable quality
45. Allen Seymour-Smith. Breaks: - // - // 5 5 5 // 5. Raw 20 Quality; 1.1. Depth: 1.1. Total: 24.2.
In the first break I saw one excellent fast dark chequer. The team wasnt aware of the importance
of this day and refused to work.The kitting was nice.
46. Dave Szabatura. Breaks: 6 5 // 5 // 5 // -. Raw: 21. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 21.
Several birds with no good kitdiscipline, in and out of the team way too often. The team wasnt
realy active and the avarage breaks were just scorable for quality and depth.
47. Willie Silvey. Breaks: 5 5 // 5 // 5 // -. Raw: 20 Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 20.
Not a real entertaining show at Willies place this time. Loose kitting , one bird out most of the
time. Some nice individuals made us feel better about this performance today!
48. Dennis Berry. Breaks: - // 5 // - // 5 7. Raw: 17. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 17.
His kit flew rightwing circles , and hardly no action, later the kit went up too high. Near the end
when the kit came down enough, I saw some scorable action again.
49. Bob Hord. Breaks: 6 5 // - // - // 5. Raw: 16. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 16.
Bobs birds just flew nice but realy relaxed, too relaxed and just didnt want to work this day!
They didnt know it was only Bob who was retired!
49. Rocky Burrows. Breaks: 6 5 // - // 5 // -. Raw: 16. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 16.
The kit came out a little excited, scored 2 breaks, but later there was no nice flypattern, and hardly
no activity anymore. One outbird during the fly.
50. Rick Price. Breaks: 5 5 // -. Raw: 10. Quality: 1.2. Depth: 1.2. Total: 14.4. Ricks birds came out
with energy, scored some breaks but then warning signals from wildbirds made them nervous,
and for a reason! A falcon attacked at 9 min. in the fly, he got a 5 min. time out, but the falcon
kept attacking and his birds landed 1 min. after the timeout! Fortunately no losses, but end of fly!
I hope more luck for you next year Rick!
51. Eric Schoelkopf. Breaks: - // 5 // - // 6. Raw: 11. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.1 Total: 13.31.
This was not Erics lucky day! No kitting discipline in this team today, outbirds most of the time
and different ones! Bad kitting is a major problem in a lot of teams!
52. Mike Wolden. Breaks: 8 // - // - // -. Raw : 8 Quality : 1.2. Depth : 1.2 Total : 11.52.
It was a bit windy, but not like it should be a problem for the kit. They started with a nice break
and soon after that the kit kind of decided to fly about half a mile down the road and out of
judgingsight. The birds were playing with the wind and not realy interested in breaking. A couple
of times the kit was back near the loft but left again to fly somewhere else. Bad luck, Mike!
53. Norman Herrin. Breaks: 5 // 6 // - // -. Raw: 11 Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 11.
Norms birds came out with enough energy, they flew on a nice height, the kitting was good.
The kit flew pretty fast and that probably kept them from setting up for some more action.
54. Jim Spring. Breaks: 5 5 . Raw: 10. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 10.
Jims team too had a problem with kitting, during the entire fly different birds in and out of the
kit for no reason at all. The pattern the kit flew was a little nervous and zig zagging.
55. Dawie de Villiers. Breaks: - // - // - // 6 . Raw: 6. Quality: 1.1 Depth: 1.1. Total: 7.26.
Dawies kit flew realy nice, good kitting, good height but no action, more luck next time Dawie!
56. Ivan Hanchett. Breaks: 6 // - // - // - . Raw: 6 Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 6
Ivans kit was stiff, hardly no activity, just one scorable break and flew ¾ of the time to high to
score. We all were expecting more, but unfortunately these things happen too often in this hobby!
56. Ted Peoples. Breaks: - // 6 // - // -. Raw: 6. Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 6. Teds birds just didnt
want to work, no activity,just one scorable break and the kit landed just after the 15 min. so he
kept his points! Maybe to hot,was the idea! But one hour later, and even hotter we saw an
exhibitionkit at Charlies and this kit flew perfect and worked! Conclusion: Teds birds just
werent in the right form/condition this day. Ted get in touch with Charlie!
57. Beaver Dayton. Breaks: - // 5 // - // -. Raw: 5. Quality: 1.0. Depth: 1.0. Total: 5.
This kit too just flew and flew, no performance, a disappointment for all of us in the yard,
Beavers birds didnt want to do it today! One bird landed early at 17 min. 30 sec.
57. Pete Kaufman. Breaks: 5 // - // - // -. Raw: 5 Quality: 1.0 Depth: 1.0 Total: 5 .
One scorable break and that was it, nice birds, flew good , beautiful area, what more can I say!
I hope Pete knows what was wrong this day and can do something about it!
57. Aaron Johnson. Breaks: 5 // - // - // -. Raw: 5. Quality: 1.0 Depth:1.0. Total: 5.
One of the few fanciers and maybe the last who has only pure Monty offspring in his loft, I was
looking forward to judge Aarons kit. We were the two people who saw Montys last World
Championkit in 2000 and both have seen the topquality of his birds. Aaron wasnt that lucky this
day, he scored just one break in the first few minutes. He had an outbird almost right from the
start and the second bird joined this one 4 min. in the fly these two stayed out the entire time!
I did see some nice breaks of the kit, with a few real nice spinners, Aaron will be back!
57. Henry Cook. Breaks: - // 5 // - // -. Raw: 5 Quality; 1.0 Depth: 1.0. Total: 5 .
Not in the mood, not ready, who will tell, but they just didnt do what we were waiting for!
One break and the rest of what they did was just not scorable, better luck next time, Henry!
58. Kenny Hartman. Breaks: - . Total: 0. Kenny was sure he let 16 birds out! I never counted more than
15, we saw no bird landing or rolldown, so we just considered one bird out! Almost all the time
he had another outbird, so no score! I saw some nice activity ,most in a distance, the kit flew far
from the loft the first part. I did see some nice birds, so Im sure Kenny has more quality there
than he scored today!
58. Dave Hafner. Breaks: -. Total: 0. Daves birds flew a nice pattern the first part, but I just didnt see
any scorable action, to bad, but this happens sometimes! More luck next time Dave!
59. Vince Callega. Breaks: 5 5 5 // 5 5 // - DQ. His kit started with some scorable breaks and even a break
with some better quality so I was expecting this kit to warm up, relax a little more, but one bird
decided to land after 11 min. in the fly and the rest followed, and that was the sad end of this fly.
Not any DQ sofar, I was so glad about that, but it had to happen at the very last flyer of this
competition, to bad it was you Vince!
| WORLD CUP FLYOFF 2006 |
Judge Heine Bijker of The Netherlands ( Holland)
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I cant tell you people how glad I am to have finished this flyoff report, after 69 kits judged and writing a little report of every fly and find the right words to explain what I saw and thought about every kit in a foreign language is very hard, believe me!! First of all, I want to thank Ron Duncan our General Coordinator , Tim Decker our treasurer and Dennis Hayes our website director for all the work they did for our hobby, without people like them we wouldnt have a World Cup Rollerfly. You must be very very crazy about this hobby to volunteer for these jobs, everybody should realy appreciate what they do for us! Next I want to thank all the people who invited me into their houses and took realy good care of me, it was awesome! Ofcourse I have to thank my wife Teatske, to let me go again and realy important, my niece Esther who took care of my pigeons, fed, cleaned and trained them too! She has done this all three times Ive judged, every time I came home it was as if Id just been gone for a few days! That I could judge this competition for the third time was a surprice for me but I realy enjoyed it again! It was an honour for me to judge again and I was looking forward to see many of the kits Ive judged before to see the possible improvement? A real surprise was the amount of new people I,ve met and judged this time. I believe of the 69 people Íve judged this time I had judged only 13 of these before in the two previous times in 2000 and 2002, so 53 new fanciers for me, ofcourse Id met several before, but not judged, I realy liked that. This years WC rollerfly was seen the scores not one of the best. I did see some beautiful kits, but the overall quality was a bit of a disapointment for me, and you see this in the scores too, the highest quality multipliers were 1.5 for only 3 kits in this competition! Ofcourse a lot of people will criticize my judging and thats ok with me. Everybody knows this was my third time judging this WC and Ive been around to many places and seen loads of kits everywhere and seen awsome kits with excellent quality, you have to believe me that I know what a quality kit looks like!I tried to judge as good as possible with my knowlegde of a good quality kit of Birmingham Rollers, and I was an easy judge, believe me! The judging I did was ofcourse just on this particular day and only this finals fly, I know that many of the kits I judged can do a lot better than this, but it was what I saw and judged on this occasion! Many fanciers were maybe disapointed in the score they got , but dont blame the judge, you have to earn the points with your birds! I realized too that many fanciers, just by listening while watching their birds probably never ever have seen real topquality spinners or a topquality team, but think they have!This gives them the idea that they have better birds than they actualy have! But this doesnt have to be a problem for your fun in the hobby, just realize it maybe, but dont fool yourself! They always can be better, and the struggling to achieve that is what this hobby is about! I sure hope that next year a lot of flyers will have the luck that their birds show on competitionday what theyre capable off, because I certainly think that a lot of fanciers had bad luck this year! Thank you all for flying your birds for me and I hope that you enjoyed my company/judging just like I did ,and that we both learned from it! All the best to all my friends in this fantastic hobby and I sure hope to see several of my friends in Holland one day! Heine Bijker, Holland. World Cup Fly judge 2006.
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Finish | Flyer | Score | Region |
| 1 | Ferid Catak | 537.04 | Denmark Region |
| 2 | Brian McKenzie | 418.50 | South Africa Region 4 |
| 3 | Kevin McKinney | 336 | Northern Ireland Region |
| 4 | Jim Taylor | 310.96 | South Africa Region 2 |
| 5 | Clay Hoyle | 302.4 | South East Region |
| 6 | Nick Tsoltoudis | 246.74 | Australia East Coast Region |
| 7 | Jerry Higgins | 233.24 | Southern California Region |
| 8 | Trevor Weaver | 229.32 | North West England Region |
| 9 | Riaan Kruger | 217.56 | Region 1 South Africa |
| 10 | Jose Luis Lorenzo | 214.76 | Southern California Region |
| 11 | Joe Bob Stuka | 198.39 | South East Region |
| 12 | Thysie Fourie | 174.72 | Region 3 South Africa |
| 13 | Steve Smith | 156.60 | Southern California North Region |
| 14 | Poen Sahabodien | 142.8 | South Africa Region 6 |
| 15 | Scott Campbell | 141.96 | Mountain West Region |
| 15 | Henk Nijman | 141.96 | Holland Region |
| 16 | Alonzo Cano | 138.24 | Southern California North Region |
| 17 | David Vang | 130.13 | Central California Region |
| 18 | Cedric Leiton | 125.58 | South Africa Region 6 |
| 19 | Charles Joubert | 118.3 | Region 1 South Africa |
| 20 | Steve Naude | 116.16 | South Africa Region 2 |
| 21 | Calman Grobler | 99 | South Africa Region 2 |
| 22 | Peter Handy | 98.02 | Derby Region England |
| 23 | Frank Dry | 92.4 | South Africa Region 2 |
| 24 | Aris Puna | 76.44 | Central California Region |
| 25 | Peet du Plessis | 74.88 | South Africa Region 4 |
| 25 | Paul Chantry | 74.88 | East Yorkshire Region England |
| 26 | Abel Ibarra | 70.98 | Southern California Region |
| 27 | Charles Hudson | 71.39 | South Africa Region 4 |
| 28 | Brian McCormick | 69.29 | Southern California Region |
| 29 | Donnie Fasion | 61.92 | Southern California North Region |
| 29 | Victor Babilonia | 61.92 | New Mexico Region |
| 30 | Rick Schoening | 57.6 | Rocky Mountain Region |
| 31 | Frank Baker | 55.44 | South Africa Region 6 |
| 32 | Manny Manion | 46.8 | Northern California Coast Region |
| 33 | Henri Smit | 46.08 | Holland Region |
| 34 | Johnny Conradie | 44.84 | Region 1 South Africa |
| 35 | Alex Hamilton | 42 | Texas Region |
| 36 | Brad Winward | 39.2 | Mountain West Region |
| 37 | John Szczurko | 38.61 | Ontario Canada Region |
| 38 | Keith London | 37.18 | Southern California North Region |
| 38 | Joe Urbon | 37.18 | Northern California Region |
| 39 | Tom Mendes | 36 | Hawaii |
| 40 | Hennie Pfahl | 34.32 | Region 3 South Africa |
| 41 | Jim Shumway | 30.25 | Western Plains Region |
| 42 | Justin Okerlund | 27.0 | Mountain West Region |
| 43 | Gary Richards | 26.62 | Arizona Region |
| 44 | Dave Gehrke | 25 | North Central West Region |
| 45 | Allen Seymour-Smith | 24.2 | Region 1 South Africa |
| 46 | Dave Szabatura | 21 | East Region |
| 47 | Willie Silvey | 20 | Central Region |
| 48 | Dennis Berry | 17 | Great Plains Region |
| 49 | Bob Hord | 16 | North Central East Region |
| 49 | Rocky Burrows | 16 | Virginia Region |
| 50 | Rick Price | 14.4 | Australia South Coast Region |
| 51 | Eric Schoelkoph | 13.31 | San Diego Region |
| 52 | Mike Wolden | 11.52 | Northern California Coast Region |
| 53 | Norman Herrin | 10 | South Central Region |
| 53 | Jim Spring | 10 | New England Region |
| 54 | Dawie de Villiers | 7.26 | South Africa Region 5 |
| 55 | Ivan Hanchett | 6 | North West Region |
| 56 | Beaver Dayton | 5 | Rocky Mountain Region |
| 56 | Pete Kaufman | 5 | North West Region |
| 56 | Aaron Johnson | 5 | North West Region B.C. |
| 56 | Henry Cook | 5 | South Central Region |
| 56 | Ted Peoples | 5 | North Central East Region |
| 57 | Kenny Hartman | 0 | Texas Region |
| 57 | Dave Hafner | 0 | Central Region |
| 58 | Vince Gallega | DQ | Australia South Coast Region |
| ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE | DAYS | REGION |
| 4/28/06 | 4/30/06 | 2 | Judge Texas Finalist --Drive between finalist --Fly from DAL/HOU to Albuquerque |
| 4/30/06 | 5/1/06 | 1 | Judge NM Finalist Fly Alb to Phoenix |
| 5/1/06 | 5/2/06 | 1 | Judge AZ Finalist -- Fly Phoenix to San Diego |
| 5/2/06 | 5/3/06 | 1 | Judge S.D. Finalist -- Drive to S. CA Region Sbo/Riv |
| 5/3/06 | 5/5/06 | 2 | Judge SBO/RIV finalist -- Drive to S.CA N Region |
| 5/5/06 | 5/7/06 | 2 | Judge S.CA N finalist -- Drive to S.CA High Desert |
| 5/7/06 | 5/8/06 | 1 | Judge SC High Desert finalist -- Fly Burbank to |
| 5/8/06 | 5/9/06 | 1 | Judge NCA Central Finalist -- Drive to N Ca North |
| 5/9/06 | 5/10/06 | 1 | Judge NCA North Finalist -- Fly SAC to Hawaii |
| 5/10/06 | 5/13/06 | 3 | Judge Hawaii finalist -- Fly Hawaii to Pac North West |
| 5/13/06 | 5/14/06 | 1 | Judge NW Finalist -- Fly to W. Canada |
| 5/14/06 | 5/15/06 | 1 | Judge W. Canada --Fly to N. Rocky Mountain Region |
| 5/15/06 | 5/17/06 | 2 | Judge RM Finalist -- Fly to San Jose, CA |
| 5/17/06 | 5/18/06 | 1 | Judge NCA Coast Finalist-Fly to Salt Lake City to Mountain West Region |
| 5/18/06 | 5/20/06 | 2 | Judge Mount. West Finalist -- Fly SLC to Western Plains Region |
| 5/20/06 | 5/21/06 | 1 | Judge WPR Finalist -- Fly to Great Plains Region |
| 5/21/06 | 5/22/06 | 1 | Judge GPR Finalist -- Fly to N. Central West Region |
| 5/22/06 | 5/23/06 | 1 | Judge NCW Finalist -- Fly to Central Region |
| 5/23/06 | 5/25/06 | 2 | Judge CR Finalist -- Fly S. Central Region |
| 5/25/06 | 5/27/06 | 2 | Judge SCR Finalist -- Fly to N. Central East Region |
| 5/27/06 | 5/29/06 | 2 | Judge NCE Finalist -- Fly to S. East Region |
| 5/29/06 | 5/30/06 | 1 | Judge SE Finalist -- Fly or drive to Virginia Region |
| 5/30/06 | 5/31/06 | 1 | Judge Virginia Region -- Fly to New England Region |
| 5/31/06 | 6/1/06 | 1 | Judge NE Finalist -- Fly/Drive to NY, East Region |
| 6/1/06 | 6/2/06 | 1 | Judge NY Finalist -- Drive from N.Y. to Ontario |
| 6/2/06 | 6/3/06 | 1 | Judge Canada --Fly to Amsterdam Holland |
| 6/3/06 | 6/4/06 | 1 | Travel Day |
| 6/4/06 | 6/7/06 | 3 | Judge Holland Finalist -- Fly Billund, Denmark |
| 6/7/06 | 6/8/06 | 1 | Judge Denmark Finalist -- Fly to Irland |
| 6/8/06 | 6/9/06 | 1 | Judge Irland Finalist -- Fly to NW England Region |
| 6/9/06 | 6/10/06 | 1 | Judge NW England Finalist -- Judge E. Yorkshire Finalist *** |
| 6/10/06 | 6/12/06 | 2 | Judge Derby Region -- Fly England to AMS to JNB-South Africa |
| 6/12/06 | 6/13/06 | 1 | Travel Day |
| 6/13/06 | 6/22/06 | 9 | Judge South Africa Finalist -- Fly JNB to Perth to Melbourne |
| 6/22/06 | 6/23/06 | 1 | Travel Day |
| 6/23/06 | 6/27/06 | 4 | Judge Australia Finalist -- Fly Sydney to Amsterdam |
| Final schedule added additional days to the Central Region and the North Central | |||
| East Region. The Tri state and New York Regions withdrew due to lack of entries. | |||
| Final schedule dated 4/17/06 | |||
| All flights will Depart early evenings and Arive late evenings except International flights |
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