2015 World Cup Roller Fly Judge
John Wanless of the UK
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Congratulations to the 2015 World Cup Roller Fly Champion, Theodore Mann of the United States, Northwest region! |
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2015 World Cup Roller Fly Judge John Wanless of the UK |
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| Place | Name | Region | Kit Size | Weather Conditions | Breaks Scored | Raw | Quality | Depth | Bonus Factor | Score | Comments |
| 1 | Theodore Mann | Northwest, USA | 20 | 7:45am, 68 degrees, clear and sunny | 7,6,6,10,7,6,6,5,7,5,17,14,6,5,7,7,14,5,5,16 | 265 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 636 | Absolutely a great kit and a pleasure to watch. |
| 2 | Robbie Mc Nally | Republic of Ireland | 20 | 9pm, 62 degrees, overcast and rain | 8,9,5,6,5,6,8,6,7,5,6,8,5,5,9,14,9,5 | 140 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 336 | Birds only flew 16 minutes due to rain otherwise could have been pushing the leader. He had some really nice rollers in the kit. Pity about the weather. |
| 3 | Alan Milne | Sunderland, UK | 20 | 8:30pm, 68 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,5,9,6,5,6,7,6,5,5,8,7,9,8,5,9,5,7,7 | 134 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.25 | 301.5 | Had perfect weather, kit worked good with good depth and quality. |
| 4 | Mark Coady | Republic of Ireland | 20 | 8:15pm, 62 degrees, very windy | 7,14,5,10,12,6,5,11,9,5,6,5 | 142 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 278.32 | Birds struggled in very strong winds. Ssure this kit would have been pushing the leaders in better conditions. |
| 5 | Colin Bailey | Middlesbrough, UK | 20 | 9pm, 72 degrees, overcast, calm | 5,8,6,6,7,5,6,5,9,7,5,9,5,6,6,5,5,11,9,6,7 | 149 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.82 | 271.18 | Some nice rollers in the kit, a bit short in the breaks, did not put the big breaks in we all expected from them. |
| 6 | Arnold Jackson | Southern California North, USA | 20 | 8am, 76 degrees | 6,5,5,6,14,6,8,11,9,7,11,10,8,8 | 160 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 270.4 | Birds flew on one wing most of fly, some big breaks where birds were not all commiting in the roll. |
| 7 | Andy Dawson | Middlesbrough, UK | 20 | 8pm, 72 degrees, overcast, calm | 5,6,5,14,6,5,5,5,12,8,5,7,6,5,6,5,5,5,5,6 | 152 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 256.88 | Kit flew a little far away at first then started working well. Quality was not to their usual standard but worked well as a kit. |
| 8 | Marcel Steegh | Holland, Netherlands | 20 | 9:30am, 66 degrees, clear, slight breeze | 5,8,14,6,5,5,6,11,6,5,5,5,6,7 | 119 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 249.9 | Some really nice birds in kit, were a little too active at times or would have scored a lot more. |
| 9 | Bob Hord | North Central, USA | 20 | 7:50am, 80 degrees, cloudy | 5,8,8,6,10,10,5, 14,8,6,7,5,5,5 | 136 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 229.8 | Birds flew a little far away for 1st part of the fly to get higher quality but easily best kit so far. |
| 10 | Vukasin Pejcic | Serbia | 20 | 6pm, 22 degrees, overcast, windy | 9,7,11,7,9,6,6,14,5,5,7 | 111 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 217.56 | Great working kit, ruined by wind. Sure this kit would have scored higher if the view was not blocked by trees. |
| 11 | Poen Sahabodien | Region 3, South Africa | 20 | 7:30am, 60 degrees, clear, slight breeze | 10,6,5,9,5,5,5,6,15,5,6,5,6 | 128 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 216.32 | Lots of activity but not always rolling clean, out birds cost him a much higher score. |
| 12 | Gerrie Naude | Region 2, South Africa | 20 | 7:30am, 65 degrees, clear, calm | 5,7,5,5,8,5,5,5,7,5,5,7,8,5,10,6,5,5 | 118 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.82 | 214.76 | Kit worked well but were hard to judge in clear skys, a little short in the breaks. |
| 13 | Ewald Botha | Region 1, South Africa | 19 | 4:10pm, 66 degrees, clear, calm | 8,5,5,5,6,5,7,9,5,5,9,5,7,5,8,6,5,9,5 | 119 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 201.11 | Steady working kit but quality was inconsistent at times. |
| 14 | Ferid Catak | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 20 | 5:45pm, 17 degrees, overcast, calm | 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,8,10,5 | 78 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.56 | 199.68 | Fantastic quality and depth, best so far but bad kitting really hurt his score, what a pity. |
| 15 | Andre Cara | Middlesbrough, UK | 20 | 8am, 66 degrees, clear, calm | 5,6,7,5,5,6,9,7,9,8,14 | 95 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 186.2 | Birds got chased by a seagull, took time to settle but once they did we seen some very nice rollers in the kit. |
| 16 | Eddie Avila | Southern California North, USA | 20 | 7am, 65 degrees, cloudy | 5,8,5,5,14,6,8,5,10,8,8 | 106 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 179.14 | Out birds hurt his score as did the height they flew. |
| 17 | Joe Emberton | Northern California Central, USA | 20 | 10am, clear, calm | 5,9,7,6,8,9,6,5,5,7,8,12 | 99 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.68 | 166.32 | Birds down at 18 minutes due to peregrine attack, some nice individuals but a bit short in the breaks, lots of potential in the kit. |
| 18 | Johny Conradie | Region 1, South Africa | 20 | 10am, 58 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,6,5,8,8,14,9,5,6 | 90 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 152.1 | Birds just did not seem right, looked lethargic at times. Not the quality I've seen there before. |
| 19 | Kenny Snyders (Tabak) | Region 2, South Africa | 20 | 8:30am, 60 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,7,5,5,5,5,7,5,9,9,6,5 | 83 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 140.27 | Birds were a little too active at times, did not wait for each other, too much individual rolling. |
| 20 | Marko Uzunovic | Croatia East | 20 | 8am, 13 degrees, overcast, calm | 7,5,6,6,9,6,5,6,7,6,8,7,5,5,8 | 96 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 138.44 | Kit too active at times, were not committing in roll at times, lots of water falling but worked good as kit at times. |
| 21 | Darren Deacon | East Midlands, UK | 20 | 6:30pm, 68 degrees, cloudy, calm | 5,6,5,9,7,6,5,5,5,8,7 | 68 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 133.28 | Kit started slow then worked steady |
| 22 | Brent Axsel | Region 1, South Africa | 20 | 4:40pm, 58 degrees, clear, calm | 7,6,6,5,9,6,11,5 | 66 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 129.36 | Kit flew a good pattern. Lost four good breaks due to out birds. |
| 23 | Jay Yandle | Southeast, USA | 20 | 8am, 68 degrees, slight breeze | 7,6,9,8,5,8,5,7,8 | 63 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.96 | 123.5 | some nice birds in kit, flew well as a kit, could have worked more |
| 24 | Sam Williams | California Central Valley, USA | 19 | 10:30am, 70 degrees, cloudy | 5,5,6,6,7,9,7,5,6,7,5,8,7 | 83 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 119.52 | Kit flew a nice pattern, very slow, a little quiet at times, some nice individuals in the kit. |
| 25 | Mark Sax | Region 4, South Africa | 18 | 4:45pm, 66 degrees, very windy | 8,5,6,7,7,9,7,5 | 54 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 113.4 | Great kit of quality rollers spoilt by bad wind. |
| 26 | Henry Davis | Virginia, USA | 19 | 9am, 60 degrees, overcast | 5,5,6,7,5,6,6,10,5 | 65 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 109.9 | Nice steady flying kit. Too much individual rolling but nice to watch. |
| 27 | Mark Ritter | North Central West, USA | 20 | 7:15am, 63 degrees | 6,6,9,7,7,5,5,6,5,6 | 62 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 104.8 | Birds flew a good height were a bit inconsistant in their quality, I think the damp had got to them through the night. |
| 28 | Garry Wood | Midlands, UK | 20 | 8:15pm, 65 degrees, cloudy, slight breeze | 8,5,6,9,7,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5 | 75 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 90.75 | A stray racer flew with the kit for 10 minutes hindering a higher score. Birds were a little on the short side. |
| 29 | Don Macauley | Nevada, USA | 20 | 6:15am, 79 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,7,6,8,7,7,5,5 | 60 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 86.4 | Birds flew a little high so it hurt his quality, seemed as they were not comitting as they should. |
| 30 | Guil Rand | Mountain West, USA | 20 | 11am, 50 degrees | 7,5,7,5,8,5,6,6 | 49 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 82.81 | some nice rollers for young birds, missed one good break due to out birds |
| 31 | Sparks Axsel | Region 1, South Africa | 20 | 9:15am, 60 degrees, clear, calm | 6,6,6,11,5 | 45 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.82 | 81.9 | Kit flew on the left wing like racing pigeons the whole fly. |
| 32 | Tim Decker | San Diego, USA | 18 | 6:20pm, 78 degrees, clear, windy | 7,5,5,9,8,10 | 54 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 77.76 | Birds were fighting the wind, kit well but were a bit short in the roll. |
| 32 | Anthony Farmer | Southern California High Desert, USA | 19 | 8:30am, 76 degrees, clear, calm | 6,5,6,6,8,7,5,6,5 | 54 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.44 | 77.76 | Out birds cost him a few breaks. |
| 34 | Ishmail Haydar | Sydney, Australia | 18 | 54 degrees, cloudy, slight breeze | 5,6,5,8,6,5,5,5 | 45 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 76.05 | Birds flew on left wing most of fly. They were working well when released but were too far away to judge. |
| 35 | Wynand Deyzel | Region 3, South Africa | 20 | 4:40pm, 65 degrees, clear, windy | 6,5,5,5,5,6,9,6 | 47 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 67.68 | Birds were struggling in the wind, put some nice breaks in after time. |
| 36 | James Temple | Region 1, South Africa | 20 | 10:50am, 60 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,5,5,7,5,5 | 42 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.56 | 65.52 | Kit flew a bit too high, lots of birds just playing around in the breaks and not committing in the roll. |
| 37 | Ramsey Aljouni | Northern California Coast, USA | 20 | 6:30am, 63 degrees, overcast | 5,5,5,5,6 | 26 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 62.4 | Great depth and nice quality but kitting cost him dearly. |
| 38 | Branko Mastelic | Croatia West | 20 | 6:45, 23 degrees, clear, calm | 6,9,5,7,6,5,5 | 43 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 61.92 | Birds started well then drifted too far and too high then had four out birds for 15 minutes so could not evaluate multipliers. |
| 39 | Vince Callaja | Melbourne, Australia | 17 | clear, calm, cool | 9,6,7,5,5,6,5 | 43 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 61.92 | One bird down at 11 minutes then they skyed out and were too high to judge. |
| 39 | Mike Wolden | Northern California Coast, USA | 20 | 11am, 72 degrees | 5, 8, 12, 6 | 43 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.44 | 61.92 | The unluckiest flier so far. A hawk hit the kit and took a bird. Then two more hawks hit the kit followed by a falcon. The falcon kept attacking his kit the rest of the fly. The kit looked like it might have been in the top had it not been for the attacks. |
| 41 | Hugo Cuevas | Southern California North, USA | 17 | 6am, 60 degrees, overcast | 6,6,8,6,6,5,5 | 42 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 60.48 | Out birds hurt his score |
| 42 | Brian Lockhart | Region 2, South Africa | 20 | 9am, 55 degrees, clear, windy | 6,5,14 | 39 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 56.15 | Birds were fighting a very strong wind the whole fly, gave them no chance at all, unlucky . |
| 43 | Sid Licea | Northern California Central, USA | 15 | 7am, 76 degrees, clear, calm skies | 6,5,5,5,7,6 | 34 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.56 | 53.04 | Some nice individuals but a little short. One bird down at 16 minutes. |
| 44 | Adam Hill | Mountain West, USA | 20 | 9am, 50 degrees, cloudy | 6,5,7,5,6,5 | 34 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 48.96 | kitted good at times but really bad at other times, lots of waterfalling |
| 45 | Dwight Wallace | Northern California, USA | 18 | 8am, 78 degrees, clear skies | 5,6,6,8,6 | 31 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.56 | 48.36 | kit was very quiet, some nice individules but a bit short in the breaks |
| 46 | Scott Lauffer | San Diego, USA | 20 | 6:30am, 68 degrees, clear, calm | 6,5,6,5,5,6 | 33 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 47.52 | Birds flew on the one wing the whole fly and were very quiet. |
| 47 | Herni Smit | Holland, Netherlands | 20 | 3:40pm, 60 degrees, overcast, calm | 6,5,5,5,5,6 | 32 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 46.08 | Kit flew great pattern but were very quite today. |
| 48 | Zang Lo | California Central Valley, USA | 17 | 8:45am, overcast | 5,5,5,5,5,6 | 31 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 44.64 | Flew great pattern, a little quiet but some nice individuals. |
| 48 | Murton Osler | Region 4, South Africa | 17 | 8:30am, 58 degrees, clear, strong wind | 5,7,5,6,8 | 31 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 44.64 | Birds done well to stay in sight most of the time in bad winds. |
| 50 | Alan Dewey | Western Plains, USA | 20 | 8:15am | 5,5,6,5,5 | 26 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 43.94 | kitting spoilt kit, kept breaking up, some nice rollers in kit but lost breaks due to out birds |
| 51 | Jay Knepp | North Central, USA | 18 | 11:50am, 50 degrees, overcast | 5,7,6,5 | 23 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 38.87 | Birds started well with decent speed and depth then things started going wrong. |
| 52 | Miguel Pelon Gutierrez | Southern California, USA | 18 | 9am, 74 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,6,5 | 21 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.82 | 38.22 | Flew a good height and pattern, some good individuals but lacked team work due to losses from a overfly |
| 53 | John Elton | North Central West, USA | 19 | 10am, 68 degrees, overcast | 5,7,5,5 | 22 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 37.18 | poor kitting spoilt them, nice depth and quality but out birds hurt his score |
| 54 | Robert Parker | Southern California, USA | 18 | 8am, 78 degrees, clear, calm | 5,6,8 | 19 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.69 | 32.11 | Seen some good quality in these birds but they went too high too fast so had to be hard on his quality as they were hard to see at times. |
| 55 | Mathew Heny-Mills | Ontario, Canada | 20 | 8am, 68 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,8 | 18 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 25.92 | Birds a little short at times, lost breaks to out birds. |
| 56 | Kevin Monroe | North Texas, USA | 17 | 6:45am, 68 degrees | 6,9,5 | 20 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 24.2 | birds got spooked by a wading bird never settled after that always had out birds |
| 56 | Hardeep Sahota | British Columbia, Canada | 18 | 7:15am, 60 degrees, clear skies | 5,5,5,5 | 20 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 24.2 | Lots of activity but were not committing in the roll. Change of flying time hurt his score I think. |
| 58 | Mehdi Arazaghi | West Texas, USA | 20 | very windy, flew at 9:50 | 5,7,7 | 19 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 22.99 | birds handled really strong winds quite well |
| 59 | Dave Murray | Northern California Central, USA | 17 | 8:15am, 80 degrees, clear, calm | 5,5,5,5 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | Birds were too high to award higher multipliers. |
| 60 | Jude Roscoe | Region 4, South Africa | 20 | 4:30pm, 60 degrees, very windy | 7,5 | 12 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 17.28 | Terrible weather for flying birds strong winds ruined this kit. |
| 61 | Clem Pretorius | Region 3, South Africa | 18 | 70 degrees, clear, slight breeze | 6,5 | 11 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 15.84 | Had out birds most of the fly, missed three good breaks due to out birds. |
| 62 | Rich Cash | Central, USA | 19 | 8:30am, 63 degrees | 5,6 | 11 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 13.31 | birds were flying too fast, kept flying through the breaks |
| 63 | Jorge Archiga | Arizona, USA | 17 | 6am, 60 degrees | 5,5 | 10 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 12.1 | three birds out of kit for 15 min |
| 63 | Allan Weaver | Arizona, USA | 18 | 9:05am, 75 degrees | 5,5 | 10 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.21 | 12.1 | birds flew on one wing the whole fly |
| 65 | Frank Femling | Northwest, USA | 20 | 7:50pm, 70 degrees, clear skies | 5,5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | birds were just playing around in the breeze |
| 66 | Huey Conn | Texas, USA | 20 | 8:30am, 75 degrees, very clammy | 5 | 5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.44 | 7.2 | bit better quality in some of his birds but always out birds stopping him scorring |
| 67 | Tony Auld | Melbourne, Australia | clear, cool, strong breeze | DQ | All birds down at nine minutes due to falcon attack, a rule I strongly think should be changed. | ||||||
| 67 | John Braska | North Central East, USA | 20 | 10:10am, 67 degrees, windy | DQ | Birds struggled with strong winds. One bird down at three minutes, second down at eight minutes. Pity as they put some good breaks in later in the fly. | |||||
| 67 | Morgan Hamlin | Central, USA | 17 | 1:30pm, 74 degrees, overcast and little rain | DQ | two birds down at 10 minutes | |||||
| 67 | Walt Rosehill | Hawaii, USA | 20 | 9:50am, 79 degrees | DQ | Two birds down at 1:06. Picked a real nice individual out, best roller I have seen so far. | |||||
| 67 | Rick Schoening | North Rocky Mountain, USA | 20 | 6:40am, bad fog | DQ | all birds were wet through and landed at six min | |||||
| 67 | Kevin Wright | Central California, USA | 17 | 6:20pm, 80 degrees, clear, calm | DQ | One bird down at six minutes and second bird down at nine minutes. |