REPORT ON 1998 FAI FREE FLIGHT WORLD CUP
by Ian Kaynes Chairman, CIAM FF Subcommittee February 1999
The 1998 Free Flight World Cup was again a successful event. There is a significant fluctuation in total number of F1A/B/C participants according to whether the FF Championships are European or World, the latter usually attracting many more entries in the adjacent open international World Cup event. Comparing the 1998 World Cup with 1996 (the previous European Championship year) shows the same number of competitions and a slightly larger number of participants in each class in 1998.
Another similarity with 1996 was that F1A, F1B and F1C were all won by Ukrainians. Victor Stamov again won F1A, Oleg Kulakovsky won F1B, and, for the third coinsecutive year, Eugene Verbitsky won F1C. 1998 saw the introduction of a bonus point system giving extra points to people placing ahead of a large number of other competitors. This makes it very much less likely that there will be a tie on the number of points from three events, but the winners this year would also have won under the previous system: Victor with 5 wins, Oleg and Eugeny both with 4 wins. Victor Stamov had recorded points earning results in a record of 11 F1A competitions during the year.
In class F1E, there were more competitions in 1998 than 1997 and there were even more participants than the pro-rata number from 1997. The clear winner was Juraj Uhrin with two wins and an eighth place, having gained potential points from seven out of the eight competitions.
ORGANISATION
The organisation of the World Cup ran smoothly apart from the usual late receipt of results from some competition organisers,.most particularly the F1E event in Germany, the results of which took almost three months to reach the coordinator. During the year results and news have been issued to organisers in the form of 3 issues of a World Cup newsletter. Results have been made available on the internet. As competition results are received and entered into the results system a new web page is generated and sent directly to the relevant pages of the aeromodelling section of the FAI web site. Thanks are due to Thierry Montigneaux in the FAI Office for facilitating the FTP access for these updates.
1998 STATISTICS
Number of competitors per country, only those scoring points in 2 or more events:
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F1A |
F1B |
F1C |
F1E |
ALL |
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GER 8 |
UKR 11 |
GBR 3 |
ROM 12 |
UKR 22 |
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UKR 8 |
GER 8 |
HUN 3 |
SVK 7 |
GER 21 |
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FRA 7 |
GBR 7 |
UKR 3 |
AUT 5 |
AUT 16 |
|
AUT 6 |
AUS 5 |
AUS 2 |
CZE 4 |
GBR 15 |
|
FIN 6 |
FRA 4 |
AUT 2 |
GER 4 |
SVK 14 |
|
SVK 6 |
SWE 4 |
USA 2 |
POL 1 |
ROM 12 |
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GBR 5 |
USA 4 |
BIH 1 |
AUS 11 |
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HUN 5 |
AUT 3 |
DEN 1 |
FRA 11 |
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|
NED 5 |
FIN 3 |
EST 1 |
HUN 10 |
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SWE 5 |
ISR 3 |
GER 1 |
SWE 10 |
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YUG 5 |
NED 3 |
ITA 1 |
USA 10 |
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AUS 4 |
HUN 2 |
NZL 1 |
FIN 9 |
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USA 4 |
NOR 2 |
POL 1 |
NED 8 |
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NZL 3 |
YUG 2 |
SWE 1 |
YUG 7 |
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POL 3 |
CAN 1 |
POL 6 |
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SLO 3 |
DEN 1 |
ISR 5 |
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DEN 2 |
ITA 1 |
NZL 5 |
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ISR 2 |
LAT 1 |
CZE 4 |
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NOR 2 |
NZL 1 |
DEN 4 |
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BEL 1 |
POL 1 |
NOR 4 |
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BIH 1 |
SVK 1 |
SLO 4 |
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CAN 1 |
SLO 1 |
BIH 2 |
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CRO 1 |
CAN 2 |
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LUX 1 |
ITA 2 |
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RUS 1 |
BEL 1 |
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ESP 1 |
CRO 1 |
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SUI 1 |
EST 1 |
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LAT 1 |
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LUX 1 |
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RUS 1 |
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ESP 1 |
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SUI 1 |
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F1A |
F1B |
F1C |
F1E |
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Number of competitions |
29 |
29 |
28 |
8 |
|
Total number of entries |
1186 |
660 |
229 |
260 |
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Number of competitors scoring points: |
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in 1 event |
191 |
119 |
54 |
30 |
|
in 2 events |
46 |
40 |
9 |
10 |
|
in 3 events |
27 |
11 |
9 |
15 |
|
in 4 events |
13 |
9 |
1 |
6 |
|
in 5 events |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
in 6 events |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
in 7 events |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
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in 8 events |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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in 9 events |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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in 10 events |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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in 11 events |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total number of competitors scoring World Cup points |
288 |
188 |
70 |
63 |
Total number of participants in all four classes:
2335