2025 Nats Qualification Groups, scores and final reports

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Here are the flying groups for qualification for the next 2 days.  Best score from each day will be combined to determine who moves on to the next round (semi-finals for Open and Finals for Advanced). 
John

[Tom Luciano]

Thanks for posting, John! Missing a chunk of Nats regulars I see. Wishing all the best!

Tom

[Ken Culbertson]

Why does group "A" only have 8?

Ken

[Howard Rush]

Why does group "A" only have 8?

I can’t see the download on my phone, but it’s no doubt because Open is on four circles, Advanced is on three. Group A has only Open, the others have both.

[Ken Culbertson]

I can’t see the download on my phone, but it’s no doubt because Open is on four circles, Advanced is on three. Group A has only Open, the others have both.

Ahh!

[John Paris]

Howard is correct.  1 group of Open only and 3 groups of Open and Advanced. 

Beautiful weather today.

Don Jenkins won the Concours Trophy and was awarded at the end of his flight.

Tomorrow will be qualifying rounds 3 and 4.

John

[Mark Romanowitz]

Any scores from Day 1?

[Howard Rush]

Good to see that about Don. I thought he had the best plane a couple years ago, and I heard reports that this year’s is spectacular.

[John Paris]

Any scores from Day 1?

Mark,
I used to post the scores but do not now during the event so that there is no exposure of them to the judges.  I will get a list of qualifiers at the end of today though.
John

[Mark Romanowitz]

Ahh yes. Indeed.. Thanks, John..
Mark

[Rusty]

Good Luck, Brett Buck.  Kick some tail feathers!!!!

[Brett Buck]

Good Luck, Brett Buck.  Kick some tail feathers!!!!

     So far, so good. But just to manage expectations, my real competitor is myself and while I have show a few indications of being competitive, it pales in comparison to the consistency of most of the other pilots. Still, of course I am going to give it a go! Thanks for the encouragement!

   Brett

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Here are the results from the qualification rounds and the flight orders for tomorrow.  Going to be a good day.
John

[Howard Rush]

A full Moon

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Here are the Advanced Final and Open Semi Final results as well as the line up for Friday.
John

[Steve Berry]

Looks like Orestes Hernandez is our 2025 Nats Open Champion and likely Walker Cup Flyoff Winner!

Congrats to a great group of competitors!

And a tip of the hat to our own Sparky who was one of the Finals judges - great work, Sparky!

Steve

[John Paris]

Everyone,
Here are the final reports from today.  Good time appeared to be had by all.  Was nice to have decent weather for the event.
John