2000 World Cup Millennium Fly

2000 WC Fly Champions
Monty Neibel & Ewald Botha
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Judge -Heine Bijker

Fly Off Report

Position Competitor Points Region
1 Monty Neibel 1894.40 Northwest International
2 Don Ouellette 483.00 Northern California -Coast
3 Rick Mee 376.32 South Central
4 Gary Stephens 229.84 Northwest International
5 Tim Decker 220.50 Southern California
6 Clay Hoyle 201.88 Southeast
7 Willie Silvey 199.42 Central
8 Sam Damommio 180.83 Texas
9 Randy Gibson 154.70 Southern California
10 Nick Burcher 145.08 Northern California-Coast
11 John Jones 141.00 Southern California-San Diego
12 Reggie Stewart 126.72 Southern California- Northern
13 Mike Novinfar 84.96 Northern California- Coast
14 Robert Felix 80.52 Southern California- Northern
15 Bill Roy 76.32 Central
16 Homer Griggs 72.80 Texas
17 Ken Easley 70.98 New Mexico
18 Al Luna 56.42 Arizona
19 Norm Herring 52.00 South Central
20 Tom Brower 10.00 Northern California
21 Roy Edmonds 5.00 Northern California
22 Craig Wiggs DQ Southern California- Northern
23 Jerry Higgins DNF Southern California
24 Jack Meyers DNF Northern California

 
The following Flyers were unable to compete in the 2000 W/C and will receive an automatic bye for the 2001 world cup fly
BYE Garry Barres DNF Northern Rocky Mountains
BYE Ken Billings DNF Northern Rocky Mountains
BYE Jay Starley DNF Rocky Mountain
BYE Guil Rand DNF Rocky Mountain
BYE Merv Miller DNF Western Plains
BYE Dave Gehrke DNF North Central- West
BYE Richard Miller DNF North Central- West
BYE Brian Ridley DNF New England
BYE Ron Kumro DNF East

European/South African Fly-off Results
Peter Harper, WC Fly-off Judge

1st Place   Ewald Botha  214.06 points South Africa
2nd Place   Jimmy Roodt 201.74 South Africa
3rd Place 
 		   Dave Mosley 126.72 Great Britian
4th Place   Peter Handy 89.76 Great Britian
5th Place Jorgen Rosengreen   86.40 Denmark Region
6th Place Gawie Cilliers     76.44 South Africa
7th Place Duke Jacobs   48.84 South Africa
8th Place  Jude Rosco   36.30 South Africa
9th Place  Invin Kay  34.10 South Africa
10th Place Mark Callan  27.72 South Africa
  Brian Lockheart 18.48 South Africa
  Brian Lockheart  18.48 South Africa
  Johnny Conradie   D.Q. South Africa
  William Hoogenberg  D.Q. Holland Region
  
     My World Cup trip in-between the judging. 
 
My first day was a long  day, after four flights I arrived in Charlotte NC where Clay Hoyle picked me up. Clay lives at a beautiful place and he took me sightseeing in the area. I thought that if everyone takes care of me like Clay did I would have the time of my life in America. The evening after Clay flew his kit, Joe Bob Stuka [ a name in the roller pigeon world.] took me to his house in Waxhaw SC. The next morning Joe Bob flew some of his birds for me and we had a look in his lofts, after this he took me to the airport for my flight to Mobile Alabama. In Mobile Jerome Carodine, David ……, Don Simpson and Rick Mee were waiting for me at the airport. After a good Barbecue Rick had to go to work for a few hours and we went to Rick’s place to watch some video’s. Rick gave me a “Pigeon Debut” and I realized that a man like Rick is doing a lot of work and promotion for us fanciers, we are very lucky to have people like him in our Birmingham Roller hobby.
With our sunflower seeds eating chauffeur Jerome, David, Don and I left Rick’s that evening to drive to the next qualifier Norm Herring in Clinton Mississippi. We arrived in the middle of the night an slept in a hotel. The next morning Norm led us from the hotel to his beautiful house where he can grow his fruit and has a great place to fly his pigeons.
After Norm’s flight we all went to town to have breakfast together, after this Norm and Glenn Johnson drove me to northern Mississippi where we met Steve Clayton. Steve took me to the “Lady Luck” casino’s to give me a chance to win a lot of money, I failed, but I think it’s difficult for a man to win in a “Lady Luck” casino. Steve is a very nice guy and I had a great time, he told me he was a dog in an earlier life and I still wonder what kind of dog that could have been.
Steve and Vicky took me to their place in Arkansas, we spend some time with his pigeons and he explained to me how he is going to create his champion family of rollers.
Later that day Steve and I drove to Missouri where  we met Eldon Cheney at John Schmeltzer and Lisa Meier’s [they like Scrambled eggs, now me too.]
To meet Eldon Cheney again and in America after two years was really nice, I enjoyed talking with him about his judging trip in ’98, Eldon gave me a beautiful hatpin.  
The next morning we went to Bill Roy’s place to judge his birds. I met over there a wonderful group of fanciers from that region who came to watch Bill Roy’s fly. Bill has a nice place to fly pigeons. I continued my trip from here with Ferrell and June Bussing and Eldon, we went to a Bass Pro Outdoor Shop a very interesting place to have a look. With Ferrell and June, I went on to Wichita Kansas to meet the next flyer, the fighting chicken and Birmingham roller fancier Willie Silvey. He has a lot of henhouses, pigeon lofts, kit boxes and a beautiful “conditioning room”. Nice group of people to watch Willie’s kit fly. Next stop with Ferrell and June was in Oklahoma-city at the pigeon center ; “World of Wings”, where you could have a look at all kinds of pigeon lofts for show, racing or performing pigeons, there’s also a museum and library with everything about pigeons and all of this from donations! Later that day we had an entertaining visit at Hugh Smith’s, a “trailrider” and roller man in Oklahoma-city, from here Ferrell and June took me to the airport for my flight to Dallas Texas. At the airport I had to say goodbye, to these two wonderful nice people who took really good care of me, they are worth a fortune for the roller hobby in this region. Arriving in Dallas, Sam Damommio picked me up, the next morning Sam flew his birds and afterwards he took Homer Griggs and me to see a beautiful piece of art, a group of mustangs [statues] crossing a river. After a delicious barbecue in a nice restaurant Sam took us, Homer and I left Arlington and went to Homer’s place in Stephenville.
A lot of things to see at Homer’s ranch, he put me on one of his horses for a picture [a proof that I really was in Texas], he also gave a demonstration with his border collie herding some sheep.
Chasing a kit of Birmingham rollers in a “gator” was a new event for me, but not what we really wanted, the wind spoiled Homer’s fly. The next day Milford Sanders the Texas RD picked me up at Homer’s and took me to Palmer where Milford lives, we had a look at his pigeons and lofts.
After we had dinner in a Mexican restaurant Milford took me to the airport for my flight to Albuquerque New Mexico. Ken Easley with wife Lisa and daughter were waiting for me at the airport and took me to their house in the hills. I handled all of Ken’s birds and realized that he has a beautiful family of birds in his loft. Early next morning we flew Ken’s birds, but the wind hurt his fly too. After breakfast and sightseeing Ken took me to the airport for my next flight to Arizona. At the Phoenix airport I met AL Luna who offered to carry all my luggage, but when I told him I couldn’t change my consistent judging, I had to carry all of it myself.
Al is a good host and a nice guy, but I didn’t want to sleep in the same bed with him, so I slept on the couch. Unfortunately his birds [all Mason family] didn’t show me their real potential this time. We visited Mike Eppard [nice pigeons and computer pictures], and later that afternoon Al dropped me at the airport [carried all the luggage myself] for my flight to San Diego California.
In San Diego Al Eoff was waiting for me at the luggage and I was waiting at the gate, but 15 min. later we found each other and left. Al and his wife Paula took me for dinner to a beautiful restaurant with a great view over the San Diego bay. Al is an interesting person with his beautiful self built house, garden and pigeon lofts.
The next morning I met some of Al’s pigeon friends; Steve Moore, Jorge Rodriguez and Jim Wahlroos and together we visited surfboard producing Eric Schoelkopf who flew his kit for us, but the show stopped when two cooper hawks chased the kit real high. We did some great sightseeing over the San Diego bay and the Pacific. That evening we had a nice dinner at a fish restaurant with Al Eoff, Eric Schoelkopf and Mel Mabon, with their wives and children.
The next morning Al and Mel took me to John Jones the San Diego Region finalist to judge his kit, nice pigeons and loft. John is a hard working pigeon trainer, to bad that he was disappointed in his birds this time. I met Tim Decker at John’s, and he and Randy Gibson took me to the Southern California Region, on the way we visited Sal Salvador a very nice hospitable roller man. That evening at dinner I met Doug Brown and Jan van der Broek two active roller fanciers in this region. The next morning I first judged Randy’s kit and than Tim’s [ they both could have done better] later we visited Jan van der Broek with his beautiful Arabian horses, nice Birmingham rollers and cool Budweiser's. That evening I had a look in Randy’s lofts, he owns some colorful families of Birmingham rollers, with a lot of spinners amongst them he said. Jay Holman delivering pigeons in a huge brand-new limousine was a new experience for me [ must have been really special birds!]. Tim Decker took really good care of me for a few days, we visited Joe Bowers and he went into the California desert with me to visit Norm Reed, who I met before in Holland, these two men both own beautiful families of rollers.
Tim flew his birds for me every evening if possible and he sure owns an excellent family of rollers. My next stop was the South California North Region, I stayed with the family Goss. I had a great time in Burbank, the first day Sharon Goss took me sightseeing in L.A., Hollywood , Burbank and we visited a beautiful rose garden. poor Dave had to work]. That evening their daughter Bonnie took me to the city walk and we had an entertaining dinner in the Hard rock cafe.
The next morning we went to judge Reggie Stuart’s kit, and for the rest of the day Sharon took me to visit Jerry Higgins [ poor Dave had to work again ], a great roller man in California, I’m really glad that I’ve met Jerry. The third day Dave had a day off and we went together to judge the kits of  Robert Felix and Craig Wiggs. In the same time Sharon picked up Larry Hollingsworth from New Mexico at the airport and that afternoon the four of us went to Universal Studio’s Hollywood, an eye-opening and wonderful experience, an old-timers car show and a delicious dinner ended this day. The next morning we went to the California Classics [ every fancier can take two young birds ( 160 $ ) to the Classics loft manager who trains all these birds for a year , at the end of that year after five times judging the judges and the trainer point out the best bird who wins the Classics, this year it was lucky Larry Hollingsworth.] this event brings a lot of fanciers together. Here I met Brent Timeus my host for the North California Coast Region, with Brent I went judging Don Ouelette, Mike Novinfar and Nick Burcher three kits in a row.
Afterwards we saw exhibition kits of Jay Branch, Mike Walden [ nice birds, good jerky] and Michael Allen & son. That evening we went to visit Ramsey Alouni, I filmed their entire animal Park, and I really enjoyed it [they own a lot of different pigeon breeds], later we had a pleasant gathering at Don Ouelette’s place.
The next morning Brent flew his birds for me and later we left for a sightseeing trip along the coast. We went to Ano Nuevo point where we saw the elephant seals and smelled them!
In San Francisco we crossed the Golden Gate and the Richmond bridge and finally in Livermore we met Scott Campbell, who took me to the Northern California Region, the last one in California. That evening we had a barbecue at Scott’s beautiful place with roller friends and families. The next day I judged Roy Edmonds kit, and after their high fly demonstration he took me for a visit to Wayne Leverett who flew some nice birds for us. That evening I judged Tom Brower’s kit, who tried to beat Roy in highflying, he failed.
Scott and Tammy Campbell my hosts in Valley Springs took me to the Sacramento airport the next day for my flight to Portland Oregon. Gary Stephens a real easy to recognize pigeon man [hat with lots of hatpins and fly jacket] was waiting for me at the gate and took me to his beautiful place with impressive American pit-bull terriers and beautiful pigeon lofts.
The next morning before the judging one of his dogs tried to intimidate me but I can assure you that the judge remained consistent. That afternoon Gary took me sightseeing to the in 1980 erupted volcano, Mount St Helena, where we also spotted some deer and beautiful elk.
After feeding me some shu-shi [Japanese rice-fish] Gary dropped me at the airport for my flight to Vancouver Canada. In Vancouver, customs checked all my luggage, so after some delay I met David Kaplan who drove me to the ferry to take me across to Vancouver Island where I would meet Monty. I really talking with David, he is from South Africa and he understood my Dutch and I his Afrikaans, we talked about his huge falcon problem, they kill almost all his birds, it’s very hard for him to stay in the hobby.
That night when I arrived at Vancouver Island Monty was waiting for me and took me to his house in Qualicum Beach. Friday June 9, Monty fixed me some breakfast and took me sightseeing to Qualicum River and to a place where a storm had destroyed and damaged some giant trees. Later this day we flew some of his young birds and we saw some of his wildlife videos, the weather wasn’t to good, raining and windy. That evening Monty took me to the Sawmill Restaurant for dinner and later this evening we picked up Aaron Johnson at the bus stop, he came over to watch Monty’s kit fly and go fishing with Monty.
Saturday June 10, we were up early and took off to the harbor to go fishing, Monty wanted me to catch a huge salmon. Once the boat was in the water, Monty started hit giant outboard motor and launched us like a rocket to the middle of the bay, where we started fishing. Within 5 minutes we caught a  4 to 5 pound salmon, Aaron and I liked it, but Monty said it was to small and released it. We thought the salmon were awake and waiting for us because of this early catch, but it appeared the only salmon awake this morning. One moment we saw a seal and Monty grabbed his gun and aimed but then he thought it was a log and didn’t shoot it, his eyes weren’t good enough that morning, because a moment later when it dove under he realized his mistake. That afternoon we saw some of  Monty’s pigeon videos he had filmed himself, and we listened to him complaining about the weather, every half-hour he was outside to have a look at the weather. At 5.30 our nervous Monty decided to fly, he was thinking about flying the next morning, but he prepared his kit to fly this evening and at this time the weather was really nice.
After his incredible fly he was really glad that his birds had worked this hard, because the last two times he had them out they were just as good as this time he said, and he was afraid that they wouldn’t do it for the third time. This evening Monty prepared us a white-tail-deer-steak, and he had a lot of fun talking to friends on the phone about his incredible score.
Sunday June 11, we were up at six and had breakfast, I packed my things, said goodbye to Aaron, and Monty and I left for the ride to the ferry, but we never arrived.
After the accident during my days in the Nanaimo hospital I was taken care of very good. I want to thank all those people who visited and phoned me during those days. I received a lot of  e-mails and cards with a lot of beautiful and nice words, they were a great help to me and my family , thanks all of you for that. I would like to answer all of you, for all those messages and maybe I will, but I had a hard time in concentrating for writing my fly off report, so it may take some time. I want to thank all those people who made the first four weeks of my trip an unforgettable experience, I enjoyed it so much. My special thanks go out to my friend and World Cup Coordinator Steve Clayton, who did a wonderful job in organizing my trip, and all the support we had from him after the accident. One day I hope to meet all of you again and maybe all those people I was going to meet. It’s a sad feeling that I couldn’t finish the trip, that it had to end like this.
                                                           Heine Bijker.
 
  Fly report in judging order. W.C. 2000.  
 
Clay Hoyle – South East Region     North Carolina
201.88 points  7 7 5 6 6 7 6 8 6 5 5 6 7 6 5 6 5
raw. 103        Q 1.4        D 1.4        19 birds
Beautiful weather conditions, kit was active , quite a few decent rollers in the kit. Kitting was to loose  [spread out] for the bigger simultaneous breaks.
Often a lot of birds dropping but not showing a decent scorable roll. Nervous fly pattern what didn’t give the kit the time to reorganize for the next break.
Working with these birds, Clay can be in the top half of this competition every year.
 
Rick Mee -  South Central Region    Alabama
376.32 points  5 6 10 9 5 10 12 11 5 6 5 10 15
raw. 192      Q  1.4      D1.4        20 birds.
Nice weather with a breeze. Rick wanted to fly as late as possible [no wind and cooler] but not really fair to the pigeons is my opinion because they can and will fly into the dark with all the risks involved. The kit had a strange fly pattern no fig. 8 or circle, what probably caused the lack of activity.
The breaks they scored were nice with decent quality and depth, with some nice half turns. After scoring time they showed some of their real potential  and I really liked that. Rick will always be a tough competitor to beat if you want to win the World Cup.
 
Norm Herring -  South Central Region     Mississippi
52  points   5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 6 5
 raw 52      Q 1.0      D  1.0         20  birds
Good weather, kit flew very nervous like a group of youngsters, fast changing of flying directions and not finishing the roll if they started. Some of the breaks they made were just scorable during the 20 min. fly. Half an hour later they flew more relaxed and showed us that there were some nice rollers in the kit.
 
Bill Roy -  Missouri
76.32 points   5 5 5 6 5 7 8 7 5
raw 53       Q 1.2      D 1.2        20 birds
Maybe to nice calm weather. Bill’s kit came out and  showed us some real nice small breaks, but then went up real high, too high to score all the breaks and to get a real good view of the quality and depth.
I would have liked to see his kit at a nice height.
 
 
Willie Silvey -  Kansas
199.44 points   5 5 5 6 5 5 7 5 6 5 5 5 5 7 6 6 5 6 8 5 6
 raw 118      Q 1.3      D 1.3          20 birds
Good flying weather. First kit I saw that flew a beautiful  fig. 8 pattern, but the kitting was not tight enough to get the bigger breaks. A few pigeons in his kit showed a lot better quality than the overall quality scored in this fly.
Willie will be back.
 
 
Sam Damommio -   Texas
180.83 points    5 5 6 8 6 5 7 5 7 6 6 5 9 5 6 6 5 5
raw 107       Q 1.3       D 1.3            18 birds
Sam’s kit started real nice, and started working with a good frequency. This kit too scored a lot of small breaks and again I think it had to do with a kit that flies to wide spread. A kit that flies tighter together will score bigger and more simultaneous breaks. Quality at the end of the flight was better than in the first part of the fly.
 
Homer Griggs      Texas
72.8 points   6 5 5 8 6 5 5
raw 40           Q 1.4         D 1.3         19 birds.
Hard wind. The kit was blown away immediately. We followed the kit in the “gator”, and they even scored a few breaks about a mile away from their loft.
The last few minutes they flew near the loft and scored some nice breaks in which a few birds showed some good quality. The kitting was not tight enough but fighting the hard wind was the main reason this kit couldn’t show their real potential. Bad luck for Homer.
 
Ken Easley -  New Mexico
70.98 points 6 6 5 7 7 6 5
raw 42          Q 1.3     D1.3     20 birds.
Ken was a bit disappointed that I arrived too late for him to fly that evening, because he always flies in the evening, nice cool weather and no wind.
The next morning it was windy  when Ken flew his kit, the birds came out and started flying in fast rightwing circles. The kit only scored a few small breaks.
His birds were probably not ready for the job and the weather was not a real help. At the end of the fly I saw some real good individuals.
 
Al Luna -  Arizona
56.42 points     6 6 5 9 5
raw  31     Q 1.4      D1.3        20 birds
It was windy that evening when Al flew his birds. The birds kept flying to low and now in opposite to Ken’s birds in fast leftwing turns. Only a few scorable breaks. According to friends in the yard this kit was capable of a lot more than shown in this fly. Some good rollers in the kit, but the birds were just not ready to do the job together that evening. You have to try again Al and otherwise look at the back of your pedigree sheet.
 
John Jones -   San Diego California Region
141.96  points   5 6 5 6 5 6 6 5 5 5 6 5 7 6
raw 78    Q 1.4      D 1.3         20 birds
A bit later than planned John released his kit, they started working and we saw some little breaks. They probably flew to low. After about 5 min. some of the cock birds in the kit started show flying, they seemed to feel to strong. Since this the kit hardly scored a break again. John was disappointed it just wasn’t his day.
He had some good spinners in this kit, he can do a lot better than this, he will be back.
 
 
Randy Gibson -   Southern California Region.
154.70 points   5 5 5 8 7 6 5 6 5 5 6 6 6 5 5
raw 85      Q 1.4      D 1.3            19 birds
Randy’s birds started promising but the kit had a nervous fly pattern and they didn’t kit tight to get the big breaks. But the kit did score quite some breaks in the first 6 min. After this period a few birds started leaving the kit what stopped the scoring. But I sure think it wasn’t the kits best day. Randy promised to do better in future competitions. Be careful with colors.  
 
Tim Decker -    Southern California Region.
220.50 points    6 5 5 7 8 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 5 8 8 7 5
raw 105       Q 1.5     D 1.4         18 birds
A nice quality kit with a nice flying pattern what gave the birds the time to reorganize for the next break. Nevertheless no real big breaks were scored. Work rate frequency of the kit was to low. Tim has some excellent rollers in his kit. Always difficult to beat in competition.
 
Reggie Stewart -  Southern California North Region.
126.72 points     5 5 6 6 7 5 6 5 6 7 5 7 5 5 5 6 5
raw 96     Q 1.2     D1.1                20 birds.
Reggie’s birds were real hungry, he fed them some millet before he let them out.
The first half of the time they didn’t finish the roll or work together, just a lot of non scorable action. The second half of the time was better and they scored quite some small breaks, the kit was real active. The longer they flew the better the quality we saw. Reggie sure owns some decent rollers.      
 
Robert Felix -   So. Ca. No. Region.
80.52 points.     5 6 6 5 5 6 5 6 6 5 6
raw  61       Q 1.1       D 1.2         20 birds.
Robert is an enthusiastic flyer, he wants to be among the best flyers within a few years. His birds just didn’t do what Robert said that they were capable of.
The kit did score some breaks but Robert wasn’t happy with what they did this day. I saw a few nice rollers in the kit.
 
 
Craig Wiggs -  So. Ca. No. Region.
 D.Q.              20 birds.
It was already 9.30  and getting warm this day so maybe that hurt his birds, because after a few small breaks and about 9 min. of flying his kit landed what caused this D.Q.  Craig does have some quality rollers I saw that in the short time they flew. It’s sad that a fly ends like this, I hope for more luck for Craig the next time. He sure has a nice loft.
 
 
Don Ouelette -  North California Coast Region.
483 points   5 5 7 5 6 11 6 7 8 10 5 5 8 7 12 5 5 9 9 8 11 6 6 5 6 9
raw 230       Q1.5       D1.4             19 birds.
Don flew early in the morning at 06.00, it was still foggy, overcast and a chilly breeze. When he let his birds out they needed a few minutes to get out of the yard and gain some height before he put them on the clock. For a moment I was afraid that they would land again. His birds were active and scored beautiful breaks with nice style and depth. I would have liked this kit too to kit tighter for probably bigger breaks. The kit was working for the entire 20 min. The best kit so far.
    
Mike Novinfar -   No. Ca. Co. Region.
84.96 points         6 6 5 5 6 5 5 5 6 5 5   
raw 59              Q1.2       D1.2        19 birds.
The kit flew strong and the kitting was good and tight, but the kit was kind of stiff, not a lot of action. I believe Mike told me that he flew a kind of hawk attack left over kit, so he didn’t have much of a choice of what to fly. I hope for less attacks for Mike the next year.
 
Nick Burcher -  No. Ca. Co. Region.
145.08 points     6 5 5 6 8 7 7 5 5 7 5 5 6 5 6 5
raw 93        Q1.3     D1.2          20 birds.
This kit started really active with nice tight short rolling. The first half of the fly the kit scored nice but the second half they went up high and stopped scoring. The kit flew to fast and nervous, maybe of earlier hawk attacks? It seemed to me that these birds are capable of doing a lot better than this day.
 
Roy Edmonds -  North California Region
5  points             5
raw 5        Q  1.0     D 1.0     20 birds
I met Roy two days before this fly, and listening to him for two days I was hoping for a kit just as enthusiastic as their trainer. Unfortunately the enthusiasm they showed was not in rolling but in flying. Roy released the kit and they only made one scorable break and then went up real fast to unscorable heights, only three birds stayed lower. Bad luck for Roy because I believe he has excellent rollers in his loft. A real entertaining fancier.
 
Tom Brower -   No. Ca. Region.
10 points          5 5
raw 10    Q 1.0    D1.0   20 birds.
Tom flew instead of Jack Meyers who had some problems and couldn’t fly. The #3  qualifier said his birds were not ready to fly so Tom had a chance in this W.C. fly. Toms kit showed some nonscorable action and went up real high.
They scored two breaks and flew flat and to high for the rest of the time. Tom hadn’t trained his birds for this fly because he only knew it one day before. Amazing how he beat his friend Roy.
 
Gary Stephens -   North West International Region.
229.84 points       5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 6 8 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 6 7
raw 136        Q1.3    D 1.3           19 birds.
The weather was nice a breeze and an overcast sky. The kit came out real active and scored quickly a number of small breaks. This kit too [like many others I’ve seen] flew to wide spread, what in my opinion caused the lack of bigger breaks, because the kit was active enough and there were enough quality birds to do it!
Nevertheless a nice score for Gary.
 
Monty Neibel -  Vancouver Island  B C  Canada.
1894.40 points    5 6 7 9 6 8 10 6 10 11 10 13 7 6 7 12 7 13 15 6 12 8 5 6 12 9 10 8
                           8 7 8 7 15 10 12 9 6 14 10 9 10 9 5 10 7 10 14 15 8
 raw 740       Q 1.6      D 1.6          20 birds.
Monty was complaining about the weather all the time, but for a perfectionist like he was the weather is terrible if it’s not perfect. I thought the weather wasn’t to bad during the day, some wind, some sun, some rain but Monty was talking about a storm and raining cats and dogs. He was just nervous, he was very nervous. He wanted to fly that evening because of his feeding and training schedule, and so he wanted to have perfect weather that evening at 6.25 because that was the time he talked about all day, so not 5, 6 or 7 , no his time was 6.25. He was the master so I just listened to his complaining about the weather and his flying time and feeding schedule. Talking about feeding ; the last two times I saw that he fed his # 1 team he only gave them one teaspoon of millet and some mineral powder and he called that feeding! Of course this was just a part of his way to get them ready for competition. I handled a few of his birds and they felt really strong and muscular, a beautiful small strong pigeon, a real sport pigeon. I was afraid that some of his birds would be nothing but feathers and look real sloppy, but it was the opposite, strong healthy and good looking birds, so the torturing Monty sometimes talked about couldn’t be that hard. Monty just created an excellent family of birds, tough, strong, healthy, good-looking and hardworking pigeons, but I think they need the hand of a real good trainer to get them to work like he did.
That afternoon at 5.30 our very nervous Monty decided to fly because he thought the weather wasn’t going to change to be better. At that time it was overcast with a spit of rain and almost wind still so it was beautiful weather to fly. Monty wanted an overcast sky because he was afraid that his birds would go up high. As soon as he released the birds he called time in, and I started calling the first score within the first minute and they scored for the entire 20 min. It was amazing to see how in every break the birds rolled with beautiful style and velocity, the same depth and all the birds with almost the same quality.
It was easy judging, just count the birds that rolled out of the kit.
Almost immediately after the kit was together again there was the next break. It was such a wonderful show to watch that my mouth fell open and I almost forgot to call the score a few times. I’ve never seen a kit work this hard doing what we always want them to do ; roll together with style, speed and depth. It’s such a pity that there were only three people to watch this incredible show. [ The performance my birds gave last year was different, my birds were kitting tighter and waited longer between the breaks, there was more difference in quality between my birds in the kit I flew.] 
49    breaks in 20 minutes, what a show! Monty told me right after the fly, he had a hard
time to keep his mouth shut, he said:” I wanted to shout every time they made a big break”.  If you think that his birds fell right out of the sky after a show like this you’re wrong. A few minutes after the 20 min. fly after I recovered from the shock of the
scoringsheet the birds flew real high, and most of them flew for at least another hour.
I do realize that a lot of people don’t or won’t believe that his birds scored so many points, and I was a bit disappointed that he scored a lot more points than my 1300 points worldrecord of last year, but I can only say that every break his birds made there was no doubt  about scoring it or not because of the constant same good quality rolls they showed, it was just a matter of counting the birds. It’s just very sad that there are only two people left who witnessed this show. I hope no one of the other qualifiers feels offended because of this much more detailed flyreport  of Monty’s last fly than theirs, but I think everyone understands.
 
   World Cup 2000 Judge  Heine Bijker

2000 World Cup Coordinators and Regional Directors


North American Coordinator
& General Coordinator
Steve Clayton
2365 Graham Rd.
Cabot, AR 72023-9511    USA
501-676-5227
XXXRollers@aol.com
 
N. Central West Region
John Hawxby
P.O. Box 91
Hartford, IA 50118
515-989-5249
Jeephawk@aol.com
 
Texas Region
Milford Sanders
319 Cosey St.
Palmer, TX 75152-9671
972-845-2277
milsand@flash.net
 
World Cup Treasurer
Kelton Parker
4525 N. Hwy 171
Cleburne, TX  76031
817-558-9499
KRParker35@aol.com
 
N. Rocky Mountain Region
Rick Schoening
8338 Buffalo Bridge Rd.
Polson, MT 59860
406-883-3002
Rschoen@digisys.net
 
Western Plains Region
Jim Shumway
593 So. Edenburgh Dr.
Loveland, CO  80537
970-667-8090
 
World Cup Web  Site Director
Mrs. Birdie Orrick
BirdieOrrick@netscape.net
 
N. West International Region
Ray Lewis
18519 35th Ave. S.E.
Bottell, WA 98012
425-351-2385
Rlewis@ddpwa.com
 
Hawaii Region
Tom Mendes
41-610 Nonokio St.
Waimanalo, HI  96795
808-259-8688
tjmendes@lava.net
 
 
Arizona Region
Al Luna
8945 W. Rose Ln.
Glendale, AZ 85305
 623-872-2875
 
 
Ontario Canada Region
Don Luna
144 Church St. Box 285
Schomberg, Ontario LOG-1TO
Canada
905-939-8948
 
Great Britain Region
& European Coordinator
Paul Lee
373 Westdale Lane
Mapperley, Nottingham NG3-6ER
England
011-44-115-952-3229
roller@inc.co.uk
 
Central Region
June Bussing
P.O. Box 619
Blanchard, OK 73010-0619
405-485-2439
fullturn@flash.net
 
South Central Region
Aubrey Thibodeaux
3586 Hwy 104
Opeleusas, LA 70570
318-543-7481
thibsunar@aol.com
 
Holland Region
Jan Barendrecht
22 Workumstraat
8304 DP, Emmeloord, Holland
011-31-527-61-4674
JanBarendrecht@wxs.nl
 
East Region
John Lawrence
HC 65 Box 548
DeRuyter, NY 13052
315-852-1162
mudcreek@odyssey.net
 
South East Region
O.J. Hood
820 East 16th St.
Charlotte, NC  28205
704-375-1273
 
Denmark Region
Eric Laidler
Geflevej 125
6960 Hvide Sande, Denmark
011-45-9731-2393
roller@post.tele.dk
 
New England Region
Tom Van Den Bossche
P.O. Box 233
Litchfield, MA 04350
207-268-2169
 
Southern California Region
Richard Rangel
22573 Thrush St.
Grand Terrace, CA  92313
909-825-7686
RichardRangelRMR@aol.com
 
South African Coordinator
Tom du Toit
P.O. Box 1847
Vanderbijlpark, 1900
South Africa
27-16-987-2912
 
New Mexico Region
Larry Hollingsworth
P.O. Box 2447
Los Lunas, NM 87031
505-869-2579
JlarHoll@flash.net
 
Southern California N. Region
Dave Goss
1824 North Rose St.
Burbank, CA 91505
818-848-6582
SDGoss@earthlink.net
 
South Africa Region 1
Ervin Kay
4 Krag Avenue
Fleurhoff 1709
Roodepoort, South Africa
27-11-472-0788
 
N. California Region
Rex Clark
135 E. Chapman St.
Orland, CA  95963-1904
530-865-3912
 
S. California San Diego Region
Steve Moore
1464 Loma Lane
Chula Vista, CA  91911-5310
Moorelofts@aol.com
 
South Africa Region 2
Dean Bolton
259 Delpfinium Street
Brackendowns
Alberton, South Africa
27-11-868-4576
 
N. California Coast Region
Brent Timeus
216 Keystone Ave.