WORLDCUP ROLLERFLY 2002

Flyer	Score	Quality	Depth	State or Country
John Wiens	775.2	1.6	1.5	Canada
Ferid Catak	623.28	1.4	1.4	Denmark
Kevin MCcray	455.68	1.6	1.6	California
Linne Rose	445.5	1.5	1.5	Washington
George Babaris	440.44	1.3	1.4	Canada
Ken Billings	390	1.3	1.5	Idaho
Carlos Cornejo	386.4	1.4	1.5	California
Colyn Nel	386.4	1.4	1.5	South Africa
George Mason	385.32	1.3	1.3	England
Johan Du Preez	349.83	1.3	1.3	South Africa
Buks Knoetze	343	1.4	1.4	South Africa
Henk Voets	313.6	1.4	1.4	Holland
Richard Hayes	297.6	1.5	1.6	Montana
Ken Weaver	290.68	1.3	1.3	England
JoeBob Stuka	274.4	1.4	1.4	North Carolina
Bains & Mosley	274.4	1.4	1.4	England
Johneeta Chapan	268.52	1.4	1.4	California
John Destouet	254.8	1.4	1.4	California
Marcus Collaco	199.42	1.3	1.3	Australia
John Siotas	192.96	1.2	1.2	Australia
Don Ouellette	180	1.3	1.4	California
Walter Teal	177.45	1.3	1.3	Texas
Frank Dry	168.48	1.2	1.2	South Africa
Gary Stephens	163.24	1.1	1.4	Washington
Scott Campbell	161.98	1.3	1.4	California
Nick Tsoltoudis	160.68	1.2	1.3	Australia
Jim Bakker	139.89	1.3	1.3	California
Richard Miller	136	1.2	1.2	Ohio
Alonzo Johnson	119.99	1.3	1.3	California
Dave Sanchez	118.3	1.3	1.4	California
Brian Ridley	110.88	1.1	1.2	Massachusetts
Gustavo Medel	108.16	1.3	1.3	California
Lee Wade	107.64	1.2	1.3	California
Dave Hafner	92.16	1.2	1.2	Arkansas
Mario Aquino	79.43	1.3	1.3	New York
Hennie Pfhal	79.2	1.1	1.2	South Africa
Gary Lancaster	78	1.2	1.3	Utah
John Underberg	73.92	1.1	1.2	Iowa
Ken Easley	59.15	1.3	1.3	New Mexico
Paul Joubert	56.16	1.2	1.2	South Africa
Bruce Kladja	50.4	1.2	1.2	Arizona
Mike Sweeney	48.4	1.0	1.1	Massachusetts
Dan Cowell	48	1.0	1.0	California
JJ Ransom	45.24	1.2	1.3	California
Chuck Roe	43	1.1	1.1	California
Michael Baldwin	41	1.0	1.0	Texas
Aubrey Thibodeaux	36	1.0	1.0	Louisiana
Jesse Comer	36	1.0	1.2	California
Jarrett Branch	35	1.3	1.4	California
Bobby Bradley	30	1.0	1.0	Tennessee
Bob Westfall	30.0	1.0	1.0	Missouri
John Conradie	23.66	1.3	1.3	South Africa
Jimmy Roodt	22	1.0	1.0	South Africa
Larry Hubbard	0			Kentucky
Steve Grancic	0			Australia
Thayne Lee	DQ			Utah
Gert Du Plessis	DQ			South Africa
GT Lofts	DQ			South Africa
Peter Covich	DQ			Australia
Frank Vahling	DQ			Colorado

Score divided in four sections of 5 minutes to indicate the work rate. 19 birds.

Pigeons started really nice, frequent and nice quality in the first 5 min. Later the kit often split up or a few birds left the kit, so they scored a lot less. No fly pattern, just trying to stay together above the loft. Saw about 6 real nice quality pigeons.

Kit flew on nice height, but the birds didn’t work together, no activity, only 6 just scorable breaks seen, sad for Bobby. Don’t use all your luck to qualify, safe some for the finals!

Birds flew to a good height and started working real nice, but after about 5 min. The kit started to dive and fly nervous around the huge pine trees and only scored a few more breaks. Some birds in the kit with better quality and depth than scored.

Birds flew a bit too high for a really good view. They scored a few breaks, but quality

And depth was just scorable no more. Hopefully more luck for the guys in Louisiana

Birds were active, but flew nervous. In a lot of breaks most of the pigeons not scorable. In the second 5 min. Birds relaxed a little and did score some points.

Nice working kit as you can see in the score the first half of the fly. Second part less activity and to many not scorable birds in the breaks, still a nice score.

Kit made a few breaks in the first 5 min., but flew too fast, left and right turns no breaks.

Kit was pretty stiff and flew a bit too high, could still score some nice breaks.1 Bird down after 12 min.., probably a little nervous due to recent falcon attacks.

Kit only scored a few decent breaks in the first 10 min. And that was all for this kit.

The birds flew straight above the loft and pretty high. Not a lot of activity but never

Birds flew at a nice height, started working nice. Loose kitting and a few times

Birds scored 15 breaks but still quite a few not scorable pigeons in the breaks.

A few breaks in the first 10 min., but birds flew too high for good judging of quality and depth. Kit stiff in the second past of the fly.

Kit started very excited and one bird rolled down in the greenhouse and stayed down.

Don entered 18 birds in the fly! In the first 10 min. The birds kitted nice, but flew a little too fast, but scored some beautiful quality breaks. In the second part the birds flew too low and scored another few breaks but only scorable quality what hurt his overall quality multiplier.

Kit flew stiff the first 5 min., not a really active kit but still 11 breaks! They flew on a nice height. Nice set up, a keen fancier.

Dave’s birds started a little slow and had problems with kitting, to often a few birds flew away from the kit and this certainly did his score no good! At least 3 real nice rollers in his kit.

19 John DeStouet La Palma California.

The kit was active, with nice speed and depth, in the first 15 min. Better and tighter kitting would cause bigger breaks in this kit. The kit missed the fly pattern for a good set up to break together! A nice entertaining kit!

Kit started with fast short breaks, but later in the fly they scored better and deeper breaks.

Kit started scoring some small scorable breaks but the kitting was not good enough for better breaks. Rest of fly hardly no action, some weak attempts to break.

A perfect timing of releasing the kit, this seemed very important for Kevin and he was probably right. The kit started scoring beautiful breaks with good quality and depth, less frequent halfway the fly, but at the end again some really nice breaks. A constant performance what means, good quality pigeons, nice team.

Real active kit, lots of energy. Missed some breaks because of falling apart of kit and in the last part less frequent. Nice kit! Quality of the breaks varied between good and scorable.

Kit was not really frequent, but scored the entire time small breaks of reasonable quality and depth.

Birds released and were very exited, flew too low and few birds hit but calmed down, and went to a nice height, time in and they started scoring pretty active, but only in the first part of the fly. At the end a nice half turn with better quality than the breaks in the first part.

Kit started and seemed not to have much energy , flew very slow. The birds started scoring nice in the first part of fly, but poor quality and a lot of birds with mistakes in the roll and open.

Nice hard working kit. Kitting not good enough! A lot of the breaks not really explosive, some following through effect. Good depth and velocity. Tighter kitting would certainly have given more half turns with these birds! A nice performance!

Score : 7 8 5 10 6 7 5 6 10 8 8 // 5 5 6 5 5 5 12 8 7 7 6 // 7 7 10 8 8 6 5 // 10 7 8 9 7 8 10.

Birds flew stable to a nice height, started kitting and after a few min. John called time in. The kit started working real nice and with good speed and depth in the breaks. First part very active, kitting was often too loose what cost him bigger breaks. A few not reliable kitters made him miss a few beautiful half turns extra! Beautiful kit to judge! Best working quality kit I saw. Congratulations.

Beautiful start with an active kit and some good half turns with nice quality and depth. The excitement was over in 10 min. And then the kit just flew flat and very high. First 5 min. it seemed as if they were going to beat John Wiens his score! Maybe next time?

This kit too started very active, but like Rich’ kit these too stopped working after 10 min.

Very active, good depth but quality was difficult to judge because of distance, what hurt his quality score. 23 breaks in the first 10 min., very good but they have to work the entire to win!

Birds seemed not to be ready for the fly. A few bad kitters , Gary lost about 6 breaks.

Still pretty warm, the birds did not really want to fly and after 2 just scorable breaks and 6 min. In the fly they landed. It seemed to me that it was more because they were too hungry than that it was too hot, but Thayne has to know! Sad a DQ in such a competition.

Birds were just too hungry, broken down, they just did not want to fly and landed in 6 min. A DQ is always sad and you can’t compare with anything, because you don’t have a score.

Birds disappeared because of the strong wind, after 10 min. back in sight and they scored some breaks, some breaks missed behind the trees. Kid was playing with the wind.

Larry wanted to fly in the afternoon, not a good choice afterwards, the birds didn’t really

want to fly, it took several min. before they got some height. After time in, one and then

two birds out and never in again. Saw some nice breaks but couldn’t score! Egg in the

Another kit with nice activity in the first 10 min. and almost flat the second part. All scorable breaks and depth but only a few rollers with extra quality and depth, during this fly.

Birds out and one bird hits, probably hurt because it lands in 5 min., rest of the kit flies ok but kitting is bad. At the start and end of fly some activity with at end some better quality.

Kit only active in the first part, but quality of breaks just scorable, lot of birds poor quality and not scorable, the kit wasn’t ready. Kit landed just after 15 min. what saved the score.

Due to the fog a what difficult start, but the kit started working and scored 7 breaks first 5 min. but was less active the rest of the fly. Overall quality was poor, just scorable only a few better quality breaks.

The kit flew low and often a little too far away, so he missed some breaks behind the trees. Kit was very active, quality often too loose, but in some bigger breaks better quality and tighter birds, depth was nice. I wonder what this kit would have done in perfect weather conditions.

Kit blown away in strong wind, loose rolling and not together, after 5 min. time in, and could score birds at end of street. Missed a few breaks behind the trees. Quality in the bigger breaks a lot better then in the smaller breaks.

Score : 5 5 5 55 7 7 6 6 7 8 7 10 6 14 5 7 6 5 // 6 8 11 8 9 10 14 6 7 7 // 5 // 10 8 6 5 6 6

Birds out and after 2 min. they settle down and time in. They start scoring nice with good quality and depth, very active, but only small breaks and too many individual working birds, they didn’t wait for each other. Later some bigger breaks with nice quality and depth. After 10 min. less active and a few birds leave the kit and almost ruined the fly, it looked as if they were going to land, but they went back to the kit and in last 5 min. kit scores again some nice breaks, lucky Ferid! Beautiful fly!

	World Cup 2002
	Fly off Report

19 John DeStouet La Palma California.