posted Sep 13th, 2010 - Arizona Airspeed did it again at the USPA Nationals 2010. The downside of the meet in Round 3 and Round 4 was digested easily, and the rest of the 4-way Open Class competition was under Airspeed control. Perris Fury won Round 10 and had to settle with the 2nd place, which is the next step up after bronze medals last year. The Golden Knights Gold lineup won the bronze medals this year.

Carolina Turbo XP had a good battle with Fallout in the Advanced Class and won by six points after ten rounds. It is the first time that the same team with the same lineup won the Intermediate Class, stepped up into the Advanced Class next year and won again. Congratulations to the young team from Skydive Carolina.

The Air Force teams Impulse and Eminence had also stepped up from the A Class dive pool at USPA's Collegiate Championship 2009 to the AA Class dive pool in the Intermediate Class. Only Spaceland Mamba was able to keep up with both teams but ended up in second place. Impulse won as clearly as VTSD/Carolina Turbo XP in 2009.

USPA Nationals 2010 - Open Class: Arizona Airspeed's and Perris Fury's Rounds 4 - 6

NSL-TV continues with the Open Class coverage. CamScore has provided Arizona Airspeed's and Perris Fury's judging videos of Rounds 4 to 6. Those videos feature the second consecutive round that Airspeed gave away to Fury. Then comes the furious Airspeed comeback in Round 5 and Round 6, which wrapped up the latest Airspeed victory.

The videos once again include CamScore's slow motion service at the end of the official judging. CamScore's Jo Bell had this brillant idea, and her partner Andrew Mansfield wrote the code to make it happen.

This special service allows the judges and the teams and competitors to evaluate the judging calls after the actual judging has been completed. It takes away any potential doubts of a correct call and shows the actual infringement more clearly. The teams have the opportunity to learn what the judges are looking at, and the judges can take a closer look at their own calls, as well.

The teams will not be happy with all the calls. Arizona Airspeed's Round 4 included a point deduction for "no simultaneous separation" during the transition from the second Bundy of Block 12 on the second page to the Piver of Block 20.

The audience can decide whether there was a clearly presented break between those two formations or not. The call cannot be the break of the Piver to start Block 20 since this would be indicated as an "incomplete formation". Perris Fury had a similar situation in the same round building the center of the Piver. Airspeed's exit in Round 6 is another learning example.

Airspeed and Fury had very dfferent ways how to engineer the sequences. Airspeed seems to have a broader variety of engineering options and finds more often the most efficient way for the sequences. This was one of the Airspeed advantages in the fast sequences of Rounds 5 and 6.