Wave Masters Pattern Contest

This weekend I had the pleasure of competing in the Bob Whitacre Memorial Pattern Contest. The contest was held at the San Jose Wave Masters field. Bob Whitacre was a much beloved member of the modeling community in the San Jose Area, after his too early passing this contest was started in his honor.



This is the perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner of whichever class has the closest margin of victory. This is above and beyond the awards for placing in each of the five classes Sportsman, Intermediate, Advanced, Masters and FAI.



Jon Carter the Contest Director, and National Society of Radio Controlled Aerobatics (NSRCA) Vice-President for our District did a great job of putting on a fun contest. He kept the action moving, the atmosphere light and provided a great lunch for us to enjoy.



Here's Carlos Tripodi a competitor along with myself in the Sportsman Class and what I'm sure will be a future World Team Member.



Here are the results;

Sportsman

4000.000 Lawrence tougas
3984.061 Jean Greear
3628.217 Dave Shirley Jr.
3155.642 Carlos Tripodi

Intermediate

4000.000 Jacob Boracca
3724.358 Greg Meierhoff
35553.603 Dave Wick
3428.134 Maurice Culverwell
3401.947 Daniel Culverwell
3190.782 Joe Alves

Advanced

3985.916 Dale Olstinske
3952.622 Jarvis Johnson
3917.119 Jon Bruml
3812.053 Mike Greear
3764.368 Bjorn Lehnhardt
3583.344 Tak Takayama
3130.104 Robert Hixson

Masters

4000.000 Krishlan Fitzsimmons
3976.420 Jerry Budd
3736.826 Greg Frohreich
3593.093 Jim Oddino
3573.079 Bill Sneed
3566.544 Luke Peng
3330.299 Dick Belden
3324.922 Steve Kaneshiro
2454.982 Roy Speights

FAI

3987.730 Jim Kimbro
3968.153 Don Atwood
3936.860 Tom Messer
3548.015 Derek Koopowitz
3464.422 Adrian Wong

After announcing the results from each class Jon made the award for the Whitacre Trophy. I was not paying close attention to each of the scores when he was announcing the class results so it was a complete suprise to here that I had the honor or receiving the Whitacre Trophy for 2010.



I'm shown here receiving it from Jon Carter and Bob's wife Lori. I will keep this award in a place of honor in my house until I return it for next year's contest. I had a great time at the contest and encourage modelers of all types to try a competition in their area of interest if they haven't had the opportunity; I believe you'll enjoy it.