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What a beauty!
Just had a dutch team email me, they're very keen to get on board.
I get the feeling 2010 will be a big year for our international friends 
But first, you have to knock off the Swan River Mob!!!!!
www.gpsteamchallenge.com.au/rankings/year
They're in an unbeatable lead this year, might as well engrave it now Hardie!
we are, as newcommers, not so bad at 16 and 17 places inetrnationally www.gpsteamchallenge.com.au/rankings/year?country=0&year=2009
isn't we ?
Phwwwoaaa - this is looking big Joe and Ben!!
Fantastic initiative.
All sights on us! No worries!
We have 12 month access to the best spots and weather!
The Swan never ices over [bloody weedy at present though - might as well be ice]!
Stop putting fertilizer on your gardens and lawns!!!!!!!
this is icy:
Here, in Croatia, winter is eating us, so there is less and less activity for us on GTC.
So, not for all, our member Andrej, member of Croatian team (Slovenian part)
SLO Zusterna Speedhunterz www.gpsteamchallenge.com.au/team/view/46
was surfing yesterday on cold bora (with gusts of 100 km/h) and snow, and
check out this photo: 
What to say.... Andrej, you got very big balls (or at this point of temperature, very smallone)
just letting you know we got our Spring Cup......you know, the one pit crew could not get
Hi Martin,
Yes, no problem if you are the translator, no problem at all
We'd love to get some Dutch teams on board!
PM sent.
Just a thought about our International teams.
I've just finished reading this post from Croatia,
www.gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2009-12-23&team=40
Seems the teams in colder climes are at a big disadvantage as far as an all year challenge is concerned.
After all the challenge was set up for Australian conditions, where our speed strips don't ice up in Winter.
Just wondering how hard it would be to set up another category, say a best month, no particular month as the season cups are. Just which team has the best monthly result in the year.
Guess you would have to compare the 12 1sts for the year somehow.
This would remove the need to have year round consistent conditions.
Great idea Decrepit....up here in the Gorge our two speed courses have already frozen over this year and the wind has shut down until the spring. Wouldn't really be fair to jet off to Maui or Texas and record speeds there until it thaws out. A monthly challenge for "Top Gun" GTC team seems like a good prize to play for. I feel the need.....
So Roo, does that mean you can see a team or two based in the in the gorge entering the GTC ?
Personally I don't really like the idea of handicaps of any sort for the challenge. If a handicap is given for cold conditions will a handicap be given for windless months? This year I could not go sailing between February and September due to injury. I missed out on about ten days of decent sailing in Sydney.
Any handicap will give preferential treatment for one set of conditions or group of sailors to the detriment of others. Some Australia sailors are travelling around Australia to get the best conditions.
K.I.S.S.
Basically we're facing the same problem with our evaluated ranking which is year round. Personally I feel it would be great to have six discards for the year for each rider and only count the best six months to make it a more level playing field for everyone in the world. If you look at our evaluated ranking it's mostly Dutch riders at the top and it takes the concept away from the international spirit of our site. Discards are common in windsurfing and sailing anyhow, so why not use them to make it easier for interested people to enter the competition. We're currently discussing this so I follow this discussion with great interest.
I hope you succeed in getiing people interested in the GPSTC website regardless of future rules. At least one Dutch team seems to enter GPSTC coming year which is great and I truly hope many will follow. And at least we have been able to sail year round the last couple of years so that aspect shouldn't be a big problem for our contry. But indeed North America or for instance Sweden which has some big windsurfingclubs and a relatve big speedsurfing populalation, why would they feel the need to enter an International team competition if beforehand they know they don't stand a chance.
I think the GPSTC concept is brilliant. Bringing back team spirit or windsurfing club spirit like most countries had in the past is bringing back some kind of family atmosphere. If you want to make it work World Wide you need to take into account the fact that most countries in the World have only got a limited amount of windsurfing time/months. Just my two cents
Has this gone from a pic of the international cup to 'lets look at completely changing the GTC scoring rationale'
I'm hearing from the Northern Hemisphere Teams that it may be impossible for them to ever win a 12 month event bec of the conditions. That is a valid point, we want participation, we dont want to discourage participation. Will have to think about it more, and discuss with Nebbs.
Certainly something Like an International May and September/October Cup may be something everyone can compete for? Need feedback on the months that work well up north. And maybe the dreaded discard for the overall??? Have to think about it
