The Exclusive Cup 2011 - June 10th / 12th Newport, Gloucestershire

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> November 2011 and the dates for the 5th Exclusive Cup have been confirmed. The event will again run in Gloucestershire but the exact location yet to be confirmed although it will be within the Vale of Berkeley. The dates will be Friday June 15th - Sunday June 17th 2012. More information due soon, entries will open in the new year.

> We have a new champion! Tony Jay is the deserving 2011 Exclusive Cup Champion with Ian Parsons in second and Jon Collett in third. The long distance prize was won by Domonic Bareford, the Model Ballooning champion of 2011 is Ben Alford and the Omega Resourse Precision trophy was awarded to Tony Jay for his drop of 0.73m on Saturday morning. The John William Holly memorial trophy was awarded to Frazer Davey for outstanding improvement in his flying since attending last years' event having only just gained his license.

> Saturday evening - a great flight although a change in wind direction has taken all balloons away from the scoring area. As Sunday morning will be a short flight, prizegiving has been moved forward to this evening...

> Resutls from Task 2 now in but still three scores pending so there may still be a change. Task two and the overall results now posted on here. Tony Jay is our new Race Leader but he'll need to defend this tonight as the forecast looks promising...

>Saturday AM - A wonderful flights over the Vale of Berkeley!!! Three tasks this morning - a judge declared goal followed by maximum distance and a hare and hounds...

>Congratulations to Frazer Davey and Tony Jay who won tasks one and three with drops of 2.97m and 0.73. Results are online now... Waiting for everyone to return with the loggers before we can score task two...

>Friday PM - sadly the rain forced us to have dinner instead this evening. However, the forecast for the morning is good so we'll be breifing at 05:30