For the 3 Way Freefly Open Teams will have to perform a Free round and a Compulsory round. The working time begin when the first team member leaves the aircraft. For the Compulsory Round the working time will be of 45 seconds. Teams are Free to perform their routine until opening time or until they present an obvious ending. They though must have their parachutes open not lower then 3000 feet.
Teams may do as many jumps as they are pleased until the dead line as indicated in the Schedule of Events. By that day all Teams competing in the 3 Way Freefly Open (and Pro class) will have to submit to the judges one video dub of their best Compulsory Round and one video dub of their best Free Round. Before exiting the plane you should film the Space Games sign at the door of the plane and this must be shown on your final dub as continuous footage with your compulsory and free round respectively.
Team Composition:
The are no gender or no slot specific requirements on a freefly team. The team consists of three freeflyers, one of which wears a camera. The composition of the team must stay the same both for the compulsory and the free round.
Competitors, though, may compete in more than one Team as long as the other 2 Team members are changed
The Freefly Compulsory round is a way to have the freefly teams showing their technical skills and it gives the judges a way to compare apples to apples.
5 compulsory moves, one from 5 different pool of moves and their sequence will be drawn the first day of the Space Games. These are the moves:
A)
1. Belly Compress
2. Belly Star
3. Belly Cat
B)
4. Hand to hand sit (sit or stand)
5. Hand to foot (sit or stand)
6. Totem
C)
7. 360 vertical turn to be performed simultaneously by 2 team member without the video camera, in a head down position
8. 360 flip to be performed simultaneously by 2 team member in a head down position
9. 360 weed eater to be performed simultaneously by 2 team member in a head down position
D)
10. Spock (one hand)
11. Mind Warp (2 hands)
12. Foot to Foot
13. Vertical Compress
14. Joker
E)
15. Eagle
16. Rock the Cradle
17. Head-down Curving 3 rotations
The following pool of moves will be considered only if general skill level of the Teams competing will be of level to perform them. It will be voted during the meeting pre Space Games.
F)
18. Vertical Compress _ loop
19. Vertical compress _ cartwheel
20. Joker _ cartwheel
21. Joker _ eagle
When the Teams have completed the first sequence of 5 skills they have to start all over until the time limit of 45 seconds. Every move completed in the right order will count as one point.
Moves not judicable from the video (grips not visible from the camera perspective, one team member out of the screen while doing their transition.) will not get credit for the point. Moves completely skipped will receive a bust of total 2 points. Moves done in the wrong order will receive a bust of 2 points. The Team with the highest Compulsory Score will be the Team who completed the most number of points in the 45 seconds.
Rules for the Free Round
There are not specific rules for the Free Round. Teams are free to perform whatever they like. Only obligation is to be safe at all time and open the parachute by 3000 ft AGL.
Judging
A panel of judges evaluates each team’s performance.
Rules for the judges on how to judge the Free Round.
Free Rounds will be judged on 3 different categories: Camerawork/Photography, Technical Skill and Overall Artistic Impression.
Each of the judges will have to judge only one aspect of the dive. The judges judging Camera-work will have to be a Video/Photographer (either an camera flyer or a film maker or a professional photographer). The judges judging the technical aspect of the dive will have to be freeflyers able to determine the difficulty level of the team moves and of the team flying. Judges judging the Overall Artistic impression, may be non-skydivers or novices and will look at the dives from a different perspective than a skydiver.
Each category is scored with 10 points maximum and the scores are added together to give a total score for the round and then divided by 3 for average points.
- 1st judge concentrate only on the Camera work and looks for: Composition, Angles, how the light is used, how the background is used, and smoothness of the pictures, Beauty of Photography, movement of the camera flyers.
- 2nd judge concentrate only on the Difficulty Level and Team work and looks for: Precision, Speed curve changing, use of all the body headings, team flying as a piece, technical level of the moves.
- 3rd judge concentrate only on the Overall Artistic Impression and looks for: Aesthetic Feeling, Artistic expression, Excitement, Inspiration, Rhythm and Beauty of Choreography.
Rules for the Judges on how to judge the Compulsory Round.
For the Compulsory Round judges will have to count how many moves the Team totalled within the 45 seconds time work. Each move completed as described, performed following the required order and visible in the video, will count as one point. If a tie occurs judges will look for synchronization in performing the moves, precision and proximity.
Classification of Final Results:
The Overall winner is the Team with the highest combined (Compulsory Round + Free Round) Overall score. In the case of a tie, the winner will be the team with the highest score in the Free Round.
We will also give Recognition to:
-The Team with the highest score in the Free Round
-The Team with the highest score in Compulsory.
