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PWA slalom- 2020

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Created by fpw9082 > 9 months ago, 19 Jul 2020
fpw9082
QLD, 173 posts
20 Jul 2020 12:15AM
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Where are big names AA,Pier ,Iachino etc why they didnt compete at Croatia?
Corona?

What is this year with slalom,even on official PWA site dosent exist ranking for 2020?

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m6SraZeqSgMRvjOaXeHaJDAdb0DKbP61Weh7mnD4pzc/edit#gid=1834360620

i dont see here sailors from PWA, except Rutovski,Maroti,Martini,where are others??

Mitch Pearson
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20 Jul 2020 9:58AM
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Croatia was a one star event as per the PWA's new event ranking system. A one star event does not count towards the PWA overall ranking.
Therefore as of yet there are no rankings for 2020.

www.pwaworldtour.com/index.php?id=35&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=5764&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=e27c8fc851c520daec5c9307ffefa95d

fpw9082
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20 Jul 2020 2:59PM
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Mitch Pearson said..
Croatia was a one star event as per the PWA's new event ranking system. A one star event does not count towards the PWA overall ranking.
Therefore as of yet there are no rankings for 2020.

www.pwaworldtour.com/index.php?id=35&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=5764&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=e27c8fc851c520daec5c9307ffefa95d



Where can I find current slalom ranking?

So for men dont exist separtes foil and fin slalom discipline any more?(if that is case AA wouldnt be champ never again,he is to heavy for foil light winds..)
And does this racing inculde upwind courses now?

SeanAUS120
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20 Jul 2020 9:32PM
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Where can I find current slalom ranking?

So for men dont exist separtes foil and fin slalom discipline any more?(if that is case AA wouldnt be champ never again,he is to heavy for foil light winds..)
And does this racing inculde upwind courses now?



There is only this event in Croatia run so far (which doesn't rank) so there is no real ranking yet. Potentially the event in France later in the year could happen though ...For 2020 the format for slalom is:
Foil + Slalom (single discipline).
4 boards + 7 sails to register for the year.

The organiser/race committee can decide whether to run foil only races or mixed races. Nobody has come up with a specifically defined "too windy for foil" cutoff point yet and as most guys are comfortable on them up to 20 knots there should be some interesting racing if they ever do some 'mixed' races. Guess we won't really find out this year.

Course racing is dead. They won't do upwind at the PWA ever again I reckon. The foil+slalom format now will just be downwind slalom as they have capped the board width to 91cm for slalom whereas most brand's course racing foil boards are 95-100 so you would never be competitive with a 91. Not sure why (10x more exciting to watch than slalom courses in light winds if you ask me).

fpw9082
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21 Jul 2020 5:32AM
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SeanAUS120 said..



Where can I find current slalom ranking?

So for men dont exist separtes foil and fin slalom discipline any more?(if that is case AA wouldnt be champ never again,he is to heavy for foil light winds..)
And does this racing inculde upwind courses now?




There is only this event in Croatia run so far (which doesn't rank) so there is no real ranking yet. Potentially the event in France later in the year could happen though ...For 2020 the format for slalom is:
Foil + Slalom (single discipline).
4 boards + 7 sails to register for the year.

The organiser/race committee can decide whether to run foil only races or mixed races. Nobody has come up with a specifically defined "too windy for foil" cutoff point yet and as most guys are comfortable on them up to 20 knots there should be some interesting racing if they ever do some 'mixed' races. Guess we won't really find out this year.

Course racing is dead. They won't do upwind at the PWA ever again I reckon. The foil+slalom format now will just be downwind slalom as they have capped the board width to 91cm for slalom whereas most brand's course racing foil boards are 95-100 so you would never be competitive with a 91. Not sure why (10x more exciting to watch than slalom courses in light winds if you ask me).


In that case big sailors will not be champs any more..

Why upwind racing is dead,who decided it ,sailors or pwa rules People?



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