Couldn't afford Andy Gray or whoever so I'll do it myself.
Firstoff - a thanks to those who took part, with the submission and voting etc. It's a big step to put your flying out for everyone to see - And it's appreciated.
My thoughts on round 1 and a few things that I want to clarify:
Don't vote for yourself: You can't really be objective about your own flying, so don't do it. This is about how you rate the competition.
Competitor's voting is pretty much compulsory: Looking at it mathematically everyone who submits really should vote. If not everyone votes then the scores are skewed with a non-voter basically sitting back and soaking up the points that everyone else is giving them. So to keep it fair it was agreed that anyone not voting would be treated as if they had withdrawn from the comp. After all everyone has gone to the trouble to d/l and watch your video, may as well be polite and return the favour.
This is about flying - not editing: It is taken as read that a number of flyers use tripods and may not be able to keep the kite in frame for the full segment, and it's appreciated that they still submit even with this 'handicap' - what I don't want is for this to become an editing game, with kites being kept in frame by fastforwarding, awkward landings etc being skipped in order to keep the kite 'visibly' in the air and in frame all the time. Taking this to it's conclusion this could easily become a montage of tricks in 2 second intervals, killing the whole principle of the comp format.
Just to be clear - clips should be unedited, edited clips will be DQ'd from here on - Nuff said.
Launches should mark the start of the clip: To keep some level of structure to the flying, any clip submitted should begin with a launch of any type. It's really to make a defined 'start' to the routine you're flying.
Clips should include 60 seconds of flying: Short or long clips will miss out to a degree - An overly short clip should affect the score accordingly, where an overly ong clip shuld have anything over the alloted time ignored for scoring purposes.
That's it for now... I'm sure there'll be some more when I've time to think about it a bit further...
Comments, please?