An exciting Day 2. We weren’t sure if we’d have to move inside again. The morning weather was beautiful, but an afternoon storm was predicted. The weather started to turn, with the wind shifting 180 degrees to that nasty offshore breeze from Friday, but it didn’t last long and we played the co-op semis outdoors on the red carpet.
The crowd seemed almost as big as last year’s finals audience. Lots of high energy routines throughout the afternoon, including Flo Hess/Emannuele Faustini/Danilo Torzolini taking an upset win the A pool. The biggest shocker of the day was that Fabio Sanna/Piccio Cusma/Joey Hudoklin didn’t make the finals. They had a rough, Frisbee hell round and couldn’t recover enough to make it to Sunday’s show.
In the evening, we moved to the disco for the pairs finals and another high-energy show in front of Paganello’s ultimate teams. Clay Collera/Claudio Cigna laid down the strongest performance of the night, a two drop routine that took a hotly contested A pool – the top 3 teams had 4 drops or less. Tom Leitner and Fabio Sanna came in second but put on a technical clinic, one of the most aggressive routines I’ve seen in a while. Fabio was completely in the zone, hitting a double spinning against the spin flamingo pull, a double spinning barrel gitis, a double spinning skid and much much more. Young upstarts Balu Major and Gery Nemeth upset Paul Kenny and Reto Zimmerman to take 1st place in Pool B.
The Flickr photographers have also arrived, so expect to see a fresh batch of action shots shortly.
The weather reports are for rain today. We’re hoping they are as wrong as they were yesterday.
Co-op Semi A
1. Emmanuele Faustini/Flo Hess/Danilo Torzolini ( TOTAL: 38.9 – DIFF: 12.8, EX: 15.6, AI: 10.5) [video]
2. Matteo Gaddoni/Valerio Occorsio/Jan Schreck ( TOTAL: 37.6 – DIFF: 12.7, EX: 13.9, AI: 11) [video]
3. Dan Yarnell/steve Hays/Darryl Allen ( TOTAL: 37.5 – DIFF: 12.4, EX: 15.7, AI: 9.4) [video]
4. Clay Collera/Paul Kenny/Manuel Cesari ( TOTAL: 37.4 – DIFF: 13.6, EX: 12.6, AI: 11.2) [video]
5. Paolo Magni/Filippo Cavalca/Giovanni Coppo ( TOTAL: 34.7 – DIFF: 12.4, EX: 12.6, AI: 9.7)
6. Eleonora Imazio/Markus Goetz/John Titcomb ( TOTAL: 27 – DIFF: 10.5, EX: 8.9, AI: 7.6)
7. Raffaele Pilla/Gloria Alessandrini/Davide Bianchi ( TOTAL: 24.5 – DIFF: 8.4, EX: 10.6, AI: 5.5) [video]
8. Lukas Lacina/Jakub Zahradnicek/Jan Dexter Struz ( TOTAL: 19.7 – DIFF: 8.7, EX: 6.7, AI: 4.3) [video]
9. Jakub Matula/Jakub Sedlak/Nico Bernold ( TOTAL: 19.4 – DIFF: 7.9, EX: 7.2, AI: 4.3)
Co-op Semi B
1. Claudio Cigna/Luca Medri/Tom Leitner ( TOTAL: 44.8 – DIFF: 13.3, EX: 16, AI: 15.5) [video]
2. Arthur Coddington/Balu Major/Gery Nemeth ( TOTAL: 43.0 – DIFF: 13.3, EX: 16, AI: 13.7) [video]
3. Sergio Arrighi/Marco Prati/Andrea Poli ( TOTAL: 39.9 – DIFF: 12.5, EX: 15.9, AI: 11.5) [video]
4. Anton Capellman/Jan Soerensen/Kolja Hanneman ( TOTAL: 39.1 – DIFF: 11.9, EX: 15, AI: 12.2) [video]
5. Fabio Sanna/Antonio Cusma/Joey Hudoklin ( TOTAL: 35.9 – DIFF: 12.5, EX: 11.2, AI: 12.2) [video]
6. Oren Meron/Ofek Agmon/Yarden Borcow ( TOTAL: 34.4 – DIFF: 10.3, EX: 12.8, AI: 11.3)
7. Sergio Marconi/Andrea Dini/Pavel Baranyk ( TOTAL: 33.4 – DIFF: 11.1, EX: 11.5, AI: 10.8)
8. Ale Berra/Matteo Ceresa/Merciano ( TOTAL: 30.8 – DIFF: 9.6, EX: 11.9, AI: 9.3) [video]
9. Jakub Hosek/Fathi Abdelli/Niki Thoma ( TOTAL: 19.4 – DIFF: 8, EX: 7, AI: 4.4)
Pairs Semi A
1. Clay Collera/Claudio Cigna ( TOTAL: 47.4 – DIFF: 14.2, EX: 18.8, AI: 14.4) [video]
2. Tom Leitner/Fabio Sanna ( TOTAL: 46.1 – DIFF: 14.6, EX: 17.2, AI: 14.3) [video]
3. Matteo Gaddoni/Arthur Coddington ( TOTAL: 45.9 – DIFF: 13.9, EX: 17.3, AI: 14.7) [video]
4. Darryl Allen/Steve Hays ( TOTAL: 40.7 – DIFF: 10, EX: 18.3, AI: 12.4) [video]
5. Ele Imazio/Dan Yarnell ( TOTAL: 39.1 – DIFF: 10, EX: 18.5, AI: 10.6) [video]
6. Marco Prati/Luca Medri ( TOTAL: 38.4 – DIFF: 11.5, EX: 15, AI: 11.9) [video]
7. Filippo Cavalca/Sergio Arrighi ( TOTAL: 35.2 – DIFF: 10.6, EX: 15.2, AI: 9.4) [video]
8. Kolja Hanneman/Nico Bernold ( TOTAL: 28 – DIFF: 7.4, EX: 12.5, AI: 8.1) [video]
Pairs Semi B
1. Balu Major/Gery Nemeth ( TOTAL: 42.0 – DIFF: 12.4, EX: 16.8, AI: 12.8) [video]
2. Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman ( TOTAL: 41.8 – DIFF: 13.2, EX: 15.1, AI: 13.5) [video]
3. Valerio Occorsio/Giovanni Coppo ( TOTAL: 41.0 – DIFF: 11.5, EX: 16.9, AI: 12.6) [video]
4. Jan Schreck/Flo Hess ( TOTAL: 38.0 – DIFF: 12.2, EX: 13.7, AI: 12.1) [video]
5. Oren Meron/Paval Baranyk ( TOTAL: 36.2 – DIFF: 10.5, EX: 15.3, AI: 10.4) [video]
6. Anton Capellman/Andrea Dini ( TOTAL: 35.9 – DIFF: 10, EX: 16, AI: 9.9)
7. Joey Hudoklin/Rob Fried ( TOTAL: 34.3 – DIFF: 10.3, EX: 13.3, AI: 10.7) [video]
8. Manuel Cesari/Andrea Poli ( TOTAL: 33.4 – DIFF: 10.6, EX: 12, AI: 10.8) [video]