Here is archival footage of the Gold Cup Quarter Finals of the World Fizz Cup. This is part one. What is archival footage? It contains the same great video coverage as our full coverage but at a medium resolution. Also there is no attempt to create pacing and/or use interesting special effects to enhance the [...]

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Over the past six weeks of Fizz Cup sailing, we’ve all watched as nearly 6 dozen sailors competed in hundreds of races spread over four large sailing communities. The size and global expanse of the competition truly merits the title of “World Fizz Cup.”
So much great sailing took place, that I fear many truly great [...]

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A lot has been said about the 2008 World Fizz Cup in these pages.
As Rear Admiral MarkTwain White predicted long ago, Fizz ‘08 has turned out to be the largest and the best organized sailing competition — by far — in the history of Second Life sailing.
This past weekend saw an intense [...]

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SILVER Cup semi finals were held by SYC this Saturday… and all spectators enjoyed the races…
9 sailors were competing in 3 semi-finals, with a Scoring System based on ISAF Appendix A, best 4 of 5 races (worst result is discarded).  In each semi-final, the winner advances to the SILVER - FINAL.
Semi finals results (pdf [...]

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SILVER Cup quarter finals were held by SYC this Week End..
18 sailors were competing in 3 groups of 6, with a Scoring System based on ISAF Appendix A, best 4 of 5 races (worst result is discarded).  In each group, the 3 top ranked of them advance to the SILVER semi finals
In group 1 [...]

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The SPRING 2008 WORLD FIZZ CUP started in April 25 th and will end in June 8th.
Some key numbers (red dot line shows where we are today):

At the conclusion of the Qualification phase, the twelve top ranked skippers advance to the GOLD quarter finals of the FLYING FIZZ WORLD CUP where they will participate [...]

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The weather for sailing hasn’t cooperated very well these past two weeks, but the Fizz fleet’s been out there nonetheless, fiercely competing in the World Cup 2008 qualification rounds.
After five rounds, Masahisa Greenwood’s pulled ahead of the fleet, with Yuu Nakamichi just astern. Here’s the full skipper ranking after the conclusion of Saturday’s competition [...]

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–WORLD FIZZ CUP —
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CUP SKIPPERS
Introduction
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify things and to put an end to some controversial discussions. I am of course talking about the “pumping” effect or “Fizz cheat” you have heard about — decisions must be taken quickly, and here they are, I will [...]

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