Team Garuda World Cup 2004 report
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What a super week in Berck

First of all thank you Gerard Clement and the city of Berck for making everything possible!

Again thousands of spectators were watching the demonstrations and competitions during the week. Yes, it's fantastic if you go in the arena and thousands are watching you! And believe me it's great to hear and to enjoy the big applause.

This year 17 teams were in the competition. Teams from Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, UK and USA - a real World Cup! It was great to see their flying and their different implementing of music. And we got new friendships, especially with the teams from Japan and South America.

The first weekend we had rain and it was cold. Sometimes we had strong winds on which we hoped to have it also during the three competition days. Our Masque's and the new selfmade vented's (the wine red's) were prepared. But on the first competion day (Tuesday) the weather was much better, nice warm and the wind was little. The second competition day Team Neo had a longer wind recess on the field - no wind! In the winter time we have built a special super ultralight version of the Masque (our blue, white black ones). We used them on all competition days and the megateam show. I think without the blue's the 6th place were impossible. So we're happy and we'll go to work on new routines.
You'll find pictures of us and other teams here Pictures of World Championships Berck 2004 (please click on the picture)
(thank you so much Mona, Peter, Roger and Stefan for providing us some very nice pictures!)

Torsten Schmitt
Team Garuda


Place Team Final
1 Element Air (France) 82,89
2 Tame Bird (France) 79,36
3 Cutting Edge (USA) 77,44
4 Kamikaze (Japan) 77,23
5 Watnu (Germany) 73,18
6 Garuda (Germany) 72,85
7 Tatoueurs du Ceil (France) 69,55
8 Windy Magic (Japan) 69,33
9 Scratch Bunnies (UK) 65,92
10 AirZone (USA) 62,80
11 Flame (UK) 62,49
12 Neo (Japan) 60,62
13 Matrix Management (UK) 58,05
14 MVM (USA) 56,42
15 Equipo 2600 (Colombia) 47,97
16 Fabuloso (Argentina) 45,28
17 Team Malaysia (Malaysia) 18,72

You'll find our report from 2003 here