LiveBlog – FITASC World Championship – Orville, France

Mon 18th July 2011 @ 13.14

• Top Junior was David Radulovich from the USA on 190ex200 – with a few places back was Phil Gray from the UK on 177
• Top Lady was Beatriz Laparra Cuenca on 186, with GB shooters Cheryl Hall and Janine Preece in 2nd and 3rd places on 179 and 174 respectively

Mon 18th July 2011 @ 13.10

• With all the final results published – some of the key scores from the GB shooters : Graham Stirzaker was top brit - on 190x 200, Richard Faulds on 189, Martin Papworth on 188. There was a clutch of British Shooters on 187 – including George Digweed, Richard Bunning and Chris Broomfield.
• At the top of the list – two French Shooters – Auvret on 198×200 and  Bardou 5 shots back on 193.

Mon 18th July 2011 @ 13.03

• OK – Final results have been published : here

Sun 17th July 2011 @ 21.58

• We’re hearing the Auvert held onto his lead, with a nearly perfect four days of FITASC shooting. Waiting for the full 4 days results to be posted, but we’ll have them here – as soon as they are.

Sun 17th July 2011 @ 21.40

• Day Three results : here - Final scores as soon as we get them….

Sun 17th July 2011 @ 21.30

• Waiting for formal results to be published – but here are some scores we know : Auvret 198, Husthwaite 185, Winser 182, David Hughes 185, Richard Faulds 189, Bardou 193

Sun 17th July 2011 @ 21.27

• Right – with only a nine hour flight under my belt today – time to make sense of the scores we’ve seen

Sat 16th July 2011 @ 18.03

• Business end of the day – and we start to pull together the story from the results coming in across Facebook, Twitter and Pigeon Post
• George DIGWEED scored 47ex50 today – total 139ex150 after three days. Reports that the weather was ‘horrendous’

Sat 16th July 2011 @ 14.05

• Team Standings after two days : here (Link to FB page for the NCSA Team USA)

Sat 16th July 2011 @ 12.18

• Tweet from George Digweed : Very windy today. Rain forecast this afternoon. Weather conditions may change the scores. I start shooting at 3pm.

Sat 16th July 2011 @ 09.04

• Scores for Day Two – final published – fully sortable and searchable here
• Headlines – Christophe AUVRET of France is still straight after 4 parcours - 100ex100, 2nd place is Charles BARDOU, followed by GB shooter Graham Stirzaker on 97ex100
• Other GB headlines : Chris BROOMFIELD on 93, George DIGWEED on 92 and Ben HUSTHWAITE on 89
• Other Notables – top junior is USA David RADULOVICH on 96 with GB’s Phil GRAY just behind on 93 – and well placed

Sat 16th July 2011 @ 08.05

• Still no official day two scores  we’re watching and waiting as well…will update as soon as they are posted.

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 23.21

• Great update from Alan (in the comments below – but I’ll repeat here) : Phil Grey shot a 25 straight then a 20, he said the waiting around had a lot to do with his score of twenty, but was very pleased with the straight, also is pleased to be one in front of diggers .He really wants the junior title this year for himself and berreta.

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 22.05

• Still putting it together on hearsay and gossip – Faulds on 97 – full results on here as soon as I can get em…

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 19.22

• Hearing that Christophe Auvret is 100 straight after two days… waiting for more info now.

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 16.02

• OK – it’s the time we start piecing together from multiple sources – we hear Miles Gebben from the USA shot a 48 today – putting him on 96 after two days.
• Full results from Day One are still here

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 14.20

• George Digweed shot 48ex50 today – from Facebook : “Not a good day in the office. 45/50 today. Bouncing rabbit started me off badly. I think I am trying a bit too hard. Will enjoy the next two days now.”

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 10.22

• Some GB headlines from the full score list now available – 233 British shooters listed – some notable scores : Richard Faulds on 49, David Hughes, Phil Gray, Graham Stirzaker, Mark Marshall, John Bidwell, Chris Broomfield all on 48 – George Digweed on 47. Ben Husthwaite on 45.
• Long way to go – and very tight at the top of the leader board.

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 10.06

• Full day one scores are now available here - searchable and sortable

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 08.51

• Some good photographs of Team USA – over on Facebook

Fri 15th July 2011 @ 08.20

• First shooters are out on the parcours – so we’ll keep an eye on all the news feeds to bring you scores as they happen…

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 22.00

• Tweet from @isportingclays : 2011 World FITASC Championship Day 1, USA Scores Gebben Miles 48, Ant Matarese 48, Cory Kruse 47, Brad Kidd 45, Will Fennell 45. #followus

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.55

• We’re also hearing the weather was cool today  ”This morning it was a cool 14C and got up to 18C in the sun. By 5.50 PM it was down to 14.5C. Meanwhile 1.5 hrs away, Paris was sunny and warm!.”

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.53

• Mark Winser and Dave Hughes both shot 48 (info from J Winser via the contact form – many thanks!)  – some excellent scores coming in… let us know about conditions and the targets you’re all seeing thrown.

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.37

• Big thanks to Henry Nachaj who confirmed some scores – and gave some insight into the parcours : Christian Auvret 50, Richard Faulds 49, George Digweed 48 and our young Canadian Junior Shawn Stitt at 48 with a few more at 28. Parcours 2 Tunet will have a few 25s. Parcours 3 is tougher and at one point we had sun issues.

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.19

• OK – piecing it together from multiple sources. Christophe Auvret on 50, Richard Faulds on 49, George Digweed on 48, Mark Marshall on 48, Phil Grey one shot behind (need confirmation further down the order)

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.06

• Bits and Pieces still coming in (thanks Alan for the comment left) – Phil Gray on 48/50 after day one, one shot behind George Digweed – more news as we get it…

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 20.02

• Information hard to come by – but I hear that Christophe Auvert is leading at the end of day one – more details on UK shooters as I get them….

Thu 14th July 2011 @ 18.43

• Day One results will be published as soon as we can get hold of them – no live scoreboard running for this event. I definitely need to talk to these people about making that happen – could be so easy!