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Acro Game

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by justACRO
7 years ago
Event date: 
2017/07/24 to 2017/07/30
Offical homepage: 
https://www.facebook.com/game.acro/
Location: 
Organyá

After the first test event in 2016 the latest and most radical invitational contest is returning to the mecca of acro paragliding, Organyá! The Acro Game between 24-30th of July will see challenging 1on1 battles to perform latest and most cutting-edge aerobatics moves presented by a small group of carefully selected pilots! justACRO will be there having Pal Takats in the role of the jury.

The format: 15 invited pilots start the qualifications the first day and have to do tricks randomly selected (natural side or unnatural, twisted or not). If one fails, he get a letter. If one completes the word ACRO he will be eliminated. After 7 pilots are eliminated, the other 8 go to elimination battles, quarter final, semifinal and final. The battles start with one pilot doing a trick which his opponent has to repeat. The pilot who do it worse gets a letter. The turn to pick a trick is changing from one pilot to the other after each maneuver. The battle continues until one pilot gets the 4 letters ACRO and lose.

The selected pilots are:

Bicho Carrera (Chile)
Brooke Whatnall (Australia)
Egor Posokhin (Russia)
François Ragolski (France)
Gaetan Doligez (France)
Horacio Llorens (Spain)
Jeremy Peclard (Switzerland)
Kevin Philipp (Switzerland)
Ondrej Prochazka (Checz Republic)
Rafael Goberna (Brasil)
Raúl Rodriguez (España)
Theo de Blic (France)
Thomas Schlögl (Austria)
Tim Alongi (France)
Yeray González (Spain)

World Cup is the past, Sonchaux is the present, Acro GAME is the future!

by PalTakats
7 years ago

After last year's victory once again Théo de Blic (FRA) stands on the top of the podium in Organyá! He made a perfect presentation of how aerobatics paragliding at the highest level looks like today! Receiving only 1 (!) letter during the entire competition it mirrors his precision and solid versatility when it comes down to perform basically anything to any direction. His final battle was with Horacio Llorens (ESP) where Théo finally packed out his secret trick bag and challenged his opponent with pretty much never seen combos like the Twisted Unnatural Looping to Twisted Opposite MacTwist to Helico or the

Acro Game - qualifications

by justACRO
7 years ago

Yesterday the Acro Game saw the most hardcore qualifying in the history of aerobatics paragliding! The maneuvers were randomly chosen from a ball and included only official FAI maneuvers this time. It was also picked randomly if it had to be performed to the pilot's natural (stronger) or unnatural (weaker) side and if twisted or regular. The tricks were twisted Misty to Heli unnatural, twisted Anti-Rhythmic, twisted Helico to SAT, ...

Acro Game

by justACRO
7 years ago

After the first test event in 2016 the latest and most radical invitational contest is returning to the mecca of acro paragliding, Organyá! The Acro Game between 24-30th of July will see challenging 1on1 battles to perform latest and most cutting-edge aerobatics moves presented by a small group of carefully selected pilots! justACRO will be there having Pal Takats in the role of the jury.

The format: 15 invited pilots start the qualifications the first day and