It's a new clear blue sky day in Bad Saulgau, southern Germany. The meet director has elected to start with 4way and perhaps we will even go through to Round 10. The 8way finishing order is almost set, so all eyes are on the 4way leader board.

Both teams are having a lot of fun with the situation, but make no mistake, the stakes are high here, and I can only begin to wonder how the atmosphere is in the plane. Gamma Ray has secured a comfortable third place and is having a great meet too. Perhaps Round 7 being their most confident so far. They are the 3rd team in the plane enjoying the electric like atmosphere.

Round 8 might be the slowest scoring round, and a G exit out of a Caravan can create some heart burn. Round 9 is above average with some quick randoms and Round 10 has memory for the front piece. All in all a good test.

Round 8 went well for both top teams. However, Paratec-Saar took advantage of a slow Block 22 from EADS on the hill and managed to eek out the 16th point on the freeze frame. EADS were on their way to 16. Once again, it's under a second separating these guys, but for the first time we have a new leader with the reigning champions. Now they need to be defending the 1-point lead, so we wait in suspense.

Both teams had good a Round 9, and very little separated them until the freeze frame. The judges watched three times before changing a 25 to a 26, meaning this time around EADS were fractionally ahead in sequence. The show goes on. It's more or less a sudden death now, even though EADS are one down. With the extra memory on round 10 it's down to a battle of the front pieces.