posted Oct 6th, 2009 - The 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships will only be one step on the way to the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010 in Russia for three teams, a very important one though.

The winners of the 4-way and the 8-way competition are usually automatically qualified by USPA as the national teams for the next world meet. The same counts for the highest scoring all-female lineup in the Open Class competition.

The upcoming major Formation Skydiving competition of the 2009 season in the USA has also a similar situation for the NSL News and for CamScore. Both have already been invited by the Russian host to cover next year's world championship in Menzelinsk.

Russia's IPC Delegate Vladimir Gazetov and next year's host in Menzelinsk, Sergey Serendeev, visited at the FAI World Cup 2009 and observed how CamScore and NSL News went about their business, while they collected experiences and impressions of the competition site in Prostejov, Czech Republic.

Vladimir Gazetov has already attended many international competitions over decades, as IPC Delegate for Russia, Meet Director and FAI Judge. Sergey Serendeev's skydiving center in Menzelinsk hosted this year's Russian national championships.

CamScore and NSL News have already worked together for quite a while. The first contact was made at the World Challenge 2007 at Bodyflight Bedford. The NSL News was impressed with CamScore's scoring and DZ-TV system that Andy Mansfield and Jo Bell were also using at other meets in the United Kingdom at that time.

The first project that CamScore and NSL News worked on together was the dive generator. CamScore integrated all four NSL competition classes and provided print-out versions of the competition draw that have been used ever since for the weekly NSL competition draw.

CamScore and NSL News met again at the World Challenge 2008 and cooperated once again very efficiently. The electronic video files created by CamScore made it much easier for the NSL News to provide more footage from the events.

CamScore continued in 2008 to cover the meets of the United Kingdom Skydiving League (UKSL) and then BPA's national championships.

CamScore was already well known by then, however, the French organizers of the World Meet 2008 in Maubeuge used their own system.

The efficient cooperation intensified at the beginning of the 2009 season. Skydive DeLand and the Florida Skydiving League invited CamScore to cover the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2009, and the NSL News was there too, of course.

It was the first time that the NSL News witnessed the completely computerized system with its user-friendly dubbing system for the videographers at an outdoor competition. Everything worked just as smoothly as at the wind tunnel competitions where a set camera in the flying chamber does not require a videographer in freefall.

The World Challenge 2009 followed just a few weeks later at Bodyflight Bedford. CamScore and NSL News brought the most popular wind tunnel competition once again to the attention of the audience.

The UKSL 2009 meets and the BPA Championship 2009 were once again on the CamScore schedule before the next step up would only be a matter of time.

The International Parachuting Commission had already evaluated the CamScore system carefully.

Result was that the FAI World Cup 2009 would become the first event where CamScore covered an IPC First Category event.

The excellent CamScore services at the World Cup 2009 made it easy for the Russian delegation in Prostejov to secure the same coverage for the world meet next year. The NSL News was invited at the same time to guarantee the complete event package for the audience.

The ESL Championship 2009 followed a week later on CamScore's home turf in the United Kingdom.

The next trip would bring CamScore back to the USA USPA where the host of this year's national championships, Skydive Spaceland in Texas, had made the same CamScore decision already earlier this year.

Spaceland's owner, Steve Boyd, traveled to DeLand in March to visit the Shamrock Showdown and experience CamScore's services live on site. Result of this visit was CamScore's trip to Texas this week where Andy Mansfield and Jo Bell are now already setting up their equipment. The NSL News will follow on Saturday.