posted Sep 11th, 2003 - What did Solly mention yesterday: "8-way has the tendency for teams to lose a round by two or three points and very often make it up on the next jump." Here we go. Round five changed the picture once again. Russia had the best engineering and a crisp jump. The defending world champion won the round three points over Airspeed and now leads by two. France had an excellent and perfectly clean jump, as well. Airspeed took a longer move to build the Hope Diamond and might have lost the round right there. France is now closer to Airspeed. However, the distance to the leader is still seven points. The only chance for France is to continue with perfect rounds for the remainder of the meet and hope that Russia and Airspeed will take turns in making mistakes and loosing points. And between Russia and U.S.A.? Read Solly's comment again..... The meet management has called the 8-way teams for another round. Stay tuned.