8th International GermanCup at Pforzheim |
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In 2004, it was GermanCup time again! After we had missed the event in 2002
(we were at the balloon meeting in the Europapark back then), we were happy
to have kind of a home game again. Sometimes, you just have to set priorities
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The organizers of this spectacle of course had a special task for me: To
invite 15 model balloonists and to hold a little model balloon meeting
for the supporting programme. |
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The night glow on Friday evening, choreographed by Andrew Kaye from Great Britain, was a special highlight of the event. The model balloons also took part in this show. |
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On Saturday morning, the big balloons took off for their third competition flight... and our penguin was right between them. |
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Martin Eutermoser from Rosenheim fascinated the visitors with his little blue elephant, which now can even trumpet remote-controlled. |
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The event was moderated by German radio SWR4 station moderator Jürgen Essig, who you can see here with one of the organizers, Waltraud Knöller. |
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Such a ballooning weekend can be quite exhausting! However, a model balloon envelope can also be used as a sleeping mat... ;-) |
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On Saturday evening, all the model balloons were put up for a group photo. Right in the middle, you can see the youngest child of the model balloon family: "Mauli", the mole, built by Karsten Knechtel from Dresden, with a height of eleven meters and a volume of over 100 cubic meters. |
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At the award ceremony on Sunday, the winners of the competition were
given their prizes: Sven Göhler, winner in 2002, won again, prior to Tomas Hora
(winner in 1995) and Günter Binder (winner in 2000). |
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