{"id":146,"date":"2016-07-18T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2016-07-18T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:24:57","slug":"2016-pnw-drone-nationals-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"2016 PNW Drone Nationals Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/toe4V6pQwbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whew what a weekend. Flew up to Bend, Oregon for the Pacific North West Drone Nationals Qualifier. Flew up after work Friday and was home by 9:00AM on Sunday morning. Sadly I didn&#8217;t get to spend too much time in Bend other than attending the race. The race was a mixed bag. While I tied for 3rd after Qualifying I ended up taking 5th due to a mid-air in the final race right at the start. I did finally qualify for Drone Nationals though!!! BUT I will not be attending it as I have conflicts and cannot make it. Thankfully we were able to pass the &#8220;golden ticket&#8221; onto the next person in line so at least he can now go!<\/p>\n<p>The big thing was the race format was very interesting, at least I had never seen anything like that before. We were given one practice round and then three qualifying rounds. If you qualified well you continued on, if you didn&#8217;t you were done. Now the people that qualified 1-5 had a race. The person that won that race moved onto the &#8220;finals&#8221; and were given the &#8220;golden ticket&#8221;. The person that qualified #6 would then enter the race against the remainder of the people from 1-5 taking the place of the other person. So on and so forth until all the &#8220;tickets&#8221; were given out. Because FlyingBearFPV (Ken) was already qualified and the fact I gave up my ticket, they ended up having 7 of these races to find who got those last two spots. This &#8220;format&#8221; really favors the people that qualify well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew what a weekend. Flew up to Bend, Oregon for the Pacific North West Drone Nationals Qualifier. Flew up after work Friday and was home by 9:00AM on Sunday morning. Sadly I didn&#8217;t get to spend too much time in Bend other than attending the race. The race was a mixed bag. While I tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpv-trips","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenfpv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}