Formation Skydiving Information for non-Skydivers

From a pool of geometric formations (4,8,16 way) you have a draw. The draw consists of up to 6 formations. They are in a specific order and will be built from exit in order and once the initial 6 formations are completed in sequence the process starts over again. The time limits or working time to complete as many formations in succession from exit are 4 way is 35 seconds, 8 and 16 way is 50 seconds. The action is captured by a free fall photographer person following the formation recording the jumps. Once the jump is finished and they have landed the jump is downloaded to several judges that evaluate the correct sequence and proper build of the drawn formations and only counting those that are completed within the working time allotted. Each properly completed formation is worth 1 point, incomplete, out of sequence formations or formations completed out of time are not counted and no points are
Awarded. There are 10 jumps worth of formations drawn, each with up to 6 different formations drawn for each official competition and up to 2 jump off rounds are drawn in the event of a tie.. There are 1.6 million possible combinations of the known formations in the competition pool. Blue Skies! SGM Eitniear

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