1993 – August 20-22
Location: Skydive Spaceland – League City
Plane – Spaceland’s two Twin Otters
210 registered – 8 teams, One team withdrew and fun jumped.
Getting harder to select dates and work around holidays, the world meet, Herd boogie and Nationals.
Dallas petitioned to have the meet in Dallas. They boycotted.
Did some press releases and got TV crews to the DZ which always increased business for the DZ.
Round 1 had base doing a freestyle T in the transition. Fun ensued.
Saw where I had even arranged for an on-site babysitter.
This was the first meet without Roger Pickens, who died in an accident with Tom Jenkins in January. The t-shirts were designed using Roger’s canopy colors.
Video – Robin Wilcox, Bob Slezinsky, Richard Smith, Art Ingrao, Scott Staib, Carl Green. Charlie Bordelon was hurt but did all the team photos.
Winning Team: Deguello
Captain: Jack Berke