ROOKIE RUMBLE

A fun, friendly, inclusive and inspirational 3way FS competition for newly qualified skydivers from any dropzone.

• Three flyers per team

• Two 'rookies' per team

• One coach per team

• Forty 'rookie' competitors in total

• Twenty teams

• Six rounds

• Two days

• Epic prizes

• One winner

Competitors are ranked by experience level. And each round they jump with a different rookie and a different coach.

Each competitor carries their individual score through the event. The person with the most points is champion. There can be only one.

Judges and lead organiser have complete discretion over the competition and will act fairly. Everyone knows benevolent dictators are best after all. Judges decision final.

Ranking by experience level is based on jump numbers and tunnel time... your first 60mins in the tunnel is equivalent to 90 jumps, after that 1min = 1 jump.

2023 tbc.
 

1st Prize

xx% off any Javelin container, courtesy of Sun Path Products CONFIRMED

xx% off G4, courtesy of Cookie Helmets

xx% off a Cypres AAD, courtesy of Airtec

xx% off a Symbi jumpsuit, courtesy of Symbi Suits.

xx% off Atlas digital alti (audible and/or visual), courtesy of Alti-2 Europe

xx% off x, courtesy of Performance Designs

2nd Prize

xx% off a Galaxy Altimeter, courtesy of Alti-2 Europe

3rd Prize

Pair of skydiving gloves, courtesy of AirSupply

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#NoRookieLeftBehind

38th, 39th & 40th

30mins tunnel (shared 3on1), or 10mins 1on1 each. Time/date TBC. Cost of tunnel time covered by Buzz at Skydive Tilstock,

Free coaching from Brian Cumming. Times and dates will need to work, obviously.

The Luckiest Loser will win 30% off a Cookie G4 and free registration to the Rainbow Boogie 2022 at Skydive Tilstock. Plus more, maybe even winning your jump tickets back!

This is a knockout Rock/Paper/Scissor ('RPS') competition at the closing ceremony.

You 'win' an entry into RPS by doing one of the following:
i) being on the reserve list and turning up and jumping anyway.

ii) by scoring the lowest on any round.

iii) by being in the bottom part of the competition.

iv) by your team performing the best geek of each round, as decided by the judge.

Bear with us on this, we've only just thought of it but we're super excited to make it work. Some of the criteria may change as we think this through.

Excellent news. Just click one of the buttons to register interest for 2023.

Your slot is confirmed upon

1) completion of the registration form

AND

2) the £xx registration fee being paid.

Note: you'll need the date you qualified for your A licence handy. Approximately. If you don't know it, you can always guess it and update it later.

Every good skydiver has a Plan B and we will have a full plan of seminars and activities for bad weather. It's impossible to have this many top coaches on a DZ at the same time and not be able to learn something. This would be one of those days where you learn more on a bad weather day than you would on a good weather day.

We will not postpone the event unless the DZ postpones the tandem program in advance.

We may, however, delay the start time if the forecast is consistently very poor.

 

Name, Date of A Licence, jumps, tunnel hours, home DZ

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*If anyone registered above, who has been qualified for more than 2 years, racks up more than 200 jumps before the competition, then they become eligible to compete in the 'Open' category. Jumpers in the 'Open' category are eligible for the 'luckiest loser' competition but no other prizes

The 'Open' category is for people who are not Rookies, or who are Rookies but are on the reserve list. We can help you put a 3way team together at manifest on the day and join us freefall and all the ground stuff.

If you're a Rookie in the Open category, you will be entered into the 'luckiest loser' competition.
 

Reserve list... any reserves who turn up for Day1 of Rookie Rumble will be automatically entered into the 'Luckiest Loser' competition. You could win 30% discount off a Cookie G4 and free registration to Skydive Tilstock Rainbow Boogie 2022

1) Mike Bull, July 2018, 168 jumps, Langar (also competed in 2019)

2) Angel FernandeZ, June 2018, 81 jumps, Langar

3a) Emily Napier (Friday), Feb 2019, 50 jumps, Langar

3b) Jack Bishop (Saturday), Jan 2019, 60 jumps, Langar

4) Daniel Staples, July 2019, 81 jumps, Langar

5) Paul Flood, June 2019, 75 jumps, Netheravon

6) Ruth, Dec 2018, 103 jumps, Hinton

7) Suzie Whitehurst, April 2019, 140 jumps, Tilstock

8) Giles Moon, Aug 2018, 70 jumps, Netheravon/Langar

9) Julie Murray, April 2019, 99 jumps, Tilstock

10) Elisha Zeiss, Jul 2019, 69 jumps, Langar

11) Max Samuel, Oct 2019, 75 jumps, GoSkydive

12) Katie Balmer, Aug 2018, 154 jumps, Hibaldstow

13) Amy Perry, Aug 2018, 124 jumps, Chatteris

14) Tom Dent, Feb 2017, 84, Langar (2nd place)

15) Bradley Shelton, Sept 2019, 107 jumps, Hibaldstow

16) Leonie Stromich, Aug 2018, 62 jumps, Langar

17) Claire Holland, July 2019, 135 jumps, Hinton (1st place)

18) Lucy Smith, Dec 2018, 67 jumps, Headcorn

19) Frantisek Bolek, July 2019, 99 jumps, Redlands/homeless :-(

20) Jon Simister, Aug 2017, 73 jumps, Langar

*If anyone registered above, who has been qualified for more than 2 years, racks up more than 200 jumps before the competition, then they become eligible to compete in the 'Open' category. Jumpers in the 'Open' category are not eligible for the prizes. The next reserve will be called up to participate in the competition.

The 'Open' category is for people who are not Rookies or are Rookies but aren't in the competition. Please feel free to put a 3way team together at manifest on the day and join us in jumping the competition dives. Only Rookies can win prizes.
 

Reserve list - if we can fill 10 more spots... we can expand the competition. We have enough coaches and 3 planes available. It'd be rude not to.

21) Sophie Fretwell, June 2019, 65 jumps, Langar

22) Nick Williams, April 1992, 171 jumps, Headcorn (I feel like there is a story here)

23) Anastasiia Solonitsyna, Jan 2020, 90 jumps, Langar

24) Edgar Lisboa, March 2019, 105 jumps, Hib

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