Andreas Kuettel of Switzerland beats out two World Cup champions in Adam Malysz and Janne Ahonen to win his first ever World Cup event in the season opener in Kuusamo, Finland.
The 26 year-old recorded jumps of 139.5 metres and 135.0 metres to win the event by nearly 13 points from current champion Ahonen.
Consistency was the key as everyone tried to work off the summer rust, and some managed it better than most. Some of those who couldn't manage it included Michael Uhrmann of Germany, who having jumped only half a metre less than Kuettel in the first round could only muster 115.5 metres in the second round (the worst of the round), plummeting him down to 14th place. Going the other way were Lars Bystoel and Harri Olli. Both soared over 140 metres in the second round after poor first round efforts under 130 metres.
Full results can be found here.
Sunday 8 June 2008
Ski Jumping
Well, to start things off on the RJH Games blog I am going to let rip with a replay using a game of our own design. K-Point is a replay game of ski jumping using two rolls of three dice to determine jump distance and judges scores for each jumper.
I am going to be replaying the 2005-6 World Cup season as it is the only one released so far. Don't worry though, 2006-7 and 2007-8 are both in the pipeline and will be released in the winter (when people might be more in tune with ski-jumping).
The first event of the season is from Kuusamo, Finland.
I am going to be replaying the 2005-6 World Cup season as it is the only one released so far. Don't worry though, 2006-7 and 2007-8 are both in the pipeline and will be released in the winter (when people might be more in tune with ski-jumping).
The first event of the season is from Kuusamo, Finland.
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