The 2016 Region 1 Championships at Springfield VT ended Monday with Juan Mandelbaum (Z8) taking the overall Championship winning the Shapiro Trophy, and the award for Best Pilot on both first and second weekends. John Hansman (XA) finished very strong including a decisive 1000 point victory on the last day to finish in second place overall. Many other "first contest" pilots did well in a very competitive race (less than 18 points separated positions 2 and 4 and there was a dead tie for 6th place). All results are at the SSA site:

http://www.ssa.org/ContestResults.as...ltsUpdate=True

It was a very successful contest with great weather on 4 contest days (only one of which was slightly devalued) and ended with no incidents or accidents of any type.

Roy B. Contest Director