The Swiss Championship in August was washed away by the rain and with only 1-1 valid tasks in solo and synchro it was not possible to celebrate 2010's champions.
Swiss Robair Paragliding School decided to save the Championship and to organize a second event in November! What? In freezing snowy November ?? Yes, because the swiss rules only allow the next event to take place 3 months after the last one. Anyway, Robair does everything to make the pilot's and the spectator's life easier and offers good music (helps to keep on moving), free dry suits for all participants, hot drinks and a heated tent!
The location is going to be Weesen at the Walensee with the take-off place Amden, called Durschlegi ("Antenna"). The altitude difference is only 600 meters, the event will take place just below and the mountain falls down with an almost vertical cliff into the lake, providing fair play for the pilots with a reliable ~500 meters of altitude in the acro box.

Dates 5-7. November or in case of bad weather 12-14. November.
Registration and futher infos (in German) at: http://www.coldwateracrosession.ch/

In September 2010 an old dream of the paramotor world came true! A completely new style of competition that brakes out from the rigid format of the old-school paramotor competitions. After years of trying to convince the FAI to mix up the boring tasks with such challenging games,

After 8 years of competing and being a professional pilot, Alexander "Xandi" Meschuh - seeing the dying down competition scene last year - decided to organize an event at his lovely home site, the Gerlitzen. From his own experiences Xandi knew very well what the pilots need to be happy, satisfied and to be able to enjoy a competition:

After many successful editions of the RedBull Vertigo, then Vertigo Swiss Riviera, the city of Villeneuve at the lake of Geneva now hosted the Sonchaux Acro Show for the second time (Sonchaux is the name of the mountain where the pilots fly from).
The event is all about the show, but also a new kind of acro competition with 12 of the best pilots in the World and 4 wild cards for swiss pilots. The concept is simple: 2 pilots fly out at the same time for a "battle". The winner continues and the looser is out of the competition...

Lucky Clowns team member and swiss champion Yves Berlowitz reports of this year's national competition:

The swiss championship 2010 took place at the beautiful lake of Lugano from the 13. to the 15. of August. Next to the swiss championship there was an open competition in solo and World Cup in synchro as well.

An article by Ojovolador.com, reported by Horacio Llorenz.

The second edition of the Revoluttion event was held last weekend (August 6-8) with the participation of about thirty pilots, some foreigners, who flew three tasks in the solo category and two in synchro in perfect conditions over the lake of La Pobla de Segur. Horacio Llorens (RR Radix) took the top place overall, ahead of team mate Raul Rodriguez (RR Radix) and the Argentinean Hernan Pitocco (Sol Supersonic). Horacio reports from the competition.