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This years Hall of Fame poll is on to send one famous male and female speedsailor into the Speedsailing Hall of Fame. Elections will run until 28th of February, with the Male and Female winners to be announced on the 1st of March, 2010.

Every member of the speedsailing community can make one vote on the right hand side of this website for his favourites.

And the nominees are:

We have published a provisional event calendar for 2010, you can check it at http://www.speedworldcup.com/events-2010.html.

Most of the events are still to be confirmed due to the difficult economical situation, but we are doing our best to confirm them as soon as possible.

Many events in 2010 will be held with the use of GPS timing devices, which enables us to be more flexible on course setting and really go for the good conditions.

The world championships for both Windsurfers and Kiteboarders will be held on Fuerteventura from 28.07.-02.08.2010.

There have been only a few small amendmends for the 2010 rulebooks.

For the windsurfers, the points awarded depend mainly on the price money now, with some small addition given for continentals, worlds, and if there is provisional timing available. The spread between national event and world championship events has become larger, to give more importance to the world events with the top comptitors attending.

Only the best three events of each competitors will count towards the overall world cup ranking, constituting the "Overall World Cup Winner"

For the kiteboarders, the same point system applies as for all other kiteboarding disciplines (depending on price money plus factors for continentals and worlds). Points score towards the speed ranking as well as for the overall kiteboarding ranking.

Events are expected to be held with the use of GPS mainly this year, as this makes it more attractive to organizers to hold events and enable us to offer you more events to take part in. Devices will be managed and supplied by us, we have around 120 devices ready for use. We will also see mre and more events to be held with windsurfers and kiteboarders together, which also attracts more organizers to offer us events.

The list of the 2010 events will be published soon, stay tuned !

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