The first slope combat contest for the year 2008 was successfully held in Clearwater Bay flying site on Sunday 16 March 2008. The contest was originally scheduled to be run two weeks earlier, however, it was postponed due to no wind. Although the wind of the day was still very weak, it was marginally sufficient for conducting a difficult combat contest. In this light wind situation, if you were hit, you are almost finished with a hike down to recover your plane. Anyway, 12 brave pilots joined the contest and there were many spectators and visitors to watch the contest with lot of applauses. The competitors were combating in a single group of 12 and there were five rounds of contest, each round is 10 minutes duration. The total scores from all five rounds will be used to determine the winners.  The contest was started at about12:15pm and completed at about 2:40pm. The Champion who took the title of the most merciful killer is Black Boy who had been practicing the killer tactics for sometimes. His rival Ken28 was the last Champion. Black Boy deployed a head hunting tactic trying to disable his rival by target him specifically. His tactic was proved to be very successful as he caught a slim chance when Ken28 was sneaking behind some preys while exposing himself to a yet more dangerous killer - a knockdown far away from the slope. It took five minutes for Ken28 to recover his plane! Despite of being knocked down and away from the scene for a lengthy time, Ken28 still managed to retain the 1st runner-up position - what a dangerous killer he is! Next on the line is another well known plane killer, Lee Man, who is the third time winner of second prizes in previous contests! But this time again no luck with the Champion title, he managed to get the 2 runner-up prize. Surprisingly, the booby prize went to Ken28 with a total number of knockdowns of 14! Possibly because he was last Champion and everybody was aiming at him!

Each winner has both a beautiful trophy and a cash prize, yes! a cash prize sponsored by Mercury Adhesives and Windrider R.S.B. Aviation Co., Ltd.  Thanks the boss of Windrider, Mr. Lou Tsz Ming, for his generosity. The cash prizes for the champion, 1st runner-up, and 2nd runner-up are  $800, $500 and $300, respectively. Thank you for your participation and of course our sponsors. See you next year when the combat diehards meet again!

The contest is about to start. Everybody is busy in preparation

The plane killers are friends on ground, but once they are on air - no mercy!

Stanley is a potential mountain goat for the killers to chase

The atmosphere is getting tense just before the start

One, two, three, launch!

These guys are really enjoying killing each others

The killing field is right on this beautiful Clearwater Bay

Oh! first casualty! Stanley, told you before, you are just a mountain goat!

The killers have a formation

Oh! Ken is also an easy prey

No mercy for those who stay away

This serious killer, Ken28, was just backed from a recovery mission after he was "killed" by another more serious killer, Black Boy!