As the summer season drew to a close, we turned to something much smaller but still a lot of fun. That’s right, it was time to kick off our tiny whoop league!
Race 1 we kicked off with a tilted Hypertunnel and the Climbing gate. Also new to this year we added a dive hex gate to the mix, giving more variation to the track. YOSC also kindly gave us a big bowl of sausages which went down a treat with all the pilots!
For the second race due to popularity, we used the tilted hypertunnel and the hex dive gate again. Lightsail and minus_one joined us, with minus_one running away with first place as well as winning a weBLEED Prop Popper! The whoop gods were definitely on his side that night.
Hearing the feint sound of sleigh bells, we entered into our third race with Christmas just around the corner. We decided to shift the orientation of the track and pilot area due to the removal of the boxing ring, which worked out favourable. Everyone was treated to pizza at the half-time and some offerings from our awesome sponsors before going into finals. Feeling the Christmas spirit, R8MXX won a Happymodle Mobula 6 2024 who gifted it to Aaron, and Derpy Hooves won a ViFly Toothstor charger which was gifted to Dirty McStinky. Clearly everyone was in the festive spirit!
After all the festivities were over and we entered into 2025, we kicked off with Race 4 which gave a chance for all those Christmas gifts to be put to good use. We had the climbing gate as well as the ever-challenging vortex gate, the latter of which is not for the feint of heart! We also had a new pilot attend called Bouncy. We learned it was his birthday treat to come see us, so we made sure he could fly between qualifying and finals. A few members also helped out in designing and animating a logo for him, as well as recording and editing DVR footage of his flight.
Race 5 was the mark of the final whoop league session, and it did not disappoint! Not only did we add a fantastic new element to the mix in the form of a gate wall, we also had the ever awesome Nightwing join us. Hot off the presses from his wins at PTW5 & BIRD, The unquestionable king of whoops in Europe certainly showed us Brits how the Americans do things. We finished the night with prize givings for the league and everyone got plenty of pictures with our guest before he returned back stateside.
Overall our whoop season was the usual great time allround, with every sessions demand exceeding capacity. We saw changes to both our track and equipment, continually striving to better our events, never resting on our laurels.
You can see a breakdown of all the sessions here: https://sgdc.co.uk/whoop-league-2024-2025/
A huge thank you to all pilots who attended this great whoop series, without you it would have been a pretty lonely race! And thank you to all of our generous sponsors, your continued support to the FPV community keeps us in the air and pushing ourselves to the next level.
Infinity Loops: https://infinityloops.com/
Vifly: https://viflydrone.com/
Gemfan: https://www.gemfanhobby.com/
Minifigs: https://minifigs.me/
Tiny Whoop: https://www.tinywhoop.com/
Happymodel: https://www.happymodel.cn/
WeBleedFpv: https://webleedfpv.com/