At the U.S. Team Party, Hannes Linke, Competition Director of the 1991 World Gliding Championship in Uvalde, reminisced about setting tasks at that contest with Judge Hal Lattimore and Wally Scott. Judge Lattimore, SSA President, had directed many competitions, and Wally Scott of Odessa, a multiple-time Barringer trophy winner and one of Texas’s most active record-setting pilots.

Every morning, Linke said, at 8:00, meteorologists Dan Gudgel and Walt Rogers would give the three task setters a weather briefing. Then starting at 8:15, the three directors worked feverishly and vociferously to assign tasks for the three classes, the Judge recording everything in longhand, “just to slow us down,” said Linke. By 8:45, they were finished. “That thirty minutes every day of those three weeks was the most fun I’ve ever had,” said Linke.

Linke was determined to hand pilots a printed task sheet, rather than one handwritten, something that had never been done at the WGC. One day, lunching in downtown Uvalde, he and Bill Ivins ran into a Uvalde County Agriculture Commissioner. “By the end of that lunch, Bill had talked the county out of their printer for the period of the competition, and we had our printed task sheets.”