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21Our first national GPS competition with heats and rounds was flown recently at the Goat Farm near Matamata. 8 keen fliers plus several visitors keen to learn more joined in from around NZ.TRIANGLE COMPETITIONNew Zealand%u2019s FirstMatamata %u2018The Goat Farm%u2019 June 13th-15th 2025The weather forecast had been fluctuating between good and NOT over the week before the event, as it turned out we had a few light showers early Friday afternoon, some fog Saturday morning and eventually too much wind on Sunday morning, in between some great flying, learning, troubleshooting talking and teaching occurred. The fliers included Rob Johnstone, Kevin Botherway and David Griffin with some prior competition experience. Kev and Dave setup and ran the event. Locals, Bill Derenzy, Bruce Clark and John Shaw, Wayne Bilham from further south were there to experience their first GPS competition and more importantly get gear set up and running reliably and tuned to provide the right information to the pilot.Models flown were mostly from Nan Models of Bulgaria %u2013 the Compass and Explorer Q5, plus Rob%u2019s Maxa.The Goat Farm is set on a large open space close to the Kaimai Range. The Goats are all in sheds and the lush grass they crave is regularly harvested and taken to them, leaving a lovely site for us to fly from.GPS events are run to a set of rules which can take a while to understand well. Scoring is done online via the rcmodelspot.com website. Each competitor downloads the same triangle task before the event, flies and records