Finally it is a fair time to have a look at the current scoring for the German national team for the World Championship.
And we do have quite some changes to 2023.
First of all we have a change in first position! Steffen is now leading the score with a great run in 2024 so far.
Andreas is a little bit behind, with only a few competitions, but more upcoming. But even one more win will not be enough to get to first place again. The margins are really thin at the top of the list!
Jens came up quickly to third place. He had a really good but not perfect run in 2024. The one „bad“ result from last year with 95,93% is still in his score, this is probably going to change soon. (A result all pilots behind are usually only hoping for. Me included…)

For these three, everything is still open. Theoretically all of them can make first place.
Purely theoretical, Johannes Krischke and Matthias Neumann have a numerical chance to make it to the top three. I hope to see you both back in the competitions soon!
Frank Thomas had amazing competitions, but only three up to now. If we even get to three more competitions, he would have to score exceptionally well in all of them.

Basically this is the race for the top three spots already. Following this, there will still be a lot of changes depending on upcoming competitions. I am very happy with my current fourth place but am very aware that starting with me, the final accounting will only be done at the end of the year, and not before. (Yes, Matthias, I am referring to your saying: Abgerechnet wird am Ende!)
Markus Becker is very close. Karl Hinsch with impressive constant results in the 93% to 97% range is a special candidate with very good knowledge of thermals and a year 2024 that was rich in difficult duration tasks! Helmut Edenhofer can easily gain several points with another good result.
Reinhold Krischke with almost always over 90% is also not far behind. Steffen Hoppe and Karl-Heinz Schneider with a small gap, but especially in this range, one good results makes a big difference.

The full list: No guarantees, if you spot a mistake, please tell me!

Rank	Name, First name	Total points. 2023 and 2024 2 best each + 2 more best from both years	2 best in 2023	2 best in2024	5. best	6. best
1	Besemer, Steffen	597.46	199.59	200.00	99.09	98.78
2	Herrig, Andreas	596.12	200.00	197.99	99.45	98.68
3	Buchert, Jens	592.19	199.01	198.68	98.57	95.93
4	Rieger, Christian	576.54	194.78	191.78	95.17	94.81
5	Becker, Markus	571.99	191.02	195.56	93.75	91.66
6	Hinsch, Karl	569.15	192.72	189.13	93.75	93.55
7	Edenhofer, Helmut	563.99	195.44	179.13	95.72	93.70
8	Krischke, Reinhold	558.84	190.49	183.09	93.19	92.07
9	Hoppe, Steffen	542.87	185.10	177.17	90.68	89.92
10	Schneider, Karl-Heinz	538.41	182.41	184.62	87.10	84.28
	Hortzitz, Armin	472.69	192.11	185.85	94.73	0.00
	Neumann, Matthias	487.35	197.22	97.44	96.37	96.32
	Krischke, Johannes	395.84	199.51	0.00	98.49	97.84
	Thomas, Frank	291.72	195.09	96.63	0.00	0.00