The Champions
In this episode, Adam talks to some of the World's best pilots about the upcoming 2018 FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championships in Großsiegharts, Austria. The guests include:
- Rhett Heartsill - 2016 Open World Champion
- Nicola Scaife - 2016 Women's World Champion
- Rokas Kostiuskevicius - 2016 Junior World Champion
- Daniel Kusternigg - 6 time Austrian Champion
Aunty Monkey's Predictions
Below are our predictions for the Top 30 at the 2018 FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championships. Please note, these are only our opinions and we all know our opinions don't carry much weight. If you don't like your predicted ranking, then feel free to beat it. We are happy to be proven wrong.
| Competitor | Country | Prediction |
|---|---|---|
| 3. ZEBERLI, Stefan | Switzerland | 1 |
| 2. KOSTIUSKEVICIUS, Rimas | Lithuania | 2 |
| 98. PETREHN, Johnny | United States | 3 |
| 1. HEARTSILL, Rhett | United States | 4 |
| 6. SCAIFE, Matthew | Australia | 5 |
| 36. SCHNEIDER, Uwe | Germany | 6 |
| 83. HUGI, Roman | Switzerland | 7 |
| 10. KUSTERNIGG, Daniel | Austria | 8 |
| 4. KOSTIUSKEVICIUS, Rokas | Lithuania | 9 |
| 28. SEIGEOT, Clément | France | 10 |
| 99. ZVADA, Joe | United States | 11 |
| 47. FUJITA, Yudai | Japan | 12 |
| 100. DONNER, Nicholas | United States | 13 |
| 67. LATYPOV, Sergey | Russian Federation | 14 |
| 93. BAREFORD, Dominic | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 16. LIMA, Lupercio | Brazil | 16 |
| 35. GOEHLER, Sven | Germany | 17 |
| 78. AYALA, Ivan | Spain | 18 |
| 5. SCAIFE, Nicola | Australia | 19 |
| 29. SCHWARTZ, Nicolas | France | 20 |
| 37. STRASMANN, David | Germany | 21 |
| 7. KAVANAGH, Sean | Australia | 22 |
| 95. BAREFORD, Stephanie | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 102. HEARTSILL, Joe | United States | 24 |
| 45. UEDA, Satoshi | Japan | 25 |
| 17. KALOUSDIAN, Markus | Brazil | 26 |
| 101. DONNER, Chase | United States | 27 |
| 97. BAREFORD, David | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 88. VOGEL, Nicole | Switzerland | 29 |
| 8. ROBERTSON, Andrew | Australia | 30 |
