From the EAA newsletter:

Jim Payne, glider pilot from Rosamond, California, won the 2008 Aerokurier Online Soaring Contest (OLC). Jim outscored 10,981 pilots in this year-long contest to become the 2008 OLC World Champion. The contest scores each pilot's six longest flights adjusted for the performance of the sailplane. Jim's top six flights totaled 5,697 miles for an average of 949 miles per flight. His longest flight was 1,115 miles. Total flight time for the flights was 62.9 hours. Five of the flights were flown in an ASW-27, a single-seat racing sailplane with a 49-foot wingspan; the sixth was flown in an ASH-25.

Thanks to Roger Coxon