
On Memorial Day weekend (May 29 and 30, 1999) , in Albuquerque, they had a Regional Ballooning meet, The Rio Grande Balloon Classic, winners get to go to the Nationals.
The balloons launched at one end of Fiesta Park, rose about 100 feet,


and drifted down to the other end of the park, where there was a X target of plastic strips pinned to the ground, at which the pilots toss a marked weighted streamer. The streamers that land closest to the center of the X, score the highest.
After the toss, the pilots rose to about 200 feet, where the wind was blowing the other direction.

This blew them back to the starting area, so they didn't have to chase to load the balloons after landing.