Calgary (pps) At the Viessmann Luge World Cup on December 9-10, 2011 the première of the so-called “American-Pacific Championships” will be launched. Similar to the European Championships which will be carried as a “race-in-race” competition during the final of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Paramonovo, Russia, at the end of February 2012, the national luge federations of North and South America as well as the Pacific “neighbours” will be determining their champions in the host city of the 1988 Olympic Games.