posted Feb 6th, 2012 - The live coverage of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championships 2012 is over, and the review begins. NSL-TV continues with the videos of Rounds 5 and 6 that feature the TOP 4 teams.

The point deductions have also been added to the extended leaderboard, and it shows that SDC Rhythm XP suffered the most, while XL had only two busts while scoring 277 points.

The video of Round 5 shows a sequence that must be one of the slowest in the history of 4way Formation Skydiving competition. The NSL News has covered this topic a few times related to the 20-point benchmark for a single round and also for the meet averages. Arizona Airspeed's 22-pointer is a very low highscore for an indoor competition, and only the Golden Knghts also managed to beat the 20. The sequence (2,11,10) was at least the slowest one of the meet.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2012		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	C,20,13	B,18,O,8	K,A,16,Q	H,F,J,4	2,11,10	M,E,21,22	P,L,3,12	14,6,D	G,1,19	N,5,9	Total	Avg
1	USA Arizona Airspeed	25(-1)	29	38	39(-1)	22	29(-1)	28	27(-1)	25(-2)	38(-1)	300	30.0
2	XL	24	27	32	37	19	27	26	25	25(-1)	35(-1)	277	27.7
3	Golden Knights Gold	20(-1)	27	32(-1)	36	20(-1)	27(-1)	25	25(-1)	27	34(-2)	273	27.3
4	SDC Rhythm XP	23	24(-2)	31(-2)	34	17(-1)	27	24	25	24(-2)	29(-2)	258	25.8

The video of Round 5 also includes two other clips. French 8way world champion Marin Ferre was watching the 4way action in this round with two members of his three 8way teams at Paraclete. The NSL News mentioned earlier that he and his 8way team mate of 2010, Damien Sorlin, brought three French 8way lineups to this year's event after visiting with two teams last year.

Of course, both 8way experts were watching the action at Paraclete very carefully, especially the Golden Knights 8way performance. Martial Ferre had a few early comments for the NSL News at this point in time.

The NSL News invited Martial Ferre and Damien Sorlin for a longer NSL Talk after the conclusion of the event to discuss this year's race to the World Championship of Formation Skydiving in Dubai and the situation of the French national teams. The video of this conversation will follow later.

Round 5 of the TOP 4 - Round 6 of the TOP 4

The video of Round 5 also includes a visit in the judging room at Paraclete. Judy Celaya, Jim Rees and Randy Connell were keeping up quite well with the pace of the indoor competition, which is very challenging. There was not much time to apply the slower review motion that Judy Celaya applied at the USPA Nationals 2011.

The three judges also used manual stop watches for timing and counting the scoring points. Judy Celaya had her own stop watch on hand that she has used since 1989. She was very lucky that there was no Super Sequence with scores that would go beyond 40 points and the maximum of her laps. She said that it might be time for a new stop watch...

Judy Celaya will also be judging at the Shamrock Showdown 2012, together with Eric Heinsheimer and Cherie Schuch. The CamScore judging and DZ-TV system will provide the technology, and the pace will be significantly slower for the judges.