posted Mar 27th, 2012 - The aftermath of the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2012 continues with the next preview of the World Challenge 2012.

Eleven of the 19 AAA Class teams at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship will also compete at Bodyflight Bedford in less than two weeks. There were nine teams who completed the same double header in 2011, and six of them do it again this year: Arizona Airspeed, NMP-PCH Hayabusa, Aerodyne Aerokart, SDC Rhythm XP, Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders and Bodyflight Voluntas. SonicNutz and Fast Air, last year's visitors in DeLand, compete only in Bedford this year.

The two additional participants of this year's Spring Tour are the two Dubai lineups, Asaar Red and Asaar Gold, who step down into the AA Class competition at the World Challenge 2012.

Paraclete XP Outdoor 2012		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	4way AAA Class	Q,8,H,22	16,19,13	10,14,2	E,C,20,K	5,M,9	A,6,F,17	D,21,N,B	P,O,G,J,1	18,4,7	12,15,3	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	25	20	18	35	36	25	33	31	23	20	266	26.6
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	23	21	20	33	34	29	30	30	20	21	261	26.1
3	Aerodyne Aerokart	23	21	19	33	29	28	28	29	23	21	254	25.4
4	SDC Rhythm XP	21	17	15	28	29	23	27	27	19	18	224	22.4
5	Thunder	20	17	16	27	27	22	27	26	17	17	216	21.6
1	Aerodyne D. Blue Defenders	19	16	15	23	27	23	24	24	16	14	201	20.1
8	Skydive Spain Satori	15	14	12	23	26	23	22	23	16	16	190	19.0
2	Polaris	18	13	10	22	22	19	20	21	15	13	173	17.3
11	Bodyflight Voluntas	13	12	12	15	19	17	18	18	13	12	149	14.9
12	Dubai Asaar Red	10	11	7	13	15	15	16	15	13	9	124	12.4
13	Dubai Asaar Gold	11	11	7	15	15	16	14	12	12	10	123	12.3

Arizona Airspeed and NMP-PCH Hayabusa switched positions after the Shamrock Showdown 2011 where Airspeed won the outdoor competition by 21 points over the Belgian team. Hayabusa won last year in Bedford by seven points and now reduced the outdoor distance to Airspeed to five points. Airspeed on the other side is eager to beat the Belgians at the indoor competition.

Aerodyne Aerokart was in 2nd place at the Shamrock Showdown 2011 and 3rd at the World Challenge 2011. The French 4way world champions now finished in 3rd place at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship and will find it difficult to improve this position at the upcoming indoor competition. They mentioned in a new interview, which is still to be posted, that they don't expect to win the indoor competition where XL will also be the usual factor for the top spots.

SDC Rhythm XP finished in 4th place in DeLand, only outscored by the three best 4way teams in the world. The distance to XL was significant last year in Bedford (25) and then down to 19 this year at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championships 2012. Rhythm has surely trained more than XL and may get below the 10-point difference soon in Bedford.

World Challenge 2011		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	4way AAA Class	10,C,5	20,P,2	H,M,Q,K,A	L,J,16,12	E,7,15	O,11,22	14,B,17	6,13,9	4,3,21	1,G,8	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	27	25	65	29	33	23	28	28	22	25	305	30.5
2	Arizona Airspeed	26	24	60	27	34	24	27	28	23	25	298	29.8
3	Aerodyne Aerokart	26	25	52	27	31	25	29	27	24	24	290	29.0
5	SDC Rhythm XP	22	23	56	23	27	20	24	21	19	22	257	25.7
8	Skydive Spain Satori	19	19	57	21	25	19	24	21	17	20	242	24.2
9	Aerodyne D. Blue Defenders	21	21	44	20	27	19	25	21	19	19	236	23.6
10	Thunder	13	20	41	23	27	20	23	21	19	17	224	22.4
19	Polaris	16	17	38	17	23	17	19	17	15	13	192	19.2
21	Bodyflight Voluntas	19	17	28	18	23	15	19	18	17	11	185	18.5

Skydive Spain Satori (8th), Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders (9th) and Thunder (10th) had their internal battle for the 8th place at the World Challenge 2011. Thunder and Satori switched positions at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship, while the French national female lineup compared well to the Open Class scores.

Thunder still has to show that the international team can maintain position and scoring level without Airspeed substitute Thomas Hughes. Satori, on the other side, will have the complete lineup back together in Bedford, as long as Tail Aaron Faith is allowed to enter the Bodyflight Bedford building...

Polaris outscored Bodyflight Voluntas at the World Challenge 2011 and did it again, even more clearly, in DeLand. There are a lot of open accounts for the upcoming indoor competition, and the NSL News will try follow the many internal battles as much as possible - on a leaderboard that will be the largest ever on the NSL website...