posted Apr 4th, 2012 - The NSL News reported on 30 March 2012 that 222 World Team members tried to set a new Florida State Record in DeLand. BJ Worth and his sector and plane captains (Roger Ponce de Leon, Patrick Passe, Mike Johnston, Sven Mortberg, Herman Landsman, Alia Veselova, Lesley Gale, Victor Kravtsov, Rob Laidlaw, Lou Tommaso, Lise Nansen, Derek Thomas, Stephane Mattoni, Dave Ruffell, Alberto Alibrandi) were in charge to put the dives together and make it happen.

World Team videographer George Katsoulis provided more details of the 222way project:

"In Bratislava, World Team introduced the concept of using open lines (shaped like weed whackers) to build large formations. Several big-way organizers of the day were skeptical of this concept and predicted the formation would spin wildly out of control. History tells a different story, and the whacker concept has been a staple of big-way formations ever since. When revisiting the 222-way, we will take a step back in history by combining the diamond-spine structure, used by Guy Manos to build the first 200-way in 1992, with the whacker structure developed by World Team."

George Katsoulis is also providing a new online service called "Skydiving Photography where videos and photos of many different events can be found, including the footage of the World Team and the Florida State Record attempts. He had Andrey Veselov, Brian Festi, Bruno Brokken, Luciano Bacque and Willy Boeykens in his video team in DeLand.

He provided more information of the event history: "World Team's first event was a 222-way world record attempt in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1994. Although World Team did not set an official FAI world record, these motivated skydivers from 23 nations did complete the world's largest formation, a 216-way, albeit with two wrong grips. World Team has gone on to set multiple world records, including the current 400-way, but there is still some unfinished business to attend to: Completing that 222-way! This goal is going to be reached in a big way at the end of March 2012 at Skydive DeLand, Florida."

Unfortunately, the group could make only a total of ten jumps, including the warmups in smaller groups. The last attempt on Sunday turned out to be a 218way after judges Marylou Laughlin and Jerry Bird had counted the numbers. A few more jumps...