posted Mar 19th, 2013 - There was a third team that shared the highscores for all ten rounds of the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2013 with Arizona Airspeed and Barkli.

The new Evolution lineup, with the three Lemay brothers Martin, Vincent, Benoit and Katie Woods in the Point slot and VFS 4way competitor Jean Christophe Oumet on camera, had their first showdown with Airspeed's previous world champion lineup at the indoor competition in Singapore. Airspeed outscored the new Evolution lineup in all ten rounds in December 2012.

The previous Evolution lineup, with father Michel Lemay in the Center Inside slot, never trained enough to be a serious threat for Arizona Airspeed and did not win or tie a round between 2010 and 2012, neither against Airspeed's 2010 nor the 2012 linup. Things have changed now, and Airspeed has to watch out for a new challenger from Canada.

Paraclete XP Outdoor 2013		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	6,17,15	B,11,16	18,N,22	9,4,F	J,E,C,3	K,O,12,M	5,D,8	Q,13,14	G,7,H,10	1,20,21	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed (US)	21(-2)	23(-1)	19	28(-1)	33(-1)	20(-3)	22(-1)	19(-3)	25(-1)	19(-1)	229	22.9
2	Barkli (RU)	20(-1)	22	21	27(-1)	27(-2)	27	22	18(-2)	21(-2)	19	224	22.4
3	Evolution (CA)	17(-4)	21(-1)	16(-3)	28	27(-2)	24(-1)	21(-1)	20(-1)	19(-5)	16(-2)	209	20.9

Evolution needed a little bit help from the world champions and from Barkli to win Round 8 and to tie the highscore for Round 4. However, only the final score on the leaderboard and after penalties is the one that really counts.

The Canadian team was also much closer than the official scores are showing. Evolution collected the incredible total of 20 point deductions in the ten rounds, which was by far the worst damage of all participating teams. The additional 20 points would have brought Evolution's total to 229 points, which would have tied Airspeed's total before penalties.

Airspeed still had their own troubles and lost eleven points in the judging room. Yet it seems as if the world champions have only about a 1-point average advantage over the new Canadian lineup at this point in time. Thomas Hughes and Mark Kirkby were still 34 points ahead of the new Evolution team in Singapore after eleven rounds.

iFLY Singapore		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Rd. 11	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	10,5,O	12,D,L,22	21,A,M,14	17,3,7	K,16,18	2,Q,N,F	C,P,B,G,15	E,1,11	C,F,P,6	L,10,E,19	9,1,13	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	30	29	32	30(-1)	27	41	39(-2)	28	44	30	29	359	32.6
2	SDC Rhythm XP	26	25	28(-1)	27	24	38	38(-1)	26(-1)	44	28	25	329	29.9
3	Evolution	27	24	29	27(-2)	24	35(-2)	36(-1)	26	42	29	26	325	29.6

Evolution also had to deal with tough conditions at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2013. The whole LeMay family was sick before they left Canada, and member by member they tried to recover as quickly as possible on the way south at the beginning of last week. In addition to all the health troubles, Martin Lemay had dislocated his shoulder at the Canadian Indoor Championship the weekend before the Paraclete XP Outdoor meet.

The cirumstances were surely not the most favorable ones for Evolution when the competition began, and it did not get much better quickly. Jean Christophe Oumet had problems with his camera in Round 1, and his team lost four points due to a shaky video presentation, as the new NSL-TV video shows. However, the young team was committed and made their way through the ten rounds with the first impressive outdoor scores.

Round 8 will make the history books as the first time that a Canadian 4way team outscored Arizona Airspeed at a 4way competition, and the 20-pointer also won $400 in the Shamrock Showdown Skins Game. It may not have been the last Evolution highscore...