posted Apr 14th, 2013 - The NSL News introduced the new members of the French 8way project on 28 March 2013. National coach Jeremie Rollett, 8way world champion of 2006 and 2008, and Thomas Perrin Gachadoat, gold medalist of 2010 and silver medalist of 2012, were training with six new members at Paraclete XP when the article was published.

There was only one new team member who the NSL News was not able to introduce, and Jeremie Rollett followed up later with more information. Kevin Mansion was not in one of the official French national B-teams. He trained and competed with Diomeda Veloce Airbus in the last two years and was selected for the 8way project after an 11.4 average with his 4way team at the French Nationals 2012.

He competed in 8way with Espoir Maubeuge at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2013 and then came back to Raeford for the training week with the new French 8way lineup.

Espoir Maubeuge	Gavroches Maubeuge

The young new 8way competitors were on their own at the February competition. NMP-PCH Hayabusa member Dennis Praet was helping the French team as much as he could while he was competing with DDs Team in 8way as a player coach.

National coach Jeremie Rollett and Thomas Perrin Gachadoat then worked and flew with the six selected members during the training week at the end of March. Jeremie Rollett confirmed that he will be an active member for the remainder of the 2013 season. His plan for the new 8way lineup concludes at the World Cup 2013. Then the final lineup of the new French national 8way team will be selected.

It will be a combination of the world champion lineup of Menzelinsk 2010 and silver medalists of Dubai 2012 and the new young 8way competitors. The 2012 lineup will also make 50 training jumps before the World Cup and then compete in Banjaluka, Bosnia-Herzegovina in August.

World Challenge 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 Open Class	O,E,J,K,3	M,Q,A,14	4,6,16	8,18,N	H,19,12	2,7,13	11,C,P,9	15,D,10	L,F,17,G	20,1,22	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa (BE)	40(-1)	37	25	28	28	25	37	25(-2)	42(-1)	20(-2)	307(6)	30.7
2	Evolution (CA)	39	36	24(-1)	23	21(-3)	22(-1)	33(-1)	24(-2)	37(-1)	21	280(9)	28.0
3	Gavroches Maubeuge (FR)	34	35	23	22	24	22	33	24	34	19	270(0)	27.0
4	Paraclete XP4 (US)	34(-1)	34	23	22(-1)	22	23	31	22(-2)	38	20	269(4)	26.9
5	XL	30(-5)	35	22	23	23	23	29(-2)	24	37	19(-1)	265(8)	26.5

Jeremie Rollett does not know yet who of the French 8way world champions of the past years will continue with the new lineup. All four candidates competed at the World Challenge 2013 with Gavroches Maubeuge and delivered the best and cleanest 4way performance ever since Julien Olek, Clement Martin Saint Leon, Bruno Perin and Thomas Perrin Gachadoat began to entertain each other in 4way when the 8way team was not busy.

They have competed together with different lineups over the years, as well, and finished with an impressive 27.0 average without any penalties. It was by far the highest indoor average in a 10-round meet with the complete dive pool that the team has posted, and it was rewarded with the 3rd place, ahead of world class 4way teams such as Paraclete XP4 and XL.

The 3rd place is the highest placing and clearly beats last year's 24.7 average by the same lineup. 8way coach Erwan Pouliquen, who has competed with some of the previous lineups in the past, was helping Gavroches with coaching at the World Challenge 2013. He said that his team are now 4way experts, as well. There is no doubt about that, but some of them still have to win the World Cup in 8way this year and then the gold medals for France in 2014...