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Martial Ferre, who competed with the international EXL3Maubeuge lineup at the Wind Games, put together the Veloce video that features the showdown between Arizona Airspeed and NMP-PCH Hayabusa. The audience has the unique opportunity to compare both teams directly. Pete Allum had a short summary of the second meet day looking at the top of the leaderboard:
"Hayabusa walked away with a massive €8,000 check as the winners of the first Wind Games. Airspeed, winning €5,000, battled bravely to the last second with interesting engineering from the Q to the 2 giving them a swing move and some good energy into the block. But it was not enough. Despite a few hiccups Hayabusa triumphed and are the victors of this first match up of the season."
Wind Games 2014 | Rd. 1 | Rd. 2 | Rd. 3 | Rd. 4 | Rd. 5 | Rd. 6 | Rd. 7 | Rd. 8 | Rd. 9 | Rd. 10 | Total | Avg | |
Rank | 4way Open Class | C,20,17 | 16,A,D,7 | J,P,13,L | N,21,22 | M,8,15 | K,3,6 | F,4,1 | B,G,H,O,10 | 5,18,9 | Q,2,12 | Total | Avg |
1 | NMP-PCH Hayabusa | 29(-1) | 36(-1) | 33 | 27 | 31 | 30(-1) | 29 | 41 | 32(-1) | 26 | 314(-4) | 31.4 |
2 | Arizona Airspeed | 32 | 35 | 30(-4) | 27 | 32 | 26(-2) | 32 | 38(-1) | 32(-1) | 21(-4) | 305(-12) | 30.5 |
The original Hayabusa member said that his team was happy winning the Wind Games and competing against Arizona Airspeed. The Mondial Dubai 2012 was the last time that Hayabusa had faced the reigning world champions:
"We were not sure how much they had improved since that time. Surely we knew that they would be already strong, but we didn't have recent scores from Airspeed to measure ourselves with. So it was really good to see where we are standing compared to them."
Wind Games 2014 | Rd. 1 | Rd. 2 | Rd. 3 | Rd. 4 | Rd. 5 | Rd. 6 | Rd. 7 | Rd. 8 | Rd. 9 | Rd. 10 | Total | Avg | |
Rank | 4way Open Class | C,20,17 | 16,A,D,7 | J,P,13,L | N,21,22 | M,8,15 | K,3,6 | F,4,1 | B,G,H,O,10 | 5,18,9 | Q,2,12 | Total | Avg |
1 | NMP-PCH Hayabusa | 29(-1) | 36(-1) | 33 | 27 | 31 | 30(-1) | 29 | 41 | 32(-1) | 26 | 314(-4) | 31.4 |
2 | Arizona Airspeed | 32 | 35 | 30(-4) | 27 | 32 | 26(-2) | 32 | 38(-1) | 32(-1) | 21(-4) | 305(-12) | 30.5 |
"The most difficult thing for us was to get back out of the holiday mode and prepare for a hard battle. So our first round was not good, and this was more a lack of mental preparation for peaking at this meet. It put us directly into the situation of chasing Airspeed."
However, Hayabusa is experienced enough now to deal with such a situation and recovered quickly: "We found back our competition rhythm and did some really good rounds."
The overall Hayabusa feelings were still good, Roy Janssen said, despite bad performances in Round 1 and Round 7. He said that it felt good to be fully challenged again after a year without much serious direct competition at the meets: "After not having to fight for each single point for a while during previous meets, you almost forget the true competition feeling. Well, for sure having Airspeed here brought back that feeling!"
He thinks that it is good for both teams to have those battles early in the season: "With Paraclete XP Indoor and Outdoor Championships coming up, things will only become more exciting!"
He said that his team will not be as well prepared for the Paraclete XP Indoor and Outdoor Championships: "Our preparations will not be ideal, nevertheless we will give our very best."
He finished his summary with compliments for Arizona Airspeed and the team's high performance level with the new lineup: "Big thanks for coming over to Europe to compete against us!"