posted Aug 18th, 2014 - The Sun Path Products NSL News recently updated the scores page with new results from Austria, where Final Fire defended the national 4-way title successfully last week. Final Fire finished with an 18.8 average, which is the highest score for an Austrian team in history.

The 18.8 average, or any number on this scoring level, will most likely be enough to make the first cut at the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2014 and might even be competitive for the second cut after Round 9.

Six teams qualify for Round 10, and five of them (Arizona Airspeed - USA, NMP-PCH Hayabusa - Belgium, Volt'R - France, Evolution - Canada, Barkli - Russia) are too far away for all remaining amateur teams in the 4-way Open Class field in Prostejov. There will be a race for the last slot in the finals.

Austrian Nationals 2014		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Class	M,K,H,A,14	21,18,16	15,9,13	J,Q,G,17	2,P,7	19,8,20	21,E,22	O,5,C,6	D,N,F,3	L,B,4,10	Total	Avg
1	OEFC Graz Final Fire	25	16	17	21	18	14	15	21	24	17	188	18.8
2	OEFC Graz Sky Rraiders	16	8	12	17	15	10	11	14	17	14	134	13.4
3	UPCS Alcolor	17	10	11	13	14	10	11	11	13	14	124	12.4
4	UPCS MP3-Five	15	10	10	15	14	10	10	11	13	10	118	11.8
5	OEFC Graz Limited Edition	15	8	10	14	11	8	10	11	13	11	111	11.1
6	PCWN sMadl and More	8	8	11	11	12	9	8	10	8	11	96	9.6
7	UPCS Taco Rock	11	4	8	9	9	8	9	9	10	9	86	8.6
8	OEFC Graz hilAIRious	8	7	7	10	9	7	6	9	9	8	80	8.0
9	Freifall.at	10	7	6	8	7	7	7	7	6	7	72	7.2
10	PCWN Burschen Less	8	7	5	6	7	6	7	8	8	7	69	6.9
11	OEFC Slow Motion	9	5	4	7	8	5	5	5	6	7	61	6.1
12	UPCS Aerokraten	4	3	4	4	5	1	3	4	5	5	38	3.8
13	Freifall Punitz	4	5	1	4	0	2	3	2	2	4	27	2.7

Unfortunately, Final Fire will probably not be a part of this exciting battle, at least not for the 6th place. Team member Thomas Haber informed the Sun Path Products NSL News that his complete lineup cannot make it to the Czech Republic.

He and Kurt Seinitzer will have Elisabeth Haber and Eva Sumasgutner in Austria's 4-way Open Class lineup, who have trained and competed with Limited Edition, the team in 5th place at this year's national championships. Bernhard Trammer is filming the team in Prostejov.

This lineup has not trained together and is aiming at a 14+ average, which means that Austria will probably not make the first cut for the semifinals and Round 9 this year.

Mondial Dubai 2012		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	5,12,E	6,D,B,K	O,8,7	N,13,18	10,21,M	19,H,11	C,G,1,A	20,9,15	16,F,P,Q	2,J,4	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed (US)	27	34	27	22	23	23	32	25	40	26	279	27.9
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa (BE)	25	34	27	21	23	24	32	27	40	25	278	27.8
3	Aerodyne Aerokart (FR)	26	30	27	21	23	25	29	23	37	24	265	26.5
4	Evolution (CA)	22	31	24	17	19	21	28	22	30	22	236	23.6
5	Sky Panthers Barkli (RU)	19	29	22	21	21	18	28	20	35	20	233	23.3
6	Satori (UK)	18	26	21	17	15	18	23	17	27	18	200	20.0
7	Ex3mo 4 (IT)	17	24	20	14	17	19	22	18	28	-	179	19.9
8	Paratec-Saar (DE)	18	26	21	13	14	16	21	18	30	-	177	19.7
9	Rotor Out (AU)	14	25	18	15	17	18	22	17	28	-	174	19.3
10	Bardagi (SE)	17	26	20	14	16	15	23	17	24	-	172	19.1
11	Voodoo (ZA)	16	24	19	13	15	16	23	17	-	-	143	17.9
12	Ravens (AT)	18	23	17	15	17	13	22	16	-	-	141	17.6

Final Fire was a part of the battle for the 10th place and the last slot in the semifinals at the Mondial Dubai 2012 and finished 12th behind Bardagi from Sweden and Voodoo from South Africa. Austria's national 4-way team competed under the name Ravens by then and changed to Final Fire in 2013.

Thomas Haber said that the same 2012 - 2014 lineup completes approx. 50 jumps every year, including the meet rounds. The Final Fire team members came together in 2012 after training and competing with different Austrian teams (Monkey Circus, FILA, Ravens) over the years.

Monkey Circus, with Final Four members Thomas Haber and Horst Scheiber, finished tied in 16th place for Austria in 2008. FILA, with Patrick Kosmus and Kurt Seinitzer, missed the first cut in 2006 in 16th place after five rounds. The world meet this year could have been the first time after many years that Austria placed in the Top 10. Amadeus was the only team who won a 4-way medal for Austria so far - bronze medals in Brazil 1987...