posted Jul 21st, 2009 - The World Games 2009 are over, and Arizona Airspeed added another highscore for a round to the team's account. Out of five rounds, the world champions had four sole highscores and tied only the first round with Hayabusa Defence.

Round 6 will not be done any more in Taiwan, the scores after Round 5 are the final ones. It was a grande finale with a 44-pointer for Airspeed, which ties the official world record. It doesn't count for the IPC records though, as it was posted at a different and later competition. The NSL News had provided details of the standing 44-point world record on 18 July 2009.

Airspeed's Craig Girard reported after the last round that all teams had some kind of a problem with the fast sequence of random formations, either with the exit or later in the skydive. The NSL News will follow up with more information later.

The re-match of the World Meet 2008 has a scrambled leaderboard after the World Games 2009. Only one of the six teams ended up in the same position - Airspeed.

The Russian Sky Panthers moved up from 4th to 2nd place and earned their first international silver medals. This will probably be a big confidence booster for the Sky Panthers after two 4th place finishes at the world meets in 2006 and 2008.

France Maubeuge had to accept that the Russian team was stronger at this meet and dropped from 2nd to 3rd place. Hayabusa Defence, with a new team member, left the first major international event without a medal since 2007. The Belgium team had won the FAI World Cup in 2007 and placed 3rd at last year's World Championship of Formation Skydiving.

Last not least, Evolution and Arcteryx switched their placings, as well. The Canadian LeMay family moved up and came actually dangerously close to Hayabusa after a 2009 season without much training at all. Arcteryx did not have any higher expectations from the beginning, as the Norwegian team has not trained at all. The national team of 2008 and of the past years was in Taiwan only to represent Norway for the last time in the team career.

The World Games were part of a bigger sports picture, as Craig Girard explained earlier. The 4-way competition had a different place in the event compared to specific skydiving meets, and only five rounds were completed in Taiwan.

The next test for the best teams in the world is the FAI World Cup 2009, hopefully with ten completed rounds then. The NSL News will be live on site this time, at the end of August in Prostejov, Czech Republic.