posted Sep 14th, 2015 - Today's Sun Path Products NSL News update is a part of the FAI World Cup 2015 aftermath and includes eye candy for the 8-way fans.

There was just as little competition for the French 8-way team as there was for NMP-PCH Hayabusa in 4-way Open and the French Girls in 4-way Women. The World Cup was more like a better training opportunity for the winners in these three categories.

It was supposed to be a different situation, as the Golden Knights would have given the French teams more than enough competition in their events. However, it became clear a few weeks before the start of the competition that the US Army would not send their teams to Teuge, and the French teams were prepared for the sad situation.

FAI World Cup 2015			Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		1,4,D	E,3,L,G	C,16,N,9	13,J,11	Q,2,A,14	K,7,8	P,18,21	15,12,F	B,22,O,10	20,5,M	Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Maubeuge	FR	28	30	23	18	18	17	18	26	19	18	215	21.5
2	Tanay	RU	24	24	19	17	17	15	14	20	15	15	180	18.0
3	Qatar Falcons	QA	17	19	15	12	13	13	12	15	13	14	143	14.3
4	M8trix	NL	20	17	15	12	11	11	13	17	12	11	139	13.9
5	ex3menergy	IT	11	10	12	9	8	9	11	11	10	8	99	9.9
6	Awkward Turtles	UK	7	4	5	6	3	6	5	2	4	4	46	4.6

The French Girls had at least the opportunity to look at the Open Class leaderboard to find adequate competition. The French 8-way team did not have the same opportunity and could only try to put as much pressure as possible on themselves.

It was only a warm-up event for France, no matter what. The new lineup for the Mondial 2016 had completed 17 training jumps before the World Cup, which were almost all jumps this year for some of the members. They still finished with a 21.5 average and got dangerously close to the standing 31-pointer world record in Round 1 (29) and again in Round 2 (30).

The 30-pointer in Round 2 was still a new European 8-way record for a single round, which was acknowledged by the host with a certificate. However, Eric Heinsheimer and his Golden Knights team mates of 1997 will keep the world record once again until the next 8-way Super Sequence will be drawn...