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Did You Know...

... that all three 4-way leaderboards at the Clash of Champions had unlimited lineup combinations?

A Class in 2002: GT Inviscid
posted Jan 1st, 2016 - The A Class competition at the Clash of Champions 2015 was very well attended, with an even higher number of participating teams than in the AA Class (11 - 8).

The A Class was introduced by the National Skydiving League in 2002, together with the new Rookie Class.

Both categories brought 4-way competition closer to the grass root level of Formation Skydiving competition and made it easier to learn and master the complete FAI/IPC dive pool.

The Rookie Class dive pool includes only the 16 random formations (A - Q). The A Class then brings the first eight blocks to the teams who grow out of the Rookie Class.

The sequences are still offering plenty of individual flying opportunities, while personal and team skills are in development. Blocks 7 and 9 require individual turns on place, and the other six blocks (2,4,6,8,19,21) are bringing the first piece-flying maneuvers to the beginners in the sport.

NSL 2002 competition draw with all four categories.
A Class bronze medals: 4-way juniors Skyblockers Singapore
The ten A Class sequences at Inflight Dubai included all eight blocks and two sequences with only random formations. Block 21 in Round 10 was drawn a second time when the A Class dive pool was exhausted after the two random formations in the last round (F,A).

The trained teams are well prepared for sequences with only random formations if they went through the Rookie Class at the very 4-way beginnings. The A Class winner Flying Circus from the Czech Republic started in the Rookie Class at the September meet of the European Tunnel League (ETL) 2014 at the Hurricane Factory with a 13.4 average and attended a total of eight meets in this category until moving up into the A Class at the September 2015 meet, one year later.

In addition, the three monthly Rookie Class sequences of the Indoor Cloud League offered them additional opportunities to learn and get familiar with the Rookie Class dive pool.

Clash of Champions 2015
Rd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6Rd 7Rd 8Rd 9Rd 10TotalAvg
RankA ClassK,L,196,4N,7D,2O,M,BP,9E,21G,Q,HC,J,8F,A,21TotalAvg
1Flying CircusCZ1913201648241925161721721.7
2Amnesya RW4 TeamIT1715191337241723182120420.4
3Skyblockers SingaporeSG1617191633141725142319419.4
4Made in USSRRU1213171331191420151416816.8
5FlatnamicAE1211121124201221121515015.0
6Aerokart Ak'demieFR131013913121215121412312.3
7A TeamSG81012111915141181412212.2
8Blue PhenixFR8761023151214121211911.9
9AlateAE9101081717913111111511.5
10Hardcore Hand HoldersAE24641035363464.6
11Last MinuteFR2462723333353.5
6th place in A Class: Aerokart Ak'demie 4-way juniors
It was no surprise that Flying Circus knew well how to deal with a sequence of three random formations at the Clash of Champions, and the 48-pointer in Round 5 created a distance to the other A Class top contenders that was more than enough to win the meet, even though Amnesya from Italy and Skyblockers from Singapore challenged the Czech team in most of the other nine rounds.

It was a real A Class world meet, as the eleven teams came from seven different countries. The A Class was also the only category where two junior teams challenged each other, the Skyblockers and Aerokart's third Ak'demie lineup. The Singapore juniors won the bronze medals, and the French A Class juniors finished in 6th place. French Ak'demie coaches Francoise Simons, Amelie Tirman and Marin Ferre had one junior lineup in each of the three 4-way categories at the Clash of Champions.

With the French juniors competing in all three categories, each 4-way leaderboard in Dubai included a colorful mixture of lineups with all age groups, genders and relationships, which no other sport has to offer...

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