posted Apr 23rd, 2016 - The leaderboards of the World Challenge 2016 were not only a colorful combination of different gender lineups, as it was the case earlier at the Clash of Champions 2015, which did not have a separate leaderboard in 4-way Women, as well.

Even the AAA Class leaderboard in Bedford included an all-female lineup with the French FLY-IN Girls, despite the additional leaderboard for only 4-way Women.

There were no separate gender-limited leaderboards in the other three categories (AA - A - Rookie), where all flyers of all genders and ages also competed together.

The A Class winner, Pro Team Extended, had probably the most interesting combination, as the lineup included wife and husband Outi and Kimmo Pohjola, plus their teenager son Kalle Pohjola.

AA and A Class both had this unique combination of all-female, all-male, mixed-gender and junior lineups sharing the fun of ten competition rounds with each other.

World Challenge 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		9,C	L,7	19,8	B,H,A	O,2	K,M,6	P,J,F	E,Q,4	G,D,N	21,N	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team Extended	FI	37	26	19	47	24	31	49	22	31	19	305	30.5
2	Phoenix	CZ	24	20	9	23	16	19	34	17	17	15	194	19.4
3	Brain Storming	IT	19	15	11	23	17	19	35	17	15	14	185	18.5
4	One2Three	PL	19	20	12	24	15	16	32	15	13	13	179	17.9
5	HF Juniors Cubs	CZ	18	15	12	21	12	17	30	15	15	12	167	16.7
6	Alakran	ES	16	17	12	23	13	16	25	15	13	13	163	16.3
7	Aerokart Ak'demie	FR	15	16	11	18	12	16	27	14	15	14	158	15.8
8	Offaly SlowSpeed	IE	15	16	10	24	14	15	25	11	10	13	153	15.3
9	Levitation	ZA	13	14	10	24	11	16	25	14	13	12	152	15.2
10	Les Pierres qui Tombent	BE	13	12	10	16	12	16	22	13	12	11	137	13.7
11	Alate	AE	13	13	11	20	11	15	20	10	13	10	136	13.6
12	99 Problems	UK	15	11	9	19	14	12	18	14	12	10	134	13.4
13	HF Juniors Flies	CZ	13	14	10	17	12	16	19	14	10	7	132	13.2
14	ChatterChaps	UK	16	12	6	18	9	11	22	13	11	11	129	12.9
15	Dive Hard 4.0	UK	14	13	9	18	6	14	21	14	7	12	128	12.8
16	Falling Stones	UK	11	12	9	15	11	12	22	12	5	9	118	11.8
17	4getful	UK	9	8	5	11	8	10	12	7	6	9	85	8.5
18	Dock-Ness Monster	UK	5	9	3	8	6	5	7	6	3	4	56	5.6

In fact, even the junior lineups had their own different combinations. The French Aerokart Ak'demie AAA Class lineup consisted of two young ladies (Astryd Casimir, Camille Paillard) and two young men (Kylian Forsans, Nicolas Mary). The AA Class lineup consisted of four male competitors, as well as the A Class team.

Yaroslav Alikine (12), Simon Capelle (10), Adrien Gallot (10) and Valentin Vazille (12) had direct junior competition in the A Class.

The all-female HF Junior Cubs lineup from the Czech Republic finished two ranks ahead of the French team after a great competition between the two junior teams.

The Sun Path Products NSL News introduced the French junior team project with the story on March 26th, 2014. French national coach Marin Ferre had provided the details of Aerokart's Ak'demie plans.

The World Challenge 2015 was the goal for the 4-way junior project at that time. It has obviously changed, as three Aerokart Ak'demie teams competed again at the World Challenge 2016.

The results of the project must have been very convincing since there are once again new plans, with Clash of Champions 2016 and World Challenge 2017 as the new goals. Mathieu Cannesson, former member of the French national 8-way team, has been working with the Ak'demie A Class team. All three teams train one weekend each month and complete 80 minutes of flying time, broken up in two 20-minute sessions on Saturday and Sunday.

Only Yaroslav Alikine and Simon Capelle live in Paris. Adrien Gallot (Nice) and Valentin Vazille (Lyon) have to travel to get to the training camps. However, their parents are skydivers and support the project strongly. Frank Vazille is still one of the Monaco members after collecting several 8-way medals for France in the 80s/90s. He will probably soon have to fend off his son's team on the AAA Class leaderboard...