posted Jun 8th, 2016 - Last weekend featured the first combined leaderboard of the year. There have been earlier weekends where different leagues and events were scheduled for the same dates. Unfortunately, the weather interfered too much at the different locations, and no combined leaderboard could be produced so far.

The weather was far from perfect last weekend, as well, as a good number of scores are missing. However, it was good enough at Skydive Perris and Skydive Chicago for at least one common round in all four categories.

In fact, it was only AAA Class team CSC Survival Instinct who did not get beyond Round 1. The Midwest Skydiving League team was back with last year's lineup and used the team's only round of the meet to launch the 2016 season with a new highscore for a single round. The new AAA Class team SDC Swift completed four rounds at the same location and started with a promising 12.5 average.

June 4th, 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		M,P,F,E,19	16,10,Q	9,5,N	J,4,L,12	21,K,13	C,18,15	Total	Avg
1	CSC Survival Instinct	MWSL	21(-1)	-	-	-	-	-	21	21.0
2	SDC Swift	MWSL	17	10	13	10	-	-	50	12.5
3	SDC Jetstream Tango	MWSL	18(-1)	8(-2)	11	-	-	-	37	12.3
4	Event Horizon	SCSL	12(-2)	9	13	9	9	10(-1)	62	10.3
5	Flight SP	SCSL	17	9(-1)	9	10	8(-1)	5(-4)	58	9.7

All teams in Southern California completed six rounds in Perris. Except for Survival Instinct, the two other MWSL teams actually had a much tougher battle with the SCSL teams than the leaderboard rankings are showing. Each round was contested by all four teams behind the 1st place, and the two SCSL teams were separated by only four points after six rounds.

Two former Arizona Airspeed 4-way world champions were involved at the SCSL meet in Perris. Josh Hall, Point of Airspeed's world champion lineup in Dubai 2012, was the meet director, as he and Yvonne "Yo" Owyeong are running the Southern California League.

Dan BC, multiple Airspeed 4-way and 8-way world champion in the 90's and 20's, was even actively engaged and completed six rounds in the Flight SP lineup.

June 4th, 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		M,P,F,E	Q,19,D	9,N,H	J,4,L	21,K,13	C,18,15	Total	Avg
1	SDC Rhemix	MWSL	21	12	15	12	-	-	60	15.0
2	SDC eXtreme	MWSL	19	7(-1)	11	7	-	-	44	11.0
3	Nacho Key	SCSL	17	6	10	6	5(-1)	6	50	8.3
4	SDMW 2GPRD	MWSL	9	5	5	-	-	-	19	6.3

The Midwest Skydiving League teams had prominent competitors in their lineups, as well. SDC Rhythm XP's Inside Center JaNette Lefkowitz was also the player coach for SDC Rhemix last weekend. Christy Frikken, her Rhythm team mate of 2013 - 2015, had taken the Rhemix slot at the World Challenge 2016, where JaNette Lefkowitz competed with her own team for the world's top spots. Her husband and Rhythm's new Outside Center Steve Lefkowitz was the player coach for SDC Jetstream Tango.

SDC eXtreme was back with three 2015 members (Stanley Bukala, Gene Keturakis, Vince Kramolinski) and new Point Andrzej Nycz for a start on a very different performance level. The team project began on a 4-5 average level in the A Class of 2014, and SDC eXtreme moved up into the AA Class last year with similar scores.

The 11.0 average in the AA Class last weekeend after four rounds was boosted by the sequence of only random formations in Round 1. However, it was a very promising outdoor start for SDC eXtreme, and the scores confirmed the 13.1 average that the same lineup had posted at the IBA indoor competition in Rosemont a month ago.

June 4th, 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		M,P,F	Q,19	9,N	J,4	21,K	C,E,D	Total	Avg
1	The Fours of Babylon	SCSL	7	4	4	(5)	(2)	(4)	15	5.0
2	SDMW Nixed	MWSL	6	4	4	-	-	-	14	4.7
2	SDC Mockups	MWSL	7	3	4	-	-	-	14	4.7

Nacho Key was the only AA Class team in Perris and is back with a new team name and two new members. Martin Kail, Arvin Tseng and videographer Jason Reis competed with Perris Franz in the AA Class last year. Spyros and Cat Isgrigg completed last weekend's lineup and posted a new team record average.

All A Class and Rookie Class teams were new, at Skydive Chicago as well as in Perris, and the A Class teams had the closest battle on the whole leaderboard. The two MWSL teams ended up tied after their three rounds, and The Fours of Babylon were up by one point after the same three rounds in Perris.

The SCSL teams completed three more rounds, which changed the meet average for The Fours of Babylon. However, the A Class winner after Round 3 comes from the Southern California Skydiving League.

June 4th, 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		M,P,F	Q,O,A	N,G,B	J,H,M	K,L,P	C,E,D	Total	Avg
1	4Play with Josh	SCSL	4	5	1	6(-1)	1(-1)	1	18	3.0
2	Misfits	SCSL	4	0	0	1	1	0	6	1.0