posted Jul 21st, 2016 - Last weekend's 4-way events included the July meet of the United Kingdom Skydiving League at Skydive Hibaldstow, where 32 British teams contributed heavily to create a combined leaderboard with new record participation (71).

The Sun Path Products NSL News covered the international field on the AAA Class leaderboard with the story on July 18th. The French national team in 4-way Open and Satori XL caught most of the attention by posting world class scores in their run-up to the World Meet 2016.

The French B-Teams and the best U.S. team, Skydive Midwest Next, were also mentioned in the same story. However, there was another British team in Hibaldstow that has quietly moved up the UK rankings year by year and posted another team record average last weekend.

UKSL July 16th, 2016		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	14,22,16	17,19,P	1,10,C	21,Q,D,H	9,A,13	8,B,L,6	Total	Avg
1	Satori XL	14	22	18	25	23	20	122	20.3
2	Eclipse	12	16	14	21	18	17	98	16.3
3	Antimatter	9	13	13	18	15	14	82	13.7
4	Stu's Group on the Bus	7	13	10	14	12	11	67	11.2
5	Potter's Ego	6	10	6	12	9	10	53	8.8
6	Aurora Blue	8	6	8	11	9	10	52	8.7
7	Honour Weather Hold	4	6	6	7	7	7	37	6.2

The Sun Path Products NSL News gave British 4-way team Eclipse full attention the last time on October 23rd, 2012. The team profile was posted at the end of the team's first year in the AAA Class, after a 2nd place in the A Class of 2010 and AA Class gold medals at the UK Nationals 2011.

Three years have gone by, and Eclipse still trains and competes with the original A Class lineup of 2010, only Dave Curtin was new on Eclipse camera last weekend. The 2016 season is Eclipse's 5th year in the AAA Class, and the scoring progression is still as consistent as it has been since 2010.

Eclipse has not been anywhere close to UK's AAA Class medal level at the national championships in the past. However, the scores and placements at this year's World Challenge indicated a new situation at the beginning of the 2016 season.

World Challenge 2016		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	British AAA Class	P,2,10	8,F,15	G,14,17	L,H,E,13	M,7,O,1	16,21,11	N,D,4,9	18,20,A	Q,19,3	C,K,B,22	Total	Avg
8	Satori XL	23	25	22	30	29	20	33	24	24	28	258	25.8
11	Vision 99	19	24	22	27	28	20	28	19	21	22	230	23.0
14	ACM	17	22	21	24	25	19	20	18	19	24	209	20.9
15	Co-Motion	18	24	20	23	23	16	22	18	22	22	208	20.8
16	Chimera	16	20	18	24	27	16	22	16	22	21	202	20.2
18	Eclipse	18	18	17	22	25	17	23	18	19	22	199	19.9
20	Phoenix	19	20	17	20	24	17	24	18	19	16	194	19.4
27	Antimatter	15	18	16	20	20	20	15	14	17	18	173	17.3
28	Helios	16	18	16	19	21	15	20	13	18	16	172	17.2
31	VooWho?	15	13	15	18	22	15	19	9	16	17	159	15.9
33	Heros & Zeros	13	14	12	19	22	13	18	13	15	16	155	15.5
34	Skyfool	11	15	13	17	20	10	20	13	15	17	151	15.1
36	Funnel Vision	10	13	13	13	17	9	13	10	13	14	125	12.5

Satori XL and Vision 99 were still out of reach at Bodyflight Bedford, however, Eclipse was in the mix of British AAA Class teams in the internal battle for the spot behind the two top teams.

The outdoor season in the United Kingdom has shown only Satori XL out of Eclipse reach so far. Vision 99 has not competed yet, and 4mula finished with a 17.2 average at the May meet of the United Kingdom Skydiving League. Eclipse's 16.3 average after the six slower rounds is not that far behind.

Eclipse continued after the 6-round completion of the Hibaldstow meet and followed up with the four additional rounds in training. It was eventually a 17.2 average for Eclipse after ten rounds, which matches the 4mula number in May. Eclipse's original 2010 lineup could be in AAA Class medal contention for the first time in the 7-year team career...