posted Dec 9th, 2016 - One of the many battles at the FAI Mondial 2016 that did not have a medal position as the prize for the efforts took place between the national 4-way teams from Australia (Rotor Out) and Denmark (Pangaea).

Both teams are not new to the Sun Path Products NSL News at all. Rotor Out has been the Australian 4-way champion since 2009 and competed as the national team in 4-way Open at the world meets in Dubai 2012, Prostejov 2014 and this year at Skydive Chicago.

Pangaea does not have a history like that yet. The team was formed in 2015 and was aiming at replacing the VAF Warriors as Denmark's national team in 4-way Open. Pangaea has not yet outscored the VAF Warriors and was still sanctioned as the national team when the VAF Warriors had to step back due to an injury situation. Pangaea eventually competed at the Mondial, while the VAF Warriors were the Danish national team at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016.

FAI Mondial 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		12,A,16	18,15,O	1,F,E,C	17,B,14	10,2,20	21,11,G	J,5,19	L,M,K,7	D,8,4	3,13,Q	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	24	25	35	26	19	22	27	39	23	22	262	26.2
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	23	31	26	18	22	27	40	23	23	254	25.4
3	France	FR	21	20	30	21	18	21	27	39	21	20	238	23.8
4	Black Cat	RU	22	20	30	24	17	21	24	33	21	19	231	23.1
5	Qatar Tigers	QA	21	20	30	24	17	20	23	36	17	18	226	22.6
6	Evolution	CA	20	18	29	24	16	18	23	32	18	16	214	21.4
7	Satori XL	UK	18	19	27	24	16	18	22	30	18	18	210	21.0
8	Airbus	DE	16	18	29	19	15	18	22	29	14	19	199	19.9
9	Savolo	ZA	15	15	25	19	14	15	16	28	17	15	179	17.9
10	Final Fire	AT	16	15	25	17	12	16	18	29	17	13	178	17.8
11	Ex3mo	IT	18	15	21	18	13	14	19	25	17	14	174	17.4
12	Rotor Out	AU	16	16	24	14(-3)	13	16	18(-1)	22(-2)	14(-2)	13(-1)	166	16.6
13	Pangaea	DK	15(-1)	16	24	19	11(-1)	13	16(-2)	25(-2)	12(-2)	13	164	16.4
14	China	CN	14	15	21	15	12	11	16	24	12	12	152	15.2
15	M4trix	NL	13	13	16	11	11	12	14	20	12	12	134	13.4
16	H4O	IE	13	13	17	8	9	12	9	15	10	10	116	11.6
17	MeXtreme	MX	8	8	13	8	9	9	9	12	8	7	91	9.1

Rotor Out had the advantage of world meet experience, as two of the current team members (George Attard, Craig Vaughan) competed together in Prostejov 2014, and Craig Vaughan also in Dubai 2012. However, Pangaea as a young team was still not completely new to international 4-way competition.

In fact, two Pangaea members attended a World Championship of Formation Skydiving before Rotor Out appeared for the first time on a world meet leaderboard. Flemming Borup Andersen was a member of Denmark's national 4-way team in Menzelinsk 2010, Voluntas. Kjetil Nordin competed at the same event for Norway with X3M4S Elements.

Australia did not have a team in Menzelinsk 2010. Airtite, the former national team, had stepped back after the world meet in Maubeuge 2008, and Rotor Out did not make the trip to Russia after winning the Australian national championship first time in 2009.

FAI World Meet 2010			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		10,7,12	3,11,5	J,M,Q,P,L	19,1,13	N,18,20	K,17,8	2,15,H	4,D,6	O,E,9,G	22,B,16	Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Aerokart	FR	21	22	56	20	22	24	22	24	40	26	277	27.7
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	22	21	53	23	20	24	23	25	40	23	274	27.4
3	Sky Panthers	RU	19	21	56	21	19	21	23	22	41	21	264	26.4
4	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	21	21	55	20	17	20	23	22	36	18	253	25.3
5	Evolution	CA	19	19	51	20	18	22	21	21	31	18	240	24.0
6	Sinapsi	IT	19	19	49	16	20	17	21	19	37	19	236	23.6
7	Paratec-Saar	DE	16	18	53	17	15	18	16	19	30	-	202	22.4
8	Satori	UK	18	18	47	16	17	18	17	18	29	-	198	22.0
9	Dynamic Fource	NL	17	18	44	16	16	15	16	18	26	-	186	20.7
10	Pro Team	FI	17	16	43	14	15	17	17	17	28	-	184	20.4
11	Bodyflight Voluntas	DK	17	15	37	16	15	18	16	18	-	-	152	19.0
12	Voodoo	UK	15	15	31	13	14	14	15	17	-	-	134	16.8
13	Bardagi	SE	12	13	35	12	14	12	14	16	-	-	128	16.0
14	X3M4S Elements	NO	14	11	30	14	13	15	13	16	-	-	126	15.8
15	China	CN	12	13	30	13	12	14	14	14	-	-	122	15.3
16	Atmosfera G4	PT	12	10	28	13	13	14	14	14	-	-	118	14.8
17	Sky Dragons	SI	12	12	21	12	12	11	13	13	-	-	106	13.3
18	Kazakhstan	KZ	10	7	17	9	10	11	10	11	-	-	85	10.6
19	Ukraine	UA	6	7	11	9	9	9	9	9	-	-	69	8.6

Voluntas competed again for Denmark when Rotor Out attended the team's first world meet in Dubai 2012. However, Flemming Borup Andersen was not with the Danish team any longer, and Norway did not have a 4-way Open Class team in Dubai. Kjetil Nordin and Flemming Borup Andersen were both looking for new opportunities.

Rotor Out has continued ever since for Australia in 4-way Open, while Kjetil Nordin and Flemming Borup Andersen eventually joined forces with Pangaea.

It turned as a great rollercoaster battle between the two teams at the FAI Mondial 2016, who were still tied after Round 8. Summer has begun in Australia now, and the national championships will be held much earlier than in Denmark. The Danish Nationals 2017 will hopefully feature the next battle between Pangaea and the VAF Warriors...