posted Feb 7th, 2017 - The first showdown of the year between NMP PCH HayaBusa and Weembi Lille Wind Games 2017 came to a happy end for all three teams on the top of the leaderboard.

The Belgian 4-way world champions fended off the next Weembi challenge successfully with a strong performance in the second half of the meet. HayaBusa was trailing by two points after Round 3, and both teams were tied at the end of the first meet day.

Weembi was hoping to keep the distance to HayaBusa within ten points, as Roy Janssen told the Sun Path Products NSL News on 24 January 2017, and they did so with a new team record average. The 5-point distance is the closest one of the three direct confrontations since October 2015. The world's two best indoor 4-way teams now have less than six weeks to get ready for the next showdown at the French Indoor Nationals 2017 in Weembi's 17-foot home chamber in Lille.

Wind Games 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
R.	AAA Class		D,2,P,13	C,21,11	Q,O,17,A	6,10,18	5,E,K,22	19,1,F	8,20,J	L,N,7,9	16,M,15	14,G,H,4	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	28	27	43	25	35	31	26	45	34	31	325	32.5
2	Weembi Lille	FR	29	27	46	24	32	31	27	43	30	31	320	32.0
3	RealFly-Sion	FR	25	28	46	23	29	30	26	39	29	28	303	30.3
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	23	27	38	21	26	30	23	39	29	25	281	28.1
5	French Girls	FR	25	24	41	21	29	28	23	39	25	25	280	28.0
6	Gavroche Weembi	FR	23	23	37	19	27	25	22	36	27	25	264	26.4
7	Ninja 4	IT	24	22	37	18	24	26	20	30	26	23	250	25.0
8	Airheads Realfly	CH	20	17	29	19	22	25	22	29	22	22	227	22.7
9	Chimera	UK	20	22	27	15	23	23	20	27	24	24	225	22.5
10	Wom'in France	FR	20	21	33	16	22	21	19	26	21	23	222	22.2
11	Amnesya Fly-In	IT	20	20	31	15	19	22	17	27	24	24	219	21.9
12	NFTO	UK	21	19	28	15	19	18	20	31	21	23	215	21.5
13	Tenanine	MA	17	20	23	17	21	22	20	29	21	20	210	21.0
14	Papea Masculino	ES	17	18	26	17	20	21	17	27	24	22	209	20.9
14	HF Chicks	CZ	20	18	29	17	20	19	21	25	21	19	209	20.9
16	Flyspot Chicks	PL	19	19	24	16	18	20	16	27	20	18	197	19.7
17	Monaco Tunnel Team	MC	17	18	24	14	18	20	17	25	20	18	191	19.1
18	Amrap	FR	16	17	29	15	13	17	18	24	20	17	186	18.6
19	Flyspot Sky4Four	PL	16	17	21	15	19	19	15	22	17	19	180	18.0
19	Jetmax	BE	17	18	24	14	17	18	16	21	17	18	180	18.0
21	4motion	PL	14	16	24	14	17	17	15	19	18	15	169	16.9
22	Aladeen	HU	17	15	25	10	15	15	15	16	19	18	165	16.5
23	Papea Feminino	ES	11	17	20	13	15	16	16	22	16	18	164	16.4
24	Shamal Loutres	FR	15	16	20	12	14	17	16	21	15	16	162	16.2
25	Shamal Haut	FR	12	14	19	10	14	13	11	20	15	14	142	14.2
25	Alakran	ES	13	15	18	12	13	14	14	15	13	15	142	14.2
27	Not Your March	HU	13	11	17	11	12	15	12	19	12	15	137	13.7
28	Mmmh Shamal	FR	14	13	16	11	14	11	11	18	12	16	136	13.6

The above scoreboard combines events that use the same draw and use sufficiently similar rules and judging.

Weembi pushed HayaBusa to the team's best performance level. The indoor and outdoor world champions had no time to relax until Round 10 came along. There was Weembi pressure all the time before HayaBusa eventually got a break in Round 9 and had a 5-point lead going into Round 10.

The Weembi pressure produced HayaBusa's second best 10-round average in team history. The highest one was posted by the Belgians at the Aerokart Indoor Championship 2012, and it was the result of a very tough battle, as well.

The challengers at the 2012 competition were almost exactly the same as last weekend. Julien Degen, Mathieu and Guillaume Bernier had Manu Sarrazin in the lineup when they posted the highest indoor average that a French team has ever scored. Weembi has not posted a historic French number with the 32.0 average - not yet...

Aerokart Indoor 2012		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	T.	Avg
R.	AAA Class	10,9,3	4,Q,F,22	B,E,11,19	8,15,A	16,H,20	D,K,L,C,18	P,21,J,14	O,17,N,5	12,M,G,6	13,2,7	T.	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	31	33	33	30	30	39	32	45	32	26	331	33.1
2	Aerodyne Aerokart	31	34	35	27	30	38	32	45	29	27	328	32.8

The Wind Games were also very successful for the French national team in 4-way Open. RealFly-Sion improved the team's best indoor average of 27.9 at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016 to 30.3 in Empuriabrava last weekend.

The two French top contenders for the national indoor title at the French Indoor Nationals 2017 have once again moved closer to each other, and a 17-point distance is left for Weembi to defend in six weeks.

The winner of this duel qualifies for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 and will compete for France in Montreal in October. The French Indoor Nationals will feature the next HayaBusa/Weembi showdown and also the battle for the French slot in Canada at the same time.