posted Feb 27th, 2017 - The Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2017 was successfully completed, and the 4-way competition featured the first showdown between SDC Rhythm XP and Arizona Airspeed for this year's top position in the U.S.A. and the ticket to the FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia.

The 4-way competition was exclusively a U.S. affair, with one exception. The Minions, with father and daughter who competed in 8-way last year and two members of the Monaco Parachute/Indoor Team, visited from France. The Laka lineup in the Intermediate Class was also heavily loaded with competitors from South Africa.

The 8-way competition was once again an international event, where Martial Ferre and Damien Sorlin visited with their team members from France and other parts of Europe. The Sun Path Products NSL News will follow up on the event with more stories and videos.

French Indoor Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
-	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Weembi Lille	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	RealFly-Sion	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Qatar Tigers	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	French Weembi Girls	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Gavroche Weembi	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Echochamber	SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	ISR FireFlash	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Wom'in France	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Amnesya RW4 Team	IT	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	ACM	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Qatar Tigers B	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Flyzone Les Affranchis	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Flyspot Sky4four	PL	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Maubeuge Espoir Weembi	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Corbas Coyotes JCM	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Shamal Loutres	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Vive La Chute Hmmm Shamal	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Les Zebreches	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Odin	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Cindy Delbergue	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Arcadia	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

In the meantime, the registration process for the next major indoor event at Weembi in Lille, the French Indoor Nationals 2017, has created a colorful international field of teams with world class competition to be expected.

The updated power rankings are showing the currently two best indoor 4-way teams in the world on the top; however, the team names right behind NMP PCH HayaBusa and Weembi are just as well known and guarantee an exciting competition at the end of March, as well.

Even though the two French national teams in 4-way Open (RealFly-Sion) and 4-way Women (French Weembi Girls) are not directly in competition with each other for their slots in Australia 2018, they still have been battling for a few years for the 4-way top spot in France.

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
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
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

The 4-way Open Class team clearly had the upper hand at the Wind Games, and the French Girls will be eager to fix the situation and catch up again. However, the main battle has to be expected between Weembi Lille and RealFly-Sion who both want to win and compete for France at the FAI Indoor World Meet in Montreal later this year.

Weembi will have to keep their eyes on the French teams behind them, while they are trying to defeat the Belgian 4-way indoor and outdoor world champions for the first time.

The same event will also feature the first competition of HayaBusa's 8-way partners. The Sun Path Products NSL News introduced ISR FireFlash on 2 January 2017, and the first outing is coming up soon. The same counts for the Fly-In Machine 44 in 8-way where the HayaBusa members enjoy themselves when they don't train for their main event. Several other teams on the power rankings leaderboard have posted scores at the Wind Games, including Qatar Tigers and Amnesya from Italy.