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Most of the participants in Florida have been regulars at the monthly Indoor Cloud League events and were eager to learn more about 4-way competition and perform the complete dive pool after learning parts of it in steps month by month.
None of the three teams in the AAA Class had a complete lineup with previous AAA experience. Winner Blue Steel had two team members (Erica Gorski, Sebastian Jimenez) who completed their first 10-round meet in this category. Erica Gorski's Z-Hills PreciZion team mate Jimmy Xu, who won last year's USPA gold medals together in the AA/Intermediate Class, had just made his first AAA experiences at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2017 with 3 Men and a Babe Jeana and a 17.0 average. Two weeks later, he posted the 19.4 average in Tampa.
Only Christine Freiherr has been familiar with the complete AAA/FAI/IPC dive pool for several years. She has a 21.6 indoor average in her records with Verve XP at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2015.
World Tunnel League - March 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | |
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Rank | AAA Class | 11,9,14 | D,22,5 | P,Q,19,12 | M,15,16 | 18,6,B | L,A,N,21 | 10,O,G,F | 2,E,K,4 | 7,8,H | C,20,J,17 | Total | Avg |
1 | Blue Steel | 18 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 194 | 19.4 |
2 | Team Kaputt | 18 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 184 | 18.4 |
3 | ZEUS 3.01 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 147 | 14.7 |
Rank | AA Class | 11,9 | D,22,14 | P,Q,19 | M,15,J | 18,B,H | L,A,N,21 | O,G,F,2 | E,K,4 | 7,8 | C,6,20 | Total | Avg |
1 | Simba | 16 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 151 | 15.1 |
2 | HAKS | 10 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 123 | 12.3 |
3 | SCZ ZEUS | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 96 | 9.6 |
Rank | Rookie | C,O,E | D,G,K | P,Q,F | M,J,H | B,C,P | L,A,N | O,G,F | E,K,J | C,Q,M | B,D,K | Total | Avg |
1 | Becca's Boys | 16 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 142 | 14.2 |
2 | Jon's Girls | 9 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 97 | 9.7 |
James Hall had stepped up into the AAA Class and his first experiences with the complete dive pool with DeLand Momentum the same year. He used the 2016 season to get more familiar with the AAA Class at the FSL Tunnel Kickers, where he often performed AAA Class sequences with Blue Steel member Sebastian Jimenez and Jimmy Xu. Then he joined DeLand Fast4ward, as the Sun Path Products NSL News reported on 16 January 2017.
Yvonne Saa was completely new to the AAA Class dive pool until the meet week of the World Tunnel League competition. Team Kaputt and new player coach member Sally Hathaway had 45 minutes of training time on Wednesday before the meet to get the complete lineup ready for the first AAA Class competition.
However, Amer Kassas was still eager to learn and apply the complete dive pool. He invited Sally Hathaway, Bob Byrne and James Hall to form a second lineup and compete in the AAA Class at the same event. Result was the ZEUS 3.1 average of 14.7 at his first AAA experience.
Player coach Robert Chromy also guided his Simba lineup through the team's first AA Class experience. It was the first 10-round meet experience for team sponsor Naila Novaronti who had only competed in the A Class before. The team's 15.1 average won the 1st place at iFLY Tampa over pickup team HAKS and SCZ ZEUS. Simba will also compete at the Shamrock Showdown 2017 next week.