posted Mar 29th, 2017 - The Sun Path Products NSL News covered the 8-way competition at the French Indoor Nationals 2017 and the impressive Fly-In Machine 44 performance with the update on 26 March 2017.

The story mentioned that the 8-way teams completed all ten rounds at Weembi, even though the competition was actually over after six rounds. There was not enough time left for the official judging of the remaining four rounds.

However, Weembi Lille member Julien Degen, host of the event and 8-way world champion of 2006 and 2008, promised the 8-way teams that he would follow up with the missing scores of the last four rounds. He kept his promise and took his own time for judging the additional 48 meet videos.

The 8-way leaderboard is complete with the scores of all ten rounds, and not much has changed. Only Monaco improved the placement by making up the 4-point difference and winning by one point over Team Hell Veloce, due to a bad Round 7 for one of Martial Ferre's 8-way project teams.

French Indoor Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		18,10,3	C,J,4,13	5,N,A,7	2,G,M,19	21,E,8	Q,P,F,16	B,H,17,L	K,9,6	O,1,15	11,12,D	Total	Avg
1	Fly-In Machine 44	BE	27	29	25	24	20	42	29	27	36	35	294	29.4
2	Weembi Girls	FR	23	26	23	21	20	30	24	23	26	26	242	24.2
3	Veloce QRF	FR	22	23	21	19	19	30	24	23	26	26	233	23.3
4	Ibmeews	FR	19	22	18	16	18	29	20	21	23	21	207	20.7
5	Boshido	FR	18	20	16	17	16	24	20	20	21	21	193	19.3
6	VAirmaxxx Véloce	FR	19	16	17	16	16	25	17	18	23	22	189	18.9
7	Shamalairlouche Clermont	FR	18	16	16	16	16	27	20	18	18	19	184	18.4
8	Monaco 8	MC	15	20	17	11	11	22	18	16	19	18	167	16.7
9	Team Hell Veloce	FR	16	14	14	17	15	24	10	17	20	19	166	16.6
10	8way Donut PCP	FR	16	17	13	13	13	20	15	17	18	14	156	15.6
11	Weemay	FR	15	12	13	13	14	15	16	17	17	11	143	14.3
12	Skolems	FR	11	8	10	9	11	15	10	10	11	9	104	10.4

The scores after the first six rounds might have given the impression that Belgium's Fly-In Machine 44 took advantage of the fast sequence in Round 6 to generate the 27.8 average.

However, the additional four rounds did not only confirm the world class performance level. NMP PCH HayaBusa's 8-way team even improved the 27.8 after six rounds to a 29.4 average with four more impressive 8-way rounds.

The Sun Path Products NSL News mentioned in the same earlier update that only the Golden Knights have ever scored higher for a single round with a 43-pointer in Round 10 of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2014.

Fly-In Machine 44 with the 29.4 average at Weembi has now also become the third highest all-time 8-way scorer.

Only the Golden Knights (31.8 - 30.7) and Paraclete XP's 8-way lineup (29.6) have ever posted higher averages - two of them at the same event in 2014.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2014			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		F,8,N,P	19,17,E	10,11,6	22,L,16	Q,9,H,G	D,15,1	7,J,M,2	5,B,13	4,18,12	C,3,A,O	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	28	24	24	39	32	39	26	24	28	43	307	30.7
2	Paraclete XP8	US	27	24	26	35	27	37	24	23	33	40	296	29.6
3	Venturi	FR	22	20	23	29	27	28	24	21	26	34	254	25.4
4	Paraclete XP	US	19	18	18	24	21	23	19	15	22	25	204	20.4
5	Monster XP	US	14	11	14	17	10	18	13	14	16	19	146	14.6
6	Spaceland Lite 8	US	15	10	10	15	12	17	12	13	15	16	135	13.5
7	Voltevobusa		0	0	0	0	0	0	19	19	28	37	103	10.3

Interestingly enough, three NMP PCH HayaBusa members showed their interest in 8-way already at the same event. Dennnis Praet, David and Andy Grauwels joined forces with Damien Gouriou and Pierre Emmanuel Balages of the French national 4-way team Volt'R, who competed with their own team at Paraclete, as well.

Julien Degen and Mathieu Bernier were also in Raeford with Volt'R, the French national 4-way team of 2014, and Katie Woods completed the 8-way pickup team. HayaBusa's Roy Janssen did not join in 8-way for the last four rounds, where Voltevobusa posted a 25.8 average.

Paraclete's lineup consisted of Doug Barron, John D'Annunzio, Andrew Happick, Brian Krause, Matt McLean, Will Pesek, Dalton Samuelson and Kirk Verner.

The last four rounds at Weembi also broke the tie between VAirmaxxx Véloce and Shamalairlouche Clermont after Round 6, who were dueling for French national bronze medals in 8-way. Player coach Martial Ferre, 8-way world champion of 2010, won the last four rounds with his VAirmaxxx Véloce lineup by five points.