posted Apr 2nd, 2017 - The latest indoor scores have come from Finland, where the Sirius Sport Resort hosted the national indoor championships, a wind tunnel half way between Helsinki and the Russian border.

Seven Finish teams attended the competition, and Telakka won in the AAA Class for the first time without any opposing teams, as the champions of 2015 and 2016, the Tigers, did not try to defend their title.

Telakka had originally planned to compete again at the World Challenge 2017 and withdrew when both events happened to be so close to each other on two following weekends. However, Finland will be represented in Bedford by the Pro Team, who did not attend the national indoor championships.

Tempo won the AA Class competition by improving the team's outdoor average by exactly 10.0 points, from 8.4 at the national outdoor championships in July 2016 to 18.4 this weekend. It was exactly the same lineup that had posted the 8.4 average last year.

Finish Indoor Nationals 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	6,O,B,14	9,12,M	8,A,2	4,21,K	10,3,J	L,P,20,E	N,D,18,5	C,G,7,Q	17,11,F	19,15,22	Total	Avg
1	Telakka	20	17	12	14	16	22	15	24	16	15	171	17.1
Rank	A Class	6,O	B,9	M,8	A,24	4,21	K,J,L	P,E,N	D,C,G	7,Q	F,19	Total	Avg
1	Tempo	17	22	15	15	12	23	25	19	19	17	184	18.4
2	Blackjack	15	23	15	12	11	24	22	20	16	10	168	16.8
3	Jörmungandr	14	17	13	6	9	13	18	11	15	10	126	12.6
4	Helinäkeijut	11	19	8	8	9	10	14	11	14	10	114	11.4
5	4K	12	15	9	8	8	15	13	8	15	8	111	11.1
6	Flailing Sirkus	8	17	9	5	7	12	12	12	13	5	100	10.0

The story of the meet in Finland is A Class team Blackjack. Three of the team members (Matthew Iles, Oscar Salonaho, Vesa Vuorenkoski) trained and competed with Jukka Tanninen in the lineup for Chymos in 1994.

Chymos continued in 1995 with Repe Kortesalmi for Jukka Tanninen in the lineup and became one of the top teams in Finland. 1995 member Reijo Kortesalmi competed this weekend, as well, but with another team (Helinäkeijut).

Matthew Iles, Vesa Vuorenkoski and Mika Rautiainen continued with Marko Tiainen in 1996 and eventually won the national championships with Max 4. The same lineup represented Finland as the national team in 4-way Open at the FAI World Meet 1997 in Turkey, made it to the semifinals and finished in 14th place with a 13.6 average.

Max 4 concluded the team career with a 14.6 average at the Finish Nationals 1997 where they posted a new highscore for a single round with a 24-pointer. All team members then retired and continued their lives with family time and work careers.

FAI World Meet 1997			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		13,Q,D,9	5,K,F,12	1,14,22	H,M,11,7	A,E,3,G	15,18,3	20,L,23	O,19,4	17,10,J	6,C,21	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	20	18	23	27	15	20	16	21	24	210	21.0
2	France	FR	25	19	17	22	25	16	20	21	20	21	206	20.6
3	DeLand Equanimity	ZA	25	20	16	20	20	15	17	20	21	19	193	19.3
4	Russia	RU	24	18	17	17	23	14	12	19	17	19	180	18.0
5	Sebastian XL	UK	24	17	14	21	19	13	16	19	15	18	176	17.6
6	DeLand Norgies	NO	20	14	12	18	20	12	14	17	16	18	161	16.1
7	Switzerland	CH	21	15	13	17	18	13	14	16	16	16	159	15.9
8	Australia	AU	17	17	14	17	19	10	14	17	17	16	158	15.8
9	Spain	ES	21	16	13	13	19	13	14	16	18	14	157	15.7
10	Daedalus	DE	19	14	13	17	20	12	12	16	15	17	155	15.5
11	Sweden	SE	19	11	12	16	18	11	13	17	16	-	133	14.8
12	Japan	JP	19	13	11	15	19	11	11	17	14	-	130	14.4
13	Italy	IT	19	11	11	15	18	11	12	14	12	-	123	13.7
14	Monkey Circus	AT	19	13	11	8	16	11	14	17	13	-	122	13.6
14	Finland	FI	19	12	13	13	16	12	10	16	11	-	122	13.6
16	Belgium	BE	18	13	12	14	14	10	13	14	11	-	119	13.2
17	Hungary	HU	15	12	11	14	17	9	10	14	15	-	117	13.0
18	Canada	CA	18	12	12	10	15	9	7	15	13	-	111	12.3
19	Netherlands	NL	17	11	10	9	15	9	12	12	13	-	108	12.0
20	Croatia	HR	17	11	10	11	15	9	9	9	-	-	91	11.4
21	Brazil	BR	14	8	11	14	11	9	9	13	-	-	89	11.1
22	Luxemburg	LU	12	10	10	11	11	8	10	13	-	-	85	10.6
23	Mexico	MX	13	9	9	11	12	8	10	12	-	-	84	10.5
24	ProDytter	DK	15	12	0	10	13	6	11	12	-	-	79	9.9
25	Czech Republic	CZ	14	6	9	7	12	9	9	12	-	-	78	9.8
26	Cyprus	CY	2	0	0	1	28	30	4	2	-	-	75	9.4
27	New Zealand	NZ	12	8	8	9	11	8	8	10	-	-	74	9.3
28	Lithuania	LT	10	4	6	9	9	5	9	9	-	-	61	7.6
29	Slovakia	SK	8	9	7	5	10	6	7	8	-	-	60	7.5
30	Ireland	IE	7	7	9	7	5	7	8	9	-	-	59	7.4
31	Israel	IL	10	8	9	4	9	3	5	9	-	-	57	7.1
32	Portugal	PT	12	4	7	3	9	6	8	7	-	-	56	7.0
33	Poland	PL	6	6	3	3	9	6	2	7	-	-	42	5.3
34	China	CN	8	2	5	5	3	2	6	4	-	-	35	4.4
35	Venezuela		6	0	5	6	4	1	6	6	-	-	34	4.3
36	Turkey	TR	6	7	3	4	0	2	6	3	-	-	31	3.9
37	Indonesia	ID	0	5	7	7	2	0	4	2	-	-	27	3.4
38	Korea	KR	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	2	-	-	10	1.3

Max 4 is now Blackjack and had a comeback in the A Class 20 years later.

It's only a re-start for Blackjack, and the team plans to move back into the AAA Class soon. The idea of the re-union became reality in November 2016, and Blackjack has completed five hours of indoor training at Sirius ever since.

The same 1997/2017 lineup plans to complete 20 hours before posting the next scores on the AAA Class leaderboard. The 16.8 average in the A Class will most likely turn into the same numbers or even higher in the FAI Open Class category.

Blackjack has no plans for an outdoor comeback, and the Finish Indoor Nationals 2017 was the first competition for the 1997/2017 lineup. However, the Finish team will attend more indoor meets in the near future and travel to some of the major signature meets. Welcome back, Chymos/Max 4/Blackjack...