posted May 27th, 2017 - There are still many interesting meet videos of earlier events that the Sun Path Products NSL News has not used yet. This time, the new video update goes back to the 8-way competition at the French Indoor Nationals 2017.

The outstanding performance of the new Belgian 8-way team Fly-In Machine 44, with all NMP PCH HayaBusa members in the lineup, was covered on 26 March 2017, with a follow-up story a few days later. The six rounds of the Belgian 8-way team were featured in the first of these two 8-way updates from Weembi.

Fly-In Machine 44 was far ahead of the rest of the 8-way teams, with an indoor meet average that was the second best in history behind the Golden Knights.

However, there was a serious competition for the 2nd place at Weembi on a very high performance level, as well. The 8-way lineup of the Weembi Girls and Martial Ferre's Veloce QRF Elite team were close enough to make it an interesting battle, which ended with a 9-point victory of the French team.

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 Weembi Girls actually won the official title of the French 8-way indoor champion with the 2nd place behind Fly-In Machine 44. The Belgians were a guest team, and Veloce had only three Frenchmen in their lineup.

Martial Ferre's Veloce 8-way teams are famous for their colorful international lineups. This time, he competed with three German team members (Petra Baerenfaenger, Henning Stumpp, Uwe Soppa) Marco Arrigo from Italy and Jérome Héritier from Switzerland. His brother Marin Ferre and former Monaco member Nicolas David completed the lineup.

The QRF Elite at Weembi posted the highest Veloce indoor average, which beat the 23.1 average at Paraclete in 2015. Veloce QRF had also posted a 21.7 average at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2017. Five of the Veloce members in Raeford (Petra Baerenfaenger, Martial Ferre, Jérome Héritier, Uwe Soppa, Henning Stumpp) were back for the 8-way competition at Weembi.

However, even the new team record average was not enough to take the 2nd place behind the Belgians, and Veloce ended up once again in 3rd place. Golden Knights and XP8 had place ahead of Veloce at the Paraclete meet.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		L,17,3	P,22,M,H	15,G,21	N,5,A,Q	B,K,J,4	12,13,C	F,18,19	D,1,10	11,9,E	16,7,2	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	37	35	30	32	41	26	27	32	29	29	318	31.8
2	XP8	US	32	33	27	28	33	21	24	26	24	21	269	26.9
3	Veloce QRF	FR	28	22	21	22	30	17	18	24	17	18	217	21.7
4	8-way XP	US	21	23	20	23	26	13	18	21	17	21	203	20.3
5	Elisa and Friends	FR	21	20	22	16	23	13	14	15	15	19	178	17.8
6	Veloce Nico's	FR	21	20	19	17	20	9	15	19	16	16	172	17.2
7	Sugar Free Spaland Gummy Bears	US	18	15	17	17	21	13	14	17	16	15	163	16.3
8	Spaceland Lite	US	18	15	14	16	17	13	14	15	13	15	150	15.0
9	Team Meh...	US	19	12	15	14	16	12	12	14	8	14	136	13.6
10	NEXT Rhythm	US	16	12	15	15	18	8	12	13	10	15	134	13.4
11	Paraclete XP Surprise	US	15	13	12	14	16	7	14	13	7	11	122	12.2
11	Eight Balls	US	11	15	14	11	17	9	11	10	11	13	122	12.2

The Weembi Girls took the position behind Fly-In Machine 44. Christine Malnis, 4-way Women world champion of 2014 and member of the current French Weembi Girls 4-way lineup, has been organizing the all-female 8-way project and preparing a strong lineup for 8-way competition since Weembi opened the doors.

Her 4-way team mate Sophia Pecout was not in the lineup that posted the 20.8 average at the first Weembi 8-way meet in December last year. She and Espoir Saumur Weembi member Gaéélle Giesen made the 8-way lineup even stronger and posted the 24.2 average that won the French 8-way title and took the 2nd place away from Veloce.

The competition between Weembi Girls and Veloce QRF had two different halves. It took Veloce five rounds to find the same pace that the Weembi Girls were going from the start. The international team then matched the Weembi scores in all remaining five rounds. However, the French 9-point lead was already there after Round 5, and nothing changed after that.

The 8-way indoor season was over after the Weembi meet, and most of the 8-way indoor competitors at the event now focus back on 4-way.