posted Jun 28th, 2017 - The Sun Path Products NSL News continues with updates from the United Kingdom, as the current personnel changes will probably shake up the results and rankings at this year's national 4-way events.

Changes in the lineups of British AAA Class teams did not only happen to NFTO and 4mula. The next unfortunate news came from Chimera who had to react to an injury that took out team member Chris Judd for the entire 2017 season.

Sarah Ashworth, Laura Hampton, Chris Judd and James Woods launched their new team project at the beginning of the 2016 season and moved forward with a very impressive scoring progression at all indoor (20.2 - 20.8 - 22.5 - 24.1) and outdoor (14.7 - 16.1) meets ever since.

Chris Judd and James Woods knew each other well after a year together with Hyrrokkin in 2013, when Chris Judd had replaced Laura Muller. Will Cooke was an original Hyrrokkin member.

Laura Hampton connected with both in 2014 for a competition season with Lowabusa.

World Challenge 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		D,B,6,22	12,E,17	20,G,C,10	N,M,15,H	Q,19,K,4	8,21,L	P,9,J,7	O,11,1	13,A,16	3,18,5	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	33	29	29	46	34	28	47	28	28	29	331	33.1
2	Weembi Lille	FR	33	31	29	43	35	28	46	29	29	27	330	33.0
3	French Weembi Girls	FR	30	29	28	38	32	24	43	28	26	25	303	30.3
4	RealFly-Sion	FR	29	29	26	38	31	26	42	27	24	23	295	29.5
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	29	26	24	37	30	26	40	27	24	23	286	28.6
6	Gavroche Weembi	FR	27	26	23	35	29	23	39	23	21	21	267	26.7
7	IFS-Moscow	RU	26	26	23	35	29	21	40	24	24	18	266	26.6
7	Espoir Saumur Weembi	FR	27	26	23	33	28	23	37	24	23	22	266	26.6
9	Volition	UK	25	24	19	34	23	21	36	24	22	21	249	24.9
10	ISR FireFlash	BE	25	21	21	33	23	21	35	22	21	20	242	24.2
11	Chimera	UK	27	21	22	35	24	21	32	23	18	18	241	24.1
12	Amnesya Fly-In	IT	25	22	20	35	25	21	34	21	17	19	239	23.9
13	NFTO	UK	20	22	21	29	26	20	32	22	21	18	231	23.1
14	ACM	UK	25	15	18	31	25	19	34	21	21	20	229	22.9
15	Tenanine	MR	23	19	21	28	23	21	28	21	21	20	225	22.5
16	Pro Team	FI	23	20	16	32	22	21	30	22	19	18	223	22.3
17	Savoodoo	ZA	22	20	17	31	22	18	33	18	19	17	217	21.7
18	HF Flying Circus	CZ	20	18	16	28	19	18	29	19	17	15	199	19.9
19	Antimatter	UK	21	18	17	23	20	17	25	19	17	15	192	19.2
20	Flyspot Sky4four	PL	21	14	16	23	22	18	27	19	16	15	191	19.1
21	Flyzone Les Affranchise	FR	17	16	17	25	19	16	26	18	16	15	185	18.5
22	Aladeen	HU	18	17	15	22	18	15	29	16	16	15	181	18.1
23	JETMAX	BE	17	15	17	24	17	15	24	18	15	15	177	17.7
24	Equinox	LT	18	15	16	23	20	15	25	15	15	12	174	17.4
25	Corbas Coyotes JCM	FR	17	16	17	20	20	16	20	18	13	14	171	17.1
26	Eros	UK	17	16	17	24	14	16	25	17	12	12	170	17.0
27	H4O	IE	17	15	14	20	18	15	23	17	15	14	168	16.8
28	Formihyrodynamitevisionx	UK	16	12	16	22	19	16	24	16	14	11	166	16.6
29	Skyfool	UK	18	15	15	21	17	15	23	17	13	10	164	16.4
30	HF Skycentrum	CZ	16	11	14	21	17	15	20	15	14	13	156	15.6
31	Nova	SE	15	13	13	18	16	13	19	12	12	12	143	14.3
32	Quasar	UK	15	11	12	14	15	12	20	14	10	10	133	13.3
32	Mental BloX	UK	15	11	11	17	12	12	21	13	11	10	133	13.3

Laura Hampton, Chris Judd and James Woods were finally together with Lowabusa in 2014, and 2015 still became a slow training and competition season for three three Lowabusa team mates.

Will Cooke continued with Tetris in 2014 and 2015 before he was recently recruited by 4mula.

Laura Hampton, Chris Judd and James Woods came back into full action with Chimera at the beginning of the 2016 season. Sarah Ashworth became the 4th team member, and James Woods' sister Katie, 4-way bronze medalist with Evolution at the FAI World Meet 2014 in Prostejov, was helping the team with coaching. The results and progression were impressive.

Fourth Chimera member Sarah Ashworth had joined Chimera after learning 4-way competition by going through all four categories (RRR - A - AA - AAA) in her three years with the ChatterChicks. Chimera eventually finished the first and very successful 2016 season with an 11th place at the FAI Indoor World Cup in Poland.

UK Nationals 2016		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	22,B,8	L,C,10,14	19,H,E,7	12,11,16	N,J,4,G	20,18,5	Q,O,A,15	P,1,13	3,9,6	D,F,21,2	Total	Avg
1	Satori XL	17	20	26	15	22	17	25	19	21	22	204	20.4
2	4mula	15	18	22	15	20	15	24	16	19	21	185	18.5
3	Vision 99	15	17	22	16	19	14	22	15	19	22	181	18.1
4	NFTO	15	16	19	14	20	14	21	17	17	21	174	17.4
4	Eclipse	15	17	19	13	22	14	20	15	18	21	174	17.4
6	Chimera	15	16	19	13	18	13	17	13	17	20	161	16.1
7	Phoenix	13	12	19	12	18	11	16	13	14	16	144	14.4
8	Antimatter	14	14	16	11	15	11	18	12	14	17	142	14.2
9	Eros	11	13	13	12	16	10	16	12	12	14	129	12.9
10	Unicornmagic Flytastic	10	12	15	9	15	10	16	12	13	15	127	12.7
11	Helios	12	11	17	11	13	8	15	12	12	15	126	12.6
12	Aurora Blue	9	10	13	7	12	8	11	8	10	9	97	9.7
13	Revolution	10	12	18	9	13	8	14	-	-	-	84	12.0
14	Mental Blox	6	6	11	6	9	6	8	8	8	11	79	7.9
15	ACM	10	12	17	11	17	9	-	-	-	-	76	12.7
16	PTW	6	8	3	7	7	6	8	8	6	10	69	6.9
17	Skyfool	6	11	12	10	11	1	12	-	-	-	63	9.0
18	Slot Us In	9	9	11	6	11	7	9	-	-	-	62	8.9
19	Fr4gment	9	7	12	5	6	5	10	-	-	-	54	7.7
20	H4O	11	13	17	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	53	13.3

The 2017 season had the most promising start for Chimera with the same lineup as in 2016. It started with a 22.5 average at the Wind Games, followed by the 24.1 average at the World Challenge 2017. Then the accident happened, and Chris Judd was out for the rest of the year with a broken leg.

However, at least Chimera did not have to withdraw from the FAI World Cup 2017. Sarah Ashworth, Laura Hampton and James Woods were looking for substitutes and were successful.

Former Eclipse member Jonny Flowers was ready for a new team opportunity and will help out this year. James Woods said that Jonny Flowers will join a "mini training camp" to get the new lineup used to flying together. However, he will not be available for the FAI World Cup, and Chimera had to find an additional substitute, which turned out be very successful, too. Former Satori member Aaron Faith will substitute for the substitute in Saarlouis.

James Woods and his flexible Chimera lineup are grateful for the temporary solutions: "Obviously we're gutted Chris couldn't do it, and we've already done the bulk of our training, but luckily we have two awesome flyers to help us out!"