posted Aug 21st, 2017 - The 4-way competition at the Pre-Nationals 2017 was very similar to the situation in 8-way, at least in the AA/Intermediate Class.

It was also more competitive, as last weekend's leaderboard of the competition at Skydive Spaceland-Houston is showing. The teams in the first three places all shared the highscores for some of the eight rounds with each other. Dallas Interspediate, with player coach and meet organizer Scott Latinis in the lineup, collected five of the eight highscores and won the meet, yet only four points ahead of Babes on Our Bellies (BOOBs), who won only Round 4 with the fastest sequence of the meet.

Toxic Heveh, on the other hand, won two rounds and tied two more and still ended up far behind the first two places, only due to the low scores in two rounds, even though the team actually won the total of the last three rounds.

All three teams would probably be ready to pursue medal positions for Texas at the USPA Nationals 2017 next month, together with Christy's Love Slaves in the AAA/Advanced Class, with five members of The French 8-way Team.

Spaceland Pre-Nationals 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way AA/Intermediate Class	F,20,4	7,M,D	9,G,N	O,J,E,Q	H,8,13	C,11,18	21,19	A,14,1	K,6,15	P,B,22	2,L,F	Total	Avg
1	Dallas InterSpeediate	8	13	11	15	10	9	8	8	-	-	-	82	10.3
2	Babes on our Bellies (BOOBs)	7	12	10	16	9	8	8	8	-	-	-	78	9.8
3	Spaceland Toxic Heveh	8	13	9	14	5	9	9	9	-	-	-	76	9.5
4	B.A.D.D.	2	2	3	1	1	1	2	2	-	-	-	14	1.8

The AA/Intermediate Class leaderboard of last year's USPA Nationals indicates that teams with 10+ averages could be in medal contention, at least for bronze. All three teams from Texas have enough time to clean up after the Pre-Nationals and be ready for even higher meet averages in Perris.

BOOBs had competed at the USPA Nationals 2016 and finished tied in 9th place of 26 teams with an 8.6 average. Last weekend's 9.8 average is already significantly higher and might be enough for a position close to the medal level. Dallas Interspediate posted a 10+ average and is even closer to last year's bronze medal level at this point in time.

Toxic Heveh competed last year in Texas and did not travel to Eloy for the USPA Nationals. This year, the same lineup (Josh Hines, Dabbie Maline, Nery Padilla, Josh Schirard, with Jeff Mubarak on camera) posted a 9.6 average at the Texas Shootout in July and now followed up at the Pre-Nationals.

USPA Nationals 2016		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Intermediate	22,O,8	1,21	A,E,Q,J	D,L,C,15	M,P,9	F,B,13	20,2	18,N,7	11,K,14	4,G,19	Total	Avg
1	Seattle Swift	11	11	23	15	24	16	13	13	11	10	147	14.7
2	Zhills PreciZion	10	11	20	14	20	15	11	12	11	11	135	13.5
3	SDC Rhemix XP	9	9	15	9	18	11	9	9	8	9	106	10.6
4	Napoleon Dynamite	8	7	13	10	18	12	7	9	9	9	102	10.2
5	Bangarang	9	7	14	8	15	11	8	10	7	9	98	9.8
6	Suffolk Sabotage	7	6	16	7	16	12	7	11	8	6	96	9.6
6	4GetAboutIt!	8	8	15	11	14	8	8	9	8	7	96	9.6
8	Threat Level Orange	10	7	9	8	14	11	8	10	6	8	91	9.1
9	SCZ FutheranZe XP	6	8	16	8	12	7	7	8	6	8	86	8.6
9	Babes On Our Bellies (BOOBS)	8	8	14	6	12	11	7	9	6	5	86	8.6
11	Perris Nacho Key	8	6	8	9	13	9	7	9	6	7	82	8.2
12	Four Shades of Grey	8	5	12	7	13	10	7	3	7	8	80	8.0
13	Hard on the Kittens	7	9	12	7	11	7	7	6	6	7	79	7.9
14	SCZ ZEUS	7	7	11	6	13	6	7	9	4	7	77	7.7
14	Mark and Darryld 4ish Ways	7	6	12	7	11	10	5	8	7	4	77	7.7
14	Crackers & Beans & Rice	8	6	9	8	12	9	7	6	7	5	77	7.7
17	Semi4	8	5	6	6	13	8	7	6	7	8	74	7.4
18	Cosmic Remnants	6	6	11	9	13	4	5	5	7	6	72	7.2
19	In4mal Affair	6	5	12	8	10	9	4	6	5	6	71	7.1
20	Larry	5	6	8	6	11	7	6	6	6	7	68	6.8
21	My Milkshakes	6	4	8	6	12	7	7	6	6	5	67	6.7
22	SDMW Extreme	6	5	10	5	6	7	7	5	6	6	63	6.3
23	The Falling Misfits	4	3	6	4	8	2	3	4	4	3	41	4.1
24	4-Chick Chick Boom!	5	4	4	3	7	5	2	3	4	3	40	4.0
25	Beyond Ambition	2	2	2	0	1	1	2	3	3	3	19	1.9
26	Win or Lose We Booze	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.1