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Did You Know...

... that Airbus defends 4-way and 8-way titles successfully in Germany?

German Nationals 2017
posted Aug 30th, 2017 - The German Nationals 2017 took place at the same time when Belgium and Italy held their national championships.

There were no surprises at any of the three events, as the three national teams (NMP PCH HayaBusa, eX3MO, Airbus) defended their top positions successfully.

However, there is some motion going on in Italy and Germany, while the Belgian 4-way world champions have no opposition yet in their homeland.

The battle for the top spot in Italy was a thriller, as the NSL News reported yesterday, and Amnesya is seriously challenging eX3MO's 4-way dominance.

Airbus was once again driving the 4-way title home with an 8-point advantage after the 10-round meet in Germany. AtomiX YUU was still closer than ever to the German national team of the past years, and there does not seem to be an end to the ongoing challenge.

AtomiX finished with a new 17.7 team record average at the second meet with new team member Mark Zimmermann, who has moved up from a 12+ average last year with his former team to the 17.7 level after 200 training jumps with AtomiX.

German Nationals 2017
12345678910TotalAvg
RankAAA/Open ClassP,D,3,1613,14,9F,11,N,2J,7,517,14,MB,8,1822,Q,O,20K,10,15E,1,G,6A,L,19,21TotalAvg
1Airbus FSZ Saar1916202220171715182018418.4
2AtomiX YUU Skydive1815182218161715181917617.6
3NeVa FSZ SAAR1612161717121212141514314.3
3Dark Energy1613131715131512151414314.3
5SKYNAMITE1612151715131313141414214.2
6Skyfall Illertissen1511121713121311131413113.1
7Paranodon Eyjafjallajökull1111141512121412131312712.7
8Skyweed149131415121210131312512.5
9Wolf Pack1411121112121210141412212.2
10FlashFour - Soest81012121291210131010810.8
11HorschD FSZ SAAR107111099771212949.4
124 xmpl8811810897810878.7
13Jump881096810679818.1
Airbus FSZ Saar at the FAI World Cup 2017
AtomiX YUU had never tied any of the Airbus scores for a meet round since the team project started in 2013.

This year, the new lineup matched the Airbus numbers in four of the ten rounds and was even close to win a round here or there.

The closest battle in Germany took place behind the two top teams, even though the three teams, separated by only one point, were not in direct competition for the bronze medals in the AAA/Open category.

Dark Energy had Belgian competitor Luc Vereecken in the lineup who could not win a German 4-way medal.

Skynamite and Skyfall Illertissen had their own leaderboard and set of medals, as the German federation separates 4-way Open and 4-way Women competition the same way as FAI/IPC does it at world cups and world meets.

Skynamite won the duel and the tickets to Australia 2018 and finished one point behind the 3rd place on the Open Class leaderboard.

NeVa FSZ Saar turned out to be the official winner of the bronze medals with the highest 10-round average in team history. The 14.3 is identical with the finishing number at the FAI World Cup 2017, which was over after only four rounds.

AtomiX YUU at the FAI World Cup 2017
NeVa, Airbus and AtomiX had all tested their performances in Saarlouis a few weeks earlier, while Germany did not have a team in 4-way Women at the world cup.

Airbus was far ahead of AtomiX (80 - 66) by then after only four rounds, and the outcome at the national championships must have been surprising on both sides.

However, Airbus and Skynamite won and are qualified to compete for Germany at the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2018 in Australia.

The German 8-way teams are in the middle of their national championships, and the five Airbus members are winning once again their second title for the Airbus 8-way team.

The question is whether the team is motivated to do double duties, which was a painful experience at the FAI Mondial 2016...

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