posted Sep 4th, 2017 - A very busy meet week has come to its conclusion. It included the national championships in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, who used the same competition draw. They were also joined by teams in Texas at the Dallas Super Cup 2017.

Team Orange won in the Netherlands and is the new national 4-way team, as it could be expected.

The Bad Boys maintained the top position in the Czech Republic, while HF Flying Circus finished with a new team record average for a 10-round meet, despite a relatively slow competition draw.

Dutch Project 20+ team Out of the Blue improved the team record average, as well, after the 14.0 average at the FAI World Cup 2017.

Last and not least, Cool Runnings, Dutch national team at the FAI World Meet 2014, posted the highest outdoor average in the long team history, as well.

September 2nd, 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		19,E,D,K	F,15,3	Q,14,C,12	20,O,4	J,16,G,6	N,10,P,L	H,21,17	13,9,B	11,5,7	2,1,M	Total	Avg
1	Team Orange	NL	18	14	13	14	17	17	17	16	15	15	156	15.6
2	Out of the Blue	NL	16	14	12	14	14	14	14	16	15	13	142	14.2
3	HF Bad Boys	CZ	16	12	11	11	14	14	14	13	12	13	130	13.0
4	Cool Runnings	NL	16	12	11	11	11	11	11	12	10	12	117	11.7
5	HF Flying Circus	CZ	10	9	9	11	10	10	12	13	9	12	105	10.5
5	Gravity Abuse	NL	13	11	10	11	11	11	11	6	9	12	105	10.5
7	Hvezdy	CZ	10	8	8	9	10	10	9	11	8	9	92	9.2
8	HF Skycentrum	CZ	6	9	7	7	10	9	7	9	8	7	79	7.9
9	Accord	CZ	9	7	5	7	5	6	8	6	5	7	65	6.5
10	Relative Team	CZ	6	7	4	3	7	7	7	6	7	7	61	6.1

Some of the teams on last weekend's combined leaderboard will meet again soon at the ESL Championship 2017, this time at the same place and at the same time.

HF Flying Circus and HF Skycentrum will compete for the Czech delegation in Saarlouis, and teams from the Netherlands are usually visiting the fun event with a strong delegation.

Kate Lindsley, former 4mula member who competed with Heavenly Pests at this year's UK Nationals and who will represent the United Kingdom with Volition at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017, explained how different and enjoyable the ESL Championship is:

"Despite competing at the British Nationals and World Cups/Championships, for me the ESL is still one of my favorite competitions. It has an atmosphere, and often closing party unlike any other 4-way event. It allows skydivers from all categories to compete against each other on an international level. I feel it has inspired and will continue to inspire British skydivers to progress their 4way skills and for some aim for a World Cup place in the future."

FAI World Cup 2017			1	2	3	4	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		L,O,F,K,11	C,3,7	13,2,G	1,17,20	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	35	26	21	20	102	25.5
2	RealFly-Sion	FR	35	26	20	20	101	25.3
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	33	24	20	16	93	23.3
4	Black Cat	RU	26	24	17	18	85	21.3
5	bUSA Defiance	US	26	22	16	17	81	20.3
6	Airbus	DE	27	21	17	15	80	20.0
7	Espoir Saumur Weembi	FR	25	19	16	18	78	19.5
8	Papea Masculino	ES	26	19	12	14	71	17.8
8	ISR FireFlash	BE	24	18	14	15	71	17.8
8	Barguzin	RU	24	15	17	15	71	17.8
11	Airheads Realfly	CH	24	20	13	13	70	17.5
12	Ex3mo	IT	23	17	12	14	66	16.5
12	Espoir Maubeuge Weembi	FR	24	17	12	13	66	16.5
12	AtomiX YUU	DE	19	19	13	15	66	16.5
15	Chimera	UK	21	16	14	13	64	16.0
15	Kinetix	AU	22	17	13	12	64	16.0
17	Tanay Wolves	RU	22	16	14	11	63	15.8
18	Antimatter	UK	19	14	13	13	59	14.8
19	NeVa	DE	20	15	11	11	57	14.3
20	Out of the Blue	NL	18	14	12	12	56	14.0
21	Team C4	SE	17	14	12	11	54	13.5
22	Flyspot Sky4four	PL	18	14	9	11	52	13.0
22	Eros	UK	16	14	11	11	52	13.0
24	Aurora	SE	15	11	11	11	48	12.0
25	Airvengers	AT	16	12	10	9	47	11.8
26	Tyanno4us Rex	UK	11	11	8	10	40	10.0
26	Atmosfera G4	PT	12	10	9	9	40	10.0
28	Yingyang	UA	10	12	9	6	37	9.3
28	TNT	RO	13	11	6	7	37	9.3
30	Tulpar	TR	8	8	9	7	32	8.0
30	Cyprus	CY	12	9	6	5	32	8.0

Six British 4-way teams competed at the FAI World Cup 2017, and at least three other teams will compete for the UK delegation at the ESL Championship in three weeks. Kate Lindsley herself travels to Germany with AAA Class team 4TheQeeen. PTW member Ellie Southworth is in her lineup who competed in 4-way Women at last month's world cup. Project Ride the Dragon member Rich Cotton competed in 8-way in Saarlouis, and Phoenix member Jack Bradford completes the British AAA Class lineup. Mike Coleman is filming 4thequeen.

4TheQeeen was formed in 2012 for the sole purpose to attend the ESL Championship. The UK team first won silver medals in the Rookie Class and came back with a slightly different AAA Class line in 2016 placing 5th. This year's lineup plans to improve the 7.9 average of 2016 and push for a AAA Class medal and ESL Spirit points for the UK delegation.

Manticore, this time with Kara Prichard, Lizzie Attwood, Hayley Jones, Joe Mann and Merlin Felix Webster, will compete for the UK delegation in the AA Class. Ian Gerrish, bronze medal winner with Flying Fossils at the UK Nationals this year, Sarah Blanchard (Smash N Grab), Catherine Brown (Strong and Unstable) and Spencer Bailey join forces for the British team in the Rookie Class.

Registration for the ESL Championship is still open until the 19th of September.