posted Oct 19th, 2017 - It's time for the indoor showdown in Montreal, where Round 1 is scheduled for Friday morning at 8:00 AM.

The results of the polls don't offer any big surprises, even though NMP PCH HayaBusa is apparently expected to win more clearly than the previous duels with the Weembi High Rollers turned out. This will probably even surprise the Belgians who had to switch back and forth between indoor and outdoor training, while the High Rollers focused exclusively on this indoor showdown with HayaBusa.

Arizona Airspeed is not expected to play any role in this duel, which is also not a big surprise. Both top contenders in Montreal have more time together with the same lineup than the new U.S. national 4-way team in 4-way Open.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
4-way Open/Women	16,P,12	2,8,H	22,20,3	15,D,4	A,J,6,L	7,M,19	5,Q,21	18,B,17	G,14,C,N	K,E,10,11	F,O,9,E	Total	Avg

The French Weembi Girls have an even stronger position in 4-way Women than HayaBusa in 4-way Open, while the situation is quite similar.

The French Weembi Girls are the national team in 4-way Women in both events. They just won the FAI World Cup gold medals for France in Saarlouis, where HayaBusa won in 4-way Open.

Volition is just as much an indoor team as the Weembi High Rollers are in 4-way Open. However, the French team has been performing even stronger at indoor meets, which probably explains the bigger lead over the challenger in the polls, compared to HayaBusa vs. Weembi.

The smaller audience in 4-way Junior sees the reigning world cup champions from Canada as the top favorite. The Asian visitors from Singapore are just as much without serious chances as Arizona Airspeed in 4-way Open and Montreal's home team Fuzion in 4-way Women. However, the team in 3rd place, the HF Cubs, are at least in contention for the 2nd place.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total	Avg
4-way Junior	F,7,L	19,A,K	11,N,E	22,H,9	Q,M,J,8	14,6	B,15,P	O,C,18	20,G,21	Total	Avg

The 4-way Juniors are completing only eight rounds with their limited AA Class dive pool. Only 12 of the 14 blocks were drawn for the meet, including the 9th fly-off round, and one random formation is missing, too.

The competition draw for the AAA Class events (4-way Open and 4-way Women) is naturally on the faster side, as the FAI/IPC indoor dive pool does not include two of the slower blocks (1 and 13).

The teams will still be missing the fastest sequence of the meet, which was drawn for the extra round.

There is hope for a fly-off though, as the 4-way Open Class field is tight enough in the medals rankings for a chance to see the fast sequence in Round 11.

All six slot switching sequences were drawn, and only four of them will challenge the teams. Block 16 and Block 12 happened to fall together in Round 1 and neutralize each other for the front pieces. It will be an easy meet opener, at least for the memory part...