posted Oct 26th, 2017 - The NSL News is once again taking a closer look at the combined AAA Class leaderboard after the identical ten rounds in 4-way Open and 4-way Women at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017.

It's a colorful leaderboard that is actually showing three different categories. Ten teams had all-male lineups (gray), nine teams competed in the separate 4-way Women event (magenta), and another four teams had mixed lineups (yellow).

NMP PCH HayaBusa and Weembi High Rollers dominated the 4-way Open Class and the combined leaderboard both, while the French Weembi Girls battled with Black Cat and Arizona Airspeed for the 3rd place. They missed the extra round for the bronze medals by only four points.

The French Weembi Girls were back to full indoor strength that they had demonstrated impressively at the World Challenge 2017 where they placed 3rd on the AAA Class leaderboard, with only HayaBusa and Weembi ahead of them. In fact, the distance to the indoor world champions was almost exactly the same in Montreal (29) as it was in Bedford (28) while they reduced the distance to Weembi from 27 to 22. Arizona Airspeed and Black Cat did not compete in Bedford and squeezed themselves in between the two top teams and the French Weembi Girls on the combined leaderboard.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	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
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	30	29	25	30	47	33	34	34	37	28	-	327	32.7
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	30	29	26	30	41	35	32	32	37	28	-	320	32.0
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	29	28	24	29	41	32	27	31	35	26	59	302	30.2
4	Black Cat	RU	30	27	24	30	39	34	32	28	33	25	58	302	30.2
5	French Weembi Girls	FR	28	26	23	27	38	34	30	30	34	28	-	298	29.8
6	Qatar Tigers	QA	28	21	24	27	36	31	23	27	29	26	-	272	27.2
7	Satori XL	UK	23	23	21	21	38	29	25	26	32	23	-	261	26.1
7	Echochamber	SE	24	24	22	25	34	28	27	28	28	21	-	261	26.1
9	Volition	UK	22	22	18	23	32	29	25	26	28	23	-	248	24.8
10	Amnesya Fly-In	IT	25	21	18	23	29	28	24	22	31	20	-	241	24.1
11	Papea Spain	ES	24	20	18	21	29	26	23	21	26	20	-	228	22.8
12	HF Chicks	CZ	22	18	16	19	32	25	24	20	26	23	-	225	22.5
13	Team X	SE	24	20	18	22	30	26	24	18	21	20	-	223	22.3
14	Inlaws	CA	23	22	17	21	31	28	20	20	22	18	-	222	22.2
15	HF Bad Boys	CZ	21	20	17	20	32	21	22	21	23	22	-	219	21.9
16	Parachute Montreal Fuzion	CA	20	20	19	21	31	27	20	19	20	20	-	217	21.7
17	No Mercy	PL	24	18	18	19	23	26	22	18	24	21	-	213	21.3
18	China 4-way Gold	CN	19	18	16	18	26	22	19	18	22	20	-	198	19.8
19	Monaco	MC	17	15	14	15	22	21	19	15	21	17	-	176	17.6
20	Texas Crush	US	18	14	13	14	21	24	19	15	16	15	-	169	16.9
21	China 4-way Red	CN	11	15	13	15	20	20	17	14	15	17	-	157	15.7
22	Not Your March	HU	14	15	8	14	18	18	17	11	18	16	-	149	14.9
23	Bahrain	BH	10	13	11	11	17	19	12	8	16	12	-	129	12.9

The French Weembi Girls will be much happier with the results in Montreal compared to the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2017. They had won the gold medals in 4-way Women easily in Saarlouis but were far behind the best 4-way Open Class teams on the combined leaderboard in August.

Volition made the Top 10 with the 24.8 average, and the bronze medal battle in 4-way Women between HF Chicks and Team X may have helped both teams to push each other into the middle of the combined leaderboard.

Satori XL was the best team with a mixed lineup in 4-way Open and on the combined leaderboard. Original member Katie Woods took the point slot nine years after her first meet with Satori. Julia Foxwell, Liz Matthews and Aaron Faith competed with her at the first Satori meet, the Shamrock Showdown 2008. Liz Matthews was in the Volition lineup in Montreal, and Julia Foxwell took the year off to take care of her growing family.

Italy's national indoor team Amnesya has Chiara Brunetti in the lineup and took the last Top 10 slot on the combined leaderboard in Montreal. Amnesya was aiming at the 26.6 average level that the team had shown at the Italian Indoor Nationals 2017 and had to settle with less. The plans for the 2018 season are in the works now.

The bronze medal duel in 4-way Women between HF Chicks and Team X was joined by a few more teams on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard. The Canadian Inlaws were another team with a mixed lineup.

The Lemay brothers Vincent and Benoit, 4-way Open Class bronze medalists with Evolution together with Katie Woods in Prostejov 2014, competed with their fiancees in Montreal, Justine Kerr Denis and Monika Wittmer.

Last and not least, the Chinese 4-way Open Class team has a mixed lineup, as well, and finished ahead of the country's 4-way Women team.

U.S. team Texas Crush, China's Red team and Not Your March from Hungary managed to leave the all-male team from Bahrain behind. Bahrain is the host of the next FAI Indoor World Cup in 2018 and will try to leave the bottom position on any leaderboard to another team on their home turf next year.

The 4-way Junior and VFS leaderboards don't separate the lineups by gender. The HF Cubs from the Czech Republic are four young ladies, while the Aerokart Ak'demie 2 team won with four young men in the lineup. Boys and girls played together in the other two lineups from Canada and Singapore. 4-way VFS had three teams with mixed lineups (U.S.A. - Canada - Finland) and three with only male competitors (France - Poland - Sweden).