posted May 18th, 2018 - Ged Parker has entertained participants and audience at the World Challenge in Bedford for a long time. He has played a signature role in many different ways, which included stories like the kidnapping of a HayaBusa member at the World Challenge 2015.

He was in front of the World Challenge TV camera once again this year, first to introduce the teams live at the entrance to the flying chamber before Round 1, later with several live interviews of participating teams and competitors.

During one of his roaming tours around the Twinwood Adventures facilities he connected with two Rookie Class teams by coincidence, first We Are 4 from Ireland, then the Bodyflight Recruitz Fire and Ice juniors when they were on a break between competition rounds.

We Are 4 were part of a significant delegation from Ireland. Six teams competed in all four categories, and We Are 4 even won a set of silver medals in the Rookie Class for the Irish delegation. In the interview, the team members gave H4O's Ronan Whelan, whose team competed in the AAA Class, a lot of credit for promoting 4-way competition in Ireland and organizing the annual visit of Irish 4-way teams across the Irish Sea at the World Challenge in England. H4O had competed as the national 4-way team for Ireland at the FAI Mondial 2016.

World Challenge 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		H,F,D	G,K,Q	P,L,E	M,O,A	B,J,H	N,C,F	E,G,N	P,C,M	Q,K,L	O,J,A	Total	Avg
1	MAD Team	PL	29	22	26	25	18	29	18	32	22	25	246	24.6
2	We are 4	IE	18	9	10	19	19	17	11	17	12	14	146	14.6
3	Funnel the Tunnel	UK	12	14	13	15	17	14	11	20	10	8	134	13.4
4	Tunnel Vision	UK	14	10	12	19	13	10	10	16	8	13	125	12.5
5	Strictly Come Flying	IE	13	8	11	19	14	12	9	12	11	15	124	12.4
6	Bumblebex	UK	10	7	7	12	10	9	7	12	8	9	91	9.1
7	Recruitz Fire	UK	13	9	8	9	9	6	6	10	6	8	84	8.4
8	Ninja Turtles	DK	7	5	5	10	12	7	5	4	6	6	67	6.7
9	Annetastic	NO	2	6	4	10	6	5	6	7	4	4	54	5.4

The We Are 4 seniors were competing with one of the two Bodyflight Recruitz junior teams in the Rookie Class, and Ged Paker found the complete local Recruitz delegation on his roaming trip, including host Paul Mayer's daughter Sasha. She is a member of the Rookie Class lineup, Recruitz Fire.

It was the third 10-round meet in the Rookie Class for her team, and Recruitz Fire have increased the performance and scoring level consistently (5.0 - 6.9 - 8.4) within a year.

The Recruitz had a second lineup, Recruitz Ice, who competed in the A Class. The Ice lineup battled with Sasha Mayer's father's team Black Magick and ended up tied at the team's first A Class competition. Ice had started together with Fire in the Rookie Class at the World Challenge 2017 and moved up into the A Class after the Bodyflight Revenge in October 2017.

Sasha Mayer will probably make the same move soon and then set her father's team as the target for next year's World Challenge. Ged Parker and NSL News will have a good topic for the event...

World Challenge 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		H,F,D	6,G	P,L,E	4,M	9,B	N,C,8	K,7	19,2	Q,21	O,J,A	E,2	Total	Avg
1	Oman Wolf	OM	35	17	23	16	25	19	22	14	17	30	-	218	21.8
2	Omega4way	PL	36	16	28	19	20	14	22	12	17	29	-	213	21.3
3	4eigners	IT	29	15	23	15	24	18	14	13	17	21	16	189	18.9
4	Aeropotam's	BE	29	14	21	16	23	15	18	11	15	27	14	189	18.9
5	One Shot	IT	29	12	25	19	26	10	14	14	11	24	-	184	18.4
6	The Flying Penguins	RO	24	15	19	16	21	14	17	11	14	16	-	167	16.7
7	Nebula	UK	29	14	17	13	21	9	17	10	14	19	-	163	16.3
8	VR UniQ	IE	21	13	17	13	18	9	16	8	12	22	-	149	14.9
9	Recruitz Ice	UK	18	13	10	10	15	9	16	9	14	16	-	130	13.0
9	Black Magick	UK	18	10	14	12	15	13	13	10	11	14	-	130	13.0
11	Anemoi	UK	14	10	16	10	18	11	12	9	11	18	-	129	12.9
12	Anaconda	IE	10	7	6	8	9	7	8	4	6	13	-	78	7.8
13	Back Panthers	UK	10	7	4	7	5	7	6	3	7	13	-	69	6.9