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Did You Know...

... that HF eX3MO and Amnesya will battle for the tickets to Australia in August?

HF eX3MO and Amnesya at the Italian Outdoor Nationals 2017
posted Jun 3rd, 2018 - The NSL News story on 12 January 2018 reported bad news from Italy after the Italian AeroClub had officially announced that there will be no national championships this year, and the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2018 would have no team from Italy compete in Australia. This would be the first world meet since 1985 without an Italian 4-way team:

"No team from Italy will be sanctioned to attend any FAI events due to the lack of government in the institution. This statement applies to all aeronautic sports in Italy, not only to skydiving competition."

The update from Italy was not very promising for the two top teams, HF eX3MO and Amnesya, who have recently been closer to each other than ever before. eX3MO won last year's national championships by one point and would have competed for Italy in Australia without the problems that came up at the end of the 2017 season.

The NSL News has covered the athletic development between the two Italian teams for a few years. The last two updates were posted first on 30 March 2018, followed by the story on 15 May 2018 after the Italian Indoor Nationals 2018.

Italian Outdoor Nationals 2017
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RankAAA ClassB,D,15,PN,Q,F,8L,C,H,618,J,A,19E,1,M,11G,2,322,7,1020,K,1612,O,94,5,21TotalAvg
1Ex3mo1925261922171617201719819.8
2Amnesya2525241820181516211519719.7
36102324241820161216191418618.6
4Stand By1518161114121110121113013.0
5Assouei131411111210997710310.3

The situation in Italy has settled in the meantime, after teams and officials tried to find a way how to send a team from Italy to Australia and officially represent the country in October.

Italian Outdoor Nationals 2017: HF eX3MO
The Italian AeroClub has finally scheduled a national championship event for the August 10 - 12 weekend in Ravenna, and the final outdoor showdown between HF eX3MO and Amnesya will eventually take place.

The national championship in Ravenna is now officially sanctioned as the qualification event for the world meet in Australia, which adds the maximum of excitement to it.

In Italy, as in many other countries, the qualification for a world meet is usually the national championship the year before.

HF eX3MO won last year's championship and are the reigning Italian 4-way outdoor champions, which would have qualified the team for the next world meet.

The circumstances after the earlier troubles with the Italian AeroClub have changed the situation and will move the final selection of the national team much closer to the world championship.

Italian Indoor Nationals 2018
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RankAAA ClassQ,14,O,18C,11,119,17,122,15,22P,F,8,HB,3,9J,D,16,G7,20,M6,13,A5,N,E,LTotalAvg
1Amnesya2823212343323631263629929.9
2HF eX3MO2724212137313328243127727.7
3Standby1914151527211718172018318.3
444F1617151324212120181518018.0

The new situation will more likely secure that the best Italian 4-way team will represent the country this year in Australia, while it makes it logistically more challenging, with less than two months to prepare for the long trip to Down Under.

Italian Indoor Nationals 2018: Amnesya
National teams who qualify a year in advance have more time to prepare properly for the most relevant event in the sport and take care of the logistics, instead of investing all resources into winning the same year's qualification.

However, HF eX3MO and Amnesya both have to win in August first to make it to Australia, and the national championship in Ravenna has to be the main goal before shifting the focus to international competition.

Both teams are reigning Italian 4-way champions, eX3MO in outdoor competition, while Amnesya won this year's indoor title. eX3MO have competed for Italy at the FAI world meets in 2012 (7th), 2014 (10th) and 2016 (11th).

Amnesya have not attended an outdoor world championship yet and placed 8th for Italy at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017.

The winner of this year's national showdown will probably try to improve the international placements for Italy two months later. Italy has won two sets of FAI 4-way bronze medals in 1991 and 2006.

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