posted Jun 8th, 2018 - It is no news that the results on both leaderboards of the Indoor Cloud League have become closer and closer month by month. However, the 12+ leaderboard has recently been featuring something that resembles a normal 10-round competition between a few teams on the same performance level.

It began actually already in January when the two teams of the Northern California Skydiving League, one at iFLY SF Bay and the other one at iFLY Sacramento, were separated by only one single point (102 - 101).

The Florida Skydiving League team at iFLY Orlando joined the race in February after a slower start of the year and finished only one single point (100 - 101) behind iFLY SF Bay for the month.

The March competition featured the next 1-point finish (111 - 110), again for the top spot, and this time between iFLY Orlando and iFLY Sacramento. At that point in time, each of the three teams with complete sets of six scores each month had won once this year.

Indoor Cloud League 2018			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 12+ Feet
1	iFLY Sacramento	US	101	117	110	111	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	549
2	iFLY SF Bay	US	102	101	87	109	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	509
3	iFLY Orlando	US	88	100	111	111	85	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	495
4	Arizona FM	US	-	-	-	25	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	45
5	Harpia	BR	14	-	-	15	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	40

Then followed the closest finish of all three teams in April. iFLY Sacramento and iFLY Orlando were tied with 111 points in the top spot, and iFLY SF Bay was only two points behind with an April total of 109.

The May competition brought the next tie, this time between the two teams from Northern California, while Florida fell behind with the lowest monthly total of the year.

The 85 points for May were costly for the iFLY Orlando team, as they lost the second place on the 12+ leaderboard for the 2018 season to iFLY SF Bay, while nothing changed between the west coast teams. The Florida team was only competitive in the A Class, where Suzette Hechst, Kanishka Perera, Amer Kassas and Bob Byrne posted the highscore with a 21-pointer.

The competition between the teams from Northern California for the top spot in May had its own dynamics and two different parts.

iFLY Sacramento - May	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	Q,11,N,16	A,11,21	C,Q,9	Q,A,N	M,C,Q	M,A	Total
Jason Russell, Steven Walker, Matt Stephens, Lori Connor (DeLoreans)	17	17	-	-	-	-	34
John Verley, Nick Armstrong, Monty Stephens, Ron Ashcraft	-	-	18	-	-	-	18
Keith Clayton, Reed Lawson, Kirby Hughes, Lori Connor	-	-	-	8	-	-	8
McKenzie Brown, Jeff Sealy, Lori Connor, Matt Stephens	-	-	-	-	27	32	50
iFLY Sacramento's Best of May	17	17	18	8	25	25	110

The trained DeLoreans (Jason Russell, Steven Walker, Matt Stephens, Lori Connor) dominated the AAA and AA sequences where the iFLY SF Bay lineup lost a total of nine points.

Both A Class lineups tied were tied before penalties, and the iFLY SF Bay team lost one point only due to the video angle.

SF Bay's RRR Class lineup (Achal Asawa, Ray Hebert, Kiran Shivaram, Ron Put) saved the month for their ICL team with the 23-pointer, while Sacramento finished with the lowest score of the year in this category.

The other two Rookie Class scores brought Sacramento back to the final tie level, after the cupping rule was applied three times, two times for both Sacramento scores and once for SF Bay's R Class score. iFLY Sacramento maintains a 40-point lead (549 - 509) in 1st place after the first five months of the year.

iFLY SF Bay - May	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	Q,11,N,16	A,11,21	C,Q,9	Q,A,N	M,C,Q	M,A	Total
Jim Hopf, Eric Gin, Lori Connor, Ethan DeLano	13	12	-	-	-	-	25
Sylvain Florand, Lukasz Weber, Vignesh Elamvazhuthi, Jim Hopf	-	10	17(-1)	-	-	-	17
Achal Asawa, Ray Hebert, Kiran Shivaram, Ron Put	-	-	16	23	-	-	23
Michael Beaudreau, Laura Reed, Elan Moyal, Eric Gin	-	-	-	16	20	-	20
Anthony Biasotti, Whitney Russell-Holcomb, Lukasz Weber, Ethan DeLano	-	-	-	-	15	26	25
iFLY SF Bay's Best of May	13	12	17	23	20	25	110