posted Aug 14th, 2018 - Bad weather was in the way off a successful Dallas Super Cup this year, and the worst wild fires in history in Northern California are a major obstacle for outdoor training and competition, as well.

Teams in Northern Calfornia have at least the opportunity to compensate for the lack of outdoor training and competition with the monthly Indoor Cloud League and Tunnel Kicker activities. August is also a month with the next World Tunnel League meet, and the most recent scores will be posted soon.

The series of extremely tight ICL competition between iFLY Sacramento and iFLY SF Bay on the 12+ leaderboard has come to an end for now. The two different ICL teams in Northern California, both organized by Lori Connor, were separated by one single point (324 - 323) for the total in the last three months (April - May - June).

The Florida Skydiving League team at iFLY Orlando was a part of this exciting ICL competition, as well, but only in February, March and April. The FSL team has fallen too far behind in the following three months.

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	103	95	-	-	-	-	-	747
2	iFLY SF Bay	US	102	101	87	109	110	104	88	-	-	-	-	-	701
3	iFLY Orlando	US	88	100	111	111	85	94	77	-	-	-	-	-	666
4	Harpia	BR	14	-	-	15	11	11	14	-	-	-	-	-	65

iFLY Sacramento now won the July competition by seven points over iFLY SF Bay, which is a large margin compared to the previous results, and extended the 2018 lead to 46 points.

It was once again the strength of the Rookie Class lineups that created the 7-point difference in July. The iFLY SF Bay team won the three technical sequences (AAA - AA - A) by five points, while the Sacramento rookies (RRR - RR - R) were 12 points ahead for the 7-point advantage.

The iFLY Tampa team won three categories in July (AA - A - R) and still ended up behind after missing a score for the AAA sequence.

iFLY Sacramento put up a good competition for the two Open Class sequences (AAA - AA), even though iFLY SF Bay won the technical part of the six ICL categories. The DeLoreans used to collect good numbers of ICL points in these categories for iFLY Saramento and kept up well with iFLY SF Bay's Cali4nia Raptors. The DeLoreans have not been available in June and July, and a new lineup, with two DeLoreans (Lori Connor, Matt Stephens) and two new AAA Class competitors (James Cain, Abbie Crews) is now posting AAA and AA scores for iFLY Sacramento.

iFLY SF Bay - July	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	O,15,K,3	C,9,15	H,J,6	O,K,P	M,H,J	M,C	Total
Juius Frank, Deanna Frank, Eric Gin, Lori Connor	14	16	-	-	-	-	30
Sylvain Florand, Lukasz Weber, Ron Ashcraft, Deanna Frank	-	13(-1)	19	-	-	-	19
Mark Fosbury, Laura Reed, Michael Beaudreau, Julius Frank	-	-	11	15	-	-	15
Ron Put, Maria Sheets, Eric Gin, Lori Connor	-	-	17	26	-	-	-
Val Ryabov, Whitney Russell-Holcomb, Deanna Frank, Julius Frank	-	-	-	13	12(-1)	12	24
iFLY SF Bay's Best of July	14	16	19	15	12	12	88

The iFLY SF Bay lineup for the same two sequences was still too strong, even though the complete Cali4nia Raptors lineup was neither available. Deanna and Julius Frank had former Fastrax member Eric Gin in the lineup, who has now worked up his way back to the AAA Class dive pool in his comeback, and Lori Connor completed the lineup.

Lori Connor was filling in for iFLY SF Bay, as well, while she and Matt Stephens have been bringing up to speed their new AAA competitors at iFLY Sacramento. Their AAA/AA lineup with James Cain and Abbie Crews had started with a 10-pointer for the AAA sequence in June. Last month, they were competitive with 13 for the AAA and 15 for the AA sequence.

iFLY Orlando actually won the AA Class competition in July with Lee Perera, Bob Byrne, James Hall and Amer Kassas.

iFLY Sacramento (RR) and iFLY SF Bay (RRR) both had Rookie Class teams who scored higher than the officially posted numbers, while the lineups were not eligible any longer for the respective categories, according to the ICL rules.

iFLY Sacramento - July	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	O,15,K,3	C,9,15	H,J,6	O,K,P	M,H,J	M,C	Total
Matt Stephens, Lori Connor, James Cain, Abbie Crews	13	15	-	-	-	-	28
Lisa Larkin, Ron Ashcraft, Calli Waltrip, Lori Connor	-	-	16	-	-	-	16
Reed Lawson, Ryan Kihm, Jeff Sealy, Matt Stephens	-	-	-	18	15	-	18
Lauren Brown, McKenzie Brown, Maria Sheets, Lisa Larkin	-	-	-	18	28	-	-
Monty Stephens, Nick Armstrong, Russ Hebert, Maria Sheets	-	-	-	14	-	-	-
Kristen Smith, Jeannette Copeland, Abbie Crews, James Cain	-	-	-	-	19	14(-1)	33
iFLY Sacramento's Best of July	13	15	16	18	19	14	95