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Did You Know...

... that Round 6 is on the tip of everybody's tongue?

56-pointer world record in 2010: Oleg Shalamyhin, Vladimir Pavlenko, Andrey Seliverstov with Sky Panthers Barkli
posted Oct 8th, 2018 - The 8-way and VFS parts of the FAI World Meet 2018 on Monday were almost completed when a small stormy weather system interrupted the flow of the event.

The weather break was still enough to jeopardize the 4-way part on the same day. The 4-way teams were scheduled to be back at the Runaway Bay Sports Super Centre in the afternoon for a few more rounds, and the Super Sequence in Round 6 was most likely to be a part of the Monday action.

The NSL News has been giving Round 6 special attention for a simple reason: Super Sequences with only random formations at world meets don't happen very often, and they can easily generate new world records. HayaBusa coach Gary Smith mentioned in one of the interviews on Monday that Round 6 is "on the tip of everybody's tongue" all the time.

The last Super Sequence at a world meet was drawn in Menzelinsk 2010, and the 56-pointer in Round 2 is still the officially standing world record for a single round. Eight years later the next opportunity is coming up, and each of the four top teams, including the Aerodyne Weembi Girls, have the potential to score higher than 56 points.

The NSL News found all four standing world record owners who are present at Gold Coast (Mathieu Bernier, Jeremie Rollett - Oleg Shalamyhin, Vladimir Pavlenko), and even Russian world record videographer Andrey Seliverstov is at the competition site as the alternate on camera for the Russian teams.

56-pointer world record in 2010: Mathieu Bernier and Jeremie Rollett

The NSL News explained after the competition draw how the five world record owners are related to the current event, and all of them had a few comments about the upcoming 4-way world record round.

They are all torn between expecting or hoping for a new world record and passively defending their highest outdoor scoring number in history. However, the range of expectations by the world record owners and other 4-way experts on site is wide and goes up to even 65 points as the highest number.

It is not only the potential world record itself that makes Round 6 so interesting. All experts agree that everything is possible and that the rankings after Round 5 can easily get scrambled up.

There is a good chance that Round 6 finishes up the Monday action, as the storm went through the area quickly, and the teams are back on a call to the planes...

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