posted Oct 15th, 2018 - The aftermath of the FAI World Meet 2018 continues with the same event, 4-way Women, while the new update is not related to the Fun Flag. However, there was another twist of the Fun Flag story, and the NSL News will follow up with new information soon.

One of the most impressive performances of the world meet took place in 4-way Women, even though it was no news that the French national team in this event, Aerodyne Weembi, has already been one of the best 4-way teams in the world. This time, the all-female lineup made sure that the latest statement would be heard loud and clear, as there is no better place for it than the World Championship of Formation Skydiving.

The NSL News has pointed out several times that the Aerodyne Weembi Girls are one of the best 4-way teams. It is now a fact that the French team is in the world's 3rd place. Only NMP PCH HayaBusa and Arizona Airspeed posted higher scores and averages on the Open Class leaderboard, where the Aerodyne Weembi Girls would have finished in the bronze medal position.

The combined 4-way leaderboard is also showing that Aerodyne Weembi posted a sole highscore in Round 5, where HayaBusa and Airspeed suffered point deductions. The French team would have still matched the highscore for the round even if the two Open Class medal winners had clean rounds.

FAI World Meet 2018			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Combined - Top 10		21,L,B,G		22,18,17		19,7,O		J,16,12		10,A,D,15		Q,M,F,C,N		H,20,P,13		6,14,11		E,2,5		4,1,3		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32		21		27	-2	24		22	-3	62	-2	22	-2	20	-1	27	-1	22		279	27.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	-5	21		27	-1	24		24	-1	60	-1	26		22		27		20		277	27.7
3	Aerodyne Weembi Girls	FR	29	-1	20		24		22		25		56	-1	23		18	-2	22		18	-1	257	25.7
4	Aerodyne Realfly	FR	29	-1	19		24	-2	23		24		52	-3	20	-3	17	-3	24		19		251	25.1
5	Qatar Tigers	QA	24	-2	14	-1	24	-1	21		22		53	-4	21	-1	18		20		17		234	23.4
6	Echochamber	SE	25	-1	16		21	-1	17	-2	20	-1	48	-4	14	-3	18		21	-1	15	-1	215	21.5
7	Amnesya	IT	24	-2	14		20	-1	18		18	-1	48	-5	18		14	-2	21	-1	15		210	21.0
8	NFTO	UK	20	-3	15		22	-1	19		18		38	-2	18		17		19		16		202	20.2
9	Satori XL	UK	21		14	-1	21		19		19		37	-3	19		17		18	-1	16	-1	201	20.1
9	Airheads	CH	22	-3	14	-2	19	-2	17	-1	18		44		16		16	-2	18	-1	17		201	20.1

The Aerodyne Weembi Girls posted the next historic record average in 4-way Women that they have improved a few times this year. They saved the 25.7 average for the most important event, even though there was no serious competition for them on the 4-way Women leaderboard.

They claimed all ten highscores in 4-way Women and allowed NFTO only in one round to get anywhere close, due to two point deductions in the slowest round of the meet (Round 8).

The highest average in 4-way Women history came along with a new world record for a single round in the same event (56) which tied the previous world record in the 4-way Open Class.

The Super Sequence was not the only reason why Aerodyne Weembi finished with the highest meet average in history. The two best 4-way Open Class teams had the same opportunity, and they still did not get beyond the standing 27.9 average that Arizona Airspeed had posted at the FAI World Meet 2012 in Dubai.

There is even more value to the 25.7 average, and this credit can be shared with HayaBusa and Airspeed. The judges were sharper than ever before at Gold Coast in Australia, and hardly any team at all got away with an undetected infringement. Aerodyne Weembi was one of the cleanest teams with only five penalties.

Scoring history between Aerodyne Realfly and Aerodyne Weembi Girls since 2015

The internal French duel between the two 4-way national teams came also to its conclusion at the most relevant event in the world. The 4-way Open Class team, Aerodyne Realfly, with former French Girls 4-way Women world champion Laurence Fugen in the lineup, finished in bronze medal position in 4-way Open and still ended up six points behind Aerodyne Weembi Girls on the combined leaderboard.

Both teams have battled with and against each other for four years. Aerodyne Realfly won the first internal French world meet showdown (23.8 - 21.7) at the FAI World Meet 2016. Aerodyne Weembi Girls now matched Aerodyne Realfly's record average of May this year, while the Open Class team finished below the 25.7 average they had posted at the Coupe de France competition.

Together the two French 4-way teams won gold medals in 4-way Women and bronze medals in 4-way Open. No other nation won medals in both events, and national coach Mathieu Bernier can be happy with this accomplishment.

Two of the Aerodyne Weembi Girls have another challenge coming up soon. Weembi Mix, with Christine Malnis and Sophia Pecout, will be back in action with their Weembi 4-way partners Roy Janssen and Julien Degen at the FAI World Cup 2018 in Bahrain. The Weembi Mix indoor team made NMP PCH HayaBusa's life very difficult at the World Challenge 2018, and they will try to get even closer than the 4-point difference that separated them from the indoor and outdoor world champions in Bedford...