posted Dec 4th, 2018 - The Indoor Cloud League competition is not only coming to an exciting finish between Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP on the 14+ leaderboard, as the NSL News pointed out yesterday. The competition between the Florida Skydiving League at iFLY Tampa and the Northwest Skydiving League at iFLY Seattle is almost just as close going into the last month of the 2018 season.

The battle for the 3rd place between these two ICL teams has been even more eventful than the race for the 1st place, as the 2018 leaderboard is showing. The Florida team was far behind after a slow start in January and reduced the 31-point deficit month by month between February and May.

Only three points separated the two teams at the end of May, and the NWSL competitors picked up the pace again when Florida was almost back on level. The NWSL lead was back to 39 points two months later, and the iFLY Seattle team even outscored Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP in July.

However, a slow month followed the NWSL highscore of the 2018 season, and iFLY Tampa was able to get closer again. The Florida team finally posted its highest total of the year in November, and the current 21-point difference is at least not out of range to reach the ICL team on the west coast with another highscore for December.

Indoor Cloud League 2018			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	128	120	139	144	143	124	60	76	116	127	139	-	1316
2	Paraclete XP	US	128	125	148	126	116	90	93	133	115	109	127	-	1310
3	iFLY Seattle	US	114	89	115	111	104	113	124	84	101	107	105	-	1167
4	iFLY Tampa	US	83	107	121	111	108	95	106	114	81	98	122	-	1146
5	iFLY Dallas	US	98	82	44	88	64	89	-	-	-	-	-	-	465
6	Flybox	IL	78	72	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	150

The indoor duel between Northwest and Florida Skydiving League is the oldest one of the Indoor Cloud League competition and began between iFLY Seattle and a Florida team at SkyVenture Orlando in 2012. The Northwest team is still competing at iFLY Seattle, while the Florida teams and competitors are now performing their ICL 14+ sequences at iFLY Tampa.

Florida generated this year's highest total of 122 points with two events in November, and teams at both FSL Tunnel Kickers were able to contribute to the record number. Arizona Airspeed's team captain Niklas Hemlin played a significant role in the successful Indoor Cloud League month.

ICL organizer Amer Kassas had invited him for all three November events, including the NSL Ultimate 4-way Championship 2018, where he was player coaching together with his team mates Ari Perelman and Mikhail Markine. Amer Kassas' efforts obviously paid back, not only with the new ICL record total in November.

Niklas Hemlin hardly left the flying chamber during his visits at iFLY Tampa in his effort to fly with as many participants as possible, and November had also record participation at the FSL Tunnel Kickers.

iFLY Tampa - November 14+	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
	L,4,B,16	E,4,14	P,O,9	N,L,B	M,P,O	M,E	Total
Kanishka Perera, Sebastian Jimenez, Bob Byrne, Kurt Gaebel	17(-1)	14	-	-	-	-	17
Niklas Hemlin, Bob Byrne, Helaine Rumaner, Kanishka Perera	17(-1)	-	-	-	-	-	-
Suzette Hechst, Alison Bawden, Sebastian Jimenez, Amer Kassas	14	15	-	-	-	-	-
Sebastian Jimenez, Amer Kassas, Niklas Hemlin, Scott Latinis	-	16	-	-	-	-	16
Shanise Dietels, Kim Lewis, Niklas Hemlin, Amer Kassas	-	-	19	20	-	-	39
Kim Lewis, Paul Bertorelli, Marty Schneider, Amer Kassas	-	-	-	15	22	-	-
Matt O'Gwynn, Kurt Gaebel, Shanise Dietels, Kim Lewis	-	-	-	-	25	25	50
Tristan Smith, Charles Oster, Niklas Hemlin, Scott Latinis	-	-	-	-	17	-	-
iFLY Tampa - Best of November	17	16	19	20	25	25	122

In the meantime, there has also been a change in the ICL Seattle team. Deb Correia, who launched her NWSL indoor team project and the duel with Florida in 2012, has handed over the reigns of the Indoor Cloud League events to Seattle Swift member Djordje Mandaric.

Deb Correia has prepared the transition carefully. She has been sharing the management responsibilities with Djordje Mandaric for a while, after he and his team members participated at the ICL events. Seattle Swift have posted many scores for iFLY Seattle on the ICL leaderboard in the past years.

Deb Correia said that she is now looking forward to just being able to show up and help with coaching.

Djordje Mandaric and his Seattle Swift team mate Dmitry Rudchenko were in the November lineups for three of the posted scores. Now they will have to hold off the Florida charge in December. Amer Kassas and his Florida ICL team need a total of 21 points higher than the Northwest team in December for a tie, and 22 points to win...

iFLY Seattle - November	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	L,4,B,16	E,4,14	P,O,9	N,L,B	M,P,O	M,E	Total
Jeramy Eggum, Monica Aikins, Randy Barbee, Dmitry Rudchenko	15	14	-	-	-	-	29
Gary Dutton, Kurt Ferstl, Ryan Bartling, Djordje Mandaric	-	-	20	-	-	-	20
Dan Gillette, Pedro Pablo Fuentes Schuster, Erik Hundtofte, Dave Correia	-	-	-	13	-	-	13
Katie Crabb, Slavko Pesic, Steve Platt, Bill Selig	-	-	-	-	18	29	43
iFLY Seattle's Best of November	15	14	20	13	18	25	105