posted Jan 9th, 2019 - The 2019 season is bringing the exciting last step into the AAA Class world to the recently crowned Belgian AA Class indoor champions of Ayro.

The original and unchanged lineup started in the A Class of 2017 and moved up into the AA Class at the World Challenge 2018. Ayro has the same plan in 2019 and will attend the first AAA Class competition in Bedford at the end of April.

Ayro has maintained a very special meet record throughout their first two years. The Belgian team has improved the previous team record averages at every single meet they have attended. This could be easy with a low number of attended meets. However, Ayro has competed at ten events in the first two team years.

The outdoor record in the A Class of 2017 (11.6 - 12.1) is just as clean as in the AA Class (11.6 - 12.1 - 14.9) of 2018, and it is not any different for the team's indoor performance, after two A Class meets (21.1 - 21.7) in 2017 and two (18.6 - 20.0) last year. The 20.0 at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2018 was the last and encouraging result in the AA Class, which was rewarded with the Belgian indoor championship title.

Belgian Indoor Nationals 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		K,H,N,4	19,22	21,18	7,9	8,Q,F	M,J,11	6,L,A	20,2	G,D,P,14	B,D,C,15	Total	Avg
1	Ayro	BE	22	16	14	22	23	21	18	15	24	25	200	20.0
2	Synergy	IT	19	16	16	21	25	22	18	13	20	27	197	19.7
3	Stardust	BE	21	11	15	20	20	21	21	15	19	22	185	18.5
4	Phenix4Namure	BE	17	13	13	19	19	23	16	11	18	18	167	16.7
4	4Flux	BE	18	12	14	20	18	19	20	10	18	18	167	16.7
6	Aeropotam's	BE	18	12	11	21	19	18	19	12	15	16	161	16.1
7	One Hit Wonders	BE	16	10	8	15	15	17	15	10	16	14	136	13.6
8	Black Devils	BE	13	12	6	15	16	15	16	11	17	14	135	13.5

Ayro - Synergy - Stardust at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2018

Belgium has two different national champions in the AA Class. Stardust won the Belgian Outdoor Nationals 2018 in September over Ayro, before both teams traveled to Saarlouis for the ESL Championship 2018 right after their national outdoor championships.

It was a successful trip for both teams, as the Belgian delegation in Saarlouis won the ESL Spirit 2018. Ayro finished ahead of Stardust a week after the Belgian Nationals, and both teams contributed to the winning total of 31 ESL points, together with Jetmax in the AAA Class and Aeropotams in the A Class.

Ayro and Stardust know each other very well, as they started their team careers at the same event and on the same A Class leaderboard in August 2017.

Stardust won the first Belgian duel at the national championships of 2017 and has maintained the same clean progression as Ayro after the team's seven meets in the same time period.

ISR Grand Prix 2018 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		A,18,F	Q,N,11	6,G,14	J,B,L,2	O,15,M	D,21,C	9,H,K	7,E,22	Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	CZ	24	25	22	26	28	25	31	24	205	25.6
2	KetchUp ADV	IT	18	22	15	20	26	21	26	20	168	21.0
3	Synergy	IT	22	15	14	23	23	19	19	18	153	19.1
4	Team Red	NL	16	19	16	17	20	19	28	15	150	18.8
5	Ayro	BE	19	19	12	19	22	20	24	14	149	18.6
6	Stardust	BE	16	18	14	21	19	19	23	17	147	18.4
7	FS ONE	BE	14	16	13	19	16	14	20	14	126	15.8
8	Phenix4Namure	BE	12	18	14	18	18	13	20	10	123	15.4
9	Zero!	IT	12	11	12	15	16	13	18	15	112	14.0
9	Bad Habits	NL	14	13	11	14	16	13	17	14	112	14.0
11	The Vipers	NL	13	15	11	14	16	12	17	13	111	13.9
12	Flying Circus	NL	13	15	10	10	18	14	15	11	106	13.3
13	Aeropotam's	BE	13	12	9	16	13	13	16	12	104	13.0
14	Try-out	NL	10	12	11	13	8	12	15	10	91	11.4
15	HF Dragonflies	CZ	10	13	11	13	12	10	14	6	>89	11.1
16	Lightning	NL	9	11	9	10	11	11	16	11	88	11.0
17	Blue Knees	NL	11	9	10	10	11	8	10	11	80	10.0

Ayro and Stardust are two of the Belgian 4-way teams that have probably been coming in the wake of the HayaBusa and FireFlash momentum in the small country. Both teams will now make the next step together, compete in the AAA Class this year and leave the new Belgian AA indoor and outdoor titles open for other teams.

Their last AA Class competition at the Belgian Indoor Nationals brought them back together on the same leaderboard with Synergy from Italy who had won the AA bronze medals at the ISR Grand Prix 2018. Ayro and Stardust went neck to neck (149 - 147) once again in Roosendaal and still ended up behind the Italian team.

The Synergy visit in Belgium not too much later was a perfect re-match opportunity for the two home teams, and it became a lively and exciting competition for the three AA Class top positions.

Ayro needed the 20.0 average to win by three points, while Stardust could not catch the Italian guests. Next time, the two Belgian teams will have a AAA Class duel at the World Challenge in Bedford...