posted Jan 12th, 2019 - The new competition year begins on a very fast 4-way meet pace, extremely fast for the teams in the Czech Republic.

The scores of the January meet of the World Tunnel League at the Hurricane Factory were just posted and have already moved into the background, as more recent results from the Czech Republic replaced them on the front page.

Thirteen Czech teams and Skydive University Slovakia attended the WTL/ETL January meet, and twelve of them were back a few days later for the Czech Open Indoor Nationals with ten different sequences at the same place. They were joined by three teams from Poland and FS ONE from Belgium.

The WTL/ETL meet in the middle of the week served as a perfect warmup opportunity for the national indoor championships with international participation.

The purpose of the World Tunnel League events is in fact a more serious opportunity for competition practice for 4-way teams once every month.

World Tunnel League January 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		Q,E,F,18	3,9,11	D,K,21,16	14,G,M,17	O,L,B,7	5,15,6	P,A,12,20	C,13,1	10,8,N	22,J,H,4	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	CZ	34	21	23	25	39	19	21	22	21	21	246	24.6
2	HF Bad Boys	CZ	31	21	22	23	33	19	21	19	19	19	227	22.7
3	HF Cubs	CZ	29	19	20	19	31	17	17	18	16	21	207	20.7
4	HF Chicks	CZ	29	19	19	20	29	17	15	15	16	20	199	19.9
5	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	24	17	20	19	27	15	16	16	16	18	188	18.8
6	Sky....	CZ	20	14	18	18	29	15	14	15	14	15	172	17.2
7	M Team	CZ	19	11	14	13	21	10	10	14	11	14	137	13.7
8	Accord	CZ	16	11	13	15	21	11	9	12	7	13	128	12.8
Rank	AA Class		Q,E,F,18	9,11	D,K,21	14,G,M	O,L,B,7	15,6	P,A,20	C,13,1	8,N,4	22,J,H	Total	Avg
1	HF Dragonflies	CZ	19	15	17	18	21	14	16	13	13	13	159	15.9
2	Ladies&Gentlemen	CZ	20	15	16	18	22	12	14	14	13	14	158	15.8
3	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	15	17	17	17	20	13	15	13	13	15	155	15.5
4	Mimozemky	CZ	13	13	11	11	17	5	9	10	10	13	112	11.2
5	HF Chameleons	CZ	11	9	9	9	10	7	8	5	7	8	83	8.3
Rank	A Class		Q,E,F	9,7	D,K,21	G,M,J	O,L,B	6,H	P,A,2	C,19	8,N	J,H,4	Total	Avg
1	High Five	CZ	27	15	12	22	21	15	14	11	11	14	162	16.2

The NSL News had reported just recently after the WTL/ETL December meet how HF Flying Circus' scoring progression has been accelerating, and the Czech team once again did not stop after the 23.4 in December.

In fact, HF Flying Circus has been rushing through the usual scoring benchmarks since the beginning of the Czech indoor winter season in October (20.4 - 21.8 - 22.8 - 23.4) by picking up an average point at each meet.

The December 23+ average was also a very short stop on that scoring level, as Flying Circus posted two 24+ averages (24.6 - 24.2) this week.

Flying Circus is well ahead of HF Bad Boys (24.2 - 23.1) by now and officially qualified as the Czech national indoor team for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 in April.

Bad Boys came closer within a week, after the 19-point difference at the WTL/ETL meet. However, the short time frame after a long break of several months was not enough for the previous Czech national team to challenge the successor seriously.

Scoring progression of HF Flying Circus in the AAA Class since December 2016

HF Bad Boys had competed for the Czech Republic at the last FAI Indoor World Meet in Montreal 2017 and finished in 11th place. HF Flying Circus is now on track to place a 4-way team from the Czech Republic in the Top 10 for the first time.

Bad Boys member and Czech 4-way Godfather Jan Klapka will manage the trip of the Czech delegation to Weembi Lille in April, where his son Jakub Klapka is aiming at the Top 10 spot with HF Flying Circus. Czech 4-way junior team HF Cubs will pursue the next set of FAI medals for the Czech Republic at the same event.

The HF Cubs did not perform on their usual world class level at the national indoor championships. The Cubs juniors had posted another impressive 20+ average in the AAA Class at the WTL/ETL meet and did not have their complete lineup available for the next ten rounds on the AA Class leaderboard.

Viktorie Nováková fell ill before the second competition, and her team mates had HF Dragonflies junior Nela Kadecková in their lineup. Sabina Cioleková, Karolina Henkova and Adela Vesela had to scramble their slots to accommodate the substitute.

Czech Open Indoor Nationals 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		3,7,22	15,4,5	N,14,10	13,20,E	O,L,C,11	18,A,19	21,17,K	Q,2,G,1	P,H,B,J,16	F,8,M,9	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	CZ	21	19	21	20	29	21	23	22	37	29	242	24.2
2	HF Bad Boys	CZ	19	20	19	18	28	19	22	20	34	32	231	23.1
3	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	17	16	17	18	24	19	18	20	27	26	202	20.2
4	KA	HU	17	17	17	15	24	18	20	18	29	26	201	20.1
5	Sky....	CZ	13	15	14	13	20	13	15	17	24	20	164	16.4
6	M Team	CZ	13	11	12	13	18	11	12	15	17	21	143	14.3
7	Accord	CZ	9	8	11	12	15	11	13	13	17	18	127	12.7
Rank	AA Class		20,11	Q,9,1	22,L,N	6,F,B	D,7,14	C,15,A	8,J,P	M,18,O	13,21	2,G,4	Total	Avg
1	Flyspot One2Three	PL	16	24	18	26	22	16	21	23	17	19	202	20.2
2	FS ONE	BE	13	22	17	22	17	19	17	22	15	15	179	17.9
3	HF Cubs	CZ	14	16	16	25	17	17	17	19	14	11	166	16.6
4	HF Dragonflies	CZ	12	17	13	21	17	15	17	18	10	13	153	15.3
5	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	13	15	13	21	16	18	14	13	16	10	149	14.9
6	Mimozemky	CZ	9	14	11	18	14	9	12	13	10	11	121	12.1
7	HF Chameleons	CZ	7	9	7	9	7	6	7	10	9	7	78	7.8
Rank	A Class		19,P	G,B,L	A,H,7	E,8	2,Q	C,D,6	4,21	N,J,F	M,O,K	9,J	Total	Avg
1	MAD Team	PL	18	19	29	19	20	23	17	38	47	31	261	26.1
2	Ladies Power	PL	19	28	27	20	17	23	17	39	39	30	259	25.9
3	High Five	CZ	13	21	21	10	11	16	12	23	31	18	176	17.6