posted Mar 13th, 2019 - The World Challenge 2019 is once again including the UK Indoor Nationals, and the NSL News was interested in an update of the 4-way situation in Great Britain.

Joey Jones, 4-way world champion of 2004 with U.S. team DeLand Majik and professional coach, has been providing the NSL News regularly with interesting information from the areas where he is directly involved as a coach and competitor, and he has been discussing topics in many NSL Live Talk sessions in the past.

Once again, he made himself available for a new NSL Live Talk this week and at the end of his current indoor training camp with the Swedish national team in 4-way Women, Team X, in Stockholm.

Joey Jones used to live at Twinwood Adventures in Bedford with his Swedish wife Lena, and they have recently moved to Luton, between Bedford and London. He is now traveling even more than before and spends much of his time at the Weembi wind tunnel in Lille, as well. The busy indoor season in Europe, with many wind tunnels for winter training and competition, does not allow much of a break any longer, neither for teams nor for coaches.

World Challenge 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	Airheads	CH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	ISR FireFlash	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	ACM Weembi	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Odin Parachute Systems	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	Chimera	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	NFTO	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Tenanine	MR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	Eros	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Ayro	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	Aladeen	HU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
15	Alakran	ES	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
16	Blackjack	FI	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
17	Stardust	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
18	Tempo	FI	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
19	Pajama Pumas	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20	FlyPonots	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
21	Koloncok	HU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
22	Falco	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
23	Nova	CH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
24	Weembi Unicorns	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

His Swedish Team X will be aiming once again at the bronze medal position in 4-way Women at the FAI Indoor World Meet next month, and Joey Jones is expecting a close race for the 3rd place. Team X won FAI bronze medals at the outdoor world meet in Australia last year, and indoor bronze medals a few weeks later in Bahrain.

Joey Jones is expecting a battle for 1st and 2nd place between Nephtys Weembi (France) and NFTO (Great Britain). He said that he does not really know where to expect the U.S. team for the meet, XPG4, who finished with a strong 23.7 performance at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship.

He met the British 4-way indoor champions of ACM Weembi several times in Lille and is expecting a close battle between ACM and NFTO at the World Challenge.

Both teams were separated by only one single point at the FAI Indoor World Cup in October 2018, where NFTO won the gold medals in 4-way Women. NFTO confirmed the 25+ average with Julia Swallow in the lineup at the Wind Games 2019, where ACM did not compete.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open/Women Combined		K,17,J,21	4,H,F,11	18,L,16	5,M,O,C	N,8,P,19	6,9,10	D,12,15	Q,B,G,22	20,E,14	7,3,2	Total	Avg
1	Weembi Mix MF	FR	34	35	31	57	33	31	30	39	29	26	345	34.5
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	35	35	27	47	33	31	31	38	28	28	333	33.3
3	Amnesya	IT	30	28	24	46	26	27	21	30	24	24	280	28.0
4	IFS-Moscow	RU	28	29	21	45	26	27	21	33	24	25	279	27.9
5	Echochamber	SE	30	30	23	37	27	25	22	32	22	23	271	27.1
6	France Odins	FR	29	26	21	37	28	25	19	27	24	23	259	25.9
7	ACM Weembi	UK	26	26	23	36	27	25	23	28	20	21	255	25.5
8	NFTO	UK	27	26	20	37	25	23	22	29	22	23	254	25.4
9	China	CN	27	23	22	32	25	22	20	29	24	23	247	24.7
10	Russian Thunder	RU	24	22	20	36	23	24	22	28	21	22	242	24.2
11	Papea Masculino	ES	25	24	14	35	23	22	17	29	21	20	230	23.0
11	France	FR	26	23	20	36	24	19	19	26	17	20	230	23.0
13	Team X	SE	24	26	18	31	22	21	16	27	20	19	224	22.4
14	China	CN	22	20	20	28	23	22	18	24	20	21	218	21.8
15	HF Chicks	CZ	25	23	15	26	23	21	17	24	21	21	216	21.6
16	Monaco	MC	22	23	16	27	22	22	19	25	18	18	212	21.2
17	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	23	25	16	27	22	20	17	23	19	18	210	21.0
18	Satori	UK	24	19	18	31	18	20	18	23	18	19	208	20.8
19	HF Flying Circus	CZ	21	23	19	28	20	19	17	22	17	18	204	20.4
19	Eros	UK	22	23	17	25	19	19	19	24	18	18	204	20.4
21	Out of the Blue Project 20+	NL	24	19	18	30	20	18	15	23	17	18	202	20.2
21	Zero-G	RU	22	22	17	27	20	20	16	22	16	20	202	20.2
23	Jazz Republic	ZA	19	23	16	28	20	19	17	24	15	17	198	19.8
24	No Limits	RU	22	20	18	28	20	20	12	22	17	17	196	19.6
25	Bahrain 1	BH	17	23	15	25	14	17	15	23	18	15	182	18.2
26	Equinox	LT	17	15	14	20	17	16	12	17	17	17	162	16.2
27	Papea	ES	19	18	12	17	17	14	15	19	10	14	155	15.5
28	Sky....	CZ	15	18	10	16	16	16	14	19	16	13	153	15.3
29	Bahrain 2	BH	13	14	12	18	14	15	14	17	15	16	148	14.8
30	Zephyrus	UK	12	12	10	16	13	12	10	17	11	13	126	12.6

The FAI event in Bahrain was actually the last competition for ACM Weembi. It will be helpful for the British national indoor team to fight the first battle with NFTO at the World Challenge before competing for the British delegation at the indoor world meet a few weeks later.

There could be more competition for ACM in the 4-way Open category. Chimera is not far from the same scoring level, as they were showing in the last five rounds at the Wind Games. They had missed the first half of the meet, and the NSL News will follow up with more information of the mishap in Spain. However, the World Challenge could feature a 3-team battle between NFTO, ACM and Chimera for the 4-way top spot in Great Britain, and Satori XL could make it a 4-pack.

Joey Jones is training and competing as a player-coach with Eros, who left behind the 20-average benchmark at the indoor world cup in Bahrain. The British top teams are probably out of reach for his team.

He commented a few other topics in the NSL Live Talk, including the British female 4-way power and the situation of the best 4-way juniors in the world, who are still competing over only eight rounds with the AA Class dive pool at FAI events, while they have moved up into the AAA Class world at other 4-way meets.