posted Apr 3rd, 2019 - With nine teams attending first the World Challenge and then the FAI Indoor World Meet, it is also about time to take a closer look at the NSL Power Rankings related to the second high-profile competition within two weeks.

NMP PCH HayaBusa and Arizona Airspeed will battle with Weembi High Rollers for the three FAI medal positions at Weembi Lille. High Roller Julien Degen will have his own closer look at the two opponents while he is in Bedford with the Weembi Unicorns, together with Clementine Le Bohec, who will also compete for France in 4-way Women at the indoor world meet.

Qatar Tigers, Echochamber and Black Cat will follow right behind the medal positions hoping for their own peak performance and a weak meet for any of the three expected FAI medalists.

The Swiss Airheads and the German Airfource are probably planning for a peak surprise and a shorter distance than ever to the six top contenders on the world meet leaderboard. At the same time, they have to make sure that they are not jeopardizing a Top 10 spot with a weak performance, as they have to fend off ACM Weembi and Finland's Pro Team. HF Flying Circus and the best Spanish Papea lineup will have to come up with record averages to make the Top 10.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open - NSL Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	Black Cat	RU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	Echochamber	SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	Airheads	CH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Airfource	DE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	ACM Weembi	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	Pro Team	FI	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	HF Flying Circus	CZ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	Papea Masculino	ES	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
15	Out of the Blue	NL	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
16	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
17	Aladeen	HU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
18	H40	IE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
19	Equinox	LT	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

As every year, the overall indoor performance and scoring level has been going up. It may take a 20+ average to stay away from the very bottom of the leaderboard.

Aladeen, Hungary's national 4-way team, posted already a 19.8 average at the World Challenge 2018 and will most likely follow up with a 20+ this week. This leaves only H40 from Ireland and Equinox from Lithuania with more distance to get to the same benchmark.

H40 had an 18+ average at last year's World Challenge, and a whole year could be more than enough to add two average points, with enough indoor training.

Equinox traveled to Bahrain last year and competed at the FAI Indoor World Cup. The Lithuanian team has always been eager to be a part of international 4-way competition. The coming event will be the first FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving for Equinox, who also used to compete at outdoor events years ago.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open - Top 10		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	China	CN	27	23	22	32	25	22	20	29	24	23	247	24.7
9	Russian Thunder	RU	24	22	20	36	23	24	22	28	21	22	242	24.2
10	Papea Masculino	ES	25	24	14	35	23	22	17	29	21	20	230	23.0

Top 5 at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018

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The previous NSL News update provided information of the Oman Wolf team, last year's A Class winner at the World Challenge. Oman Wolf has stepped up into the AA Class; however, it is still too early for the AAA Class dive pool at a world meet. The team will hopefully represent the country soon at FAI world meets and world cups, as well.

The story still related to a national team that has competed at several FAI events in the past. In fact, Italy's reigning indoor and outdoor champions, Amnesya, are the bronze medalists of the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018, while they are not even registered for the upcoming indoor world championship.

Italy will not be represented at the FAI event, even though a few Italian teams will compete at the World Challenge. Amnesya had a personnel change after a great performance at the FAI World Meet 2018, followed by the indoor bronze medals in Bahrain.

The new lineup, with returning members Chiara Brunetti and Giuseppe Cossu and new members Livio Piccolo and Ivan Quadrio, have not signed up for any of the upcoming high-profile meets, while Amnesya FAI bronze medalist Michele Silvi competes with Weembi Unicorns at the World Challenge.