posted May 1st, 2019 - There were only two countries at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 who managed to place two teams in the Top 10 on the combined AAA Class leaderboard. France won gold medals in 4-way Women, and Nephtys Weembi took the 7th place on the combined leaderboard, where Weembi High Rollers placed 2nd and won the 4-way Open Class silver medals.

Great Britain was the only other country with the same accomplishment in 4-way Formation Skydiving competition at Weembi. NFTO won the silver medals in 4-way Women, and the 27.8 average made the 8th place on the combined leaderboard. ACM Weembi placed 8th in 4-way Open Class and was the last team to make the Top 10 on the combined leaderboard.

The French delegation in the Top 10 of the best 4-way teams in the world consisted of eight female and two male competitors. The British delegation was a 50 - 50 combination.

The two British teams have been battling their own duels with different lineups at indoor and outdoor meets since 2015 until ACM Weembi decided to focus only on indoor training and competition. The team's last outdoor competition was the national championship in 2016. The same duel still continued in the flying chambers of several different wind tunnels. NFTO also trained for outdoor competition and won the silver medals in 4-way Women at the FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia, where Satori XL competed for Great Britain.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open - 4-way Women		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Nephtys Weembi	FR	34	27	35	25	23	25	23	33	31	24	280	28.0
8	NFTO	UK	34	26	34	28	23	24	24	34	28	23	278	27.8
9	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
10	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7

NFTO and ACM Weembi at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019

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The indoor duel began in October 2016, and both teams kept pushing each other meet by meet with changing winners. They won the British qualification for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 at the World Challenge 2018, and the preparations for the event at Weembi Lille began.

However, NFTO would also compete for Great Britain at the outdoor world meet in Australia and invested first into outdoor training after last year's World Challenge. The outdoor efforts were rewarded with the FAI silver medals in Australia.

NFTO then had to shift quickly to indoor mode, as the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018 was scheduled shortly after the outdoor world meet in Australia. They mastered the task perfectly and won the 4-way Women gold medals, even though ACM Weembi outscored NFTO in Bahrain.

NFTO then began with intensive indoor training when the outdoor season was over, and the results began to show clearly at the World Challenge with the team's first 26+ average. NFTO also outscored all other British teams, including ACM Weembi, with the new 26.3 record average.

Scoring history of the British indoor duel between NFTO and ACM Weembi between 2016 and 2019

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

NFTO and ACM Weembi at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018

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The NSL News reported from Weembi Lille on April 12th that NFTO's final preparations for the indoor world meet were successful and promising. It seemed like there was a very good chance for the British team to defend the FAI top spot in 4-way Women successfully.

The interesting and surprising French situation of Nephtys Weembi in the run-up to the indoor world meet turned out to be even more successful, and NFTO's new team record average of 27.8 was not enough to win the gold medals in 4-way Women.

ACM Weembi at the same time was back to the team's top level near the 27-average benchmark at the indoor world meet. ACM had posted a 26.9 at the World Challenge 2018.

The 26.7 at Weembi Lille was still not even close to NFTO this time, who had arrived at the 28-average level before penalties.

NFTO maintained the top spot in British indoor and outdoor competition, which begins this weekend with the first meet of the United Kingdom Skydiving League 2019 season.