posted May 23rd, 2019 - The presentation of the combined AAA Class leaderboard (4-way Open - 4-way Women) of the FAI Indoor World Meet, which was posted with the news update on April 29th, pointed out that a 20+ average was necessary to stay away from the bottom of the 4-way Open Class meet rankings.

The lowest result in this category was an 18.3 average, while Skynamite from Germany needed a 21.0 average to fend off the young Norwegian VossVind Girls in 4-way Women by one single point. The three teams at the bottom of the 4-way Women leaderboard still left three Open Class teams behind, all of them with all-male lineups.

In fact, the group of the same six teams was the largest one with strictly separated all-one-gender lineups. The rest of the combined leaderboard was a colorful mix of all possible lineup options. The largest group of four same-gender lineups (all-male) gathered behind NMP PCH HayaBusa and Weembi High Rollers.

The all-male lineups won by participation with a total of 13 teams, followed by nine teams in the 4-way Women event, and five mixed-gender lineups. Out of the Blue from the Netherlands, with a 2-2 lineup, placed right ahead of the three teams at the bottom of the 4-way Women leaderboard.

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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
11	XPG4	US	34	26	33	24	21	24	24	28	25	23	262	26.2
11	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
13	Bubble Hubble	RU	29	25	33	24	22	23	22	31	25	21	255	25.5
14	China	CN	31	26	31	22	23	24	22	30	22	23	254	25.4
15	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7
16	Pro Team	FI	27	24	30	23	23	22	22	30	23	22	246	24.6
17	Team X	SE	26	25	28	24	20	22	23	28	24	23	243	24.3
18	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	27	21	27	23	20	22	21	29	21	21	232	23.2
19	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	27	23	28	23	19	20	20	29	21	21	231	23.1
20	Papea Masculino	ES	28	23	26	16	21	20	21	30	23	22	230	23.0
21	Out of the Blue	NL	24	22	27	19	19	19	18	27	24	20	219	21.9
21	No Mercy	PL	29	22	25	21	19	17	21	23	20	22	219	21.9
23	Skynamite	DE	28	20	26	20	17	17	19	26	18	19	210	21.0
24	Voss Vind Girls	NO	27	22	24	18	18	19	20	23	19	19	209	20.9
25	H40	IE	22	19	23	17	18	17	17	24	20	19	196	19.6
26	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	23	19	23	17	18	17	14	22	19	17	189	18.9
27	Lithuania	LT	26	15	19	15	17	16	17	21	-	-	146	18.3

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All-female lineups in pink - mixed gender lineups in yellow - all-male lineups in grey

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It was a good battle at the bottom of the 4-way Women leaderboard, between three very different teams. No Mercy from Poland had the most experienced lineup, which has been training and competing together since 2014. The 21.9 average was the team's second highest 10-round average and was enough to keep Skynamite and VossVind Girls in check.

The German team has an even longer history. The name goes back to the 2010 season, and the first scores on an NSL leaderboard were posted in 2012. However, the current lineup was new and had changed after the last place at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia, with Sylvia Schlaphof replacing Carola Fietz.

The new Skynamite lineup started with a new team record average (21.1) at the German Indoor Nationals, just three weeks before the indoor world meet, where they needed every single point of the 21.0 average to leave the VossVind Girls behind by one point.

Skynamite could have been closer to the Polish team without the 10-point damage, which was the second highest on the 4-way Women leaderboard. The Germans are aware of the penalty situation: "We do know now what to work even harder on - we were bust silver medalist in our category with 10 of them, next time it is our goal to finish with significantly less..."

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FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total		Avg
Rank	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	Nephtys Weembi	FR	34	27	35	25	23	25	23	33	31	24	280	-1	28.0
2	NFTO	UK	34	26	34	28	23	24	24	34	28	23	278	-5	27.8
3	XPG4	US	34	26	33	24	21	24	24	28	25	23	262	-5	26.2
4	Bubble Hubble	RU	29	25	33	24	22	23	22	31	25	21	255	-7	25.5
5	China	CN	31	26	31	22	23	24	22	30	22	23	254	-15	25.4
6	Team X	SE	26	25	28	24	20	22	23	28	24	23	243	-2	24.3
7	No Mercy	PL	29	22	25	21	19	17	21	23	20	22	219	-8	21.9
8	Skynamite	DE	28	20	26	20	17	17	19	26	18	19	210	-10	21.0
9	Voss Vind Girls	NO	27	22	24	18	18	19	20	23	19	19	209	-6	20.9

No Mercy - Skynamite - VossVind Girls at the FAI Indoor World Meet

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The VossVind Girls from Norway share some of their 4-way Junior history with the current world champions from the Czech Republic. The VossVind Girls started even a year earlier in the A Class competition of the World Challenge 2015 and of their national indoor championships.

A year later, they were back at the World Challenge 2016, where they met the French Aerokart Ak'demie team in the AA Class. The HF Cubs still competed in the A Class when the 4-way juniors from France, Norway and Czech Republic all visited Bedford.

Then they met again at the end of the year at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016 for the 4-way Junior competition with the AA Class dive pool. The HF Cubs passed the VossVind Girls at Flyspot in Poland and have never looked back ever since.

The VossVind Girls then stepped up into the AAA Class at the events they attended since 2017 and competed in 4-way Women at FAI/IPC events. HF Cubs continued for two more years in 4-way Junior and won the FAI gold medals at their last AA Class event at Weembi Lille. There is a very good chance that VossVind Girls and HF Cubs will soon meet again in 4-way Women at the next FAI event...