posted Jun 30th, 2019 - The first of the three meets of the Texas Skydiving League this year took place at Skydive Spaceland San Marcos on the June 23 weekend. Six new teams posted their first outdoor scores of the 2019 season, even though they were limited to only four rounds on the AAA and AA leaderboards, and three in the A Class, due to the weather conditions.

One team was back from the 2018 season, and Spaceland Toxic launched the 2019 season with a new lineup. Demo McDonnell's 4-way team, which is the foundation of the Toxic 4-way project, goes back to the 2012 season, and he has been training and competing in 4-way with teams from Texas even much longer.

He and Randy Morgan were on the Toxic 2018 lineup, together with team videographer Chad Hall. They launched the 2019 season with Joshua Schirard and former Spaceland Lite member Devon Shows on a similar performance and scoring level as in 2018. Spaceland Toxic had finished in 9th place with a 10.6 average at the USPA Nationals 2018.

Two more Toxic teams competed in the A Class, where the all-female Aftershock lineup took the 1st place. Aftershock is a reunion of three Glitter Girls (Jen Illingworth, Angelee Jones, Kara Latimer) and Rita Sandt, who was training and competing with Spaceland Lite's 8-way team last year.

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TSL 2019 - San Marcos Showdown		1		2		3		4		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	20,B,1		J,N,K,14		8,10,21		F,G,17,M		Total	Avg
1	Aviatrixx	12		15		11	-1	20		58	14.5
Rank	AA Class	20,B,1		J,N,K,14		8,21		F,G,M,9		Total	Avg
1	Spaceland Toxic	8		10		10	-1	16	-1	44	11.0
2	Plastic Straw Pushing Turtle Killers	5	-1	8		5	-2	11	-1	29	7.3
Rank	A Class	B,P,9		J,N,K		8,21		F,G,M		Total	Avg
1	Aftershock	8		7		5	-1	-		20	6.7
2	Toxic Thunder	6		7		5		-		18	6.0
3	Toxic Aroma	3		3		1	-1	-		7	2.3

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Aviatrixx, the only AAA Class team on the Texas leaderboard, are another all-female lineup and have another Spaceland Lite team member in the lineup, Christy West. She was in the Lite 4-way team between 2010 and 2015, then took a break and came back with Lite's 8-way team a few years later. Spaceland Lite won USPA's 8-way Advanced Class gold medals last year.

The new and strong Aviatrixx lineup could aim at the top spot in 4-way Women in the United States. The country's best 4-way team in this category, Paraclete XPG4, came together only for indoor events and won the bronze medals in 4-way Women at the FAI Indoor World Meet.

The best U.S. outdoor team in 4-way Women was Phoenix XP last year, who competed for the U.S. delegation at the FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia.

Christy West has Jill Stephenson, Sandra van der Bilt and Rhonda Wilcox in her Aviatrixx lineup and may be able to offer the new Phoenix XP lineup opposition at this year's USPA Nationals. Jill Stephenson competed together with Christy West at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship, and Sandra van der Bilt is a former Perris Force member. Rhonda Wilcox and Christy West trained and competed together for the 4-way Women competition at the 5th Dubai International Parachuting Championship in 2014.

The winner of the 4-way Women competition in the 4-way Open Class at the USPA Nationals 2019 will compete for the U.S. delegation at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2020 in Tanay, Russia.

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USPA Nationals 2018		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Intermediate	15,7	A,E,Q,M	11,9	1,22	J,P,F,8	2,20	13,O,K	B,D,6	4,G,14	21,N,19	C,L,H,18	Total	Avg
1	TSC Cadence	11	23	14	10	19	11	13	17	8	12	-	138	13.8
2	SDC RhEvolution XP	13	22	11	11	15	12	14	16	12	11	-	137	13.7
3	SDMW X	10	26	12	9	20	11	11	13	11	9	-	132	13.2
4	Hands Free	11	22	13	11	16	6	9	13	10	11	14	122	12.2
5	Cali4nia Kids	11	21	9	10	15	11	10	14	11	10	12	122	12.2
6	Platinum XP	10	20	12	9	14	9	10	15	10	10	-	119	11.9
7	The Mostly Asians	9	17	12	9	13	10	10	15	10	9	-	114	11.4
8	Carolina Ice XP	9	18	12	8	13	9	9	15	9	11	-	113	11.3
9	Spaceland Toxic	9	19	9	8	14	10	7	13	8	9	-	106	10.6
10	TSC Off Cadence	9	14	10	9	13	10	7	10	7	8	-	97	9.7

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