posted Jul 10th, 2019 - Most of the AA Class competition last weekend took place at the Tomscat Trophy in Hoogeeven, Netherlands. One British team, Funtastic 5, added scores to the Belgian/Dutch AA Class leaderboard.

The AA Class leaderboard was also the one where teams from the world champion country dominated. Phoenix from Belgium had to fend off four teams from the Netherlands to win the category, and especially Bad Habits were fighting back strongly.

The number of Belgian teams at the Tomscat Trophy increased significantly this year. Six teams from Belgium made the trip across the soft border between the two neighboring countries into the Netherlands. Last year, only Ayro had competed for the Belgium delegation at the Tomscat Trophy, two teams in 2017.

Only ISR Thunder was a visiting team from Belgium before that, although two team members were Dutch citizens. However, Thunder ISR was officially competing for Belgium and won the AAA Class competition at the Tomscat Trophy consecutively between 2011 and 2015. AA Class winner Phoenix is now the second Belgian team winning gold medals in the event's history.

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July 6th, 2019			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		H,P,4		22,18		15,M,20		E,14,O		G,6,1		A,9,C		K,B,Q,7		13,8		11,L,F		J,21,2		Total	Avg
1	Phoenix	BE	14		7	-1	7	-2	7	-4	8	-1	14	-1	10	-1	6	-3	9		10		92	9.2
2	Bad Habits	BE	13		6		5	-1	9	-1	8		11		10		7	-1	8		8		85	8.5
3	Cool Runnings Revitalised	NL	9		6	-1	5	-2	9		8		5	-3	10		7		9		7	-1	75	7.5
4	Joulz	NL	7		6		4	-1	9		7		10		9		6		7		8		73	7.3
5	The Lost Boys	NL	9		3		6		5	-1	4		9		7		7		6	-1	6	-1	62	6.2
6	Funtastic 5	UK	3	-1	3		1		4		5		7		-		-		-		-		23	3.8

Phoenix - Bad Habits - Cool Runnings at the Tomscat Trophy

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One AA Class team was new in this category, at least since 2015. The new and only slightly different Cool Runnings lineup with one new member (Laura Surink) signed up for the AA Class competition, even though two team members (René Hoogland, Joost van Heijenoort) and videographer Jeroen van Dijk competed as the national 4-way team for the Netherlands at the FAI World Meet 2014 in Prostejov.

They had a revitalizing reunion with original Cool Runnings member Mike Lake last weekend, and Laura Surink was invited to join the party.

Laura Surink and Mike Lake both have no competition experiences in the AAA Class. Mike Lake was not in the active Cool Runnings lineup any longer when the team decided to use the Dutch invitation to compete for the Netherlands in Prostejov 2014. Cool Runnings had started in the Rookie Class of 2007 and continued in A and AA before the 2013 lineup (René Hoogland, Joost van Heijenoort, Tom van der Valk, Sjoerd van Son, Jeroen van Dijk on camera) decided to make the last step into the AAA Class.

Surprisingly even for themselves, they ended up as the Dutch national 4-way team for 2014 and traveled to the world meet in Prostejov, Czech Republic.

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FAI World Meet 2014			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		E,3,C,5	F,6,D,21	19,H,2	M,4,1	O,14,A,P	8,J,16	7,11,12	22,20,15	17,G,18	13,B,9	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32	29	25	25	33	25	22	18	26	29	264	26.4
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	31	27	25	24	31	23	22	17	24	29	253	25.3
3	Evolution	CA	31	28	24	22	28	23	20	21	25	27	249	24.9
4	VoltR	FR	24	26	18	23	26	20	20	13	24	21	215	21.5
5	Barkli	RU	24	23	20	22	25	21	19	16	18	26	214	21.4
6	Dubai Asaar Black	AE	18	20	17	17	20	14	15	13	17	20	171	17.1
7	Vision 99	UK	18	20	16	16	19	15	15	13	16	-	148	16.4
8	Paratec-Saar	DE	19	23	18	14	22	16	15	13	7	-	147	16.3
9	Rotor Out	AU	17	19	17	17	21	14	13	12	15	-	145	16.1
10	eX3MO	IT	18	17	16	15	17	15	14	11	14	-	137	15.2
11	VAF Warriors	DK	15	17	14	15	17	14	13	11	-	-	116	14.5
12	Tigers	FI	13	16	16	17	12	13	11	12	-	-	110	13.8
12	Savolo	ZA	15	16	16	13	14	14	11	11	-	-	110	13.8
14	Sky Dragons	SI	15	14	13	13	15	12	11	9	-	-	102	12.8
15	Final Edition	AT	14	16	12	12	12	14	9	11	-	-	100	12.5
16	Magic 4	LT	14	11	14	13	15	12	12	8	-	-	99	12.4
17	eXact	SE	11	15	11	13	13	11	11	9	-	-	94	11.8
18	Cool Runnings	NL	13	14	13	9	10	9	10	9	-	-	87	10.9
19	Lupus	EE	9	11	11	13	12	9	10	9	-	-	84	10.5
20	Hungary	HU	9	9	10	12	13	8	8	7	-	-	76	9.5

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Laura Surink was a member of the Dutch 20+ Project, which has now been discontinued. She was in the Team Red lineup throughout the 2018 season and trained and competed in the AA Class. Team Red won the AA Class competition at the ESL Championship 2018.

Cool Runnings attended nine outdoor meets in 2013 and 2014 in the AAA Class, including the world meet and the ESL Championship, before slowing down. They still had their annual reunions at a few meets between 2015 and 2017 before the colorful and historic team name disappeared from any leaderboards in 2018.

Cool Runnings continued to compete in the AAA Class whenever the AAA-trained 2013/2014 lineup was available, with one exception at the ISR Grand Prix 2014.

Last weekend, the lineup mix of AAA and RRR/A/AA members had their revitalizing reunion in the AA Class and finished exactly in the middle of the field.