posted Jul 23rd, 2019 - CTR Optimum, Brazil's national 4-way Open Class team since 2005, never really had to work very hard at the national championships to qualify for the next FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving. The team has represented Brazil at three world meets (Gera 2006, Maubeuge 2008, Dubai 2012) since Ziara Abud, Fábio Diniz, André Ferraz and Pedro Ushizima posted the first CTR Optimum scores in 2005.

The situation was different this year when the 2019 lineup was facing serious opposition for the first time. CTR Optimum was aware of the fact that Go Fly was training hard to challenge the defending champions at this week's national outdoor championships.

Go Fly had attended the April meet of the indoor league and was close enough to put serious pressure on CTR Optimum. It became even more difficult when team member Juliana Sé could not continue after the June meet of the Brazilian Tunnel League.

Go Fly then skipped the next indoor competition and focused only on outdoor training, while CTR Optimum still competed with Juliana Sé at the indoor meet at the end of June.

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Brazilian Outdoor Nationals 2019			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		P,N,B,O,5		M,15,10		1,H,4		F,L,21,17		22,11,7		13,9,G		20,K,8		Q,E,16,6		19,3,14		A,C,12,D		Total	Avg
1	CTR Optimum	BR	24		16		15	-1	19		13		17		12	-1	18		14		18		166	16.6
2	Go Fly	BR	21		14		16		17		12	-1	17		14		17		13		15		156	15.6
3	Paradocks	BR	14		12		14		14		7		12		9	-1	11	-1	12		12		117	11.7
4	Os Cometas	BR	14		10	-1	11		11		11		11		8		11		8	-1	12		107	10.7
5	North Force	BR	9	-1	9	-1	11		12		11		10		9		8		10		9		98	9.8
6	Adventure Flyers	PY	14		10		11		10		2	-2	9		8	-1	10	-1	9		10		93	9.3
7	Anima	BR	12		9		10		10		9		11		9		10		3	-1	5		88	8.8

CTR Optimum and Go Fly at the Brazilian Outdoor Nationals 2019

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This week's scores are showing how close Go Fly had come after the 13.4 average at last year's national outdoor championships and July 2019. The challenger increased the meet average by more than two points to 15.6 this week.

It was beneficial for CTR Optimum to know that the circumstances were extremely challenging, and they were looking for a solution. Fortunately, there was an option that eventually turned out to be the key to the successful title defense.

Former CTR Optimum member Guillermo Gorg was available to fill the slot on a very short notice, even though the team had only a few weeks to get ready with the new lineup. It was even better that Guillermo Gorg was familiar with the inside center slot that he had to fill for Juliana Sé, who had been in the lineup since CTR Optimum had an international comeback last year.

The little training was just enough to fend off Go Fly, who won two rounds and tied another one. Eventually, they pushed the new CTR Optimum lineup to a meet average that was even higher compared to the 16.4 average at the FAI World Meet 2018.

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FAI Mondial Dubai 2012			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		5,12,E	6,D,B,K	O,8,7	N,13,18	10,21,M	19,H,11	C,G,1,A	20,9,15	16,F,P,Q	2,J,4	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	27	34	27	22	23	23	32	25	40	26	279	27.9
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	25	34	27	21	23	24	32	27	40	25	278	27.8
3	Aerodyne Aerokart	FR	26	30	27	21	23	25	29	23	37	24	265	26.5
4	Evolution	CA	22	31	24	17	19	21	28	22	30	22	236	23.6
5	Sky Panthers Barkli	RU	19	29	22	21	21	18	28	20	35	20	233	23.3
6	Satori	UK	18	26	21	17	15	18	23	17	27	18	200	20.0
7	eX3MO	IT	17	24	20	14	17	19	22	18	28	-	179	19.9
8	Paratec-Saar	DE	18	26	21	13	14	16	21	18	30	-	177	19.7
9	Rotor Out	AU	14	25	18	15	17	18	22	17	28	-	174	19.3
10	Bardagi	SE	17	26	20	14	16	15	23	17	24	-	172	19.1
11	Voodoo	ZA	16	24	19	13	15	16	23	17	-	-	143	17.9
12	Ravens	AT	18	23	17	15	17	13	22	16	-	-	141	17.6
13	Qatar Tigers	QA	15	21	19	14	15	17	19	16	-	-	136	17.0
14	VIVA 4	CH	14	21	19	11	17	14	20	14	-	-	130	16.3
15	CTR Optimum	BR	17	19	16	13	15	14	19	16	-	-	129	16.1
16	Dubai Asaar Red	AE	16	20	16	12	15	16	18	13	-	-	126	15.8
17	China	CN	7	21	15	14	14	15	21	16	-	-	123	15.4
18	Spain	ES	16	21	16	13	9	13	21	10	-	-	119	14.9
18	Lize	CZ	13	21	17	12	17	11	17	11	-	-	119	14.9
20	Bodyflight Voluntas	DK	15	21	17	10	13	11	18	12	-	-	117	14.6
21	Rebootizer Aerial	MC	15	14	16	11	16	13	17	13	-	-	115	14.4
22	Silver Knights	FI	13	18	16	10	13	14	18	12	-	-	114	14.3
23	Magic 4	LT	14	17	15	11	14	14	14	13	-	-	112	14.0
24	Whooops	NL	10	18	17	10	13	14	16	11	-	-	109	13.6
25	Singapore	SG	14	21	16	12	13	9	14	9	-	-	108	13.5
26	Fast Air	IE	11	17	12	8	12	11	14	12	-	-	97	12.1
27	Ukraine	UA	11	15	11	10	11	10	14	10	-	-	92	11.5
27	Atmosfera G4	PT	12	15	12	10	8	10	13	12	-	-	92	11.5
29	Lupus	EE	10	14	12	9	11	10	14	11	-	-	91	11.4
30	Sky Dragons	SI	12	11	13	9	11	10	12	10	-	-	88	11.0
31	Kazakhstan	KZ	10	11	11	9	6	9	8	8	-	-	72	9.0
32	Argentina	AR	8	13	7	7	8	7	10	9	-	-	69	8.6
33	Cyprus	CY	7	6	10	7	6	7	10	7	-	-	60	7.5
34	Colombia	CO	6	9	9	5	8	6	8	6	-	-	57	7.1
35	Oman	OM	5	8	10	8	6	5	6	6	-	-	54	6.8
36	Turkey	TR	0	6	8	4	6	6	5	7	-	-	42	5.3
37	Thailand	TH	3	7	7	4	5	0	6	2	-	-	34	4.3
38	Ecuador	EC	0	0	2	2	2	3	3	3	-	-	15	1.9

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4-way teams from Brazil at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving between 1985 and 2018

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The situation after Juliana Sé's setback at the end of June was like a reunion for three team members. André Ferraz, Daiton Ribeiro and Guillermo Gorg spent two years together in training and competition in 2011 and 2012. They competed for Brazil and CTR Optimum at the FAI Mondial in Dubai 2012, where they finished with the highest average (16.1) of a Brazilian team at a world meet.

It was no big surprise that this week's lineup got familiar with each other very quickly, as the 3-way knew each other very well, and George Narita has always been one of the most talented Brazilian 4-way competitors.

In fact, George Narita connected with his future 4-way team mates in CTR Optimum's 8-way lineup and competed in Dubai 2012, as well, while André Ferraz, Daiton Ribeiro and Guillermo Gorg also posted scores for Brazil in 4-way, together with founding member Fábio Diniz in the lineup.

CTR Optimum then had a long break from national and international competition and were back last year, now with George Narita in the 4-way lineup and Juliana Sé. The current lineup now beat the 16.4 average of Dubai 2012 and still has work to do. The highest team average is the 17.2 at the Brazilian Nationals 2012...