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Finland did not have a national 4-way championship this year, as not enough teams signed up for the competition. However, the Finnish September part of the World Tunnel League attracted eight teams to the Fööni wind tunnel in Helsinki.
The Pro Team trains and competes at outdoor events, as well, and they plan to travel to Tanay next year for the World Championship of Formation Skydiving, as the NSL News reported on June 22nd. The same story pointed out that Finland's national 4-way team increased their previous 24+ performance level to 26.1 at the indoor meet in June and skipped the 25+ level.
The September meet would show whether the Pro Team was able to repeat the 26+ performance or not. It turned out that they confirmed the scoring level and finished with a new 26.2 team record average, despite a total of six point deductions.
Finland Tunnel League September 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | |
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Rank | AAA Class | O,6,D,5 | 15,C,A,B | 3,L,17 | 21,11,18 | 1,N,16 | 13,P,M,E | 10,2,19 | H,Q,K,22 | 8,9,14 | F,G,J,20 | Total | Avg |
1 | Pro Team | 31 | 31 | 25 | 21 | 24 | 33 | 19 | 27 | 22 | 29 | 262 | 26.2 |
2 | Just4Fun | 19 | 18 | 20 | 12 | 19 | 25 | 16 | 23 | 16 | 23 | 191 | 19.1 |
3 | AllSaints | 22 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 19 | 25 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 22 | 191 | 19.1 |
4 | Tempo | 18 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 17 | 24 | 190 | 19.0 |
Rank | AA Class | B,7,6 | 15,C,A | L,18,E | 21,11 | 1,N,14 | 13,P,M | 2,19 | H,Q,K,22 | 8,9 | F,G,J,20 | Total | Avg |
1 | Sörkan Laskuvarjourheilijat | 18 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 21 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 162 | 16.2 |
2 | Ote | 17 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 129 | 12.9 |
3 | 4K | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 107 | 10.7 |
4 | Hermannin Nuorisoseura | 14 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 105 | 10.5 |
The Pro Team lineup has now been unchanged at indoor and outdoor events since April 2017, when Outi Pohjola competed for the last time for the Pro Team at the World Challenge.
Father Kimmo Pohjola is still in his outside center slot, while Kalle Pohjola is the team's tail. Father and son still don't have many situations where they work directly together, as they do their jobs in different pieces. They connect once in a while when sequences with certain blocks (3,4,17,20) are drawn.
There is still only one block where they work together in the same 2-way piece. Most teams build the cat piece of Block 22 (T - Chinese T) with outside center and tail. Kimmo and Kalle Pohjola did the same, this time in Round 8 of the September competition...