posted Jan 26th, 2020 - Teams from Finland added their scores to the January leaderboard of the World Tunnel League this weekend. None of the teams could get anywhere close to HF Flying Circus with their new team record average. However, especially the AAA Class leaderboard has become much more colorful.

Team X traveled from Sweden to Helsinki, Finland's capital city, to attend the indoor competition at the Fööni wind tunnel. The Swedish national team in 4-way Women turned the January leaderboard into a 3-nation competition, and the U.S. teams still have to be added.

Team X had won two sets of FAI bronze medals in 2018, outdoors at the world meet in Australia, indoors at the world cup in Bahrain. They continued with four indoor meets between December 2018 and April 2019, including the 4-way Women competition at the FAI Indoor World Meet.

Then they skipped the 2019 outdoor season, and the team will not come back at all to jump from planes in the future. However, Team X has plans for the 2020 indoor season with the same lineup, and the January meet of the Finnish Tunnel League was the first one this year. Coach Joey Jones, who traveled with the team from Stockholm to Helsinki, said that Team X was originally planning to follow up at the Wind Games and then changed the meet schedule. Next competition will be the Swedish Indoor Nationals in February.

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World Tunnel League January 2020			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class			A,11,J,5	B,3,16	C,14,H,E	9,K,Q,6	P,17,L,21	O,N,G,7	M,2,F,15	10,20,12	D,13,22	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	CZ	25	25	28	30	27	35	29	19	21	19	258	25.8
2	Just4Fun	FI	24	22	25	28	24	29	21	16	18	17	224	22.4
2	HF Cubs	CZ	19	21	27	28	21	32	23	16	20	17	224	22.4
4	Team X	SE	23	23	25	28	24	28	21	12	18	15	217	21.7
5	4 V Tunelu	CZ	16	15	21	18	15	22	17	12	14	11	161	16.1
6	M Team	CZ	15	16	18	16	12	19	17	11	14	11	149	14.9
7	Accord	CZ	13	14	16	15	11	13	15	10	8	11	126	12.6
Rank	AA Class		A,11,9	B,E,15	C,14,H	K,Q,6	P,L,21	O,N,G,7	M,2,F	20,8	D,13,22	4,19	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	22	26	26	25	27	26	25	17	19	17	230	23.0
2	HF Dragonflies	CZ	22	24	20	22	23	25	25	16	15	17	209	20.9
3	Sörkan Laskuvarjourheilijat	FI	17	20	19	20	19	23	21	12	14	13	178	17.8
4	Hight Five	CZ	10	17	2	16	15	17	20	10	12	10	129	12.9
5	Mimozemky	CZ	13	14	13	14	11	16	15	9	9	12	126	12.6
6	Sirkus	FI	13	14	14	13	14	13	16	9	8	9	123	12.3
7	4K	FI	12	15	13	13	10	17	13	9	9	9	120	12.0
Rank	A Class		N,G,21	B,E,F	C,H,J	K,Q,6	L,9	O,7	M,2	8,A	D,4	19,P	Total	Avg
1	HF Invisible	CZ	12	29	14	13	12	13	12	9	9	12	135	13.5
2	HF Chameleons	CZ	10	26	20	10	16	15	8	6	12	9	132	13.2
3	Rusalky	CZ	6	22	13	11	6	13	13	10	10	5	109	10.9

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It was a tough meet agenda for Team X, despite the short travel distance between the two Scandinavian capital cities. They left their home town early on Saturday morning and completed all ten meet rounds the same day in Helsinki, with Round 1 scheduled in the afternoon. It became a very long day.

However, coach Joey Jones said that the Swedish team still had a good start before some fatigue caused rounds with lower scores than expected. Team X still ended up only seven points behind HF Cubs, who completed their ten January rounds with alternate Tereza Zívalová.

It was the first time that Team X and HF Cubs appeared on the same leaderboard. Both teams had competed at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019, where HF Cubs won the 4-way Junior gold medals, while Team X competed in 4-way Women. The FAI Indoor World Cup 2020 will be the first meet where both teams will be present and also use the same competition draw.

Finnish home team Just4Fun even tied the 22.4 average of the HF Cubs with the team's new record average. Just4Fun did not have domestic opposition this time, as the Pro Team, Finland's national 4-way indoor and outdoor team, did not attend the January meet, and Blue Steel compete next weekend at the Wind Games.

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Team X at the FAI Outdoor World Meet in Australia 2018 and at the FAI Indoor World Cup in Bahrain 2018

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