posted Feb 27th, 2020 - CTR Optimum has been Brazil's national 4-way Open Class team since 2005, and the lineups have changed over the years. One original member, André Ferraz, is still in the current lineup and continues with a new team mate this year.

Two of the CTR Optimum members of the past years, Juliana Sé and George Narita, are coming back, as well, while Daiton Ribeiro becomes one of the team's two alternates. He competed with CTR Optimum for Brazil at the last two of four world meets (Gera 2006, Maubeuge 2008, Dubai 2012, Australia 2018) that the team attended, and he has been in the tail slot since 2010.

Daiton Ribeiro is stepping back after recently becoming a father, as he told team sponsor Performance Designs and the NSL News: "With a challenging corporate Human Resources management life, I recently also became father of Amalia and need to dedicate more time and attention to family and work."

CTR Optimum is prepared for the personnel change and have already recruited a new team member for the next 2-year time period. Daiton Ribeiro said that Alisson Vargas will take the 4th slot: "We were lucky enough to have our long-time friend Alisson moving to the southern part of Brazil and looking for an opportunity to fly on a 4-way team here. He is young, talented and hungry! He has the right profile we needed to help us to continue our mission of developing Brazilian 4-way formation skydiving."

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FAI World Meet 2012			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		N,21,B,5	14,C,13	22,M,20	17,H,16	J,E,12,4	7,19,15	G,K,8,2	O,L,F,P,A	10,11,18	9,Q,D,1	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	21	19	27	26	26	18	20	28	19	25	229	22.9
2	Aerodyne Maubeuge	FR	22	19	22	23	27	20	20	28	19	25	225	22.5
3	Barkli	RU	19	18	22	22	21	15	15	24	16	20	192	19.2
4	EADS	DE	14	13	15	15	18	14	14	16	13	16	148	14.8
5	VIVA	CH	13	13	15	15	14	11	12	17	13	13	136	13.6
6	Dubai Asaar	AE	11	11	12	11	10	10	10	12	12	12	111	11.1
7	M8Trix	NL	11	11	11	12	12	10	10	12	10	-	99	11.0
8	Brit Chicks	UK	11	11	12	11	14	10	11	11	6	-	97	10.8
9	South Africa	ZA	12	11	11	10	13	9	9	11	10	-	96	10.7
10	Qatar Falcons	QA	11	9	11	11	12	9	9	11	8	-	91	10.1
11	Australia	AU	10	8	9	11	12	10	9	13	-	-	82	10.3
12	The 8 Team	BE	8	11	7	11	12	9	10	12	-	-	80	10.0
12	CTR Optimum	BR	9	9	11	12	10	9	10	10	-	-	80	10.0
14	Austria	AT	8	8	9	10	10	6	7	8	-	-	66	8.3
15	Maximum Ride	CA	8	8	7	8	7	8	7	7	-	-	60	7.5
16	Singapore	SG	8	7	8	5	5	6	7	8	-	-	54	6.8

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Alisson Vargas is 30 years of age and has a total of 5,500 jumps as a professional skydiver. Daiton Ribeiro said that he is a 4-way outdoor and wind tunnel coach, and he works as AFF instructor and tandem pilot.

His new 4-way team mates know him well, as he was also a team member of the Brazilian 8-way team that competed at the FAI World Meet 2012 in Dubai. George Narita was in the same 8-way lineup of 2012, before he eventually joined CTR Optimum's new 4-way team of 2018, together with Juliana Sé.

The FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia became the second meet where Brazil competed with two different teams in 4-way and in 8-way. The 8-way lineup of 2012 included a few former CTR Optimum members, and original member Pedro Ushizima guided the 2018 lineup through the world meet six years later. He is the only Brazilian Formation Skydiving competitor who attended both world meets in 8-way. Brazil also had an 8-way team with a different lineup at the world meet in 2016.

Guillermo Gorg, CTR Optimum long-time member between 2010 and 2012, is stepping back at the same time. He lives in Uruguay and was back in the lineup that won the national outdoor championship last year, after a tough battle with new team Go Fly. He does not continue with the 2020 lineup for the next two years.

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FAI World Meet 2018			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		21,L,B,G		22,18,17		19,7,O		J,16,12		10,A,D,15		Q,M,F,C,N		H,20,P,13		6,14,11		E,2,5		4,1,3		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32		21		27	-2	24		22	-3	62	-2	22	-2	20	-1	27	-1	22		279	27.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	-5	21		27	-1	24		24	-1	60	-1	26		22		27		20		277	27.7
3	Aerodyne Realfly	FR	29	-1	19		24	-2	23		24		52	-3	20	-3	17	-3	24		19		251	25.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	24	-2	14	-1	24	-1	21		22		53	-4	21	-1	18		20		17		234	23.4
5	Echochamber	SE	25	-1	16		21	-1	17	-2	20	-1	48	-4	14	-3	18		21	-1	15	-1	215	21.5
6	Amnesya	IT	24	-2	14		20	-1	18		18	-1	48	-5	18		14	-2	21	-1	15		210	21.0
7	Satori XL	UK	21		14	-1	21		19		19		37	-3	19		17		18	-1	16	-1	201	20.1
7	Airheads	CH	22	-3	14	-2	19	-2	17	-1	18		44		16		16	-2	18	-1	17		201	20.1
9	Evolution	CA	21	-1	13	-2	22		18	-1	15	-3	43	-2	15	-5	15	-2	19		15		196	19.6
10	Airbus FSZ Saar	DE	21	-1	14	-1	17	-5	17		16	-1	45	-1	15	-3	14	-1	18	-1	15		192	19.2
11	Tanay Wolves	RU	22		14		18	-1	17		16	-2	35	-3	17	-3	14	-1	18	-1	14		185	18.5
12	Rotor Out	AU	21	-1	13	-1	18	-2	14	-1	16	-1	32	-3	13	-7	13	-1	18		14		172	17.2
13	CTR Optimum	BR	19		10		17	-1	15		13	-1	31		14		14		18		13		164	16.4
14	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	13		18		13	-1	13		28	-3	14	-1	14	-1	13	-2	12		155	15.5
15	Out of the Blue Project 20+	NL	16	-1	11	-1	13	-3	14		15	-1	28	-2	15	-1	15		14	-2	12	-1	153	15.3
16	Meraki	ZA	14	-3	11		14		14		13		28	-1	12	-1	12		14		12		144	14.4
17	New Zealand	NZ	10	-4	9		12		11		10		21		7	-3	11		10	-1	11		112	11.2
18	Paraguay	PY	10	-1	8		10	-1	7	-2	9		17		7	-4	8	-1	10		8	-1	94	9.4
19	Cyprus	CY	13	-1	8		9	-2	8		7	-2	19	-1	7		8		9		5	-2	93	9.3

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Daiton Ribeiro and Guillermo Gorg both will be available for CTR Optimum as alternates. Daiton Ribeiro said that André Ferraz, Juliana Sé and George Narita also have time-consuming jobs. However, they will still find time for enough training and competition.

The new CTR Optimum lineup have to make slot adjustments. Daiton Rebeiro leaves the point slot open, and André Ferraz switches from outside center to point. New member Alisson Vargas will take his slot in the front piece. The rear piece continues unchanged, with inside center Juliana Sé and George Narita in the tail slot.

Daiton Ribeiro and Guillermo Gorg will train with the team regularly and help out whenever it becomes necessary.

The competition action of the new lineup begins in April with the first 2020 meet of Brazil's World Tunnel League series, followed by another indoor meet in June. The outdoor nationals are scheduled for the beginning of July, and the November competition at iFLY Sao Paulo concludes the 4-way season in Brazil.