posted May 10th, 2020 - Paraclete XP's indoor and outdoor operations came back to life this weekend in North Carolina, as the United States have begun to soften some of the corona virus restrictions that were holding back a restart of the suffering economy.

The first weekend with indoor and outdoor action in Raeford featured U.S. top teams, and the NSL News used the opportunity for a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and switch back from online interviews to the traditional NSL Live Talk, at least at this point in time.

The new XPG4 lineup had scheduled indoor training for Saturday and Sunday, together with Vega XP. The U.S. indoor champion in 4-way Advanced took advantage of the fact that Arizona Airspeed would also train on Sunday, and they hired coach Niklas Hemlin for their own flying sessions alongside XPG4 on Saturday and Sunday. Niklas Hemlin then continues with Airspeed XP8 outdoor training on Monday.

However, the NSL Live Talk updates begin with Golden Knights team captain Andrew Starr, who lives in Aberdeen and took time to meet with the NSL News for a new conversation. The U.S. Army's competition teams were on a hold, as well, and they are resuming their training with almost exactly the same timing. Andrew Starr has spent a lot of time with his second sport, golfing, that was not facing the same restrictions as other sports, due to the natural distance between the players. He lives in a golfing community, and the interview took place at his home course.

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Not much has changed for the Golden Knights' 4-way and 8-way teams in the time of the corona virus crisis, disregarding the same public restrictions in their personal lives. This does not count for team captain Andrew Starr, who has been through a roller coaster before and during the ongoing crisis.

The NSL News has reported the progression of the new Golden Knights 8-way and 4-way teams on a regular basis, and it included several NSL Live Talk sessions with Andrew Starr in his position as the team captain, the last one before any changes at the Paraclete XP Summer Classic.

He was a part of the next headline when SDC Rhythm XP announced in December 2019 that JaNette Lefkowitz steps back for a while and that Andrew Starr will replace her in the inside center slot. This meant that he would also compete with SDC Rhythm XP for the U.S. Formation Skydiving delegation at the FAI Mondial 2020 in Tanay.

New plans were made for the new Rhythm lineup, and the NSL News met the whole team at Skydive Sebastian in January for an update. It was an outdoor training camp, even though Rhythm would first travel to Spain for the Wind Games, followed later by the World Challenge and the FAI Indoor World Cup. The Shamrock Showdown at Skydive City was supposed to be the first outdoor competition in 2020.

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Wind Games 2020			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		Q,F,6,14		1,13,4		8,J,15		O,9,D,5		21,A,P,H		N,C,20,12		7,G,K,19		10,16,22		17,E,11		M,B,3,L		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32	-1	29		28	-1	44	-3	45		29		35		25		34		47		348	34.8
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	34		24	-1	29		45	-2	41		29		34	-1	23		34		39	-1	332	33.2
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	33		25		27	-1	44	-1	41		26		30	-3	23		30	-2	41	-2	320	32.0
4	IFS-Moscow	RU	27	-3	20	-3	25	-2	45	-2	36	-1	25	-1	30	-1	23		29	-2	33	-5	293	29.3
5	ISR FireFlash	BE	30		23		26		39		36		22	-1	27	-2	20		29		29	-4	281	28.1
6	Weembi Unicorns	IT	28		23		26		42		36		23		29		20		22	-4	26	-3	275	27.5
7	NFTO	UK	28		21		22		38		36		21		27	-1	18		24	-3	32	-1	267	26.7
8	Echochamber	SE	28		21		22		37		35		21	-1	23	-2	19		26		29	-4	261	26.1
9	Nephtys Weembi	FR	26		19	-1	20	-1	35		32		22		26	-1	19		22	-2	32	-1	253	25.3
10	Oceanside AtomiX	DE	25	-2	21		19	-2	31	-1	31		19		27		17	-1	22	-1	31		243	24.3

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It was still the same situation for Andrew Starr when he met again with the NSL News for a live conversation with Gary Smith and Jeremie Rollett during a Golden Knights training camp in February at Skydive City. His double-duties in 4-way with SDC Rhythm XP and in 8-way and 4-way with the Golden Knights were still a topic at the next NSL Live Talk with his team mates Jennifer Davidson and Jeshua Stahler a week later at the same training camp in Z-Hills.

Andrew Starr was back with his own Golden Knights lineups in 4-way and 8-way at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship, where JaNette Lefkowitz helped out one more time in her and Andrew Starr's inside center slot. Then things changed dramatically with the impact of the corona virus.

A new NSL Live Talk online with the complete Rhythm lineup on April 24th was taking on the situation before the cancellation and rescheduling of the FAI Mondial 2020, when Andrew Starr was still the team's inside center. Only a day later, FAI/ISC and Tanay announced their decision to reschedule the event for August 2021, which was the beginning of a series of subsequent implications.

Andrew Starr's situation changed again, as he and the U.S. Army had the additional Rhythm plans only until August 2020. The new NSL Live Talk with Andrew Starr on Saturday is based on the most current situation at this point in time of the corona virus crisis.