posted Jun 9th, 2020 - The subject of generating a reasonable and efficient schedule of indoor and outdoor training and competition became a part of yesterdays NSL Live Talk conversation with Gary Smith and Jeremie Rollett. It was difficult enough in the past to balance the two very different competition environments well and successfully if teams attended indoor and outdoor events both. Dive pools and basic rules are identical, while everything else is very different.

Too much indoor training with the wrong timing could even become counter-productive for outdoor competition, and not enough attention to the indoor specifics could also get in the way of ambitious teams who plan to attend indoor meets. Limited resources for most of the teams make it even more challenging to find the right balance.

Reasonable participation in both competition environments is based on the outdoor teams attending the indoor events. There are not enough teams and competitors who focus exclusively on indoor training and competition. The combined leaderboard of yesterday's update was showing the balance between indoor and outdoor teams. The teams in the 4-way Junior event (AA Class) cannot be a part of this equation, although they may generate additional AAA Class indoor participation in the future.

The corona virus crisis brought the difficulties in scheduling the major FAI/ISC events, indoor and outdoor world meets and world cups, even more to the surface. The FAI outdoor world meet, the Mondial Tanay 2020, had to be canceled and rescheduled for August 2021. The FAI indoor world cup was also rescheduled for October this year, and it is not clear yet if the conditions of the corona virus crisis later this year in Belgium will allow the event to take place.

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FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class Teams		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Nephtys Weembi	FR	34	27	35	25	23	25	23	33	31	24	280	28.0
8	NFTO	UK	34	26	34	28	23	24	24	34	28	23	278	27.8
9	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
10	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7
11	XPG4	US	34	26	33	24	21	24	24	28	25	23	262	26.2
11	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
13	Bubble Hubble	RU	29	25	33	24	22	23	22	31	25	21	255	25.5
14	China	CN	31	26	31	22	23	24	22	30	22	23	254	25.4
15	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7
16	Pro Team	FI	27	24	30	23	23	22	22	30	23	22	246	24.6
17	Team X	SE	26	25	28	24	20	22	23	28	24	23	243	24.3
18	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	27	21	27	23	20	22	21	29	21	21	232	23.2
19	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	27	23	28	23	19	20	20	29	21	21	231	23.1
20	Papea Masculino	ES	28	23	26	16	21	20	21	30	23	22	230	23.0
21	Out of the Blue	NL	24	22	27	19	19	19	18	27	24	20	219	21.9
21	No Mercy	PL	29	22	25	21	19	17	21	23	20	22	219	21.9
23	Skynamite	DE	28	20	26	20	17	17	19	26	18	19	210	21.0
24	Voss Vind Girls	NO	27	22	24	18	18	19	20	23	19	19	209	20.9
25	H40	IE	22	19	23	17	18	17	17	24	20	19	196	19.6
26	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	23	19	23	17	18	17	14	22	19	17	189	18.9
27	Lithuania	LT	26	15	19	15	17	16	17	21	-	-	146	18.3

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Indoor teams in yellow - Indoor/outdoor teams in grey

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Arizona Airspeed - XPG4 at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019

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At this point in time, the FAI/ISC event schedule includes the indoor world cup in October 2020, the indoor world meet in April 2021 and the outdoor world meet in August 2021. The order of FAI/ISC events in the following years is still not set yet, as ISC Formation Skydiving Committee Chair Mark Szulmayer explained for the NSL News on May 24th.

Teams have to be sanctioned by the national federations if they want to compete at the FAI/ISC events. They have to qualify in specific ways, according to the rules of each participating FAI member nation. The NSL News has covered several of the qualification events and the corona-related adjustments with updates from different countries.

Most of the national teams are the same for FAI/ISC indoor and outdoor events, even though the balance has been changing since the introduction of FAI/ISC events. Arizona Airspeed have been competing for the U.S. delegation in 4-way at all FAI/ISC indoor and outdoor world meets since 2008, the Golden Knights in 8-way at all outdoor world meets since 2010. FAI/ISC indoor events do not officially include an 8-way world championship yet.

Arizona Airspeed and Golden Knights then both did not win at the USPA Nationals 2019. SDC Rhythm XP and Paraclete XP8 qualified as the national teams for the FAI Mondial Tanay 2020, together with Aviatrixx in 4-way Women.

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Paraclete XP Indoor 2020			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		21,15,10	7,5,G	13,L,11	3,K,B,6	19,8,9	M,P,14,C	N,A,17,1	20,16,Q	F,22,D,H	0,2,4	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	22	34	27	27	27	32	35	27	37	27	295	29.5
2	SDC Rhythm XP	US	23	35	26	25	26	34	31	25	35	27	287	28.7
3	Golden Knights Gold	US	21	28	24	24	25	28	29	22	29	24	254	25.4
4	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	17	24	20	23	21	29	24	20	27	19	224	22.4
5	Befokte Dose	IN	15	24	20	24	19	28	23	20	27	19	219	21.9
6	XPG4	US	16	24	21	23	19	30	20	18	24	20	215	21.5
7	Aviatrixx	US	16	22	18	21	20	23	20	18	24	19	201	20.1
8	Golden Knights Black	US	16	20	18	17	18	22	20	14	22	18	185	18.5
9	Air Force Apollo	US	15	18	14	17	17	20	18	14	22	14	169	16.9
10	Air Force Angels	US	13	18	16	15	15	22	17	15	19	15	165	16.5

Arizona Airspeed - XPG4 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2020

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USPA confirmed the same U.S. delegation after the cancellation and rescheduling of the outdoor world meet for August 2021. The next national championship and qualification event in the United States was the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2020. Arizona Airspeed was back on top with the new lineup, and the new XPG4 lineup outscored all other 4-way Women teams easily.

Both U.S. national championships generated a total of five different national teams for the two FAI/ISC world meets next year, which are separated by only four months. Arizona Airspeed and XPG4 will challenge NMP PCH HayaBusa and the French national team in 4-way Women at the indoor world meet in April at Slovakia's Hurricane Factory.

Both U.S. teams then don't have to shift gears from indoor to outdoor quickly, as the Belgian indoor and outdoor world champions have to do with their new lineup. HayaBusa will have to defend the outdoor title four months later in Russia. There they will meet SDC Rhythm XP for the U.S. delegation who will have no other goal than the best performance, and only in outdoor competition.

The U.S. situation was not planned as it turned out. There is no doubt that Airspeed and XPG4 both would also like to compete in Tanay next year. However, they could possibly watch the outdoor action in Russia as indoor world champions if they can manage to defeat NMP PCH HayaBusa and France in Slovakia. Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine will compete at both events, for Airspeed in 4-way at the indoor world meet, and for Airspeed XP8 at the FAI Mondial 2020 four months later. They will switch from indoor 4-way to outdoor 8-way...