posted Jun 15th, 2020 - The NSL News had discussed the corona virus crisis with the two national 4-way teams from Great Britain in April. The first NSL Live Talk with Chimera was published on April 12th. NFTO followed up two weeks later on April 27th.

The discussion with Chimera was not related to the cancellation of the FAI Mondial 2020, which was officially announced later in April. Topic was mainly the new Chimera lineup and the plans for the near future. The online interview with NFTO covered the team's new lineup with Julia Swallow, as well. However, the cancellation and rescheduling of the outdoor world meet and the implications for teams and events was the main topic at the end of April.

Joey Jones, player-coach for the British 4-way team Eros, and Gary Smith then discussed the situation after the cancellation of the FAI Mondial Tanay 2020 and the rescheduling for August 2021 in the NSL Coaches Corner on April 29th. This discussion was not only related to the British teams and covered the new situation from many different angles.

The latest NSL Live Talk online was recorded on Sunday last weekend. This time, NFTO member Anna Hicks, Chimera's Laura Hampton and Joey Jones discussed mostly the current situation in Great Britain, where Formation Skydiving teams and competitors have also been waiting for a restart of training and competition.

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The status of the British national teams was still unclear at the end of April. The British Parachute Association had not decided how to select the national teams for the rescheduled FAI Mondial when the previous NSL Live Talk conversations with Chimera and NFTO took place in April.

Sundays online update from Great Britain confirmed that the British Parachute Association has decided in the meantime to send the same Formation Skydiving delegation to Tanay next year that would have competed at the world meet this year.

Chimera represent Great Britain in 4-way Open, NFTO in 4-way Women, MicroClim8 is the national 8-way team for 2021.

Anna Hicks and Laura Hampton also confirmed that the British Parachute Association has officially canceled this year's national championship.

Skydive Hibaldstow, annual host of the event, plan to offer a competition this summer, which is supposed to be a substitute event for teams who are interested in attending under conditions and restrictions that are not exactly known at this point in time.

The situation is similar to the one in the United States where the outcome of the USPA Nationals 2020 has no impact on the Formation Skydiving delegation for the world meet next year.

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World Challenge 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		P,H,Q,5	19,16,E	L,3,2	B,A,22,D	J,14,8	11,M,G,1	15,21,18	7,O,4	C,N,K,13	20,6,F	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	52	32	28	39	29	32	28	34	42	31	347	34.7
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	48	30	27	37	27	31	25	33	36	28	322	32.2
3	IFS-Moscow	RU	44	29	26	33	27	29	23	33	34	31	309	30.9
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	44	29	26	35	24	29	24	31	32	31	305	30.5
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	46	28	24	32	25	29	24	31	35	27	301	30.1
6	Airheads	CH	44	28	22	36	24	27	19	29	33	26	288	28.8
7	Weembi Unicorns	FR	43	28	23	32	23	28	19	28	33	26	283	28.3
8	ISR FireFlash	BE	40	26	24	33	24	25	19	25	28	26	270	27.0
9	NFTO	UK	35	25	24	29	24	25	20	27	30	24	263	26.3
10	Odin Parachute Systems	FR	35	28	21	29	22	25	20	25	29	25	259	25.9
10	Chimera	UK	36	24	21	27	23	27	21	25	29	26	259	25.9
12	ACM Weembi	UK	38	22	24	28	21	24	21	25	29	26	258	25.8
13	Gavroche Weembi	FR	38	27	23	26	21	25	14	27	28	23	252	25.2
14	Tenanine	MR	37	25	22	22	20	24	19	26	29	22	246	24.6
15	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	36	19	18	26	20	22	19	25	21	21	227	22.7
16	Eros	UK	27	21	22	24	19	23	17	24	27	21	225	22.5
17	Jazz Republic	ZA	29	22	18	23	19	20	18	24	23	22	218	21.8
18	Falco	BE	22	20	17	19	20	20	17	24	26	19	204	20.4
19	Blackjack	FI	24	20	17	23	19	19	15	21	22	18	198	19.8
20	Pajama Pumas	UK	27	21	16	21	19	19	16	21	20	17	197	19.7
21	Tempo	FI	26	18	18	23	18	19	15	21	20	18	196	19.6
22	Aladeen	HU	28	21	19	16	16	19	13	19	18	20	189	18.9
23	Alakran	ES	26	18	12	18	17	21	17	23	18	18	188	18.8
24	FlyPonots	FR	26	19	17	21	16	18	10	18	18	18	181	18.1
25	Nefertit	UK	24	18	16	18	15	16	13	20	17	16	173	17.3
26	Windobona Angels	ES	20	16	14	18	16	17	15	21	17	18	172	17.2
27	Ayro	BE	16	18	15	18	17	15	14	19	19	17	168	16.8
28	Koloncok	HU	21	16	13	19	14	16	15	19	18	16	167	16.7
29	Stardust	BE	21	15	12	17	16	16	11	18	17	13	156	15.6
30	Nova	CH	21	14	12	16	13	13	11	17	19	16	152	15.2
31	Barak	ES	25	19	17	21	16	19	14	19	0	0	150	15.0
32	Wood Fella’s	UK	17	13	10	16	13	13	11	17	19	13	142	14.2
33	Draconis	UK	16	13	12	13	12	15	10	15	13	15	134	13.4
34	Free Burds	IE	16	10	11	11	13	12	11	15	15	13	127	12.7

NFTO - Chimera - Eros at the World Challenge 2019

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Great Britain and United States also have in common that both countries have two different sanctioning organizations for indoor and outdoor competition. Neither British Parachute Association (BPA) nor Unites States Parachute Association (USPA) regulate and sanction indoor competition.

British Indoor Skydiving Association (BISA) and United States Indoor Skydiving (USIS) use World Challenges and Paraclete XP Indoor Championships as their qualification events to sanction national teams for FAI/ISC indoor events, such as indoor world meets and world cups.

The U.S. 4-way teams (Arizona Airspeed in 4-way Open, XPG4 in 4-way Women) were able to complete their event in February at Paraclete XP and qualify as the national teams for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2020 in Belgium and the FAI Indoor World Meet 2021 in Slovakia.

The World Challenge 2020 had to be canceled, and the status of the British teams for the indoor world cup in October is unclear. Anna Hicks and Laura Hampton said that BISA consider running an indoor qualification event for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2021 later this year. Twinwoods Adventure have been hosting the Revenge annually in October since 2013. The Revenge could become the new indoor qualification event for British 4-way teams.