posted Oct 27th, 2020 - The NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 has become reality. The videos of the eleven rounds have long traveling behind them, and they will soon be linked to the scores on the leaderboards.

The team videographers recorded them at the many different locations on the planet and uploaded them to the NSL Cloud. From there they moved to South Africa where InTime's Claire King and Dirk Venter shape them up into the format that is being used at skydiving competitions everywhere in the world, and they manage the judging, as well.

Then they make it back to the NSL office before the next uploading in the InTime format to the NSL channel on YouTube. Last steps are publishing and setting the links on the leaderboards. It is a privilege being able to watch the original video footage before it actually appears as the final product on the leaderboards.

The last step is only a few days away, and the coverage will begin with 8-way competition, even though this event may turn out to be the most exciting part of the FAI Mondial 2020 next year in Tanay, Russia. The 8-way teams from Russia, France and United States provided a preview of what can be expected when they battled for the FAI medal rankings at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019.

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France - Airspeed XP8 - Airbus in Round 1 of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020

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Airspeed XP8 and the French national 8-way team decided to use the NSL Cloud Mondial to define their current position on the road to the FAI Mondial 2020, and the German national 8-way team Airbus is the third team on the 8-way leaderboard that competed in Eloy last year.

Airspeed and XP8 are both in a very similar situation. They plan to leave Russia's 8-way experts behind this time, while the members of both teams are juggling 4-way and 8-way training and competition.

The French 8-way team consists of the two national teams in 4-way Open and 4-way Women. National coach Mathieu Bernier and the French skydiving federation have agreed to set the priority on winning 8-way gold medals. However, the 4-way teams are in training, and the 4-way Women team plan to defend their gold medals of 2018 successfully with a minimum training effort in 4-way. The French 4-way teams did not even get to an opportunity of doing the eleven rounds of the NSL Cloud Mondial.

It was difficult enough for the French 8-way team to complete the competition sequences timely, with direct corona virus implications and weather issues. Round 11 still has to be added to the French videos later.

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FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		13,11,16		P,22,4		O,7,21		9,20,G		18,15,L		K,10,3		6,14,C		1,M,A,17		F,D,Q,8		2,5,E		Total	Avg
1	Tanay 8	RU	19		26		18		20		23		21	-1	20		24		20		16		207	20.7
2	France	FR	20		24		18		19	-1	21		22	-1	19		23		19		17		202	20.2
3	Airspeed XP8	US	21	-1	24	-1	16	-1	18		21		20	-2	19		22	-1	19		18		198	19.8
4	Arizona Airspeed	US	18		21		16		18		16	-3	21	-1	17		17	-1	16		14	-1	174	17.4
5	Qatar Falcons	QA	16	-1	20	-1	14	-1	13	-3	17	-1	12	-5	15		19		15		14		155	15.5
6	Airbus	DE	14	-1	15		12		15		15	-1	15		12	-1	15		14	-1	12		139	13.9
7	Monster	US	12		13	-1	10	-1	12		14		13		12		15		11	-1	10		122	12.2
8	Amphibious Attack Tigers	US	11		16		10		11		9	-3	13	-1	14		10	-1	13		11		118	11.8
9	Groomed	UK	7	-2	9		8	-1	9		10		7		8	-1	10		13		7		88	8.8

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France - XP8 - Airbus at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019

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Airspeed XP8's situation is not less complicated, even though the team has been training intensively this year. The XP8 priority is doubtlessly on the 8-way event. However, team members Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine are also training with Arizona Airspeed, and their defined goal is taking back the world's top position in 4-way.

Team members Michelle Karamon and Jeana Billings are training and competing for the 4-way Women competition with XPG4 at the same time. They have the same goal and potential as Arizona Airspeed in 4-way Open. Arizona Airspeed and XPG4 both have to juggle their time and find ways how to train enough between the 8-way camps.

France and Airspeed XP8 both had to deal with personnel changes, too. Mathieu Bernier had to replace Clementine Le Bohec in 8-way and 4-way, while XP8 have used several substitutes to replace Matt Davidson in training. SDC Rhythm XP's Andrew Happick is the official alternate and performed the eleven NSL Cloud Mondial rounds. Airbus have only one team member who trains and competes in both events, Alex Prendinger, while the Airbus lineup has changed, too. Olaf Biedermann is back in his full slot for Max Thiele, who still competed for Airbus at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019