posted Oct 29th, 2020 - The schedule is set for the NSL News coverage of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020, and it will begin with the 8-way competition.

The scores and videos of the first four rounds will be posted on Monday morning. The next four rounds will follow on Tuesday, two more on Wednesday. Round 11, which would be necessary in a jump-off situation at a regular competition, is the final 8-way showdown on Thursday next week.

The competition draw for the NSL Cloud Mondial is exhausting the complete dive pool with the eleven rounds, and the last sequence is a part of the competition, whether a jump-off would be necessary or not. This format will bring all blocks and random formations to all teams that completed the eleven rounds, as NMP PCH HayaBusa, Arizona Airspeed and Airspeed XP8 have already done.

The 8-way experts actually expect a competition at the FAI Mondial 2020 next year that makes a jump-off situation very realistic. The three top teams (Russia - United States - France) are so close that the extra round could be necessary to break a potential tie after Round 10. The same situation could already be there after Round 10 of the NSL Cloud Mondial.

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FAI World Meet 2008			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		B,17,7	H,N,13,A	10,J,C,6	18,12,2	E,3,9	19,O,4	D,M,5,16	14,20,21	Total	Avg
1	Airspeed Odyssey	US	30	32	24	16	29	21	28	15	195	24.4
2	Maubeuge	FR	28	30	23	17	27	23	28	18	194	24.3
3	HayaBusa Defence	BE	27	33	23	17	27	22	25	17	191	23.9
4	Sky Panthers Barkli	RU	28	30	22	16	28	20	27	17	188	23.5
5	Arcteryx	NO	27	29	21	17	25	21	26	14	180	22.5
6	Evolution	CA	25	27	22	17	24	18	26	16	175	21.9
Rank	8-way Open		17,P,4	H,13,7	6,M,1	9,22,C	16,J,8	K,F,G,18	O,Q,5,12	-	Total	Avg
1	Maubeuge	FR	23	18	26	22	22	24	16	-	151	21.6
2	USA	US	18	18	26	21	22	19	16	-	140	20.0
3	Ex3mo	IT	20	16	22	17	18	18	15	-	126	18.0
4	EADS	DE	21	14	20	15	16	14	14	-	114	16.3
5	Connextion	UK	15	12	15	13	14	13	12	-	94	13.4
6	Belgium	BE	14	11	16	11	14	14	12	-	92	13.1

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France 8-way and Airspeed Odyssey at the FAI World Meet 2008

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The NSL News mentioned earlier that the event coverage will simulate a real world meet or world cup as good as possible. The competition rounds will be presented the same way by InTime, and three FAI judges will evaluate the footage and push the buttons.

The teams usually complete three or four rounds in one event on the same competition day before the meet director switches from 4-way to 8-way or vice versa. The 4-way footage is not complete at the beginning of next week, which delays the start of the coverage for a few days. However, the 8-way coverage begins on Monday and will simulate the real competition format.

The NSL News is also planning a similar event coverage as it is provided at live events. There will be NSL Live Talk, which will once again use the Zoom online platform to bring the commentators together on the same screen. They will know only the scores and videos of the first four rounds and explain what they see and expect at the end of the first day.

Jeremie Rollett and Craig Girard will be available on Monday with their incredible wealth of knowledge and experiences and share it with the audience.

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FAI World Meet 2001			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		8,19,24	A,L,22,H	E,10,D,11	21,6,4	B,18,C,14	G,5,20	2,1,16	M,K,12,9	15,23,P	O,17,Q,N	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	19	25	21	19	20	20	20	23	17	30	214	21.4
2	Maubeuge	FR	19	20	20	18	21	21	19	23	20	31	212	21.2
3	DeLand Norgies	NO	19	22	20	18	19	19	19	21	18	31	206	20.6
4	Sebastian XL	UK	17	22	20	17	18	19	19	21	18	28	199	19.9
5	Endeavour	CH	14	17	15	14	14	16	15	17	13	26	161	16.1
6	Sinapsi PD	IT	12	13	17	15	15	15	14	19	15	24	159	15.9
Rank	8-way Open		16,P,13	1,Q,O,5	B,K,6,8	15,9,19	21,12,20	L,7,G,H	J,F,M,C,22	3,18,17	E,11,A,14	4,D,2	Total	Avg
1	Russia	RU	19	15	18	17	17	21	22	22	19	23	193	19.3
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	19	17	17	17	19	23	21	21	19	19	192	19.2
3	France	FR	16	17	16	15	19	20	20	18	18	20	179	17.9
4	Australia	AU	14	13	13	12	9	15	15	15	11	13	130	13.0
5	Netherlands	NL	14	12	14	14	10	11	13	14	11	13	126	12.6
6	Germany	DE	13	9	11	12	12	11	14	12	11	12	117	11.7

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They accepted the NSL News invitation, which was based on a very special reason. With Airspeed XP8 and France, the 8-way competition features two teams with team members who train and compete in 4-way and 8-way at the same time, as the NSL News pointed out on October 27th. The French 8-way team also has Mathieu Bernier in the lineup, who is the only competitor in the history of the sport who won 4-way and 8-way gold medals at the same world meet in Menzelinsk 2010.

Craig Girard and Jeremie Rollett both have their own and extremely exciting experiences with the same situation. Jeremie Rollet was in Mathieu Bernier's support team and won 4-way gold together with him in Russia 2010. However, he did not try to win both events by then, and only Mathieu Bernier competed in 8-way, as well.

However, Jeremie Rollett was in the same French 4-way Open Class team, and the complete lineup (Julien Degen, Mathieu and Guillaume Bernier) won 8-way gold in Maubeuge 2008. Then they finished one point behind in 4-way at the same event. Craig Girard was Jeremie Rollet's direct 4-way opponent with Airspeed Odyssey and kept him from winning his own double-gold in 2008.

Craig Girard had tried the same seven years earlier with Airspeed Vertical who won 4-way gold in Spain 2001. Airspeed's 8-way team then finished one point behind Russia. Jeremie Rollett and Craig Girard will have a lot to talk about when they meet on Zoom on Monday and comment the first four 8-way rounds of the NSL Cloud Mondial.