posted Nov 15th, 2020 - The NSL News mentioned earlier that the leaderboard of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 included a few other events that took place within the same time period. Result was a total of 40 teams who used the same competition draw and completed as many of the eleven rounds as possible.

17 of the 40 teams competed in the AAA Class, which is identical with the 4-way Open Class at world meets, world cups and other national championships. The AAA Class leaderboard eventually brought teams together from three different events, the Paranodon Cup in Germany, the October meet of the Southern California Skydiving League, and the actual NSL Cloud Mondial online event.

Airbus, the former German national 4-way team, and Austria's newly crowned national champions of Black Mantis, completed only two rounds at the Paranodon Cup, due to the inclement weather situation. Airbus then added eight additional rounds after one of the team's following training weekends.

The top half of the AAA Class leaderboard features mostly national teams who have competed at world meets and/or world cups in the past, and who will represent their countries at the next world championship, the FAI Mondial 2020 in Tanay next year. Black Mantis plan to compete for Austria for the first time, while Oceanside AtomiX is Germany's 4-way national team after winning in 2019.

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NSL Cloud Mondial 2020				1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA/4-way Open			22,21,M		5,C,J,H		7,3,6		10,E,9		18,L,B,F		D,20,15		17,P,A,1		8,Q,12		N,13,K,11		G,14,O,2		4,19,16		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	Mondial	21		40		25		26		34		22	-2	29		20		24		24		21		286	26.0
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	Mondial	20	-1	36		23		23	-1	33		23		28	-1	21		24		23		19		273	24.8
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	Mondial	20	-1	36		21		0		0		0		0		0		23		23		-		123	12.3
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	Mondial	20		32	-2	18	-2	23		29	-1	20	-1	26		18		23		20		18		247	22.5
5	Out of the Blue	NL	Mondial	15		22	-1	15		20		23		-		-		-		-		-		-		95	19.0
6	Paraclete XPG4	US	Mondial	17		22	-2	17		17		20	-1	17		21		16		17		17		13		194	17.6
7	CTR Optimum	BR	Mondial	17		21		17		17	-1	17	-2	15		16	-1	12	-1	14		14		13	-2	173	15.7
8	Jerry and the Jets	US	SCSL	16		18		15		16		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		65	16.3
9	Ayro	BE	Mondial	12	-1	16		12	-1	12	-1	16		12		17		11		14		10	-3	12		144	13.1
10	Airbus Illertissen	DE	Mondial	13		16		11		10	-1	16		8	-1	13		7		12		7	-1	-		113	11.3
11	NeVa FSZ Saar	DE	Paranodon	12		15		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		27	13.5
12	SDC RhEvolution XP	US	Mondial	12	-1	14	-2	12		11		15	-1	12		11	-2	10	-1	13		9	-2	-		119	11.9
13	Black Mantis	AT	Paranodon	11		14	-1	-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		25	12.5
14	Paranodon 4way Illertissen	DE	Paranodon	11		12		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		23	11.5
15	Paranodon Classic	DE	Paranodon	8	-1	11		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		19	9.5
16	The Breast Yet to Come	US	SCSL	7		11		9		8		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		35	8.8
17	Un4tunate	US	SCSL	8		7		8		9		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		32	8.0

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Out of the Blue (Netherlands) - CTR Optimum (Brazil) at the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020

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The combined AAA Class leaderboard needed a few adjustments in the rankings, due to the different number of rounds that the teams completed at the many different locations. The adjusted rankings are showing the neighboring teams according to the scores for the rounds that were completed. The currently posted five scores for SDC Rhythm XP generate the same rankings, either after three rounds or including Rounds 9 and 10.

As it usually happens at the major 4-way competitions there are more battles than only the race for the medal positions on the top of the leaderboard. NMP PCH HayaBusa, Arizona Airspeed, SDC Rhythm XP and Qatar Tigers have been and are FAI medal contenders, and they will be in the same race once again next year, with the exception of Arizona Airspeed.

Airspeed and Rhythm have their next showdown in the coming week at the International 4-Way FS Skydiving Championships in Eloy, and then they will fight it out for the next world meet qualification at the USPA Nationals 2021.

Two more national teams placed in the top half of the NSL Cloud Mondial leaderboard, Out of the Blue from the Netherlands and CTR Optimum from Brazil, and both will compete for their countries at the next world meet.

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FAI World Meet 2018			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		21,L,B,G		22,18,17		19,7,O		J,16,12		10,A,D,15		Q,M,F,C,N		H,20,P,13		6,14,11		E,2,5		4,1,3		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32		21		27	-2	24		22	-3	62	-2	22	-2	20	-1	27	-1	22		279	27.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	-5	21		27	-1	24		24	-1	60	-1	26		22		27		20		277	27.7
3	Aerodyne Realfly	FR	29	-1	19		24	-2	23		24		52	-3	20	-3	17	-3	24		19		251	25.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	24	-2	14	-1	24	-1	21		22		53	-4	21	-1	18		20		17		234	23.4
5	Echochamber	SE	25	-1	16		21	-1	17	-2	20	-1	48	-4	14	-3	18		21	-1	15	-1	215	21.5
6	Amnesya	IT	24	-2	14		20	-1	18		18	-1	48	-5	18		14	-2	21	-1	15		210	21.0
7	Satori XL	UK	21		14	-1	21		19		19		37	-3	19		17		18	-1	16	-1	201	20.1
7	Airheads	CH	22	-3	14	-2	19	-2	17	-1	18		44		16		16	-2	18	-1	17		201	20.1
9	Evolution	CA	21	-1	13	-2	22		18	-1	15	-3	43	-2	15	-5	15	-2	19		15		196	19.6
10	Airbus FSZ Saar	DE	21	-1	14	-1	17	-5	17		16	-1	45	-1	15	-3	14	-1	18	-1	15		192	19.2
11	Tanay Wolves	RU	22		14		18	-1	17		16	-2	35	-3	17	-3	14	-1	18	-1	14		185	18.5
12	Rotor Out	AU	21	-1	13	-1	18	-2	14	-1	16	-1	32	-3	13	-7	13	-1	18		14		172	17.2
13	CTR Optimum	BR	19		10		17	-1	15		13	-1	31		14		14		18		13		164	16.4
14	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	13		18		13	-1	13		28	-3	14	-1	14	-1	13	-2	12		155	15.5
15	Out of the Blue Project 20+	NL	16	-1	11	-1	13	-3	14		15	-1	28	-2	15	-1	15		14	-2	12	-1	153	15.3
16	Meraki	ZA	14	-3	11		14		14		13		28	-1	12	-1	12		14		12		144	14.4
17	New Zealand	NZ	10	-4	9		12		11		10		21		7	-3	11		10	-1	11		112	11.2
18	Paraguay	PY	10	-1	8		10	-1	7	-2	9		17		7	-4	8	-1	10		8	-1	94	9.4
19	Cyprus	CY	13	-1	8		9	-2	8		7	-2	19	-1	7		8		9		5	-2	93	9.3

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CTR Optimum (Brazil) - Out of the Blue (Netherlands) at the FAI World Meet 2018

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It will not the be the first world meet where Out of the Blue and CTR Optimum face each other directly. CTR Optimum has represented Brazil at numerous world meets in the past, while Australia 2018 was the first one for the current Dutch national 4-way Open Class team, even though some of the team members were in previous Dutch national lineups at world meets and world cups.

However, Out of the Blue and CTR Optimum competed directly with each other for the first time in Australia 2018, and they finished just as close to each other as they did after the first five rounds of the NSL Cloud Mondial. Only one team separated them on the two different leaderboards, the Spanish 4-way team Papea in Australia, XPG4 at the NSL Cloud Mondial.

The ranking positions are switched at this point in time, and Out of the Blue will like it the way it is. CTR Optimum have almost a year of time to bring the new lineup with two new members (Jorge Neto, Alisson Vargas) back to and beyond the scoring level of 2018. They are aiming at improving the Brazilian outdoor record average (17.2) posted by the CTR Optimum lineup of 2012.

Out of the Blue still have three members of 2018 in their lineup, and Bart Daenen joined the team after the world meet. The progression of the new lineup has been impressive, and the Dutch team will make it difficult for CTR Optimum to turn the table again. However, both teams exchanged highscores in the first four rounds, and Out of the Blue had the upper hand when the online meet was over for the Dutch team.