posted Nov 28th, 2020 - The battle for the 3rd place in the 4-way Open Class competition at the 4-Way FS Skydiving Championships was much closer than the new showdown between Arizona Airspeed and SDC Rhythm XP. Bullet and XPG4 were separated by only three points.

Jerry and the Jets were separated from the winner of this 4-way Open Class battle within the competition by almost exactly the same point difference (16) as SDC Rhythm XP finished behind Arizona Airspeed (17), and they won two rounds over Bullet and XPG4.

Bullet was a new team with an experienced lineup, and the team members knew each other from numerous 4-way and 8-way events. Katrina Autry-Shows was a long-time member of Lite XP, who have not come back yet after the 17.9 average at the USPA Nationals 2019.

She had also won the bronze medals with XPG4 for the U.S. delegation at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019. With Bullet she now posted a new personal record average for an outdoor competition when she battled with her three former XPG4 indoor team mates in Eloy.

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4-way FS Championships 2020		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	J,B,A,D,C		22,20,16		10,18,3		E,1,O,N		H,Q,P,L,9		8,G,F,12		15,M,11		13,14,21		6,K,17		2,7,4		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	57	-1	20		19		32		49		23		22	-1	20	-1	28		23		293	29.3
2	SDC Rhythm XP	51	-1	20		18		28	-1	45		23		23		20		26		22	-1	276	27.6
3	Bullet	37	-2	13		14		21	-1	26	-1	14		16		14		17		14		186	18.6
4	XPG4	32	-2	13		13	-1	22		25	-4	17		15		14		16		16		183	18.3
5	Jerry and the Jets	25	-2	14		12		20		25		13	-2	14		15		17		15		170	17.0

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Bullet - XPG4 - Jerry and the Jets at the 4-way FS Championships 2020 in Eloy

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James Klinge and Tim King have trained and competed together in 8-way with the Amphibious Attack Tigers, who attended USPA Nationals and FAI Outdoor World Cup last year. Tim King also trained and competed with Dallas 350 in the past, while James Klinge has been in the Defiance lineups of the recent years.

Defiance with James Klinge won the team's first bronze medals in the 4-way Open Class of the USPA Nationals and missed bronze medals a month later at the FAI Outdoor World Cup only by four points.

It was the complete Airspeed Odyssey lineup of 2006 (Eliana Rodriguez, Craig Girard, Andy Delk, Brian Johnson, with Charles Lane on camera) who finished in the FAI bronze medal position last year, four points ahead of the Defiance lineup.

James Klinge won this year's re-match against Eliana Rodriguez and Craig Girard (Jerry and the Jets) with his Bullet lineup. Keith Conner, Elsinore Elevate member and USPA Advanced Class silver medalist of 2019 completed the Bullet lineup.

It was not a pickup team just for the meet. Bullet had completed approx. 70 training jumps before competing in Eloy.

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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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XPG4 and Jerry and the Jets at the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020

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Bullet's main opponent in the battle for the 3rd place in Eloy were XPG4, even though Jerry and the Jets had announced their serious presence earlier at the October meet of the Southern California Skydiving League. In fact, Jerry and the Jets had performed the same four sequences in Perris in October that XPG4 posted for the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020.

XPG4 were eight points ahead of Jerry and the Jets after Round 4, which was the end of the SCSL competition in Perris. Both teams then were back for the real outdoor competition in Eloy last week.

It was XPG4's first outdoor live competition. The U.S. indoor champion and national team in 4-way Women after this year's Paraclete XP Indoor Championship had completed all eleven rounds of the NSL Cloud Mondial and finished with a 17.6 average.

The 18.3 average in Eloy was based on a significantly faster competition draw, even though XPG4 did not take full advantage of the two Super Sequences. Bullet pulled away by five points in Round 1, and the better Round 5 was hammered by a 4-point loss due to the video angle after the exit. XPG4 then actually won the slower second half of the 10-round competition by three points over Bullet.