posted Dec 11th, 2020 - Jan Klapka has been running his meets of the Czech World Tunnel League in the past when the outdoor season in the Czech Republic was over. The first of the monthly indoor meets at the Hurricane Factory in Prague was usually scheduled for November, and the league's indoor season would be concluded with the 6th meet in April.

The Czech Open Indoor Championship followed shortly after the last league meet as the final event, before the teams would focus back on outdoor training and competition.

The schedule of the indoor events changed slightly in 2019 when the Czech Open Indoor Championship took place in January, three months before the Czech indoor season would be over. The FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 was scheduled for April, and Jan Klapka decided to run the Czech Open early and avoid a very tight meet schedule later on. His thoughts were rewarded with the gold medals for the HF Cubs in 4-way Junior.

Moving the event and completing the 2019 schedule as planned were not related in any way to the corona virus pandemic. Even Jan Klapka's new indoor season in the Czech Republic, once again scheduled monthly between November 2019 and April 2020, began just as planned.

Czech Tunnel League June 2020		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	K,11,B,16		21,6,P		A,13,18		5,J,O,M		14,N,3		17,Q,1		22,H,L,G		C,D,19,15		8,F,7		2,12,10		Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	25		26		26		36		23		27		26		26		27		18		260	26.0
2	HF Flying Circus	23		23		22		34		20		25	-1	23		23		25		19		237	23.7
3	M Team	14		16		14		21		12	-1	15		14		15		16		11	-1	148	14.8
3	4 V Tunelu	14		16		14		20		11		15		16		15		16		11		148	14.8
5	Accord	13		15		13		16	-1	10	-1	13		14		12		16		11		133	13.3
Rank	AA Class	N,11,21		6,P,M		A,13,18		15,J,O		14,E,K		Q,1,B		22,H,L		C,D,19		8,F,7		2,4		Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Rebels	20		27		21		27		23		26		20		24		23		16		227	22.7
2	HF Dragonflies	19		29		18	-1	24		21		26		18		23		21		16		215	21.5
3	Mimozemky	7	-2	15		10		10		12		14		13		11		11	-2	11		114	11.4
Rank	A Class	G,6		M,21		A,7		O,9		E,K,J		Q,B,P		H,L,N		C,D,19		8,F		2,4		Total	Avg
1	HF Chameleons	17		18		19	-1	27		25		27		23		17	-1	16		13		202	20.2
2	Rusalky	14		18		20		23		25		25		20		16		16		11		188	18.8
3	HF Invisible	14		17		17		20		19		20		15		15		16		10		163	16.3

The teams launched the new Czech indoor season in November and followed up in December.

Even the first three 2020 meets in January, February and March could still be completed, even though the series of event cancellations had already begun.

Despite a well controlled pandemic situation in the Czech Republic in the early months, things changed in April with the shutdown of the Hurricane Factory, and Jan Klapka could not complete his usual indoor winter season.

However, the wind-tunnel in Prague was permitted to reopen in June, and Jan Klapka, who had rescheduled the final indoor event in the meantime, was able to complete all scheduled meets of the 2019/2020 season with his 6th indoor meet.

The Czech teams switched back to outdoor training and competition only a little bit later than usual and had to follow the restrictions and regulations for skydiving at the drop-zones. Three teams eventually attended the Czech Outdoor Nationals in July.

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Czech Tunnel League December 2020		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	15,B,C,17	L,11,1	G,7,E,6	M,21,A,13	N,3,Q,5	J,O,16,14	19,12,22	4,K,H,P	8,2,9	F,10,20	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	27	22	29	25	26	22	17	31	20	22	241	24.1
2	HF Cubs	22	22	29	26	23	22	15	28	19	16	222	22.2
3	HF Flying Rebels	14	22	28	26	5	17	8	24	19	14	177	17.7
4	HF Dragonflies	14	16	23	21	8	14	15	21	15	12	159	15.9
5	4 V Tunelu	15	14	19	17	14	15	12	18	13	13	150	15.0
6	M Team	15	13	18	17	14	15	11	16	13	14	146	14.6
7	Accord	13	12	16	15	12	13	11	15	11	12	130	13.0
Rank	AA Class	15,B,C	L,11,1	G,7,E	M,21,A	N,6,Q	J,O,14	19,22	4,K,H	8,2	F,20,13	Total	Avg
1	Mimozemky	9	9	14	13	13	10	9	12	5	8	102	10.2

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The break beginning in April also impacted Jan Klapka's Indoor Cloud League team. He had not missed a score on the monthly ICL leaderboards since he joined the league in January 2014. The missing scoring number for April 2020 was a significant signal from the Czech Republic.

The Hurricane Factory was open again in May, and the Czech Indoor Cloud League team had new scores and videos between May and September, even though the official indoor meet season of the Czech World Tunnel League was over. Then a new shutdown with the same reason followed in October, and the ICL leaderboard was missing the Czech scores for two more months.

Jan Klapka also had to delay the start of the new WTL/CZTL indoor season, which was supposed to begin in November. Last week's indoor competition at the Hurricane Factory was the official start of the Czech 2020/2021 season.

It turned out to be a completely new leaderboard with a new record number of Czech AAA Class teams. The 4-way juniors of HF Flying Rebels and HF Dragonflies took on the complete dive pool for the first time, and the NSL News will follow up soon with the meet videos and more details.