posted Feb 27th, 2021 - The six rounds of 8-way competition on the first day of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 were successfully and timely completed, as well. Many of the participants had indeed a total of 12 competition rounds behind them at the end of the day.

The latest NSL TV Unfiltered video clip brings the environment of the 8-way competition closer to the audience, and it features the U.S. national 8-way team Airspeed XP8.

All of the team members had double-duties at the event. Michelle Karamon and Jeana Billings competed with XPG4 in 4-way Open, Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine with Arizona Airspeed. The rest of the team (John D'Annunzio, Kirk Verner, Brian Krause, Matt Davidson) did not want to only watch the 4-way competition and joined forces to compete with XP4. Their three 4-way teams took three of the Top 5 positions on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard.

That was still not enough competition action for some AZXP8 members. Jeana Billings also competed as the player-coach for Eclipse in 4-way Intermediate, and she guided the all-female 8-way team QRF 1 through the first six rounds on the same leaderboard where she posted scores with Airspeed XP8. Her agenda on Saturday was completed after a total of 24 rounds.

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NSL TV Unfiltered: 8-way competition at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 - NSL Live Talk with Matt Davidson, Andrew Starr, Jesse Stahler

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open	D,B,22,E	K,17,11	C,3,P,5	4,Q,18	16,9,A	2,7,8	G,15,1	F,21,N,H	6,J,12	19,M,13	O,L,10,17	Total	Avg
1	Airspeed XP8	36	30	35	37	33	22	-	-	-	-	-	193	32.2
2	Golden Knights	28	26	33	33	27	21	-	-	-	-	-	168	28.0
3	Rhythm 8	19	18	22	26	18	14	-	-	-	-	-	117	19.5
4	QRF 1	18	16	23	24	17	14	-	-	-	-	-	112	18.7
5	Token Male	14	17	19	18	16	13	-	-	-	-	-	97	16.2
6	Jhabberlution	13	14	16	18	15	11	-	-	-	-	-	87	14.5

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Jeana Billings' Airspeed XP8 team mate Kirk Verner copied her agenda, with another 8-way team (QRF 2) on the Intermediate Class leaderboard. Then he joined Lightspeed for six more rounds in 4-way Open, while trying to stay close to the Golden Knights Gold with XP4.

Brian Krause had a lighter agenda with only one team in 4-way Open. He had his second 8-way team QRF 3 and was done after 18 rounds. Matt Davidson, Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine had only 12-round double-duties with Airspeed XP8 and their respective 4-way teams.

It happens that the U.S. national indoor and outdoor team in 8-way is also very close to setting a new record average at the same time. The Golden Knights finished with 32.4 at the Clash of Champions in Dubai 2015. Airspeeed XP8 has a 32.3 average on the leaderboard after Round 6, and the next sequence promises a score around 40 points.

Matt Davidson, Drew Starr and Jesse Stahler still own this historic 8-way average together at the moment, which may last only for another night. They took the extra time at the end of the day to bring back the memories of the event more than five years ago.

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Clash of Champions 2015			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		L,F,C,7	5,6,19	2,9,3	G,A,12,10	B,11,22	16,1,21	K,M,18,P	E,O,J,8	Q,17,15	N,H,4,D	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	34	26	30	30	37	34	35	25	31	42	324	32.4
2	Weembi	FR	29	22	25	26	30	30	28	27	28	34	279	27.9
3	Tanay	RU	29	22	20	22	31	30	27	23	25	38	267	26.7
4	Thund8rbirds	BE	24	23	22	22	21	28	28	23	24	35	250	25.0
5	Qatar Falcons	QA	24	19	20	21	25	24	20	19	23	26	221	22.1
6	Dubai Asaar	AE	21	19	19	19	20	23	22	19	21	26	209	20.9
7	Monaco Vitalsea	MC	7	13	16	14	13	11	17	18	17	22	148	14.8

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Golden Knights: 32.4 at the Clash of Champions in 2015

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