posted May 19th, 2021 - Good news came from the Czech Republic this week. Jan Klapka informed the NSL News that the Hurricane Factory in Prague has reopened, and the Czech 4-way teams can resume their indoor action. He hopes that there will not be a new lockdown any time soon. There will be Czech scores and videos at least on the May leaderboard.

The 2020 season of the Indoor Cloud League was already difficult enough, due to the implications of the corona virus crisis. There was not one single team with scores for each month of the year. However, the Hurricane Factory team had collected enough ICL points (1202) in the nine month of ICL activities to defend the top position successfully at the end of the year.

The 2020 leaderboard served more or less only information purposes, as the conditions were different almost at each location of the participating wind-tunnels. The situation became even worse in the Czech Republic after a short comeback in December. Jan Klapka has not been able to run any events this year so far, and there are no Czech scores or videos at all on the 2021 leaderboard.

Two of the U.S. teams (Paraclete XP - iFLY Dallas) submitted scores and videos for each month in 2021, and ICL Midwest missed only the January competition. iFLY Tampa started with scores for January, February and March before missing the April competition.

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Indoor Cloud League 2020			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	147	154	134	-	158	122	117	110	123	-	-	137	1202
2	Paraclete XP	US	110	135	114	-	-	-	139	114	141	90	108	145	1096
3	ICL Midwest	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	142	130	149	127	104	652
4	iFLY Dallas	US	89	109	96	-	-	-	-	-	-	103	92	99	588
5	iFLY Tampa	US	101	104	55	-	-	49	-	36	-	56	-	-	401
6	Capital Region	US	106	117	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	223
7	iFLY Seattle	US	92	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	202
8	iFLY Jacksonville	US	18	66	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	-	-	111

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Last Indoor Cloud League highscores of the Hurricane Factory teams in December 2020

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The Hurricane Factory, and all other previously participating ICL teams, have no scoring numbers on the 2021 leaderboard at all. Without any major breakdowns, or lockdowns, Florida's ICL team and the Hurricane Factory will be back with scores and videos this month.

The special circumstances of the corona virus crisis created an exemption that the Indoor Cloud League announced last year. All teams have the opportunity to fill the empty boxes on the leaderboards retroactively for the ICL 2020 season, and for this year, as well.

The exemption was not used much at all last year, as it is naturally difficult for recreational teams and competitors to schedule enough tunnel time. It is challenging enough to accommodate all ICL sequences one way or another, and making up for earlier months is even more difficult. However, the option is still there, and the May submissions by Hurricane Factory and iFLY Tampa will show if there was enough extra time to perform the missing sequences.

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Indoor Cloud League 2021			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	ICL Midwest	US	-	133	147	145	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	425
2	Paraclete XP	US	116	85	110	111	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	422
3	iFLY Dallas	US	102	97	106	108	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	413
4	iFLY Tampa	US	62	57	62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	181
5	Hurricane Factory	CZ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	Capital Region	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	iFLY Seattle	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	iFLY Jacksonville	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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