posted Jun 2nd, 2021 - The Brazil Tunnel League had a very strong comeback last weekend. The total of 16 teams generated new record participation since the league was launched in December 2018. 13 teams had competed in September 2020, which was the previous record number.

The September meet last year was also the last time that 4-way teams in Brazil got together at iFLY Sao Paulo for a comeback attempt of the indoor league. CTR Optimum and BTL founder André Ferraz had hosted four meets until November 2019, after launching the league project in December 2018. The participation at last weekend's event was showing how much the 4-way teams had anticipated the second restart.

CTR Optimum did not have serious opposition at the indoor meet and won with a 23.8 average, which was not too far from the team's standing 25.1 record average of September last year. The 23.8 average last weekend, which did not have a fast sequence in the 8-round meet as the one in the record draw, defined the indoor starting point for the new lineup.

The NSL News had reported on 10 July 2020 that CTR Optimum had a new lineup. André Ferraz and George Narita continued with Jorge Neto and Alisson Vargas in the two open slots.

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Brazil Tunnel League May 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	11,F,3	H,D,P,18	16,8,L	22,10,21	9,C,14	O,Q,7,19	K,E,J,A,6	M,20,12	Total	Avg
1	CTR Optimum	21	28	18	26	28	32	20	17	190	23.8
2	So Pressao	19	23	14	24	22	30	17	17	166	20.8
3	Prime 4 Way	19	24	14	21	22	26	17	17	160	20.0
4	Netunos	16	20	13	18	16	21	15	11	130	16.3
5	Azul Do Vento	14	15	11	15	17	19	13	14	118	14.8
6	Plano B	14	11	9	16	15	20	13	11	109	13.6
7	Matrix	12	15	9	14	15	19	11	7	102	12.8
8	Anima	11	15	10	15	11	17	12	9	100	12.5

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Competition rounds of CTR Optimum at the May Meet of the Brazil Tunnel League

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Inside center Juliana Sé still continued with CTR Optimum for indoor training and competition at the times when Jorge Neto would not not be available. He lives in Manaus, far away from Sao Paulo. She was in the lineup that posted the 25.1 average in September last year.

CTR Optimum's new indoor starting point of 23.8 featured Jorge Neto at his first indoor competition with his new team. He had trained and competed with North Face in 2018 and 2019, together with his new CTR Optimum teammate Alisson Vargas, who joined the best Brazilian 4-way team a little bit earlier.

Jorge Neto has completed two outdoor meets with CTR Optimum and won his own 4-way championship title with his new team in November 2020. The 16.9 average was very close to CTR Optimum's highest outdoor number of 17.2 in 2012. It was still the highest outdoor average ever since, and it beat the highest one of the previous lineup.

CTR Optimum had also participated in the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 for the first outdoor test with the new lineup.

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Brazil Tunnel League May 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	11,F,19	H,D,P,18	8,L,6	22,21	9,C,14	O,Q,7	K,E,J,A	M,20,B	Total	Avg
1	Falcoes	16	15	17	13	25	31	30	17	164	20.5
2	iFLY 4 Way	15	18	16	18	22	18	23	14	144	18.0
3	Breakfast	11	12	13	14	20	21	17	12	120	15.0
4	5150 - 4 Way Team	10	12	13	14	18	18	20	12	117	14.6
Rank	Rookie	F,K,M	H,D,P	Q,L,B	E,G,N	J,C,A	O,Q,F	K,E,J	M,B,H	Total	Avg
1	DAS	30	18	25	24	30	25	31	18	201	25.1
2	Mineours	25	17	30	29	25	24	26	19	195	24.4
3	Katia Flavia	6	13	17	13	16	16	14	11	106	13.3
4	4 Lady's	11	9	17	9	12	13	13	8	92	11.5

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CTR Optimum continue to win the Brazilian indoor and outdoor championship titles. Unfortunately, the country's national outdoor 4-way team will not be able to compete for Brazil at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2021. The restrictions of the corona virus pandemic make it too difficult for the CTR Optimum members to travel to Russia in August.

However, there is still a possibility that Brazil might be represented at the upcoming world meet. Pedro"san" Ushizima, Brazil's longest-standing and most experienced Formation Skydiving competitor has put together a new 4-way team (Prime 4 Way) and considers the circumstances.

Pedro Ushizima is one of the original CTR Optimum members. He was André Ferraz's teammate between 2005 and 2008. He was player-coaching the Go Fly 4-way team between 2018 and 2020, and he now continues with a new team.

It would not be unusual that a national team steps back and allows a different team to compete at the world meet. Germany recently agreed to replace Oceanside AtomiX with the Airbus 4-way team, as the NSL News reported on May 24th. It would be Pedro Ushizima's 5th world meet since 2006, the first two in 4-way (2006 - 2008) and two in 8-way (2012 - 2018), now possibly back in 4-way.