posted Jun 25th, 2021 - The 4-way Advanced Class competition of the USPA Nationals 2004 became the most successful year for Skydive Elsinore with the big sweep of all medals in this category.

However, the winner, Elsinore Adrenaline, followed the pattern of the previous Advanced Class champion teams and did not continue in 4-way Open. It was the last meet of a 3-year journey to the top of the Advanced Class leaderboard.

Elsinore Adrenaline made it to the USPA gold medal position in a very different way though. The team's first lineup (Tammi Rettig, Louis Ascione, John Hamilton, Jacquelyn O'Bryan, David Szkaradek on camera) started in the Open Class competition of the USPA Nationals 2002.

The NSL News reported in 2002 that Elsinore Adrenaline "began with a lot of built-in experience with John Hamilton (Elsinore Matrix and Arizona Airspeed) as the player-coach, Lou Ascione (Arizona Inertia), Tammi Rettig, Jaqi O’Bryan and Dave Szkaradek (Elsinore Enigma)".

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USPA Nationals 2002		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	B,12,2		K,6,4		20,5,13		D,Q,11,18		N,3,9		A,21,16		22,H,L,J		G,C,7,15		E,19,17		10,P,M,8		Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights Gold	19		21		19		21		29		22		23		23		22		19		218	21.8
2	Arizona Airspeed	19		22		18		21		26		22		22		21		23		21		215	21.5
3	DeLand Majik	19		19		20		20		24	-2	22		23		24		22		19		212	21.2
4	Golden Knights Black	15		17		16		17		20		17		20		20		19		16		177	17.7
5	Airspeed Zulu	17		18		14		17		22		15	-2	18		17		17		16		171	17.1
6	Cross Keys Fluid	16		16		13		15		18		16		15	-1	13	-2	15		15		152	15.2
7	DeLand Frost	15		16		12		13		17		15		17		17		14		13		149	14.9
8	Ranch Tribe	14		14		13		13		17		11	-2	16		10	-2	15		13		136	13.6
9	Elsinore Adrenaline	13		13		12		13	-2	16		11	-2	15	-1	13		15		13		134	13.4
10	Synchronicity	12		12		10		12		17		13		13		15	-1	12		12		128	12.8
11	Untrained Eye	12		12		11		13		14		10	-2	11	-1	9		12		11		115	11.5
12	Team Kruegeraand	8		8		6		5		6		7	-1	6		7		8		5	-1	66	6.6

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Tammi Rettig, John Hamilton and Lou Ascione were back for the 2003 season, with Dave Szkaradek again on camera. Melanie Curtis joined the team to replace Jaqi O'Bryan, who accepted a slot offer of the U.S. national team in 4-way Women, Syncronicity.

The new Adrenaline lineup trained a lot and decided to step down and compete for medals in USPA's Advanced Class at the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales.

They missed the top spot by four points after ten rounds, and Spaceland Inferno became the new USPA Advanced Class champion.

Elsinore Adrenaline were back in the same category a year later for the competition around the corner in Perris. Jon Martens, former member of Formula 4 and Elsinore Illusion, replaced Lou Ascione as inside center.

John Hamilton had accepted the slot as player-coach for Elsinore Satori, and former Arizona Inertia member Jim Browning took the tail slot. Shane Rex replaced Dave Szkaradek on camera.

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USPA Nationals 2003		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Advanced	8,A,Q,F	15,3,G	4,N,22	J,7,B,H	O,13,17	16,K,1	21,D,L,14	6,5,2	12,P,11	10,19,18	Total	Avg
1	Spaceland Inferno	17	14	14	23	13	14	16	13	12	11	147	14.7
2	Elsinore Adrenaline	17	11	13	22	14	12	16	13	13	12	143	14.3
3	Warp Factor	17	12	14	20	15	14	14	13	12	11	142	14.2
4	Juggernaut	16	12	12	21	15	10	13	13	11	11	134	13.4
4	Elsinore GT	17	10	12	21	14	13	13	12	12	10	134	13.4
4	Beez	16	10	12	21	13	11	14	14	12	11	134	13.4
7	Fastrax	16	9	12	21	13	12	13	13	14	9	132	13.2
8	Rave	15	11	12	20	13	12	13	12	12	11	131	13.1
8	Nexus	14	11	11	22	12	13	15	11	11	11	131	13.1
10	Mr. Pink	15	11	13	20	12	10	11	11	11	10	124	12.4
11	Super Cruise	16	11	9	17	13	11	10	9	11	10	117	11.7
11	Perris Mud Hens	16	11	11	17	8	13	11	12	11	7	117	11.7
13	DeLand TBD	15	11	12	18	11	10	13	9	11	5	115	11.5
14	Perris Katalyst	13	10	12	17	12	9	11	10	11	9	114	11.4
15	GMG	14	9	10	17	10	11	10	11	10	9	111	11.1
16	Superfly	9	10	12	19	11	12	12	11	6	2	104	10.4
16	Sun Path LM	12	9	11	16	8	11	9	10	9	9	104	10.4
16	Skydive.com	14	9	8	16	8	9	11	9	11	9	104	10.4
19	GT Inviscid	13	7	7	17	9	10	11	9	9	10	102	10.2
20	Tsunami	10	10	7	15	8	9	10	10	10	9	98	9.8
21	Arizona Audacity	11	8	9	13	8	6	9	9	9	7	89	8.9
22	Arizona Affinity	12	8	4	15	8	7	8	7	8	8	85	8.5
23	Alchemy	9	6	9	12	7	6	7	8	6	5	75	7.5
24	Pepperell Blast	3	6	9	13	8	9	9	8	6	0	71	7.1

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Elsinore Adrenaline's 2004 lineup attended three meets of the Southwest Skydiving League and still finished behind Elsinore Satori at the last league meet, just three weeks before the national championships.

The three teams from Elsinore were finally separated by only three points at the end of their own battle for the USPA Advanced Class medals, and they fended off Mass Defiance by another point.

It was the first USPA championship for Mass Defiance who would succeed Elsinore Adrenaline a year later as the next Advanced Class champion.

Elsinore GT were back for the Advanced Class competition in 2004 and for Skydive Elsinore's delegation at the USPA Nationals 2005, together with a new Elsinore Gravity team and former Adrenaline members Melanie Curtis and Lou Ascione. None of the 2004 teams competed in the Open Class of 2005.

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USPA Nationals 2004		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Advanced	4,P,22	16,2,8	21,N,14	3,H,M,7	12,6,17	15,10,L	O,13,1	K,18,11	Q,B,20,D	19,G,C,F	Total	Avg
1	Elsinore Adrenaline	14	12	9	17	12	13	14	12	14	15	132	13.2
2	Elsinore GT	15	11	10	14	11	11	14	12	16	16	130	13.0
3	Elsinore Satori	12	12	10	16	10	12	14	10	16	17	129	12.9
4	Mass Defiance	13	12	13	11	10	11	13	14	16	15	128	12.8
5	Perris Jamba	8	10	13	15	10	11	13	12	14	16	122	12.2
5	Cross Keys Down to Earth	12	9	10	14	10	12	12	12	15	16	122	12.2
7	Perris Katalyst	12	11	11	14	10	11	10	10	15	17	121	12.1
8	Dallas Tantrum	12	9	11	13	10	10	12	9	13	14	113	11.3
9	Invisicid	7	12	12	15	8	7	11	9	12	15	108	10.8
10	Perris K2	10	9	11	13	8	8	12	9	12	13	105	10.5
11	Perris Euros	11	7	9	13	8	8	12	9	12	13	102	10.2
12	Dallas Sky	10	9	9	9	9	9	11	9	12	14	101	10.1
13	PIRK	10	10	11	11	9	8	10	10	10	8	97	9.7
14	OY & WO	5	9	11	10	9	9	10	8	8	11	90	9.0
15	Wingspan	8	7	9	8	8	6	10	8	3	11	78	7.8
15	Tora Tachi	9	8	9	7	8	7	9	2	8	11	78	7.8
17	MARAE	2	1	5	6	5	4	5	1	2	0	31	3.1

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