posted Jul 29th, 2021 - The Brazil Tunnel League completed its July meet successfully last weekend. It turned out to become the highest participation in the history of the indoor league with the 16 teams performing once again their eight meet rounds.

The indoor meets, managed by by iFLY Sao Paulo's David Rodrigues, allow the participants to compete with more than only one team. This player-coaching format has been very popular in almost all countries in the world, while it usually does not apply at national championships.

Norway was recently one of the few exceptions, where the skydiving federation has been sanctioning the members of the national team to train and compete with other teams of the FS 2022 4-way project.

Most of the Brazilian top competitors could be found in other teams in May and last weekend. Pedro Ushizima, one of the most experienced 4-way and 8-way competitors in Brazil, had the busiest agenda with three teams, two of them in AAA (Optimum Prime, Plano B) and Mineours on the A Class leaderboard.

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Brazil Tunnel League July 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	1,L,12	18,16,13	4,7,17	G,14,9	O,19,K,2	E,10,M,15	5,F,22	C,J,21,Q	Total	Avg
1	Optimum Prime	19	19	22	26	22	20	20	24	172	21.5
2	CTR Optimum	20	20	19	22	18	26	19	24	168	21.0
3	So Pressao	19	16	19	21	20	20	18	26	159	19.9
4	Netunos	17	15	16	22	18	20	17	26	151	18.9
5	Azul Do Vento	12	10	15	17	14	16	15	20	119	14.9
6	Plano B	11	12	13	16	16	16	14	18	116	14.5
7	Anima	13	10	12	16	14	14	14	15	108	13.5
8	Matrix	12	9	12	11	12	10	8	14	88	11.0
Rank	AA Class	G,O,K,E	A,H,11	21,9	P,14,N	15,L,J	F,6,Q	B,7,D	C,18,M	Total	Avg
1	Falcoes	25	19	19	17	17	20	24	20	161	20.1
2	Breakfast	19	15	15	16	13	16	17	14	125	15.6
3	UVASDM	18	11	14	15	5	14	14	14	105	13.1
Rank	A Class	G,14	H,L,N	F,O,Q	P,J,K	15,B	C,9	A,7	D,E,L	Total	Avg
1	Mineours	19	27	36	30	21	31	29	36	229	28.6
2	SDA	18	26	39	33	20	27	25	28	216	27.0
3	Foo Flyers	13	18	29	24	16	20	22	25	167	20.9
4	Superqu4dra	14	17	29	26	14	19	18	20	157	19.6
5	Nice Birds	15	17	23	20	14	19	17	18	143	17.9
6	Falcoes Feminino	13	17	26	21	9	20	14	17	137	17.1

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Optimum Prime and CTR Optimum at the July meet of the Brazil Tunnel League

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The NSL News update from Brazil on June 2nd, after the completion of May's indoor competition, covered CTR Optimum's first indoor competition with the new lineup. The same story pointed out that Pedro Ushizima was considering to compete for Brazil at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 with a new team, Prime 4-way, who could have stepped in after CTR Optimum's withdrawal as the national team for the world meet.

No team from Brazil was registered for the world meet, and Prime 4-way members Pedro Ushizima and Deborah Schroder now came back with two new members and a new team name. It was a surprising lineup, as it included two CTR Optimum members, team and league founder André Ferraz and his wife, Juliana Sé.

CTR Optimum's former inside center Juliana Sé was still in the indoor lineup at times when new member Jorge Neto was not available for training due to his travel distance. She competed with CTR Optimum last time in September 2020.

Now she was back for indoor action, together with her husband André Ferraz, who also joined the second Optimum lineup at last weekend's competition, Optimum Prime.

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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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In fact, André Ferraz was competing against himself for the top spot, and the new Optimum Prime lineup won after an exciting 4-point battle. All eight team members are actually CTR Optimum members. Pedro Ushizima and André Ferraz go all the way back to the very first Optimum lineup of 2005.

The growing Optimum family has finally decided to split, and two different teams will go their own ways. André Ferraz continues with his wife Juliana Sé and his original team mate Pedro Ushizima, Deborah Schroder completes the CTR Optimum Prime lineup.

George Narita, Jorge Neto and Alisson Vargas will recruit a new member for their own lineup with a new team name. Both teams are so close to each other that more exciting 4-way battles can be expected.

It may become even more interesting at the national outdoor championship in September. The CTR Optimum lineup until last week are the defending outdoor champions, after a tight 9-round battle with the military Cometas team, which was only decided due to a terrible Round 6 for the runner-up. Cometas have been in outdoor training only, and they are well prepared to outscore both Optimum lineups this year...

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Brazilian Outdoor Nationals 2020		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	20,17,12		4,M,8		G,13,J,C		11,9,7		Q,D,2,10		5,E,N,19		K,L,O,B,16		1,A,18		F,21,6		H,15,14		Total	Avg
1	CTR Optimum	14		16		18	-3	19		13	-2	20		23		16		17		13	-1	169	16.9
2	Cometas Men	14		17		18		17		15		7		16		15		17		13		149	14.9
3	Netunos	11		14		17		14		15		10	-1	16		14		14		12		137	13.7
4	Catadao Prime	10		12		16		14		12		13		15	-1	11	-1	13	-1	9	-1	125	12.5
5	Paradocks	8	-1	14		15		12	-1	11		12		13		13		14		12		124	12.4
6	Cometas Women	7		11		13		11		10		11		11	-1	9	-1	11	-1	7	-1	101	10.1
7	Anima	8		9		12		11		10		9		11	-1	9		12		9		100	10.0

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CTR Optimum and Cometas at the Brazilian Outdoor Nationals 2020

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