posted Oct 7th, 2021 - Kyle Hermberg's Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY Dallas is the only participating indoor group that has not missed any of the monthly sequences this year.

He did have his own pandemic-related break though, as there were no events at iFLY Dallas between April and September 2020.

The iFLY Dallas team ended up in 4th place on the broken annual ICL leaderboard of 2020. There was no ICL team during the worst time period of the corona virus crisis that came through the year without missing scores. Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP made the best out of it with three missing months each.

The 2021 leaderboard does not look much better, as the pandemic has still been raging across the planet and caused interruptions in all areas of life. However, there are signs of changes to the better, mostly caused by the “herd immunity” on the horizon.

The Hurricane Factory has been back on the leaderboard each month since May, and Kyle Hermberg's iFLY Dallas team has not missed a month this year.

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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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The 1st place of iFLY Dallas on the 2021 leaderboard at the end of August could be attributed to the lack of competition. However, this does not give the Texas team the deserved credit.

It is a fact that the total of 869 ICL points on the 14+ leaderboard is one of the highest numbers at this point in time that any iFLY Dallas team has posted since joining the Indoor Cloud League in April 2014.

Only the total of 922 points at the end of August 2016 was higher, and it was heavily supported by the missing 25-point limit of the scores for R and RR sequences at that time. The 25-point rule for R and RR was introduced for the 2018 season.

However, the current total of 869 points for iFLY Dallas is not far from the 922 points in 2016, which included a total of 50 points above the 25-point limit in the two Rookie Class categories. In fact, the scoring numbers would even be almost identical (872 - 869) after applying the current rule.

The iFLY Dallas is currently miles ahead of the last complete ICL total numbers at the end of August in 2017 (703) and 2019 (693).

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iFLY Dallas - August	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	E,6,Q,16	O,6,15	K,B,6	K,B,O	M,E,Q	M,E	Total
Dallas Dynasty	21	-	-	-	-	-	21
Vanessa Shirazi, Pressly Bonner, Aaron Perkins, Kyle Hermberg	-	12	-	-	-	-	12
Alexa Boushey, Deanna Anderson, Caden Maydew, Lucas King	-	-	16	-	-	-	16
Tarynn Ecton, Nick Anderson, Raj Sarkar, Donaldo Grajeda	-	-	-	23	22	-	45
Tiffany Kobbe, Sudeep Kodavati, Kyle Hermberg, Michael Erickson	-	-	-	-	-	23	23
iFLY Dallas Best of August	21	12	16	23	22	23	117

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iFLY Dallas Indoor Cloud League August highscores

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Kyle Hermberg has not been using the easiest sequences of the Indoor Cloud League categories to boost the monthly total anyway. He and his assistant coaches, currently including former Dallas 350 member and USPA Advanced Class champion, Lucas King, have dedicated the ICL events to increase the 4-way skills level in this area of Texas:

"The iFLY Dallas team continues to focus on helping less experienced jumpers learn more about FS by pairing them with more experienced jumpers. Dallas Distraction did not fly as a team in August, and we substituted Donaldo Grajeda as a coach. Dynasty members spread their experience across several teams."

The numbers are supporting the goal of his mission. The increased skills level of the ICL participants will naturally generate higher scores in the longer term, and the August results speak once again their own language.

Hopefully, the other ICL teams on the annual leaderboards will soon return, as well, and offer the same opportunities in as many other areas as possible. In the meantime, Kyle Hermberg and his coaches will probably be guiding the iFLY Dallas team to a new record total for the year...

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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	iFLY Dallas	US	102	97	106	108	99	124	116	117	-	-	-	-	869
2	Paraclete XP	US	116	85	110	111	118	123	-	-	-	-	-	-	663
3	Hurricane Factory	CZ	-	-	-	-	118	119	119	105	118	-	-	-	579
4	ICL Midwest	US	-	133	147	145	137	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	562
5	iFLY Tampa	US	62	57	62	64	50	85	-	-	-	-	-	-	380
6	Capital Region	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	iFLY Seattle	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	iFLY Jacksonville	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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