posted Nov 5th, 2021 - The NSL News reported on February 18th that Matthew Iles would replace Kalle Pohjola in the Pro Team's tail slot. The former Blackjack and Blue Steel member had roughly two months to get himself ready for the first training with his new team, followed by five months of indoor training with the Pro Team.

The Pro Team has been the Finnish national indoor and outdoor champion team for many years, far ahead of all other Finnish 4-way teams. Matthew Iles had a 22.4 average in his records with Blue Steel and was facing the challenging task to prepare himself for the 26+ average that the Pro Team posted twice in their scoring history.

Event judge Jukka Olkkonen said that it seemed throughout the first half of the competition that the new Pro Team lineup might finish with a new national 10-round record average. It did not happen in the end, however, the 24.3 average is a great and promising starting point.

Matthew Iles lifted his own performance and scoring level from 21.6 average with Blue Steel at last year's national indoor championships by more than two average points.

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Finnish Indoor Nationals 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	B,P,22,H	5,16,K	L,O,20,J	7,21,E	19,N,2	M,1,D,C	14,8,3	10,A,12	9,18,4	17,11,6	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team	27	24	31	24	22	31	19	20	22	23	243	24.3
2	Tribe	24	22	23	23	20	30	17	18	21	20	218	21.8
3	Ehkä flätsäsin ehkä en	4	3	4	5	5	7	1	4	0	0	33	3.3
Rank	AA Class	B,P,22	K,H,J,E	L,O,20	7,21	19,N,2	M,1,D	14,8	A,C,4	9,18	11,6	Total	Avg
1	4K	12	15	11	11	9	14	7	11	2	7	99	9.9
Rank	A Class	B,P,Q	K,H,J	L,O,F	7,21	19,N	M,D,E	8,2	A,C,4	9,G	6,P	Total	Avg
1	Nääslätsi	24	22	28	11	11	36	10	9	16	16	183	18.3

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Pro Team - Tribe at the Finnish Indoor Nationals 2021

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Matthew Iles' former Blackjack (Vesa Vuorenkoski) and Blue Steel (Jorma Löfgren, Otto Virkki) team mates, were back at the indoor championships with their own new team. Riku Peltola, Vesa Vuorenkoski's team mate with Just4fun/Siskon Pojat, completed the new Tribe lineup.

Tribe actually matched Matthew Iles' scoring progression, after posting a 19.5 average at the first restart meet of the Finnish Tunnel League in September this year. The 21.8 average is also significantly higher only six weeks later.

The Finnish 4-way teams had the opportunity of six indoor meets at the Fööni wind tunnel in Helsinki between September 2019 and September 2020 before a 1-year interruption. Two teams were back for the restart in September this year, and five teams attended the new indoor championships at the end of last month.

The Pro Team had not visited Helsinki for any of the indoor meets since November 2019, when they still trained and competed with Kimmo Pohjola's son Kalle in the tail slot. New tail Matthew Iles lives in Helsinki, while the other three members travel from Rovaniemi in Lapland to Helsinki for indoor training and competition.

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FAI World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
8	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7
9	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
10	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7
11	Pro Team	FI	27	24	30	23	23	22	22	30	23	22	246	24.6
12	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	27	21	27	23	20	22	21	29	21	21	232	23.2
13	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	27	23	28	23	19	20	20	29	21	21	231	23.1
14	Papea Masculino	ES	28	23	26	16	21	20	21	30	23	22	230	23.0
15	Out of the Blue	NL	24	22	27	19	19	19	18	27	24	20	219	21.9
16	H40	IE	22	19	23	17	18	17	17	24	20	19	196	19.6
17	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	23	19	23	17	18	17	14	22	19	17	189	18.9
18	Lithuania	LT	26	15	19	15	17	16	17	21	-	-	146	18.3

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Pro Team at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019

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The Pro Team with Matthew Iles made the trip this year to win back the Finnish indoor title that Just4fun/Siskon Pojat won in October 2020 in the absence of the country's strongest 4-way team. The Pro Team had competed for Finland at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 and also at the FAI Outdoor World Cup the same year.

The new Pro Team lineup plans to compete at next year's FAI Indoor World Cup and European Indoor Championship in Charleroi, Belgium, and the qualification for the event was obviously not an obstacle. In fact, the Finnish national team had plans all the way through the next indoor world meet in 2023.

Current team members Eija Suvala and Kimmo Pohjola have Pro Team world meet outdoor experiences of Menzelinsk 2010, and the complete lineup with Kalle Pohjola attended the indoor world meet at Weembi Lille in 2019.

New member Matthew Iles goes even several years further back in time. He and his former Blackjack team mate Vesa Vuorenkoski competed together for Finland in Turkey 1997. There were no indoor competitions at that time...