posted Dec 1st, 2021 - The Weembinamic at the hosting site of the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 had a comeback last month, as well, and the NSL News is taking a closer look at the 4-way competition first.

The leaderboard is showing the reason for the 4-way priority, as this event featured the tightest 4-way battle in the AAA Class this year. The high-profile Aerokart lineup won the competition without any serious opposition. However, three teams battled for the 2nd place and were separated by two points after ten rounds on the traditional leaderboard.

Aerokart won with an impressive 28.3 average, which was boosted by the Super Sequence (C,O,A,P,F) in Round 1. Aerokart had probably the most interesting lineup in the AAA Class field. Damien Gouriou and Alban Rumolo were members of the French national 4-way and 8-way teams this year. Together they won 8-way silver medals at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020, one single point behind Airspeed XP8, and they placed 4th in 4-way Open with a 25.3 average.

Tom Mattoni has been a member of the French 4-way Junior team Aerokart Ak'demie since the team was formed in 2014. He and his team mates have turned into outdoor competitors, as well, and they won bronze medals at this year's outdoor championships, followed by indoor gold medals in October.

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Weembinamic 2021			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		C,O,A,P,F	J,L,22,17	18,2,D	H,8,3	15,13,4	19,7,M	11,G,1	14,K,9	5,16,B	6,N,20	Total	Avg
1	Aerokart	FR	53	26	21	23	22	31	23	28	31	25	283	28.3
2	Unicorns	FR	46	21	19	21	19	28	20	26	24	23	247	24.7
3	Rost Beef A	UK	39	22	20	19	18	29	22	26	27	24	246	24.6
4	Saumur Espoir Weembi	FR	45	23	21	21	18	22	22	25	28	20	245	24.5
5	Nice Odin Cavok	FR	40	21	19	20	19	28	19	27	22	14	229	22.9
6	Weembi St Flow	FR	35	17	18	17	16	22	17	20	19	19	200	20.0
7	Shaka	UK	37	19	16	17	14	23	17	12	18	17	190	19.0
8	Monaco Aerodyne	MC	29	15	14	16	14	18	13	18	18	16	171	17.1
9	Oblivion	FR	23	15	16	14	13	21	16	18	18	15	169	16.9
10	Les Hérissons	FR	16	14	11	13	12	18	14	15	16	13	142	14.2

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Aerokart at the Weembinamic 2021

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French national B-Team member Mathieu Quizy completed the Aerokart lineup. He was Tom Mattoni's team mate at the indoor championships, where he joined forces with two more former 4-way junior competitors, Cameron Malie and Oscar Massier.

He also competed at the Weembinamic with his complete B-Team lineup of Espoir Saumur Weembi (Elise Poindron, Jessica Thebault, Loic Vieira) who placed 2nd at the national outdoor championships behind the national 4-way team. Alban Rumolo replaced him at the indoor event in October where Mathieu Quizy completed the Ak'demie lineup.

Alban Rumolo and Mathieu Quizy now were team mates with Damien Gouriou and Tom Mattoni at the Weembinamic, where Mathieu Quizy won gold with Aerokart and missed the 3rd place by one point with Espoir Saumur Weembi.

The French B-Team missed the Weembinamic bronze medals only on the traditional leaderboard though. Event host Julien Degen created a different format for the event when he launched the Weembinamic years ago. The teams are pitched in duels against each other after the three opening rounds and then eliminate each other after two new rounds on the way to the finals.

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Unicorns - Rost Beef A - Saumur Espoir Weembi at the Weembinamic 2021

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Aerokart had no troubles making it to the finals and to the 1st place by winning all rounds, except for one tie in Round 3. Espoir Saumur Weembi ended up with Unicorns as their opponent in the last two rounds and won the total by one point (48 - 47). Unicorns, once again with host Julien Degen in the lineup, actually placed 2nd on the traditional leaderboard and finished without a Weembinamic medal.

Rost Beef A, with former HayaBusa member Roy Janssen in the lineup, was the other team that pushed Unicorns from 2nd on the traditional leaderboard to 4th place at the Weembinamic. Both teams had faced each other directly twice, first in the quarterfinals (Rounds 5 and 6), then again in the semifinals (Rounds 7 and 8). They tied and both advanced in the quarterfinals before the British 3-way (Mark Fletcher, Kate Lindsley, David Rodgers) with Roy Janssen won the semifinals by two points and advanced to the finals and the duel for gold with Aerokart.

Rost Beef A had neither won a round over Unicorns nor over Espoirs Saumur Weembi throughout the first five rounds and had warmed up enough in the second half of the event to win the elimination duels and get to the finals. Unicorns managed to carry the highscore over the opponents in Round 1 over the finish line on the traditional leaderboard, while they could not win a medal position in the finals against Espoir Saumur Weembi.