posted Dec 26th, 2021 - Brazil's 4-way teams finished off their 2021 season with the national indoor championships. The NSL News covered the changes on the AAA Class top level earlier this year, when members of the national team of many years, CTR Optimum, first surprisingly added a second lineup (Prime 4-way) to the May leaderboard of the Brazil Tunnel League and followed up with an even stronger lineup in July and September.

The NSL News explained the details of the new situation with the update on July 29th and followed up on October 11th, after CTR Optimum members George Narita, Jorge Neto and Alisson Vargas had invited new member Ricardo Pereira to take the slot of team founder André Ferraz.

The new team, INIT-Y, won the three indoor duels for Brazil's 4-way top spot and added the outdoor championship title to the 2021 collection in September, where the military Cometas lineup placed 2nd, twelve points (163 - 151) behind INIT-Y's three defending champions and new member Ricardo Pereira.

The Optimum Prime team, with André Ferraz, Deborah Schroeder, Juliana Sé and Pedro Ushizima in the lineup, neither attended the outdoor nor the indoor championships, after finishing two points behind INIT-Y (225 - 223) at the September meet of the Brazil Tunnel League.

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Brazil Indoor Nationals 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	F,P,G,21	10,6,2	L,A,7,9	14,1,22	15,17,5	11,D,13	19,K,4	N,Q,J,E,3	Total	Avg
1	INIT-Y	31	19	31	17	24	21	21	28	192	24.0
2	So Pressao	29	16	24	17	19	19	18	27	169	21.1
3	Netunos	29	18	24	16	20	20	19	20	166	20.8
4	Paradocks	21	13	21	12	15	14	14	17	127	15.9
5	Plano B	16	13	19	11	14	14	14	19	120	15.0
6	UVASDM	19	12	18	12	13	12	11	17	114	14.3
7	Anima	18	10	17	10	11	12	10	16	104	13.0

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INIT-Y at the Brazilian Indoor Nationals 2021

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INIT-Y members George Narita and Alisson Vargas had invited their current team mate Jorge Neto when André Ferraz was still the team's outside center. They made it the team goal to break CTR Optimum's 17.2 average of 2012 with their new lineup and came very close at last year's nationals outdoor championships.

The latest change in the lineup did not allow INIT-Y enough training time with new member Ricardo Pereira, and the outdoor goal is still on the same list for the new lineup.

The situation of the scoring goals is now very similar at the indoor events. The 25.1 average of the CTR Optimum's indoor lineup (Juliana Sé, André Ferraz, George Narita, Alisson Vargas) at the BTL September meet in 2020 is still the highest result in Brazil's 4-way history.

However, the current lineup, with the newest members Jorge Neto and Ricardo Pereira, have also reached the indoor performance level where they will soon be able to challenge the standing record average. Next year's indoor and outdoor competitions in Brazil could feature the INIT-Y lineup wiping out CTR Optimum's standing record numbers.

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Brazil Indoor Nationals 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	J,O,B,14	M,E,P,A	F,Q,6	11,D,1	G,N,7	H,9,18	21,15	L,K,13	Total	Avg
1	SDA	23	40	25	15	22	18	16	20	179	22.4
2	V-Max	23	34	26	16	25	22	11	17	174	21.8
3	Pe De Pano	15	17	16	9	14	12	11	13	107	13.4
Rank	A Class	M,A,H,B	M,N,9	M,1,E	M,P,Q,O	M,14,L	M,A,15	M,K,D,G	M,7,F	Total	Avg
1	Mineours	34	34	22	38	18	23	25	32	226	28.3
2	Foo Flyers	30	25	17	31	16	16	18	25	178	22.3
3	CTRookie	21	23	12	24	16	15	19	21	151	18.9

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SDA - Mineours at the Brazilian Indoor Nationals 2021

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Arizona Airspeed's senior member Mikhail Markine, also newly crowned 8-way world champion with Airspeed XP8, was helping INIT-Y to get ready for indoor and outdoor competition this year. He visited the team in Brazil before the championship events.

The national indoor championship in November was the third INIT-Y competition with new member Ricardo Pereira, and the 24.0 average was already 1.5 average points better compared to the September competition. Only the 25.1 average of September 2020 was higher, which was boosted by a very fast sequence (A,C,J,Q,7) in Round 2.

There was not much serious competition for INIT-Y this year, with So Pressao taking the 2nd place in the absence of Optimum Prime. Pedro Ushizima had injured his shoulder shortly before the competition, and his team decided to withdraw.

AA Class team SDA caught special attention at iFLY Sao Paulo with the first competition in this category. Two meets in the Rookie Class, followed by two A Class performances, were enough for the Skydive Amazon instructors to take on the next eight blocks of the AA Class dive pool and finish with the 22.4 average after eight rounds, the highest result in Brazil's AA Class history, as well.