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Both teams were and are national 4-way teams for their countries, HF Cubs first in 4-way Junior, now in 4-way Women for the Czech Republic, Airborne DVD was supposed to compete for Russia in 4-way Open at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020. The tragic plane crash right before the world meet kept Airborne VDV from competing at the event.
Both teams are now preparing for the FAI Indoor World Cup in April next year, which is supposed to take place in April at the windtunnel in Charleroi, Belgium, where they will compete in different categories as top contenders for FAI indoor medals.
The ten rounds at the 1st DITC indoor meet in Dubai were actually not the first competition for Airborne VDV after the outdoor world meet that they missed. The Russian Indoor Nationals 2021 took place at St. Petersburg's Flystation in November, and the new Airborne VDV lineup, with Georgy Miroshnichenko back in the lineup, took the 2nd place three months after the plane crash, and a few weeks before traveling to Dubai.
1st DITC 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | ||
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Rank | AAA Class | 22,B,G,20 | J,2,A,10 | M,12,7 | 5,1,15 | E,9,19 | 17,H,N,8 | K,21,F,11 | Q,O,6,P | C,13,D,18 | 3,14,L | Total | Avg | |
1 | HF Cubs | CZ | 20 | 26 | 27 | 24 | 32 | 30 | 24 | 35 | 24 | 24 | 266 | 26.6 |
2 | VDV | RU | 22 | 23 | 26 | 21 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 38 | 25 | 24 | 264 | 26.4 |
3 | Amnesya | IT | 20 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 219 | 21.9 |
4 | Agera FS 2022 | NO | 17 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 20 | 29 | 20 | 18 | 211 | 21.1 |
5 | Papea Masculino | ES | 20 | 17 | 22 | 15 | 23 | 20 | 21 | 27 | 20 | 19 | 204 | 20.4 |
6 | Kopassus Papua | ID | 19 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 13 | 157 | 15.7 |
7 | Termanu | ID | 13 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 120 | 12.0 |
The Bubbles 4-way Women team finished in 4th place in 2020 before leaving Russian Thunder behind at the Russian Indoor Cup 2021 in April this year. They sent a message to France with the 28.4 average by the new lineup, who were also training for the 4-way Women competition at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020. The following surprising upset in 4-way Women at the outdoor world meet has been well documented.
Another three months later, the same Bubbles lineup sent the next message to the world at the Russian Indoor Nationals. The new 4-way outdoor world champions in 4-way Women are not done, and they are getting even stronger. Once again, they posted a new team record average (29.6) and now took the 1st place on the AAA Class leaderboard. For four rounds it looked like there would be a competition for the top spot before Bubbles eventually ran away from the other two Russian top contenders, both with all-male lineups.
Russian Indoor Nationals 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | |||||||||||
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Rank | AAA Class | 15,5,10 | 20,3,17 | 1,2,11 | J,G,P,N,18 | 21,H,M,19 | 13,L,4 | 8,A,D,O | 6,22,B | F,7,E,9 | 12,K,Q,16 | Total | Avg | ||||||||||
1 | Bubbles | 24 | -2 | 24 | 22 | 34 | -1 | 31 | 28 | 33 | -1 | 24 | -2 | 47 | 29 | 296 | 29.6 | ||||||
2 | Airborne VDV | 23 | -1 | 23 | 23 | 35 | 29 | -1 | 25 | -1 | 31 | 25 | 43 | -1 | 24 | -1 | 281 | 28.1 | |||||
3 | IFS-Moscow | 24 | -1 | 24 | 23 | 32 | -2 | 22 | 27 | -1 | 32 | -2 | 20 | -3 | 40 | -4 | 29 | 273 | 27.3 | ||||
4 | Quartet | 17 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 25 | 19 | 30 | 17 | 36 | 24 | 238 | 23.8 | ||||||||||
5 | DanDelion WN | 20 | 21 | 18 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 20 | 36 | 24 | 237 | 23.7 | ||||||||||
6 | Antibodies | 19 | 18 | 18 | 29 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 21 | 35 | 20 | 231 | 23.1 | ||||||||||
7 | No Limits | 14 | 17 | 19 | 26 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 18 | 31 | 21 | 213 | 21.3 | ||||||||||
8 | Bumblbee | 15 | 17 | 15 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 26 | 18 | 31 | 21 | 205 | 20.5 | ||||||||||
9 | Let's Fly | 14 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 16 | 31 | 18 | 194 | 19.4 | ||||||||||
10 | FlyStones | 13 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 158 | 15.8 |
British 4-way Women team NFTO have won the AAA Class competition at the national championships since 2018, and HF Cubs are the strongest 4-way indoor team in the Czech Republic.
The 1st DITC and the Russian Indoor Nationals connected the two 4-way Women teams indirectly through the scores that Airborne VDV posted at both events. The new VDV lineup with Kirill Bukharov and Artur Kindzer could keep up with young Czech 4-way ladies in Dubai and lost by only two points after the ten indoor rounds.
Neither VDV nor IFS-Moscow were able to stop Bubbles at the Russian Indoor Nationals earlier, and VDV ended up 15 points behind in November with the same lineup that competed in Dubai in December. The competition draw in St. Petersburg was obviously faster compared to Dubai, where VDV posted a significantly lower meet average (28.1 - 26.4) after the same number of rounds. Therefore, HF Cubs might not be as far behind Bubbles as the raw numbers are showing at this point in time. However, the outdoor world champions in 4-way Women are surely getting ready to add the indoor world cup title to their collection.
FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Avg | ||||||||
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Rank | 4-way Women | O,19,Q,5 | 17,B,E,P | H,15,12 | M,N,7,F | K,L,C,4 | J,18,16 | Total | Avg | |||||||
1 | Bubbles | RU | 21 | -1 | 33 | -3 | 18 | -1 | 33 | -3 | 27 | 18 | -2 | 150 | 25.0 | |
2 | Aerodyne Maubeuge | FR | 24 | 27 | -4 | 18 | 34 | 24 | -2 | 21 | 148 | 24.7 | ||||
3 | No Mercy | PL | 15 | 20 | -1 | 11 | -1 | 20 | -2 | 16 | 11 | 93 | 15.5 | |||
4 | Aviatrixx | US | 15 | 25 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 12 | -1 | 79 | 13.2 |