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Did You Know...

... that Bubbles won the Russian Indoor Nationals with 29.6?

Bubbles in 2019
posted Dec 27th, 2021 - The NSL News mentioned the comeback of the Russian 4-way team Airborne VDV with the update on December 23rd, which covered the 2-point battle between HF Cubs and VDV on the top of the AAA Class leaderboard at the 1st Dubai International Tunnel Championship (DIPC).

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
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

HF Cubs - VDV at the 1st DITC 2021
Bubbles in 2020
This year's national indoor championship featured once again the three strongest Russian 4-way teams. IFS-Moscow was the defending champion team after winning in 2020 with a 30.8 average, four points ahead of the Airborne DVD 2020 lineup (Oleg Borovin, Alexey Izmalkin, Sergey Seregin, Evgeny Shatnenko). Georgiy Miroshnichenko was still competing with Russian Thunder at that time.

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
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

Bubbles - Airborne VDV - IFS-Moscow at the Russian Indoor Nationals 2021
Bubbles in 2021
Russia has now become one of the growing number of countries, where 4-way Women teams are the best 4-way Open Class teams at the same time. The situation has been the same in France for several years, even though the French 4-way Open Class team finished with a higher meet average in Tanay.

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
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

Russia - France in 4-way Women at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020
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