posted Mar 31st, 2022 - Three XP8 world champions of the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 last August were considering to compete at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022 in 4-way, with their new 8-way team mate Craig Girard.

Brian Krause eventually decided to do only the 8-way competition, with XP8 and another team, after the intensive 8-way Hell Week with a lot of flying, coaching and organizing. However, Kirk Verner and John D'Annunzio did not want to miss the 4-way competition, and new XP8 member Craig Girard was ready to add the ten 4-way rounds to his agenda, as well.

They still needed a 4th competitor for the lineup, and Brandon Kashani became the lucky guy who was recruited for the 4-way part with the three 4-way and 8-way world champions.

John D'Annunzio, Kirk Verner and Craig Girard won the 8-way competition with XP8 easily. Kirk Verner and Craig Girard also had additional 8-way teams as player-coaches. Brandon Kashani decided to focus all of his mental and physical energy on the unexpected 4-way job for a good reason, and he did not join any other team.

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	F,9,4	G,8,A,C	22,10,J	11,D,6	N,3,M,H	20,P,Q,L	12,17,B	18,2,13	E,7,14	5,19,K	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	39	37	26	29	40	37	31	25	33	33	330	33.0
2	XPG4	30	25	16	24	32	28	20	20	26	25	246	24.6
3	Skydive Midwest NEXT	27	27	18	24	32	29	18	20	24	22	241	24.1
4	Bobba Fat XP	28	24	19	23	31	24	21	19	25	23	237	23.7
5	SDC Rhythm XP	27	27	19	21	28	28	20	19	27	20	236	23.6
6	Golden Knights	33	27	16	21	26	29	22	18	21	19	232	23.2
7	Lucky Chris Take 2	24	22	15	18	22	21	14	15	19	18	188	18.8
8	Sloppy Seconds	23	17	10	16	18	15	14	12	18	15	158	15.8
9	Three Men and a Katie	19	18	13	14	17	16	14	12	18	15	156	15.6
10	Platinum XP	14	15	11	14	15	13	12	10	14	12	130	13.0

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Bobba Fat XP - Golden Knights at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championships 2022

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Kirk Verner was aware of Brandon Kashani's talent and potential, as they trained and competed together in the Lightspeed XP lineup, who won the 4-way Advanced Class gold medals at the USPA Nationals 2021.

Lightspeed XP, with player coach Kirk Verner, Shannon Catalano, Brandon Kashani and Nicholas Walker had posted a 21.2 average at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 in February before winning the USPA Advanced Class gold medals in September. They competed in 4-way Open at the indoor event, after Brandon Kashani and Nicholas Walker had won the Advanced Class competition in 2020 with Vega XP.

Brandon Kashani had plans to compete with his Lightspeed XP team mate Nicholas Walker and two Florida competitors (Sebastian Jimenez, Mike Talerico) for Where's Amer? Mario Mauro eventually replaced him for eligibility on the Intermediate Class leaderboard, and he could focus exclusively on the 4-way job with Bobba Fat XP. He finished with his personal scoring record, of course, which was 2.5 average points higher than with Lightspeed XP in 2021.

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	19,13,O		21,12,16		A,B,D,11		4,15,C		17,3,E		Q,G,18,22		6,7,14		9,10,2		1,P,20		L,K,H,5		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	28		27		42	-2	29		34		29		28		26	-1	29		43	-2	315	31.5
2	SDC Rhythm XP	25	-2	25		37	-2	27		32		29		26	-1	27		25	-1	41	-1	294	29.4
3	Golden Knights Gold	27		23		40		26		28		19	-4	25		23		26		35		272	27.2
4	XP4	25		19		34		23		28		20	-3	21	-1	21		23		32		246	24.6
5	XPG4	22		20		29		21		23		20	-1	23		19		20	-1	30		227	22.7
6	Skydive Midwest NEXT	21	-3	16	-2	30	-2	22		23		20	-1	20	-1	19	-1	21		28	-1	220	22.0
7	Lightspeed	20	-1	18	-1	28	-1	21		23		19	-1	20		16	-1	19	-1	28		212	21.2
8	Air Force OBYC	18		17	-1	27		17		21		17	-1	19		15	-3	18	-1	19	-3	188	18.8
9	Aviatrixx	18	-1	17		23	-1	15	-1	19		17		16	-2	17		16	-1	25		183	18.3
10	Vega XP	15	-3	17		24		14	-2	18		17		17		16		18		22		178	17.8
11	Golden Knights Black	17	-1	16	-1	22	-2	16		17		16		18	-1	16		16	-1	20	-1	174	17.4

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With the 23.7 average, Bobba Fat XP split the two U.S. teams on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard who will compete next week at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022, Skydive Midwest NEXT and SDC Rhythm XP, together with Arizona Airspeed and 27 other international teams.

There was actually a tight competition for the U.S. indoor bronze medals this year. The new bronze medalists of Skydive Midwest NEXT were only separated by nine points from the team in 6th place, the Golden Knights.

The U.S. Army team competed with two new members at Paraclete XP. Mike Connors and Mitch Stockenberg replaced Jennifer Davidson and Drew Starr, who won USPA bronze medals in 4-way Open last year. David Flynn and Jeshua Stahler were back, with coach Drew Starr.

It was the last competition for the Golden Knights, at least for now and for the near future. The NSL News will follow up with more information of the U.S. Army's departure from Formation Skydiving competition.