posted Jul 11th, 2022 - The annual Tomscat Trophy in the Netherlands usually features Dutch and Belgian 4-way teams on the leaderboard. In fact, four Belgian teams competed at the last Tomscat Trophy before the corona virus crisis in July 2019, including Ayro and Falco.

Falco had also won the Tomscat Trophy in the AA Class competition of 2017, and they moved up to the AAA Class in 2018, still with Andy Pieters in the original lineup, who had launched the team project with the 1st place in the AA Class at the Tomscat Tropht 2017. Paul Hofstee replaced Andy Pieters in 2019 for a year, before he joined the German national 4-way team AtomiX to compete at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 on the event's original date.

Neal Willems, the newest member of NMP PCH HayaBusa, replaced Paul Hofstee for Falco until he was recruited for Belgium's 4-way world champions, and Paul Hofstee came back to Falco when AtomiX did not continue after placing 2nd at the German Outdoor Nationals 2021.

Falco were quickly back to the same scoring and performance level where they were previously with Paul Hofstee in the lineup, first at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2022, followed up now with a new outdoor team record average at the Belgian Tomscat Trophy Cloud.

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Tomscat Trophy Cloud 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		3,22,18		21,19,L		2,J,20		M,15,14		5,B,7		G,6,17		H,F,4,Q		12,O,16		8,A,N,K		13,11,E		Total	Avg
1	Ayro	BE	13		16		12		14		18		15		25		12		19		15		159	15.9
2	Falco	BE	11		11		14		14		18		15		23		13		18		16		153	15.3
3	Lux	NL	9		10		13		10		14		12		18		10		14		10		120	12.0
4	Full Flow	BE	9		11		10		12		9		10		18		10		13		11		113	11.3
5	Shinobi	NL	9		10		9		10		14		11		13		11		12		11		110	11.0
6	Aquila	NL	9		9		7		11		11		8		15		9		12		10		101	10.1
7	We're All Called Paul	UK	7		13		10		10		-		-		-		-		-		-		40	10.0
8	4igami	NL	7		7		7		8		10		8		12		8		11		9		87	8.7
9	Animals	NL	5		8		5		7		8		7		10		6		7		7		70	7.0

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Ayro - Falco - Full Flow with the Tomscat Trophy draw

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Ayro joined Falco on the way to AAA Class competition just a few months later in the A Class competition of the Belgian Outdoor Nationals 2017, where Falco and Ayro attended the same event together for the first time. They followed up by collecting Belgian ranking points at the ESL Championship in September the same year.

They were still separated on the other two 2017 leaderboards, first at at the ISR Grand Prix in November, followed by the Belgian Indoor Nationals in December.

Both Belgian teams enjoyed 4-way training and competition equally, while they still did not meet each other at the beginning of the 2018 season. Ayro's original lineup had moved up to the AA Class in 2018 at the World Challenge in April, while Falco made their own move from AA to AAA at the same event. It was still the same situation at the national outdoor championships in September, the ISR Grand Prix in November and the Belgian Indoor Nationals in December.

Ayro made the final move to AAA, and both teams finally posted their scores on the same leaderboard at the last World Challenge in April 2018. Ayro with their original lineup ended up 36 points behind Falco with Paul Hofstee in Bedford.

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World Challenge 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		P,H,Q,5	19,16,E	L,3,2	B,A,22,D	J,14,8	11,M,G,1	15,21,18	7,O,4	C,N,K,13	20,6,F	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	52	32	28	39	29	32	28	34	42	31	347	34.7
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	48	30	27	37	27	31	25	33	36	28	322	32.2
3	IFS-Moscow	RU	44	29	26	33	27	29	23	33	34	31	309	30.9
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	44	29	26	35	24	29	24	31	32	31	305	30.5
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	46	28	24	32	25	29	24	31	35	27	301	30.1
6	Airheads	CH	44	28	22	36	24	27	19	29	33	26	288	28.8
7	Weembi Unicorns	FR	43	28	23	32	23	28	19	28	33	26	283	28.3
8	ISR FireFlash	BE	40	26	24	33	24	25	19	25	28	26	270	27.0
9	NFTO	UK	35	25	24	29	24	25	20	27	30	24	263	26.3
10	Odin Parachute Systems	FR	35	28	21	29	22	25	20	25	29	25	259	25.9
10	Chimera	UK	36	24	21	27	23	27	21	25	29	26	259	25.9
12	ACM Weembi	UK	38	22	24	28	21	24	21	25	29	26	258	25.8
13	Gavroche Weembi	FR	38	27	23	26	21	25	14	27	28	23	252	25.2
14	Tenanine	MR	37	25	22	22	20	24	19	26	29	22	246	24.6
15	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	36	19	18	26	20	22	19	25	21	21	227	22.7
16	Eros	UK	27	21	22	24	19	23	17	24	27	21	225	22.5
17	Jazz Republic	ZA	29	22	18	23	19	20	18	24	23	22	218	21.8
18	Falco	BE	22	20	17	19	20	20	17	24	26	19	204	20.4
19	Blackjack	FI	24	20	17	23	19	19	15	21	22	18	198	19.8
20	Pajama Pumas	UK	27	21	16	21	19	19	16	21	20	17	197	19.7
21	Tempo	FI	26	18	18	23	18	19	15	21	20	18	196	19.6
22	Aladeen	HU	28	21	19	16	16	19	13	19	18	20	189	18.9
23	Alakran	ES	26	18	12	18	17	21	17	23	18	18	188	18.8
24	FlyPonots	FR	26	19	17	21	16	18	10	18	18	18	181	18.1
25	Nefertit	UK	24	18	16	18	15	16	13	20	17	16	173	17.3
26	Windobona Angels	ES	20	16	14	18	16	17	15	21	17	18	172	17.2
27	Ayro	BE	16	18	15	18	17	15	14	19	19	17	168	16.8
28	Koloncok	HU	21	16	13	19	14	16	15	19	18	16	167	16.7
29	Stardust	BE	21	15	12	17	16	16	11	18	17	13	156	15.6
30	Nova	CH	21	14	12	16	13	13	11	17	19	16	152	15.2
31	Barak	ES	25	19	17	21	16	19	14	19	0	0	150	15.0
32	Wood Fella’s	UK	17	13	10	16	13	13	11	17	19	13	142	14.2
33	Draconis	UK	16	13	12	13	12	15	10	15	13	15	134	13.4
34	Free Burds	IE	16	10	11	11	13	12	11	15	15	13	127	12.7

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Ayro still train and compete with their original lineup, and they closed the distance to Falco meet by meet since April 2019. Finally it happened, and Ayro won this duel with Falco for the first time at the Belgian outdoor championships, as the NSL News reported on 21 September 2021.

Falco fought back and won again at the Belgian Indoor Nationals in March this year. Ayro had a better meet at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022, and the 21.9 average would have been enough to stay ahead of Falco at the national indoor championships.

The next and most recent showdown took place when three Belgian teams did not make it to the live event of the Tomscat Trophy 2022 in Moorsele. They decided to work together and create their own additional leaderboard a week later with the same competition draw. This modified format of the original NSL 4-way Network has been used throughout the corona virus crisis and most recently with the CISM competition draw.

Ayro's original lineup of 2017 took back the top spot over Falco, and both teams pushed each other to new team record averages for outdoor competition, Ayro last Saturday at Skydive Flanders in Zwartberg, Falco on Sunday at the skydiving center in Moorsele, host of the Tomscat Trophy's live event. This NSL News update was kindly supported by Ayro's team videographer Gerrit Tielens.