posted Aug 2nd, 2022 - The NSL Calendar of Events has been a quite accurate tool to measure the impact of the corona virus crisis on Formation Skydiving competition. The last year before the worldwide health crisis was 2019, and a total of 140 indoor and outdoor events generated many more leaderboard and hundreds of NSL News updates.

The number of events in the NSL records was down to 52 in 2020 when the regulations how to run events were new, unclear and not greatly coordinated. Cancellations were the most common way how to deal with the situation. The handling of event logistics were better defined in 2021. The number of events went up to 93, which was still significantly lower compared to the previous years.

The 2022 season has generated 52 events until the end of July, according to the current NSL records. There is a realistic chance that this number will climb back up to 100+ this year, since at least the impact of the corona virus crisis seems to become lighter. However, political crises are still not making it easier to find a way back to the situation before the health crisis, and it may still take a few more years until the number of event opportunities will be unlimited and unrestricted. The records of the Indoor Cloud League alone are a very similar mirror of the situation in the past three years.

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Indoor Cloud League 2019			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	144	142	140	108	118	134	114	101	146	104	125	130	1506
2	Paraclete XP	US	100	131	132	110	98	-	111	144	142	94	92	100	1252
3	iFLY Seattle	US	115	91	118	82	85	82	93	107	80	102	94	102	1151
4	iFLY Tampa	US	91	106	112	77	92	102	106	82	75	95	103	93	1134
5	iFLY Dallas	US	67	76	102	88	105	99	89	67	87	92	85	101	1053
6	Capital Region	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	108	194
7	iFLY Jacksonville	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	50	21	49	42	162
8	iFLY Atlanta	US	-	40	41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	82
Indoor Cloud League 2020			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	147	154	134	-	158	122	117	110	123	-	-	137	1202
2	Paraclete XP	US	110	135	114	-	-	-	139	114	141	90	108	145	1096
3	ICL Midwest	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	142	130	149	127	104	652
4	iFLY Dallas	US	89	109	96	-	-	-	-	-	-	103	92	99	588
5	iFLY Tampa	US	101	104	55	-	-	49	-	36	-	56	-	-	401
6	Capital Region	US	106	117	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	223
7	iFLY Seattle	US	92	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	202
8	iFLY Jacksonville	US	18	66	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	-	-	111
Indoor Cloud League 2021			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	iFLY Dallas	US	102	97	106	108	99	124	116	117	111	112	115	94	1301
2	Hurricane Factory	CZ	-	-	-	-	118	119	119	105	118	144	134	145	1002
3	Paraclete XP	US	116	85	110	111	118	123	-	-	-	107	118	105	993
4	ICL Midwest	US	-	133	147	145	137	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	562
5	iFLY Tampa	US	62	57	62	64	50	85	-	-	-	-	-	-	380
Indoor Cloud League 2022			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	142	146	141	109	123	109	-	-	-	-	-	-	770
2	iFLY Dallas	US	113	132	123	101	131	111	-	-	-	-	-	-	711
3	Paraclete XP	US	97	74	64	132	142	106	-	-	-	-	-	-	615
4	iFLY Colorado Springs	US	-	-	-	-	43	68	70	-	-	-	-	-	181
5	ICL Midwest	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	124	-	-	-	-	-	124

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The last Indoor Cloud League year in 2019, before the beginning of the corona virus crisis early in 2020, had generated new record participation on the annual leaderboard, and new teams at iFLY Jacksonville and Capital Region had just joined the Indoor Cloud League.

It seemed like the momentum of the indoor project generated great interest and attracted increasing numbers of participants to 4-way competition on all levels. Then the impact of the corona virus crisis reversed the same momentum, and the 2020 leaderboard showed a very scattered participation.

There was even one month (April) when no Indoor Cloud League team posted any scoring numbers or videos, and only the Czech team at the Hurricane Factory was able to resume in May.

There was one highlight in the same year though, when Skydive Midwest NEXT decided to join the Indoor Cloud League and managed the challenging crisis logistics well enough to post scores and videos for the five consecutive months between August and December. The members of the current NEXT lineup guided the ICL Midwest team to three highscores in the same five months.

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Indoor Cloud League July 2022 - ICL Midwest	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	A,19,P,12	O,19,14	B,N,8	B,N,O	M,A,P	M,C	Total
Aga Horoszko, Eric Bambach, Kelsey Strock, Gorka Amian	17	20	-	-	-	-	37
Natalie Rodrigues, Dan Reuber, Russell Bayuk, Chris Haslam	-	-	16	29	-	-	45
Rhiannon Lucente, Katie Healy, Tom Barr, Lauren Byrd	-	-	-	-	30	17	42
ICL Midwest's Best of May	17	20	16	29	25	17	124

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Indoor Cloud League July 2022: ICL Midwest Highscores

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The Skydive Midwest NEXT lineup carried the Indoor Cloud League momentum into the next year, which was still heavily impacted by the corona virus crisis and generated the smallest annual leaderboard since 2019. The ICL Midwest team missed the January competition completely and then followed up with four consecutive monthly highscores.

Unfortunately, the newest ICL team at that time was facing the same difficulties in running the events as many other teams and organizers and discontinued after posting the last scores and videos in May 2021.

It took over a year until the logistics were back in place for Skydive Midwest NEXT and their ICL participants, and team member Lauren Byrd shared the great news of a comeback with the NSL News at the beginning of July. She and her team mates followed up with a complete set of six scores and videos, which add up once again to the current July highscore.

The complete NEXT lineup was mostly taking care of the two 4-way Open Class sequences (AAA/AA) in the past and until the last ICL Midwest event in May 2021. The first event at the comeback is showing team members Lauren Byrd and Gorka Amian in player-coaching slots, together with former NEXT member Chris Haslam. It was almost the complete SDC Rhebellion XP lineup who scored for the ICL Midwest team for the same two sequences, together with player-coach Gorka Amian. The NSL News had reported on May 13th that Rhebellion were aiming at the USPA gold medals in the AA/Intermediate Class this year.