posted Oct 25th, 2022 - The next four rounds in 4-way competition at the FAI Outdoor World Meet brought a few changes to the combined leaderboard of 4-way Open and 4-way Women. The jump order was adjusted after the first day with the first four rounds by meet director Randy Connell, and the next four rounds took a lot longer to be completed.

The scores of Rounds 1 - 4 were posted on Friday last week. It took three more days until the scores of the next four rounds were eventually added by the end of the day on Monday. However, all four Formation Skydiving events, including 4-way VFS, had complete leaderboards for eight rounds on Monday evening.

It could have taken even longer, after the German 8-way team, Airbus Oceanside, had to deal with exit issues at their Round 8. The jury offered Airbus 8 a rejump that the team decided not to take advantage of. The 8-way scores were finally confirmed the way they were standing at the end of the day, and the German 8-way team is still sitting strongly in 3rd place.

The rankings on the 8-way leaderboard have not changed since Round 1, despite Germany's nightmare in Round 5 and MicroClim8's slipping in Round 6. The Qatar Falcons will win the first FAI silver medals for their country, as well as Airbus have secured the first bronze medals for Germany in history since 1985.

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FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open/4-way Women Combined		20,16,B		P,D,21,13		17,K,11		E,A,19,22		2,9,M		C,14,F,12		3,6,18		4,10,1		8,Q,O,H		5,7,J		L,15,N,G		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	-1	28		27		27		31		23		21		20		-		-		-		198	24.8
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	20	-1	25	-2	21		23		28		20	-2	19		17		-		-		-		173	21.6
3	France 4-way Open	FR	19		23	-1	22		23		27		20	-1	18		15	-1	-		-		-		167	20.9
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	-2	23	-1	22	-1	21		26		18		17	-1	17		-		-		-		163	20.4
5	NFTO	UK	18		23		21		21		25		15	-2	17		14	-1	-		-		-		154	19.3
6	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	20	-1	18	-1	21		21	-2	18		15		15		-		-		-		145	18.1
7	Nephtys	FR	16	-2	20	-1	19		21		23		14		17		14	-1	-		-		-		144	18.0
8	XPG4	US	17	-1	21	-1	18	-1	20	-1	20	-3	16		15		15		-		-		-		142	17.8
9	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	14	-1	21		19		19		20	-1	17		16		15		-		-		-		141	17.6
9	Chimera	UK	16		21	-2	19		19	-1	18	-5	18	-1	16		14	-1	-		-		-		141	17.6
11	4Astrophe	CA	15	-1	20		19		15	-2	21		15		15	-2	14		-		-		-		134	16.8
12	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	16		18	-2	19		16	-1	20	-1	13	-3	15		14		-		-		-		131	16.4
13	Agera FS 2022	NO	16		16	-2	17	-1	17		18	-1	15		15		13	-1	-		-		-		127	15.9
14	Ripper	AU	14	-1	16	-1	18		16	-1	21		15		12		10	-3	-		-		-		122	15.3
14	Out of the Blue	NL	16		16	-3	17		17		14	-2	17		12	-1	13	-1	-		-		-		122	15.3
16	Meltemi Oceanside	DE	15		17		13		17		20		14		14		9	-2	-		-		-		119	14.9
17	Sky4Four	PL	13	-1	14	-3	14		16		16	-2	12	-1	12		13		-		-		-		110	13.8
18	HF Flying Circus	CZ	13		10	-7	16		15	-1	18	-2	12	-1	13		11	-3	-		-		-		108	13.5
19	Sequenz	DK	10	-2	16		15		14	-1	17	-1	12	-1	12		11	-1	-		-		-		107	13.4
20	INIT-Y	BR	12	-2	14	-1	14	-1	13	-4	16		11	-2	10	-3	12		-		-		-		102	12.8
21	HSV Red Bull Aerodynamix	AT	10	-2	16		14		15		15	-1	8	-3	9	-2	10	-1	-		-		-		97	12.1
22	Adventure Flyers	PY	9	-1	13		12	-1	11		16		11		10		9		-		-		-		91	11.4
23	Equinox	LT	10	-1	12	-2	12		12	-1	13	-1	10		10		9	-1	-		-		-		88	11.0
24	Tina & The Dinosaurs	NZ	5		8	-1	4		9		9	-1	8		5		4	-2	-		-		-		52	6.5
25	La Playa	GT	2	-1	7	-2	5	-1	3	-3	7		5		3	-1	5		-		-		-		37	4.6

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It was different on the combined 4-way leaderboard, where only NFTO were able to confirm their ranking position behind the four medal contenders of the 4-way Open Class event. The Spanish CISM team Papea moved up in the next four rounds (5 - 8) and split the strong group of the three 4-way Women teams.

Nephtys, XPG4, Echochamber and Chimera have moved even closer to each other and are separated by three points after Round 8. It seems like these four teams will use the last two rounds on Tuesday to battle with Papea for the 6th place on the combined leaderboard. Airbus (Germany) and Agera (Norway) will make the Top 10 in 4-way Open, while they need two perfect rounds to have a chance for a Top 10 spot on the combined leaderboard.

The combined 4-way Open/4-way Women leaderboard of a world meet would be different though without the separate leaderboard for the 4-way Women teams. The delegations from the United States (Arizona Airspeed - XPG4), France (4-way Open - Nephtys) and Great Britain (NFTO - Chimera) each have two teams in the Top 10 of the combined leaderboard.

Canada (4Astrophe), Germany (Airbus 4) and Norway (Agera) would place their 4-way teams in the Top 10 of the combined AAA Class leaderboard without the separate 4-way Women event. Each of these three teams has female competitors in their 4-way Open Class lineups too.