posted Dec 26th, 2022 - The Indoor Cloud League month of November did not keep up with the two promising previous months, which featured all participating 2022 teams on the same leaderboards in September and November. iFLY Colorado Springs missed the first month after joining the Indoor Cloud League in May this year and following up with increasing scoring numbers month by month.

However, a very exciting event compensated for the missing November scores. It was a reunion of the passionate 4-way fans who partnered with the Florida Skydiving League to initiate the Indoor Cloud League in 2012. Deb and Dave Correia, Babs and Bill Selig decided to take on the AA and A sequences of November and submitted scores and videos for the ICL leaderboard.

The Indoor Cloud League became actually a by-product of the traditional National Skydiving League network. The Florida Skydiving League teams had used their SkyVenture/iFLY Orlando windtunnel intensively for training and competitive 4-way projects since it was opened in 1998. The FSL Tunnel Kicker in July 2002 was just a regular monthly 4-way activity, along with the completion of the month's FSL outdoor meet.

It was different for the Northwest Skydiving League in July 2002 when the outdoor meet was completely weathered out, as the NSL News reported on 6 July 2012. The Northwest Skydiving League had their own newly built windtunnel in Seattle and could compensate for bad weather situations and offer indoor training. Both leagues finally decided to add regular indoor meets, which became the beginnings of the Indoor Cloud League.

Indoor Cloud League 2022			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	iFLY Dallas	US	113	132	123	101	131	111	122	79	122	133	131	-	1298
2	Hurricane Factory	CZ	142	146	141	109	123	109	-	-	114	109	99	90	1182
3	Paraclete XP	US	97	74	64	132	142	106	81	103	108	113	120	-	1140
4	ICL Midwest	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	124	78	130	122	86	-	540
5	iFLY Colorado Springs	US	-	-	-	-	43	68	70	83	114	78	-	-	456
6	iFLY Seattle	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	24
-	iFLY Tampa	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Capital Region	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	iFLY Jacksonville	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Florida and Northwest Skydiving League both kept running their indoor and outdoor meets parallel, and the 4-way teams and competitors in the Northwest enjoyed the opportunity to continue with their 4-way activities when the winter weather did not allow outdoor training and competition. Deb Correia and her husband Dave organized the indoor and outdoor 4-way events in the Northwest in the earlier years.

The 4-way teams in Florida had already adjusted their schedule to match the weather situation in other parts of the United States and Europe when the National Skydiving League competition network kept growing beyond the Florida borders.

The two first teams of the Indoor Cloud League had the ICL leaderboard for themselves only in 2012. It did not take very long until 4-way fans in other parts of the country began using their own new windtunnels for the same activities and joined the Indoor Cloud League. SkyVenture New Hampshire posted their first scores in March 2013, followed by the Hurricane Factory in June.

Six different teams participated in six different windtunnels during the last four months of 2013, seven in 2014. Jan Klapka with the Czech team at the Hurricane Factory then launched his 4-way junior project and became the dominating player of the Indoor Cloud League.

Indoor Cloud League 2022			AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Rank	November 14+		Q,2,E,12	J,2,7	L,H,21	L,H,J	M,Q,E	M,N	Total
1	iFLY Dallas	US	18	22	18	27	21	25	131
2	Paraclete XP	US	17	18	14	21	25	25	120
3	Hurricane Factory	CZ	23	27	17	8	13	11	99
4	ICL Midwest	US	15	18	15	12	16	10	86
5	iFLY Seattle	US	-	12	12	-	-	-	24

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iFLY Seattle team in November

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Florida and Northwest eventually separated at the end of 2015 when enough windtunnels offered the option of two different 12+ and 14+ leaderboards. Teams were eager to apply the complete dive pool, which was possible for the facilities with larger flying chambers. Florida continued on the 12+ leaderboard, while the Seattle team joined the teams on the 14+ leaderboard.

Seattle Swift member Djordje Mandaric began to assist Deb Correia with her efforts for the indoor and outdoor events of the Northwest Skydiving League and allowed the founder of both leagues to step back at the end of the 2018 season.

The iFLY Seattle team was still one of the eleven participating groups at the end of 2019 and the first two months of 2020. Then the corona virus crisis had an even stronger impact on indoor events than on outdoor training and competition. Not much of the Indoor Cloud League was left at the end of 2020, and it became even worse in 2021 when only three of the eleven teams were still active.

The leaderboard of the 2022 season is showing signs of recovery, and the November comeback of the iFLY Seattle team founders is the next encouraging sign. The final leaderboard of the year will be completed soon, and the recovery of the Indoor Cloud League will hopefully continue with a new year coming.

Indoor Cloud League 2012			AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Rank	July 12+		K,6,11	D,C,7	A,B,9	E,B,J	M,F,H	M,O	Total
1	iFLY Seattle	US	11	14	21	11	27	26	110
2	iFLY Orlando	US	15	18	11	12	18	10	84

Indoor Cloud League 2012			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 12+ Feet
1	iFLY Orlando	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	105	128	123	83	-	523
2	iFLY Seattle	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	110	88	-	112	95	106	511

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Indoor Cloud League AAA/AA Class: Florida - Northwest in July 2012

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