posted Jan 26th, 2023 - The NSL News covered the Czech Indoor Open 2023 on January 20th and pointed out the record participation of the event. It was not only the five guest teams from four different countries who generated the record field of 22 teams. It was once again the Czech 4-way junior factor which played a major role.

The field of teams at the Czech Indoor Open keeps growing from inside the country, as well, as the seven Czech junior teams accumulated to almost one third of the 22 teams at the Hurricane Factory this month.

The previous NSL News update covered the two AAA Class juniors, HF Flying Rebels and HF Chameleons, in their final duel for the indoor world championship qualification. They increased the number of AAA Class teams at the event to eight, even though they would still be eligible for the official 4-way Junior category on the AA Class leaderboard.

Czech team Sky 21 and Kiss My Grips from Slovakia had the AA Class leaderboard for themselves, as Flying Rebels and Chameleons have been training and competing in the AAA Class following Jan Klapka's successful junior development strategy. Czech junior team Panthers, formerly one of the two Smajlici lineups, placed 2nd in the A Class behind the Slovakian Gang Bang from Slavnica. The Panthers just moved up from the Rookie Class at the beginning of the indoor winter season in November and finished with a new team record average.

Czech Indoor Open 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		20,15,E	7,N,C,5	6,11,16	H,12,1,3	1,18,J	Q,K,19,9	M,8,G,10	O,14,D,4	17,L,22	3,B,F,A	Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	CZ	27	30	23	22	26	33	22	27	22	38	270	27.0
2	HF Flying Circus	CZ	23	31	22	20	23	29	24	24	21	36	253	25.3
3	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	20	27	20	19	21	26	20	25	21	34	233	23.3
4	Bronteroc	HU	18	26	19	19	21	24	19	22	20	29	217	21.7
5	HF Chameleons	CZ	20	25	19	20	20	24	17	22	16	30	213	21.3
6	4 V Tunelu	CZ	12	20	13	15	15	17	14	16	8	22	152	15.2
7	Fire Phoenix	IT	11	17	13	14	10	16	14	12	12	16	135	13.5
8	M Team	CZ	10	13	12	13	10	13	12	12	8	14	117	11.7

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HF Flying Rebels - HF Chameleons at the Czech Indoor Open 2023

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The Panthers are a part of the group of teams from Moravia, the eastern part of the Czech Republic. They cross the border to Poland regularly to train and compete at Flyspot Katowice, as HF Flying Circus member Martina Vavackova explained earlier for the NSL News.

Panthers and the other teams from Moravia had completed the ten rounds of the Czech Tunnel League's January meet at Flyspot Katowice, just a few days before the Czech Indoor Open. Then they traveled to Prague for the live event that does not sanction online participation.

The two senior teams from Moravia on the A Class leaderboard, Flyers and Cats, did exactly the same, together with the Moravian Smajlici 4-way juniors in the Rookie Class. All four teams from Moravia then competed in Prague's Hurricane Factory on the following weekend.

The RRR Class leaderboard was completely dominated by teams of Jan Klapka's 4-way junior project. Four of the six teams came out of this program, and three of them took the positions on the podium at the end of the Czech Indoor Open 2023.

Czech Indoor Open 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		9,8	6,N	4,M	A,O,C	G,H,B	P,L,D	2,E	F,19	7,Q	21,K	Total	Avg
1	Gang Bang Slavnica	SK	13	14	16	24	22	20	15	16	18	15	173	17.3
2	Panthers	CZ	14	13	16	18	20	22	10	14	19	8	154	15.4
3	Kiss & Piss	CZ	13	8	12	16	21	17	12	15	13	11	138	13.8
4	Moravian Flyers	CZ	12	12	13	16	16	14	12	10	15	11	131	13.1
5	Vortex	UK	11	13	13	10	15	19	13	11	13	12	130	13.0
6	Moravian Cats	CZ	10	9	8	10	14	14	11	14	15	7	112	11.2

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Panthers at the Czech Indoor Open 2023 and at the January meet of the Czech Tunnel League

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The members of the RRR Class winners, Helicopter, have been in the program for a few years. With the current lineup, they decided to leave the history behind and give themselves a new team name, Helicopters.

Smart Fish have been together with the same lineup even longer and started at the beginning of the indoor winter season 2021/2022. They have attended ten meets since then and finished with a 15.0 team record average at the Czech Indoor Open. Moravian team Smajlici started shortly before Helicopters took off with their new team name.

The Unicorns are the youngest generation of the Czech 4-way juniors, and they would have more than enough space in the 14-foot flying chamber to perform the complete AAA Class dive pool comfortably. However, they completed only their 4th competition this month and posted a new record average in the RRR Class, as well.

It is a competitive field of Czech 4-way junior teams on the Rookie Class leaderboards. Five of the six teams, including the two senior teams, posted highscores in any of the ten rounds of the Czech Indoor Open.

Jan Klapka sends the junior teams and competitors first into the Indoor Cloud League events, where they can collect their first competition experiences. He has to generate new Rookie Class competitors all the time, as the 4-way juniors advance quickly and usually lose Indoor Cloud League eligibility for the three Rookie Class categories (R - RR - RRR) after a short time of 4-way training. However, they are still scoring for the Czech ICL team at the Hurricane Factory - in the Rookie Class and then in the technical categories (A - AA - AAA).

Rookie Class awards at the Czech Indoor Open 2023 from left to right: Smart Fish (2nd) - Helicopters (1st) - Smajlici (3rd)

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Czech Indoor Open 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		C,B,L	J,Q,H	G,M,O	A,K,D	N,F,P	E,G,L	N,M,B	E,O,Q	C,H,K	A,J,D	Total	Avg
1	Helicopters	CZ	14	16	15	14	18	13	17	18	16	19	160	16.0
2	Smart Fish	CZ	12	12	19	11	19	12	19	15	14	17	150	15.0
3	Smajlici	CZ	10	10	14	13	17	14	16	14	18	18	144	14.4
4	Surikaty	CZ	10	17	14	12	16	14	21	14	13	11	142	14.2
5	Dycky Most	CZ	7	13	14	15	15	12	20	10	10	12	128	12.8
6	Unicorns	CZ	10	10	11	12	14	11	15	13	11	7	114	11.4

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Helicopters - Smart Fish - Smajlici - Unicorns at the Czech Indoor Open 2023

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