posted Mar 3rd, 2023 - Arizona Airspeed has been dominating the world's recent 4-way competition like no other team in the history of Formation Skydiving. The reigning outdoor world championship and indoor world cup champions have won their last 30 competition rounds without allowing any other teams to even match one of the scores.

There is probably no doubt that this streak will continue at the upcoming indoor world championship, where Airspeed will most likely unite the FAI indoor and outdoor titles. The only question seems to be if any other 4-way team will be able to take away or just tie one single highscore for a round.

There is still one more outdoor test at the Shamrock Showdown next week, before the world's national 4-way teams meet in Slovakia. Airspeed will try to maintain the flawless record of the last 30 rounds in DeLand, where the other three best 4-way teams in the world, NMP PCH HayaBusa, Qatar Tigers and the French national 4-way Open Class team, want to break the incredible streak.

Airspeed's 30 consecutive winning rounds were surely not a walk in the park. They include the ten outdoor rounds at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022, USPA Nationals 2022 and the recent Paraclete XP Indoor Championship. At least the Qatar Tigers, FAI bronze medalists of 2022, attended the same three events.

FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Top 10		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		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	-1	28		27		27		31		23		21		20		32		31		261	26.1
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	20	-1	25	-2	21		23		28		20	-2	19		17		29		26		228	22.8
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	-2	23	-1	22	-1	21	-1	26		18		17	-1	17		28		28		219	21.9
4	France 4-way Open	FR	19		23	-1	22		23		27		20	-1	18		15	-1	20	-5	27	-1	214	21.4
5	Chimera	UK	16		21	-2	19		19	-1	18	-5	18	-1	16		14	-1	23	-1	24		188	18.8
6	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	20	-1	18	-1	21		21	-2	18		15		15		21	-1	20	-3	186	18.6
7	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	14	-1	21		19		19		20	-1	17		16		15		24	-1	20	-1	185	18.5
8	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	16		18	-2	19		16	-1	20	-1	13	-3	15		14		19	-2	22	-1	172	17.2
9	Agera FS 2022	NO	16		16	-2	17	-1	17		18	-1	15		15		13	-1	18	-3	21		166	16.6
9	4Astrophe	CA	15	-1	20		19		15	-2	21		15		15	-2	14		16	-3	16	-2	166	16.6

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Arizona Airspeed at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022, Video Footage Courtesy of FAI/ISC and OmniSkore!HD

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The last time that Arizona Airspeed lost a round was at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022. They won the event by 29 points and gave up the Super Sequence in Round 2 (L,C,F,9) by four points to the young French 4-way Open Class indoor team (58 - 54). France also managed to tie the highscore in Round 6, however, the rest was all Airspeed.

The winning streak goes even further back to last year's Paraclete XP Indoor Championship. Airspeed have actually lost the same one round and tied the other one in their last 60 competition rounds.

The development to this total recent dominance in 4-way Open began when Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine recruited Joey Marshall and Chris Kuhlmann for their current lineup. That happened after the USPA Nationals 2019 when Thiago Gomes, Ari Perelman and Matt Davidson did not continue with the team.

It did not take the former Ranch 2nd Generation members much time to melt into the new Airspeed lineup and add their own ideas to the team plans. It was in fact in the middle of the corona virus crisis (2020) when the new lineup prepared their bright future.

FAI Tanay Mondial 2020			1		2		3		4		5		6		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		O,19,Q,5		17,B,E,P		H,15,12		M,N,7,F		K,L,C,4		J,18,16		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32		41	-1	23		43		30	-4	24	-1	193	32.2
2	SDC Rhythm XP	US	25	-2	35	-5	22		39		26	-4	22		169	28.2
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	24	-1	38	-2	19		34		26		19	-2	160	26.7
4	Aerodyne Cypres Lille	FR	23		33		19		32		24		21		152	25.3
5	Papea Masculino	ES	18	-2	27	-2	14		24	-4	19		16	-1	118	19.7
6	Kazakhstan	KZ	19	-1	23	-1	13		24	-1	17		15		111	18.5
7	Out of the Blue	NL	12	-2	25		15		23	-2	18		15	-1	108	18.0
8	Adventure Flyers	PY	12		15		11		14	-1	14		7		73	12.2
9	Indonesia	ID	3	-2	6	-1	1	-3	10	-4	1	-2	5	-1	26	4.3

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NMP PCH HayaBusa at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020, Video Footage Courtesy of FAI/ISC and InTime

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The new Airspeed product was ready at the beginning of the 2021 season, and the current lineup never looked back ever since. In fact, the brand-new lineup lost only twice, first at the Wind Games 2020, where the other dominating team of the last decade, NMP PCH HayaBusa, outscored Airspeed. The Belgians won again at the virtual NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 and were not facing Airspeed at the real FAI Tanay Mondial in August 2021.

NMP PCH HayaBusa is the only other team in the history of the sport who won all competition rounds at an indoor or outdoor world championship. David Grauwels, 4-way world champion of 2014, 2016 and 2018, had already switched to the camera slot where he was filming Andy Grauwels, Dennis Praet, Jeroen Nollet and Michele Silvi winning all six completed rounds in Tanay.

The closest that any other 4-way outdoor world champions since 1985 came to the same NMP PCH HayaBusa and Arizona Airspeed dominance at any world championship was the French national team in 4-way Open at the 2003 event on their home turf in Gap. Julien Dosantos, Marin Ferre, Erwan Pouliquen and Davide Moy, with Laurent Pechbarty on camera, gave away only the first round and tied two more for a 15-point win over the Golden Knights.

Round 1 of the Shamrock Showdown will launch the next Airspeed round-by-round challenge, beginning on Friday morning next week.

FAI World Meet 2003			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Top 10		1,11,12	M,J,E,10	K,16,6	13,14,5	D,22,4	9,C,Q,N	F,19,21	2,20,L	18,B,3	8,P,7	Total	Avg
1	Maubeuge	FR	16	26	23	19	21	37	24	21	19	23	229	22.9
2	Golden Knights	US	17	24	22	19	18	35	22	18	19	20	214	21.4
3	DeLand Norgies	NO	13	24	21	19	18	36	19	16	19	21	206	20.6
4	Sebastian XL	UK	14	22	21	19	17	34	21	18	19	20	205	20.5
5	Sinapsi PD	IT	13	24	22	17	17	32	22	18	18	-	183	20.3
6	Endeavour	CH	13	21	19	15	17	29	21	17	16	-	168	18.7
7	NMPV	BE	15	19	19	16	15	29	19	16	16	-	164	18.2
8	EADS	DE	14	19	17	15	15	26	17	16	16	-	155	17.2
9	Wild Wind	RU	15	22	18	15	18	22	17	8	-	-	135	16.9
10	Phenix	SE	13	18	15	15	16	23	18	16	-	-	134	16.8