posted Mar 20th, 2023 - The March meet of the Czech Tunnel League offered the next opportunity for the Czech national teams to get ready for the upcoming FAI Indoor World Championship 2023. Jan Klapka has one more competition scheduled before the Czech delegation will travel to the neighboring Slovakia for this year's indoor showdown.

The last meet of the Czech Tunnel League 2022/2023 takes place on April 12th at the Hurricane Facxtory in Prague, a week before Round 1 on April 20th at the Hurricane Factory Tatralandia.

The three Czech national 4-way teams, HF Cubs (4-way Women), HF Flying Circus (4-way Open), HF Flying Rebels (4-way Junior) placed once again in the Top 3 positions on the AAA Class leaderboard in March, and the Flying Rebels juniors even claimed one sole highscore in Round 7 over the two senior teams.

The Flying Rebels are still posting AAA Class scores, even though they will perform AA Class sequences at the indoor world championship. The second 4-way Junior team on the AAA Class leaderboard, HF Chameleons, will not compete in Slovakia, while they continue to put as much competition pressure on the Flying Rebels as possible. The 4-way Junior duel in the AAA Class ended with an 8-point advantage for the national team this time.

Czech Tunnel League March 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		17,1,18	4,D,22	Q,E,2,F	11,G,5	13,12,15	B,14,N,M	16,21,A	10,O,L,J	8,3,P	K,C,7,19	Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	CZ	22	24	29	23	21	28	23	27	21	27	245	24.5
2	HF Flying Circus	CZ	19	19	29	22	19	29	23	26	20	27	233	23.3
3	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	18	20	28	20	17	26	24	22	17	22	214	21.4
4	HF Chameleons	CZ	19	19	23	19	17	26	19	23	18	23	206	20.6
5	Kiss My Grips	SK	11	13	17	12	11	18	13	14	11	17	137	13.7
Rank	AA Class		1,18	4,D,22	Q,E,2	11,G,F	13,15	B,14,N	21,A,M	19,O,L	8,P,H	K,C,7	Total	Avg
1	SDU GenZ	SK	10	10	15	14	13	15	13	13	13	17	133	13.3

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HF Cubs - HF Flying Circus - Kiss My Grips at the March competition of the World Tunnel League

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The Czech teams were not alone on the March leaderboard. In fact, teams participated at the three locations that the NSL News had introduced with the indoor update on 29 November 2022. Most of the Czech teams completed the ten March rounds at the Hurricane Factory in Prague, and the four Moravian teams crossed the border to Poland and used the Flyspot windtunnel in Katovice.

Two more teams from Slovakia joined the March competition and performed the same sequences in their home chamber at the Hurricane Factory Tatralandia, host of the upcoming indoor world championship. The all-female lineup of Kiss My Grips competed in the AAA Class, after their first ten rounds on the AA leaderboard of the Czech Indoor Open 2023 in January.

With Kiss My Grips, the hosting nation may have national teams in all three horizontal FAI 4-way categories (Open, Women, Junior). A new team from Slovakia, SDU GenZ, was alone on the AA Class leaderboard. The senior team of the Skydive University Slovakia is probably competing for the host in 4-way Open.

The two Czech national teams in the senior events, HF Cubs and HF Flying Circus, will probably have much more work at the indoor world championship than the HF Flying Rebels, who are the top contenders in 4-way Junior. The HF Cubs won the previous set of FAI gold medals in 4-way Junior in 2019.

Czech Tunnel League March 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		M,L,H	4,D	Q,E,2	G,F,J	6,B	N,9	21,A	19,O	8,P	K,C,7	Total	Avg
1	Panthers	CZ	14	14	11	18	16	12	8	17	11	12	133	13.3
2	Moravian Flyers	CZ	16	14	8	16	15	10	9	11	11	11	121	12.1
3	Moravian Cats	CZ	15	11	7	14	14	10	10	11	8	7	107	10.7

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Panthers - Moravian Flyers - Moravian Cats at the March competition of the World Tunnel League

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HF Cubs won the 4-way Women competition at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022, however, the competition in Slovakia will be much more challenging, as the reigning outdoor world champions from Great Britain, NFTO, are registered for the event, and France recently announced a very strong 4-way Women lineup.

The competition in 4-way Open may offer the 5th place as the best finish for all other teams behind the Top 4 at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022 and the Shamrock Showdown 2023. HF Flying Circus will try to defend the impressive 6th place that they claimed in Charleroi last year and probably aim at this 5th place at the same time.

The next generation of Czech 4-way juniors keeps growing in Jan Klapka's 4-way school. The juniors of the Panthers have been outscoring the seniors of the Moravian Flyers and Cats regularly since December 2022 in the A Class competition, and the Helicopters are winning the Rookie Class on a high scoring level.

The youngest, and smallest, lineup of the Unicorns make the 14-foot flying chamber of the Hurricane Factory look like any 16-foot chamber for seniors. It is very much worth taking a closer look at the team's video of the ten competition rounds in the Rookie Class.

Czech Tunnel League March 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		M,L,H	D,A,O	Q,E,P	G,F,J	B,K,M	N,C,L	A,H,Q	O,D,G	P,E,F	K,C,J	Total	Avg
1	Helicopters	CZ	20	20	20	21	20	14	21	16	22	16	190	19.0
2	Dycky Most	CZ	20	14	14	14	19	11	13	12	21	13	151	15.1
3	Smart Fish	CZ	15	13	14	17	14	9	12	9	15	9	127	12.7
4	Smajlici	CZ	11	12	13	13	12	11	16	10	12	14	124	12.4
5	Unicorns	CZ	12	8	13	11	8	9	9	10	10	11	101	10.1

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Helicopters - Unicorns at the March competition of the World Tunnel League

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