posted Oct 20th, 2023 - Swedish 4-way teams started with the switch from outdoor to indoor competition with their national championship at Bodyflight Bromma in Stockholm, the country's capital city, two months after the completion of the Swedish outdoor championships at the end of July, six weeks after the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving in Norway.

The national indoor championship was a reversed Swedish situation compared to the outdoor world cup. Sweden's strongest 4-way team, Echochamber Oceanside, did not compete at Skydive Voss in Norway, where Aurora represented the country on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard.

Echochamber had competed for Sweden at the 4th FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship and finished in 6th place, with only the world's four top teams and Germany's Jochen Schweizer Arena Airfource ahead of them. Echochamber then skipped the outdoor world cup and were back for indoor competition earlier this month at their home chamber in Stockholm.

Echochamber and Aurora both had attended the national outdoor championship in July. Aurora followed up at the outdoor world cup, while Echochamber once again won the national 4-way title and will compete for Sweden at the next outdoor world championship.

Swedish Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	D,7,Q,19	C,6,P,12	18,5,3	B,1,H,O	L,M,10,G	A,E,4,F	21,2,22	20,13,11	K,17,8	J,N,9,14	Total	Avg
1	Echochamber Oceanside	27	26	21	33	25	30	20	21	24	29	256	25.6
2	Edge	20	17	15	23	18	19	11	13	17	21	174	17.4
Rank	Rookie	M,N,F	Q,E,P	L,H,A	G,J,D	B,C,O	K,P,A	D,F,J	E,Q,H	L,G,B	C,H,O	Total	Avg
1	Eclipse	26	18	12	15	12	16	22	22	16	16	175	17.5
2	Wingnuts	19	12	8	4	7	4	9	12	9	10	94	9.4

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Echochamber Oceanside - Edge at the Swedish Indoor Nationals 2023

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Echochamber Oceanside have neither any serious domestic indoor nor outdoor challengers in Sweden, and they won both championship events easily. The next international events would be the indoor world cup in China in April 2024, then the outdoor world championship, where the location still has to be found after the recent cancellation.

Echochamber have represented Sweden at indoor and outdoor world championships since 2017, with the exception of the FAI Tanay Mondial in August 2021. They plan to continue doing this at the next event, as well, once the new location has been determined.

There is even a good chance that Echochamber may travel to China for the indoor world cup. They competed with the 2022 lineup (Ann-Marie Jarzebowski, Ulf Liljenbäck, Mattias Nord, Rikard Rodensjö) at indoor world cup and outdoor world championship both, before going back to the 2018/2019 lineup (Johan Edvall, Ulf Liljenbäck, Mattias Nord, Rikard Rodensjö) at the first two events this year.

In fact, there was also another Echochamber lineup without Mattias Nord who competed at the national indoor championship last year.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2023			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Top 10		E,14,3		K,F,22,17		O,7,5		N,2,18		L,P,12,15		M,10,D,H		16,9,C		1,G,J,8		4,Q,21		6,20,A		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	27		35		39		27	-2	31		38		38		29		28	-1	31		323	32.3
2	France 4-way Open	FR	27		33		38		26	-2	28		33	-3	35		28		30		30		308	30.8
3	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	26	-1	30		33	-3	26	-3	28		37	-1	37		28		29		30	-1	304	30.4
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	24		29	-1	32	-1	26		25	-3	32		30	-2	26		25	-1	26	-1	275	27.5
5	Jochen Schweizer Arena Airfource	DE	22	-2	28	-1	33		22		25		30	-2	31		24		24	-1	25	-1	264	26.4
6	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	22		26	-1	30		17	-5	24		28	-3	27	-2	23		24		25	-1	246	24.6
7	FLY X	IT	19	-4	27		30	-1	20	-1	21	-1	29	-2	30	-1	23	-1	22	-2	24	-1	245	24.5
8	HF Flying Circus	CZ	20	-2	23	-1	29	-1	22		20	-2	30	-2	29		24		20	-3	25		242	24.2
9	Purple Maze	FI	22		26		29		19	-3	21		29		27		25		21	-3	21	-2	240	24.0
9	Papea	ES	23	-1	24	-2	29	-2	19	-5	21	-2	28	-2	28		25		21	-1	22	-2	240	24.0

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Echochamber Oceanside at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023, video footage courtesy of FAI/InTime

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The NSL News reported on 28 November 2022 that the original Echochamber lineup of 2016 won last year's national indoor championship. It was actually the same original lineup (Martin Bäcklin, Johan Edvall, Ulf Liljenbäck, Rikard Rodensjö) who were back this month to win the next Swedish indoor title.

There was no room for Mattias Nord, who joined Echochamber first as an external coach, before taking one of the active slots when Martin Bäcklin could not continue in 2018. The original lineup had an indoor comeback in 2019 before Johan Edvall had to step back, as well, at least for outdoor training and competition.

The next reunion of the original lineup took place in November last year, and Mattias Nord was only the coaching alternate and observer. Earlier this month, he was once again watching the original lineup performing, while he was also player-coaching one of the two Rookie Class teams (Wingnuts) at the same time.

However, Echochamber invited their official alternate to compete in one of the ten rounds. Mattias Nord performed Round 6 in the tail slot and contributed to the 25.6 average, which was the highest Echochamber indoor result since the Wind Games 2020.

FAI European Championship 2023			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		3,G,N,19		11,17,L		13,7,C		2,D,O,8		14,K,J,12		9,M,P,H		5,4,18		15,1,10		16,21,E		F,20,6		Total	Avg
1	France 4-way Open	FR	23		25	-1	26		24		19		45	-1	19		19		23		23		246	24.6
2	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	20	-4	20	-2	25		23	-1	18	-2	45		20		19		24		24		238	23.8
3	Airbus Illertissen Oceanside	DE	17	-1	18		20	-1	17		14		31	-1	15		15		18		18		183	18.3
4	Amnesya	IT	16	-1	17		19		17	-1	16		31	-1	15		14		18		18	-1	181	18.1
5	Papea	ES	14	-3	17	-1	18	-1	17		14	-1	32		14	-1	15		18		18		177	17.7
6	Out Of The Blue	NL	17		15	-1	18		16	-1	15		31	-4	14		13		16		18	-1	173	17.3
7	Agera	NO	15	-2	13	-2	16		18		12	-1	32	-1	13	-1	15		18		13	-4	165	16.5
8	Aurora	SE	14		14		15	-1	13	-1	12		26		11	-1	13		13	-1	17		148	14.8
9	Sequenz	DK	14	-1	12		15	-1	12	-1	10	-1	24	-1	12		11		12	-1	13		135	13.5
10	ALIS	UA	11		10		9	-2	11		10		20	-1	9		9		10	-1	14		113	11.3
11	DNF	UK	11	-1	9		12		11		9		21		9	-1	9		8	-1	10	-2	109	10.9

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Aurora at the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving - Video footage courtesy of InTime/FAI/ISC

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