posted Nov 4th, 2023 - The first NSL News update from the Italian Indoor Nationals on October 30th credited Fire Phoenix as the most improved team on the Italian AAA Class leaderboard. The story included the scoring progression of Italy's indoor national team in 4-way Women on their way to the indoor bronze medal position.

Fire Phoenix have attended six 4-way meets in the past 12 months, and the competition experiences were helpful when the team had to battle throughout the whole ten rounds with Bandits Revolution to finish in 3rd place. Eventually, there was a 2-point difference between 3rd and 4th place.

Their opponent in the battle for the bronze medals, Bandits Revolution, may have expected Fire Phoenix less as a serious opponent as Panik possibly did.

Bandits Revolution had lifted their performance and scoring level significantly, as well, from 15.0 in November 2022 to 18.7 last month.

Italian Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	O,9,C,Q	8,21,15	H,14,J,M	11,L,13	N,16,22	7,P,12	B,17,D,10	19,K,G,A	4,5,3	20,1,F	Total	Avg
1	Fly X	44	19	32	23	22	24	29	32	21	25	271	27.1
2	Aerogravity FS4	32	15	27	19	18	20	17	19	15	19	201	20.1
3	Fire Phoenix	25	13	25	17	17	21	19	22	13	17	189	18.9
4	Bandits Revolution	24	14	26	16	17	18	17	22	16	17	187	18.7
5	Bad Boys	24	14	26	13	15	17	17	16	13	15	170	17.0
6	Panik	25	11	21	14	15	16	15	15	8	16	156	15.6
7	QQ4	21	11	18	13	12	10	14	16	11	14	140	14.0

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Fire Phoenix - Bandits Revolution at the Italian Indoor Nationals 2023

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Bandits were still 12 points ahead of Fire Phoenix (15.0 - 13.8) with their original lineup when both teams competed at the Flyspot Open 2022 in November last year, where the Italian Indoor Nationals were embedded into the event.

Original Bandits members Tatjana Mura and Allessandro Grandi had two highly experienced 4-way competitors in their 2023 lineup, Federico Angelotti and Stefano Rossi, when they posted their 17.8 average in April at the Weembi Cup 2023.

Federico Angelotti actually trains and competes with FLY X, and he was back with his own team for the Italian Indoor Nationals. Stefano Rossi has been training and competing with eX3MO for several years, including the national outdoor championship this year, where he re-joined forces with eX3MO founder Placido Udine and Fire Phoenix members Antonella Chiarin and Paola Vana.

Federico Angelotti (FLY X), Antonella Chiarin and Paola Vana (Fire Phoenix) were back with their own teams for the indoor championship, while Stefano Rossi was still available for Bandits Revolution. Placido Udine competed with the Bad Boys, and Emanuele Palombi replaced Federico Angelotti for Bandits Revolution.

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FLY X - Aerogravity FS4 at the Italian Indoor Nationals 2023

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The new Bandits lineup increased their scoring level from 17.8 in April to 18.7 last month, which was still not enough to fend off Fire Phoenix with their well prepared original lineup. Fire Phoenix have now moved from their 13.8 average in November 2022 to the 18.9 at the national indoor championship last month.

The competition videos are featuring the battle for bronze medals between Fire Phoenix and Bandits Revolution, and also the other Italian 4-way indoor medalists, FLY X and Aerogravity FS4.

FLY X, now with Arianna De Benedetti and Federico Angelotti, are back to the 27+ scoring level where team founder Giuseppe Cossu and Livio Piccolo were with Chiara Brunetti and Ivan Quadrio at the Italian Indoor Nationals 2019. The 27+ level would have been enough to challenge the Qatar Tigers who finished in 4th place at the 4th FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship in April this year. The next major FAI/ISC indoor competition is the world cup in China next year. Aerogravity FS4 finished 12 points ahead of Fire Phoenix in 2nd place with their second 20+ average in the team's indoor and outdoor history. There is no doubt that Fire Phoenix are now aiming at the 20-average benchmark, and Aerogravity will probably have to be ready for an even stronger indoor challenger.

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