posted Nov 14th, 2023 - The highlight of the British Indoor Nationals 2023 was probably the reunion of the still reigning outdoor world champions in 4-way Women, NFTO. It was the lineup with Elizabeth Kennedy, who had joined NFTO at the end of the 2022 season, exactly the same one who won the national indoor championship a year ago. Anna Hicks, Vana Parker and Sian Stokes have been training and competing together since 2018.

The NFTO 3-way won their first national 4-way AAA Class title with Catherine Anderson in 2018, and the same lineup followed up with silver medals at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2018 and at the FAI Indoor World Cup a few weeks later.

Kate Lindsley replaced Catherine Anderson in 2019 for the successful defense of the national AAA Class title and two more sets of FAI silver medals, first at the indoor world championship at Weembi Lille, then at the outdoor world cup in Eloy.

Anna Hicks, Vana Parker and Sian Stokes won the British outdoor title again in 2021, this time with Julia Swallow in the lineup, Simon Brentford as always on camera. Catherine Anderson replaced Julia Swallow for the 2022 season, which concluded with NFTO's first outdoor world championship title in 4-way Women.

British Indoor Nationals 2023		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	12,H,9		16,E,1		G,17,7		2,O,L,C		13,11,B		K,6,A,15		N,5,F,Q		8,21,4		3,20,19		10,P,22		Total	Avg
1	NFTO	26		27		30		31		26		26		43		21		23		18		271	27.1
G	Weembi Unicorns	28	-1	26	-1	28	-1	29		26		24	-3	42		21		22		19	-1	265	26.5
2	Anonymous	25		23	-2	25		24	-3	20	-2	23		33	-3	18	-1	19		19		229	22.9
3	Viserion	22		22		24		26		19		22		31	-1	17		19		16		218	21.8
4	CHuMMs	16		16		17		19		16		16		19		15		13		15		162	16.2
5	Jupiter	18		15		15		20		13		15		20		12		15		15		158	15.8
6	We All Kiss Girls	17		15		14		20		13		17		20		13		12		14		155	15.5
7	Frenzy	13		12		15		16		9		17		18		13		9		6		128	12.8
8	HBK	12		10		12		13		11		11		13		7		8		11		108	10.8
9	Axis	9		8		11		14		8		13		13		11		8		9		104	10.4
10	FS-BS	4		10		8		13		8		10		0		10		7		9		79	7.9

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NFTO - Weembi Unicorns at the British Indoor Open 2023

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Elizabeth Kennedy trained and competed with NFTO until the 3rd place at the 4th FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship in Slovakia this year, before Vana Parker and Sian Stokes decided to continue with Lucy Davies and Danni Hurt when Anna Hicks and Elizabeth Kennedy both stepped back. Simon Brentford was and still is in his camera slot for NFTO.

The NFTO 2023 lineup had plans only until the national outdoor championship that Apex won this year, with Viserion in 2nd, NFTO in 3rd place. That's when the 2022 lineup began to consider the reunion event at the national indoor championship.

There was not much serious opposition by any British 4-way teams last week, and NFTO defended their indoor title with exactly the same lineup as in December 2022 and a 42-point lead over Anonymous in 2nd place.

However, NFTO had a well known opponent on the top of the leaderboard, who could not win British indoor medals. Guest team Weembi Unicorns with their international lineup of world-class 4-way competitors made their second trip to Great Britain, after attending the last World Challenge in April 2019 .

Weembi FS Cup 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		19,17,5	13,21,14	G,F,10,16	J,15,7	3,9,B	6,D,8	C,22,18	11,H,12	4,Q,P,L	O,A,E,M,K	Total	Avg
1	NFTO	UK	29	22	28	29	35	23	22	16	34	50	288	28.8
2	Nice Fano	FR	25	20	24	28	31	20	21	21	31	42	263	26.3
3	Unicorns	FR	26	20	27	27	27	23	18	21	30	43	262	26.2
4	FCUK Weembi	FR	21	20	24	23	30	21	17	21	29	42	248	24.8
5	Vedett	FR	20	18	21	20	23	19	17	15	23	37	213	21.3
6	Bandits Revolution	FR	18	15	17	19	16	19	17	15	15	27	178	17.8
7	Garudas	BE	12	11	16	11	20	17	12	10	21	33	163	16.3

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NFTO - Weembi Unicorns at the Weembi Cup 2023

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A different Weembi Unicorns lineup (Alessandra De Rango, Clementine Le Bohec, Julien Degen, Michele Silvi) outscored NFTO's 2019 lineup with Kate Lindsley in Bedford (283 - 263). Only Alessandra De Rango and Julien Degen traveled again to Great Britain, this time with Federico Angelotti and Mathieu Quizy in the current lineup, and to a different location.

iFLY Manchester hosted the British indoor championship, where Weembi Unicorns gave NFTO's reunion lineup of 2022 more than enough competition. Both teams completed almost exactly the same number of formations in the 350 seconds of working time (272 - 271). However, the judges detected seven infringements in the Weembi Unicorns ten rounds, while NFTO did not give away one single point, even though the quality of the video captures does not offer much of any clear details.

The two teams also knew each other from the recent Weembi FS Cup 2023 in April, where Weembi Unicorns and NFTO both competed with exactly the same lineups. NFTO won this duel by 26 points half a year ago, and the difference was down to six points after penalties last week in Manchester.

Weembi Unicorns will probably continue this week at the annual Weembinamic event. They have an open account at Weembi Lille, after winning the point-total of the ten rounds last year and still ending up in 2nd place, due to the very different competition format. The NSL News update on 6 December 2022 offered more details.