posted Feb 22nd, 2024 - The Paraclete XP Indoor Championship was launched as a 4-way indoor competition in 2008, mostly with teams from North Carolina. The Paraclete XP home team won, with Andy Honigbaum, Kirk Verner, John and Tim D'Annunzio in the lineup.

There was no 8-way indoor competition in the world at that time, even though the windtunnel in Bedford had enough space with its 16-foot flying chamber. The annual World Challenge was only a 4-way competition, until Paul Mayer added 8-way to the event agenda in 2018.

Paraclete XP offered their first 8-way competition as a part of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2011. The Golden Knights won the first 8-way competition at Paraclete XP on their way to the FAI outdoor gold medals in Dubai 2012, and the event has traditionally included 8-way ever since.

The skydiving center in Dubai was next to offer 8-way indoor competition in their new 16-foot flying chamber at the Clash of Champions in 2015, and Julien Degen launched his Weembinamic 8-way competition at Weembi Lille a year later. The FAI Indoor World Championship 2019 then included an unofficial 8-way competition at the same place, after Paraclete XP and Weembi Lille had successfully completed several annual 8-way indoor competitions.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2024
Rank	8-way Open Power Rankings
1	GKXP8	US
2	Qatar Falcons	QA
3	Veloce QRF	FR
4	Veloce QRF 4	FR
4	Veloce QRF 3	FR
4	Veloce QRF 2	FR
Rank	8-way Intermediate
1	Veloce QRF 5	FR
2	Air Force Dionysus	US
3	Juvie 9	US
3	Spaceland Elev8	US
3	Air Force Skyline	US

The NSL News reported on February 14th that the annual 4-way events at Paraclete XP and in Ampuriabrava are taking place on the same weekend this year, in a 14-foot flying chamber at the Wind Games, and in the 16-foot chamber at Paraclete XP. The competition in Raeford includes traditionally and once again the annual 8-way competition, and eleven teams have signed up for the ten rounds at Paraclete XP.

The field of 8-way teams includes the currently two best 8-way teams in the world, GKXP8, outdoor world champions of 2021 and 2022, and Qatar Falcons, FAI silver medalists in Eloy 2022. Both teams also competed at the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving in Norway last year, where they placed 1st and 2nd again.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		F,16,9	L,18,J,17	11,D,H,19	O,C,2,N	14,4,8	G,15,A,B	P,7,1	M,K,E,15	3,Q,21	12,20,22	Total	Avg
1	GKXP8	US	32	30	28	33	23	37	35	33	33	29	313	31.3
2	Qatar Falcons	QA	25	21	20	27	18	28	28	29	26	24	246	24.6
3	Prison 9	US	24	18	18	20	17	22	25	23	18	21	206	20.6

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GKXP8 - Qatar Falcons at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 - Video footage courtesy of Paraclete XP

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The indoor history of GKXP8 and Qatar Falcons also includes 8-way events last year. Both teams competed first at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 and the Qatar Falcons followed up a few months later at the 8-way indoor competition of the Weembi FS Cup 2023.

The complete GKXP8 lineup did not travel to the same event for the 8-way indoor competition. However, team members Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner were at Weembi Lille for player-coaching many of the same 8-way competitors who have been visiting Paraclete XP for the annual 8-way Hell Week and the following 8-way competition at the U.S. indoor championship event. Then they joined other former 4-way and 8-way world champions and competed with Ultim8 Weembi.

The pickup lineup of Formation Skydiving celebrities at Weembi Lille were still not able to defeat the well trained Qatar Falcons who won by 16 points (256 - 240). Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner will be back with GKXP8, and the mission of the Qatar Falcons goes back to reducing the distance to the 8-way world champions.

The Veloce QRF signature team, with Ultim8 Weembi member Martial Ferre in their lineup, will be on a similar mission as the Qatar Falcons. They will try to finish as close as possible to the Qatar team and fend off the multiple other QRF lineups with their world-class player-coaches.

Weembi FS Cup 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		22,11,18	F,6,Q,17	14,8,5	J,7,13	A,3,B,H	1,15,K	O,21,L,16	19,2,4	10,P,N,M	E,9,20	Total	Avg
1	Qatar Falcons	QA	27	28	20	24	30	30	26	24	25	22	256	25.6
2	Ultim8 Weembi	FR	25	27	16	22	30	28	26	20	22	24	240	24.0
3	FCUK OFTN	FR	23	24	17	21	31	29	26	19	26	22	238	23.8
4	After 8 Weembi	FR	22	24	17	20	31	27	25	19	26	20	231	23.1
5	Veloce QRF	FR	21	24	17	21	29	30	22	18	23	17	222	22.2
6	Veloce QRF 2 ExonR8	FR	19	25	16	19	26	25	20	18	19	18	205	20.5
7	Veloce QRF 3	FR	18	20	16	17	21	22	20	15	21	15	185	18.5
8	Veloce QRF 4 Hell 8elles	FR	12	18	11	12	17	18	16	12	16	13	145	14.5
9	Veloce QRF 5	FR	12	15	10	10	14	13	11	12	14	10	121	12.1
10	Pink Rabbits	FR	9	14	7	10	15	10	12	8	13	11	109	10.9
11	Les Sauveurs Weembi	FR	10	9	8	7	10	6	14	8	10	13	95	9.5

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Qatar Falcons - Ultim8 Weembi at the Weembi FS Cup 2023 - Video footage courtesy of Weembi Lille

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