posted Jun 14th, 2024 - The situation of Belgian 4-way team Ayro caught the NSL News attention during NSL Live Talk with NMP PCH HayaBusa members Dennis Praet, Ray Lodens and Neal Willems on 31 March 2024. The two new HayaBusa members, Neal Willems and Ray Lodens, had competed at the BENELUX Indoor Championship, even though HayaBusa did not attend.

They reported from the event that they helped out for other teams instead, Ray Lodens with his brother's team Hybris, Neal Willems with Ayro. The NSL News followed up a week later when Ayro had decided to continue with a new team member after the great and latest 4-way experience with substitute Neal Willems.

It took only less than two months until Els De Bie, Wim Dens and Arne Vandendael finally selected the successor for of their original Ayro team mate Kevin Bruyninckx. Former Jetmax member Steven Lopes has joined the new Ayro lineup in the point slot that he trained and competed in with his former team. This required a slot-switching move for the team, and previous Ayro point Els De Bie has moved from the front to the rear piece and takes the tail slot. Wim Dens (IC) and Arne Vandendael (OC) continue their center work with new piece partners.

BENELUX Indoor 2024			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		6,2,C	J,L,21,O	N,D,17,Q	A,9,B,19	3,F,H,22	P,14,16	E,M,4,1	15,12,20	10,18,5	11,13,K	Total	Avg
1	ISR Fireflash	BE	24	32	36	34	23	21	26	20	19	23	258	25.8
2	Agera	NO	24	29	35	29	23	21	20	18	19	23	241	24.1
3	Out Of The Blue	NL	24	30	30	29	22	20	25	14	17	21	232	23.2
4	AYRO	BE	22	26	27	23	20	19	23	15	18	17	210	21.0
5	Garudas	BE	19	25	24	23	18	16	23	13	15	16	192	19.2
6	Full Flow	BE	16	24	24	22	17	16	20	13	15	16	183	18.3

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Ayro with Neal Willems at the BENELUX Indoor Championship 2024

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New point Steven Lopes trained and competed with Jetmax for six years as one of the original members. In fact, he was the only original Jetmax member who was still in the lineup when his last team mates of 2019 (Davio Orazio, Julie Regnier, Simon Renard) did not come back to 4-way action with Jetmax after the corona virus crisis.

Steven Lopes started with Caroline Mantia, Olivier Cavier and Joey Soudant in the RRR Class of 2013 and moved up to the A Class with Ludovic Basset, Steve Canas and Simon Renard in 2015. The same Jetmax lineup quickly moved up to the AA Class the next year. Steven Lopes, Ludovic Basset and Simon Renard then continued with Julie Regnier in the AAA Class, beginning in 2017 and until 2019.

Ayro was launched by Els De Bie, Wim Dens, Arne Vandendael and Kevin Bruyninckx in the A Class of 2017. Jetmax had already moved up to the AAA Class at that time. Both teams eventually met each other at the Belgian Outdoor Nationals 2017, even though they still posted their scores on different leaderboards.

They followed up a month later at the ESL Championship 2017 where they collected ESL points together for the Belgian delegation in the two different categories. Germany and Belgium battled for the ESL Spirit, and the German delegation won by four ESL ranking points (34 - 30).

ESL Championship 2019				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		ESL	F,E,A,4	12,J,13	18,M,8	2,9,3	20,Q,6	21,N,14	15,L,P,1	17,11,19	B,G,16,C	Total	Avg
1	Weembi Unicorns	IT	10	25	15	18	18	16	16	19	14	22	163	18.1
2	Mria	UA	8	20	13	13	13	13	13	13	10	16	124	13.8
3	Alis Team	UA	6	17	13	13	14	14	11	12	11	18	123	13.7
4	HF Flying Circus	CZ	5	18	9	13	14	14	12	13	11	17	121	13.4
4	Falco	BE	5	18	11	13	15	11	11	11	12	19	121	13.4
6	Dark Energy	DE	3	19	11	13	13	11	11	11	11	16	116	12.9
7	Ayro	BE	2	18	9	14	12	10	12	12	11	15	113	12.6
8	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	1	16	8	11	12	14	11	12	10	14	108	12.0
9	Stardust	BE	1	17	9	11	11	11	8	11	9	14	101	11.2
10	FS2020Agera	NO	1	18	9	8	9	10	11	13	9	11	98	10.9
11	Horschd	DE	1	15	10	9	7	10	11	7	11	13	93	10.3
12	JETMAX	BE	1	11	8	10	10	11	11	11	8	9	89	9.9
13	Shinobi	NL	1	13	7	9	9	9	6	9	8	8	78	8.7
14	M Team	CZ	1	13	6	9	7	8	8	7	5	9	72	8.0

Ayro and Jetmax met again in November the same year, when Ayro won the A Class at the ISR Grand Prix, followed by the gold medals a month later at the Belgian Indoor Nationals. It would still take another year until Ayro and Jetmax would post scores on the same AAA Class leaderboard.

Ayro had moved up to AA Class competition when both Belgian teams met again at the World Challenge 2018, and they were still separated at the Belgian Outdoor Nationals 2018. They worked together again for the Belgian delegation at the ESL Championship. This time they won by one point over Germany.

They competed at the same events two more times at the end of the 2018 season before it was finally time for the first direct showdown on a AAA Class leaderboard. It was the ESL Championship 2019 where Ayro outscored a different Jetmax lineup. The outcome was still the same at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2019, even though Ayro and Jetmax were separated by only three points this time. It was the last competition for Jetmax, and Steven Lopes went into 4-way hibernation until Ayro invited him to come back with his former opponents. Ayro will miss the Tomscat Trophy this weekend and then compete at the BENELUX Outdoor Championship and the ESL Championship with the new lineup.

Belgian Indoor Nationals 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		15,16,18	F,2,11	K,14,21	7,E,O,N	H,1,B,M	L,A,C,4	17,22,8	D,12,19	6,5,13	9,G,10	Total	Avg
1	Weembi Unicorns	FR	19	24	22	39	36	31	22	26	25	28	272	27.2
2	Out of the Blue	NL	17	22	18	31	32	25	17	17	20	22	221	22.1
3	Falco	BE	17	21	17	28	28	22	16	19	19	21	208	20.8
4	Synergy	IT	13	18	17	26	26	18	13	18	13	19	181	18.1
5	Ayro	BE	16	18	13	27	27	16	13	16	16	17	179	17.9
6	JETMAX	BE	15	16	16	23	27	20	10	14	17	18	176	17.6
7	Stardust	BE	11	15	15	22	22	19	12	14	13	17	160	16.0
8	Trance-Ition	NL	12	17	15	21	17	17	11	14	14	17	155	15.5
9	Black Devils	BE	11	14	10	19	18	13	10	12	14	11	132	13.2
10	Gravity Abuse	BE	10	14	12	19	17	12	8	13	10	15	130	13.0
11	Vortex	UK	10	10	12	16	19	13	10	10	12	12	124	12.4