posted Nov 6th, 2024 - Teams in Denmark were next to switch from outdoor training and competition to indoor activities, and the national indoor championship was scheduled for the beginning of the indoor winter season. Once again, the event did not take place in Denmark, even though there is actually an iFLY facility with a 14-foot flying chamber in Denmark's capital city, Copenhagen.

Danish 4-way teams traveled to Berlin in Germany for previous national championships. The travel distance to the event site was much closer this year, as Scandinavian neighbor country Sweden has one of its three windtunnels in Malmo, right across the Øresund, one of the busiest waterways in the world. The 50-mile-long strait separates Denmark from Sweden, and a bridge connects the two countries for car traffic, while ferries across the waters offer an alternative.

Three Swedish teams used the competition opportunity, together with the 14 Danish teams. Denmark held the national outdoor championship on Danish turf at the end of July, and eight teams were back for the indoor competition three months later. The medal positions on the AAA Class indoor leaderboard were identical with the ones at the outdoor championship, while the outdoor champions in the AA and A Class categories could not defend their top spots successfully.

Denmark Indoor Nationals 2024			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		J,D,N,A,13	F,Q,17,19	21,7,H	12,15,P	3,1,8	16,L,G,O	M,11,2	B,18,14	20,9,6	22,K,10	Total	Avg
1	Sequenz	DK	28	26	23	18	17	25	21	18	18	17	211	21.1
2	Hey Halla	DK	23	21	18	13	13	18	16	15	16	15	168	16.8
3	Astronomia	DK	19	16	16	12	12	10	12	12	15	12	136	13.6
4	Eftersendes	DK	10	14	16	11	4	13	13	12	12	11	116	11.6
5	MILDK	DK	14	13	13	9	9	11	13	11	11	10	114	11.4
Rank	AA Class		14,L,13	2,1	D,H,8	6,K,11	19,E,18	G,7,9	Q,N,B,F	C,20,J	22,15	O,4,21	Total	Avg
1	Supra	DK	14	14	14	13	11	16	23	13	11	12	141	14.1
2	Martin Mikkelsen	DK	11	13	11	13	10	18	26	11	10	13	136	13.6
3	Dropping Like It's Hot	DK	11	10	14	11	10	17	25	11	9	13	131	13.1
4	Wanna Be Like Hans	DK	10	10	12	9	9	14	18	11	9	11	113	11.3
5	Nomini	DK	9	6	10	8	9	11	12	10	8	10	93	9.3
Rank	A Class		2,H	A,M,8	4,21	P,9	O,K,L	G,E,C	N,6	D,F,7	19,J	B,Q,9	Total	Avg
1	JaCKeT	DK	11	12	9	15	15	17	13	14	10	15	131	13.1
2	Flyverust	DK	11	11	10	15	15	14	12	18	10	13	129	12.9
3	Bolmen	SE	8	11	6	14	13	15	11	15	10	13	116	11.6
4	"George"	SE	9	10	9	11	10	13	11	15	7	14	109	10.9
5	Snapphaneklanen	SE	4	3	1	6	5	4	5	7	3	10	48	4.8
6	Team Familie	DK	2	4	4	6	6	2	5	6	1	8	44	4.4
7	VAF Fireshow	DK	3	3	3	5	3	3	4	6	3	6	39	3.9

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Sequenz at the Danish Indoor Nationals 2024

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Sequenz have been dominating indoor and outdoor competition in Denmark since September 2022, after a hibernation of almost a decade and a well covered comeback in 2019. The 2022 lineup (Vibeke Birk Tideman, Flemming Borup Andersen, Ulrik Høgsberg, Hans Oksen) won the outdoor championship title in 2022 and then represented Denmark at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022, with Anders Krabbenhøft on camera.

Sequenz also competed at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2023 in their other Scandinavian neighbor country to the north, Skydive Voss in Norway. Vibeke Birk Tideman, original team member of 2007, was not in the 2023 lineup any longer, and Peter Stræde took her slot.

Peter Stræde missed this year's national outdoor championship, where original Sequenz member Kasper Brandt-Svanekier substituted. Peter Stræde was back for the indoor championship, and the current lineup won with a new team record average.

Dropping Like It's Hot had won the AA Class outdoor competition in July, ten points ahead of Supra. The indoor duel between the same two AA Class teams turned out in reverse order, as Supra won by ten points in Sweden. A new team, with former VAF Warriors member Martin Soeby Mikkelsen in the lineup, placed 2nd between Dropping Like It's Hot and Supra.

Denmark Outdoor Nationals 2024		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	18,9,P		D,13,2		F,5,H,7		N,6,3		C,12,1		K,E,B,17		Q,G,19,M		8,11,16		10,22,L		14,J,O,15		Total	Avg
1	Sequenz	15		11	-2	14	-3	13		9	-1	19		15	-1	10		10	-1	11		127	12.7
2	Hey Halla	12		12		15		9	-1	9	-2	12	-3	14		9	-1	9		12		113	11.3
3	Astronomia	10	-1	10		13		9		9		10	-2	12		9		9		8		99	9.9
4	MIL1	9		8		9		8		8		10	-1	10		6	-1	4		7		79	7.9
Rank	AA Class	19,P,20		21,N,Q		11,15		O,4,14		G,1,M		18,L,A		H,J,9		E,F,D,K		22,7		B,8,13		Total	Avg
1	Dropping Like It's Hot	7		9		7		7		10		7		12		16		7		9		91	9.1
2	Supra	7		7		6		8		8		8		11		12		7		7		81	8.1
3	CRSM	8		10		3		6		7		8		12		14		6		6		80	8.0
4	Nomini	5		4		4		4		2		3		9		7		2		6		46	4.6
Rank	A Class	8,B		H,9		D,M,6		E,7		2,Q		4,L		G,K,J		N,A,O		F,21		19,C		Total	Avg
1	Flyverust	7		7		5		8		4		6		6		10		6		8		67	6.7
2	Four DK	1		6		3		5		3		3		3		6		4		5		39	3.9
3	VAFforFUN	1		3		4		3		4		-		-		-		-		-		15	3.0
3	BBB	1		2		0		1		1		0		1		2		3		4		15	1.5

A Class outdoor champion Flyverust were facing the same destiny after winning the national outdoor gold medals. New team JaCKeT got in their way to unite the A Class indoor and outdoor championship titles, with a 2-point difference after all ten rounds. The three Swedish teams all competed in the A Class, as well.

The NSL News reported on October 30th how consistent Italy's participation was at outdoor world championship between 1985 and 2018 and that the country had even produced twice the bronze medal winners in 1991 and 2006. Denmark's history in Formation Skydiving competition is almost identical with Italy's.

The countries share the extraordinary accomplishment of winning FAI bronze medals and have both missed only three outdoor world championships of the most recent four events between 2020 and 2024.

Amnesya for Italy and Sequenz for Denmark both competed at the outdoor world cup in Norway last year, and both countries then missed their third participation at an outdoor world championship. Only four countries still have a flawless record of participation (United States, France, Belgium, Netherlands), and the Qatar Tigers have not missed a meet since 2016.

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Denmark's 4-way participation at outdoor world championships since 1985

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