posted Nov 23rd, 2024 - Wavey Wackers (AA), Bootie Call (A) and Fall Fast Finish Last (RRR) won the other three categories at the British Indoor Nationals 2024. The growing difference between 4-way indoor and outdoor competition was showing especially on the AA and A Class leaderboards.

Wavey Wackers (4th) and Bootie Call (3rd) both were not even close to the top of the leaderboards at the British Outdoor Nationals in August. Two months later, they won their respective categories at the national indoor championship.

Wavey Wackers had placed 2nd in the A Class at last year's event and decided to step up to the AA Class this year. They attended the July meet of the United Kingdom Skydiving League (UKSL) where they could only get the competition practice of one round due to the weather situation. Then they finished one point behind the bronze medals in their new category at the national outdoor championship and even matched their A Class average of 2023 (15.7) to win the indoor competition. Children of the Corn, last year's A Class outdoor winner, took the 1st place again, this time in the AA Class, while they allowed Wavey Wackers to win the indoor championship. Both teams will have to step up to the AAA Class in their respective gold medal categories, while they will probably make the same move in the event that they did not win.

British Indoor Nationals 2024		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	21,N,13	B,F,20	9,M,A	22,2	K,Q,14	C,1,6	18,H,7	P,E,J,19	O,8,L	11,G,4	Total	Avg
1	Wavey Wackers	14	18	24	12	15	14	15	19	14	12	157	15.7
2	Nakama	11	19	22	11	14	12	14	19	15	11	148	14.8
2	Children of the Corn	15	16	21	11	14	14	14	15	15	13	148	14.8
4	Equinox	12	14	26	9	13	13	15	18	13	11	144	14.4
5	Eximius	11	14	22	11	12	13	14	14	14	11	136	13.6
6	Chillies	12	15	20	9	12	11	13	15	11	10	128	12.8
7	The Chaos	10	12	16	9	11	11	8	14	11	10	112	11.2
Rank	A Class	D,P,C	7,G	19,4	Q,E,O	N,M,8	F,H,L	9,J	B,A,6	K,21	2,Q	Total	Avg
1	Bootie Call	17	15	11	20	12	21	17	15	15	13	156	15.6
2	Tilstock v3	14	13	11	21	15	21	18	15	11	11	150	15.0
3	Tachyon	15	16	9	18	15	20	16	14	14	11	148	14.8
4	Dragon Flies	13	13	8	17	12	22	14	11	11	10	131	13.1
5	The University of 4ork	13	12	7	17	12	19	15	13	10	10	128	12.8
6	A Chocolate Chip Cookie	10	11	7	13	9	20	13	9	8	7	107	10.7
Rank	Rookie	B,F,D	Q,H,G	M,K,N	A,J,O	P,C,E	L,J,H	A,B,O	M,E,P	C,Q,K	F,D,N	Total	Avg
1	Fall Fast Finish Last	29	23	22	26	22	21	24	27	25	26	245	24.5
2	The FCC	17	14	15	16	12	14	16	17	15	12	148	14.8
3	Cap N Chlo And The Cutaway Bros	17	9	15	13	12	16	16	15	13	16	142	14.2
4	CMYK	12	10	10	11	10	11	13	17	9	10	113	11.3
5	Dock-less Monxters	12	10	9	10	11	10	11	18	8	13	112	11.2
6	Scratch and Smiff	5	10	10	12	12	11	12	14	13	8	107	10.7
7	Sisu	7	6	7	5	1	6	10	9	8	10	69	6.9
8	Oui Ve Never Met B4	5	7	7	5	3	3	6	9	3	6	54	5.4

---

Wavey Wackers - Bootie Call - Fall Fast Finish Last at the British Indoor Nationals 2024

---

A Class winner Bootie Call came from the RRR Class of the 2023 season where they had won the national outdoor bronze medals. They also tested the A Class with the one single round at the same UKSL weather meet in July before winning the next set of bronze medals in the next higher category. Then they turned the bronze medals into gold at the national indoor championship.

One of the most interesting situations was created on this year's RRR Class leaderboard. Brian Cumming, operator and host of the Radio Skydive UK, directed the attention of the NSL News to the winner of the RRR Class at the national indoor championship at Weembi Lille, Fall Fast Finish Last.

He pointed out that this year's RRR Class winner launched their 4-way team career with the last place at the British Outdoor Nationals 2023 and a 1.6 average. Original team members Gabrielle Rock and Matt Oldham still decided to continue and joined forces with Tom Fagan and Pete Rithisith. A year later they won the national outdoor championship in August (14.9) and invested into their skills with additional indoor training. Then they won the British indoor title, as well, with a 24.5 average.

British Outdoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie	F,P,J	B,D,O	Q,A,M	H,L,E	C,G,K	N,C,A	L,K,D	B,E,M	Total	Avg
1	Kaleidoscope	17	13	13	11	10	10	12	21	107	13.4
2	Cloud 9	11	15	13	13	8	12	8	24	104	13.0
3	Bootie Call	8	11	8	10	7	8	4	11	67	8.4
4	Fourtunate	5	5	4	4	2	4	3	8	35	4.4
5	The University of 4ORK	4	6	1	5	2	4	3	7	32	4.0
6	One Point Wonders	2	3	1	4	2	3	2	5	22	2.8
7	Portent	6	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	16	2.0
7	Genesis	3	4	2	2	2	1	2	0	16	2.0
9	Fall Fast Finish Last	1	1	4	0	1	1	0	5	13	1.6

The story of Fall Fast Finish Last does not end with the 1-year progression from last place to 1st. The 2024 lineup won 97 points ahead of the RRR Class team in 2nd place, which is the largest winning margin in the NSL News records at British national championships. The same lineup would surely have to step up to A Class competition next year.

The 97-point difference is still not the record number in Great Britain. The World Challenge in Bedford used to be the the world's largest 4-way competition before it was discontinued due to a general scheduling conflict when FAI/ISC began to host indoor competition at the same time of the year.

The British national indoor championship was embedded in the World Challenge at that time, when up to 80 and 90 teams competed at the indoor event. Teams visited Bedford from all across the planet, including the Pro Team family from Finland. Parents Outi and Kimmo Pohjola took their son Kalle Pohjola to the RRR Class competition at the World Challenge 2013 when he was 12 years of age, together with Eija Suvala in the lineup. The Pro Team with Kalle Pohjola won 190 points ahead of Italian team Panik. They came back to Bedford three years later for the A Class competition, this time with Juho Mikkola in the tail slot and 16-year young Kalle Pohjola as inside center. This time they won by 111 points over Czech team Phoenix. Fall Fast Finish Last now own the highest winning margin on exclusive British leaderboards.

World Challenge 2013			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		O,B,M	Q,H,K	G,C,D	P,E,J	A,L,N	F,M,N	D,J,H	E,A,Q	K,O,C	F,P,B	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team Extended	FI	46	38	30	39	30	48	42	35	33	50	391	39.1
2	Panik	IT	34	21	15	23	18	27	13	15	13	22	201	20.1
3	Team Tetley	UK	26	18	11	16	16	28	19	17	12	21	184	18.4
World Challenge 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		9,C	L,7	19,8	B,H,A	O,2	K,M,6	P,J,F	E,Q,4	G,D,N	21,N	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team Extended	FI	37	26	19	47	24	31	49	22	31	19	305	30.5
2	Phoenix	CZ	24	20	9	23	16	19	34	17	17	15	194	19.4
3	Brain Storming	IT	19	15	11	23	17	19	35	17	15	14	185	18.5

---

Pro Team Extended at the World Challenge 2013 and 2016

---