posted Jan 6th, 2025 - The Indoor Cloud League 2024 duel between Kyle Hermberg's iFLY Dallas team and Jan Klapka's Hurricane 4-way team Factory in the Czech Republic has come to its conclusion before all data for the last year has been processed and posted. The Czech ICL team took ten of the twelve monthly highscores, and iFLY Dallas won the August competition. The ICL Midwest team posted the highest July total.

The comeback of the Indoor Cloud League after the especially tough indoor restrictions throughout the corona virus crisis, and its related changes and difficulties afterwards, began in 2022, even though the Hurricane Factory team still could not submit scores and videos for two of the summer months. Kyle Hermberg's iFL Dallas team won in 2022, and the Hurricane Factory ended up in 3rd place. Paraclete XP, where Jeana Billings has prepared plans for a comeback in 2025, finished behind iFLY Dallas in 2nd place.

Hurricane Factory and iFLY Dallas were separated by only ten points (1428 - 1418) at the end of the 2023 season, when Jan Klapka was able to submit scores and videos for all twelve months. The same 10-point difference was the closest finish between Hurricane Factory and iFLY Dallas in ICL history. Only the 2-point difference between Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP (1461 - 1459) in 2018 was closer. The Hurricane Factory increased the distance to iFLY Dallas in 2024, when Skywalkers Junior took care of the two Open Class sequences (AAA/AA) month by month as a senior team with outdoor experiences. Skywalkers Junior alone won the AAA/AA combination in 2024 by 175 points over the Open Class lineups from iFLY Dallas.

Indoor Cloud League 2022			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
1	iFLY Dallas	US	113	132	123	101	131	111	122	79	122	133	131	127	1425
2	Paraclete XP	US	97	74	64	132	142	106	81	103	108	113	120	67	1207
3	Hurricane Factory	CZ	142	146	141	109	123	109	-	-	114	109	99	90	1182
Indoor Cloud League 2023			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	119	118	102	123	118	99	142	110	144	120	114	119	1428
2	iFLY Dallas	US	125	139	115	110	127	107	138	132	111	100	112	102	1418
Indoor Cloud League 2024			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	138	123	122	131	147	138	82	91	137	132	116	137	1494
2	iFLY Dallas	US	117	106	104	111	115	127	79	127	109	102	83	121	1301

The NSL News pointed out in several updates that Kyle Hermberg focuses heavily on generating new 4-way competitors and offering special and rare training opportunities for his participants. The ICL scores are more or less a side product of the introduction to 4-way training and competition. Jan Klapka uses the events at the Hurricane Factory for a similar purpose in a different way. His youngest 4-way junior students begin to train in 4-way teams from the very beginning and start with the easiest Rookie Class sequences (R/RR).

Kyle Hermberg reported from iFLY Dallas that he filled 178 slots in 2024, which is a similar participation number compared to the ICL 2023 season. His 2-way event, which is often the stepping stone to 4-way training and competition, even had a 30% increase last year. He had one of the larger events in December when 19 ICL participants competed in different lineups for the six highscores.

He organized the 19 participants in six teams and offered some of the newer participants experienced piece partners in their lineups. The six teams completed ten rounds during the event, including specific block training and techniques, and also the six December sequences of the Indoor Cloud League. The December leaderboard from iFLY Dallas also features the lineup variations and the internal competition of the six teams for the December highscores.

Indoor Cloud League December 2024	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams - iFLY Dallas	F,1,K,10	Q,1,4	G,F,4	Q,G,F	M,F,K	M,H	Total
Alexa Boushey, Christina Edwards, Michael Erickson, Kyle Hermberg	19	17	-	-	-	-	36
Bren Saxton, Christina Edwards, Deanna Anderson, Michael Erickson	-	12	15	25(-1)	-	-	40
Alexa Boushey, Kyle Hermberg, Nick Anderson, Shawn Henry	-	12	10	24	-	-	-
Beth Victor, Caleb Rydbeck, Lucas King, Zoe Rojo	-	9	15	17	-	-	-
Donaldo Grajeda, Jeff Goodan, Jonathan Cooper, Lucas King	-	11	12	11	15	-	45
Jim Ward, Scott Kucel, Alexa Boushey, Kyle Hermberg	-	-	12	20	20	33(-1)	45
Christina Edwards, Hillie Machness, Michael Erickson, Russell Cornwall	-	-	-	18	13	21	-
iFLY Dallas Best of December 2024	19	17	15	25	20	25	121

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Indoor Cloud League December 2024: iFLY Dallas Highscores

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