posted Mar 3rd, 2025 - The NSL News mentioned on February 25th that a French 8-way team will compete at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 in April. Aethers Medjay member Tom Mattoni explained during the second NSL Live Talk at Paraclete XP that his younger brother Noe Mattoni is in the 8-way lineup of No Name who won the French 8-way qualification at the Weembinamic 2024.

8-way competition has been a part of indoor world championships only once so far. Weembi Lille's flying chamber is large enough to accommodate 8-way training and competition, and the wind tunnel in France hosted the event and the first 8-way competition in 2019. Weembi Lille and Paraclete XP both have been hosting other 8-way events for several years before and after Weembi 2019.

Paraclete XP8 won the 8-way competition in 2019, and they are the defending champions this April, as no other indoor world championship included 8-way competition ever since. The 31.6 average is still the standing 8-way world record average, and the 44-pointer in Round 6 (M,Q,J,16) is the world record for a single round. The 44-pointer was not scored by Paraclete XP8's 2019 lineup though. It was the French 8-way team in 2nd place who outscored the U.S. 8-way team by one point in Round 6.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		L,17,4	A,F,3,13	15,18,6	D,8,O,N	P,E,11,9	M,Q,J,16	C,K,19,22	10,1,7	5,G,B,2	H,21,12	Total	Avg
1	Paraclete XP8	US	38	34	33	27	29	43	29	27	28	28	316	31.6
2	France	FR	37	33	29	27	27	44	26	30	27	29	309	30.9
3	Tanay	RU	31	32	29	27	29	42	27	28	25	27	297	29.7
4	Qatar Falcons	QA	32	31	29	27	30	40	24	25	25	24	287	28.7
5	MicroClim8	UK	25	19	22	19	20	31	19	20	19	18	212	21.2
6	Why Not?	PL	23	21	21	21	21	26	18	19	19	18	207	20.7

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France 8-way Open at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019

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Two No Name members had their next world record opportunity in Round 10 (4,1,3) of the Weembinamic 2024, which was set ahead of the competition as the sequence for the last round. Martial Ferre and Gaelle Giesen had posted the 44-pointer with their 2019 lineup (Pamela Lissajoux, Damien Gouriou, Alban Rumolo, Aurelien Lemaire, Kevin Mansion, Charles Rommel), and they had a new lineup for the new 8-way Super Sequence.

Marie Pineau, Mathias Barbaste, Fabrice Blouin, Thomas Chomel, Noe Mattoni and Thomas Misztal competed for No Name at the Weembinamic 2024, who posted the 40-pointer in Round 10. XP8 members Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner were watching the performance of the new French national indoor team in 8-way Open for the world championship. They competed with Infinite Octane at the same Weembinamic.

The new French 8-way lineup is an interesting one, a combination of a wealth of comprehensive 8-way indoor experience with Martial Ferre and world-class 4-way and 8-way competitor Gaelle Giesen. She was in the French 8-way lineup who were one single point behind Airspeed XP8 after the seven rounds in Tanay 2021, Pamela Lissajoux, Damien Gouriou and Alban Rumolo, were her team mates at Weembi Lille 2019 and Tanay 2021, and they will all compete in 4-way at the upcoming indoor world championship next month.

Weembinamic 2024			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		16,A,18	19,7,13	K,2,G,F	21,E,M,H	O,L,J,C,P	9,14,12	N,6,D,17	20,11,22	B,10,15	4,1,3	Total	Avg
1	No Name	FR	29	20	24	19	33	21	27	24	27	40	264	26.4
2	Nova	FR	29	20	25	26	29	20	22	25	22	38	256	25.6
3	QRF XONR8	FR	29	18	22	21	29	18	25	21	23	39	245	24.5
4	Infinite Octane	US	26	16	20	22	26	20	28	20	20	39	237	23.7
5	QRF3	FR	19	14	15	16	14	13	17	17	16	23	164	16.4
6	Quiet Chaos	FR	17	11	15	14	17	14	18	15	11	24	156	15.6
7	Les Sans Noms	FR	10	11	9	13	11	13	16	13	12	20	128	12.8
7	ACCUR8	UK	12	9	12	10	15	12	16	11	12	19	128	12.8
9	Team 42	IT	14	11	10	13	12	11	12	9	11	18	121	12.1
10	Banter Panthers	UK	15	8	11	10	14	9	13	10	9	15	114	11.4
11	The Afterfall Collective	SE	9	10	13	11	13	10	14	9	10	14	113	11.3

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No Name at the Weembinamic 2024

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No Name's Marie Pineau is Pamela Lissajoux's 4-way Women team mate at Paraclete XP and would have double duties in 4-way and 8-way if the French delegation follows through with the lineups of the Weembinamic 2024. Tom Mattoni's brother Noe Mattonie, Thomas Chomel, and Thomas Misztal were team mates in the best French 4-way junior teams and still competed together in 4-way Open last year.

Martial Ferre's new 8-way team has a lot of potential with this combination of experience and talent. XP8 world champions Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner were probably watching the French 8-way performance at the Weembinamic 2024 very carefully.

No Name did not travel to North Carolina last month to test the flying chamber at Paraclete XP, as Aethers Medjay did. Only Martial Ferre was once again at the place where he has been every year for 8-way Hell Week. His QRF signature lineup disbanded, and he competed only with Platinum XP8 after his next 8-way Hell Week. It was his turn to watch XP8 carefully this time. Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner have a new lineup, as well, who won the 8-way competition at Paraclete XP. Jeana Billings, John D'Annunzio Kirk Verner and Andrew Happick have four new team mates with Jennifer Davidson, Jill Stephenson, Brandon Kashani and Ian Pedowitz.

Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2025			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		J,16,N,G	5,O,M,B	12,1,18	17,K,20	14,Q,3	L,19,11	15,10,A	6,E,P,D	C,9,7	F,22,13	Total	Avg
1	XP8	US	38	29	28	28	29	22	27	27	24	25	277	27.7
2	Prison 9	US	29	21	24	22	23	17	23	21	19	17	216	21.6
3	Infinite Octane	US	26	20	20	17	23	18	21	24	16	18	203	20.3
4	Bra Nok XP	US	24	21	19	19	21	15	19	21	17	17	193	19.3
5	Netunos	BR	16	20	16	17	18	11	11	20	14	11	154	15.4
6	Team Canada	CA	18	16	14	14	15	7	13	14	11	13	135	13.5
7	Papa D's G8ngsteRhs	US	11	14	16	12	16	12	13	15	10	11	130	13.0
8	Platinum XP8	US	12	11	12	13	14	8	10	15	12	12	119	11.9
9	34 Points	US	9	8	10	8	10	9	10	10	10	8	92	9.2

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XP8 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2025

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