posted Mar 19th, 2025 - The NSL News covered the duel between the two former German 4-way Women teams Piteraq und der Zauberlehrling and Skynamite&Friends comprehensively with the update on March 11th. Skynamite were only a guest team at the German Indoor Nationals 2025, and Piteraq are the new German 4-way indoor champions.

The Piteraq lineup included former Airbus member Alexander Prendinger who did not continue with Germany's national outdoor team in 4-way Open after his six years with Airbus Illertissen Oceanside. His former team were actually the reigning German indoor champions of 2024. The new Airbus lineup did not try to defend their title, which Alexander Prendinger then did successfully with Piteraq.

The highly experienced Brusler Talentschmiede had taken the 2nd place behind Airbus in 2024 and missed this year's indoor championship, as well. The absence of the two teams allowed Piteraq members Petra Jastram and Linda Koeb to move up from their 3rd place last year with Meltemi Oceanside Illertissen to the top spot last month. All other German 4-way teams shared the opportunity with Meltemi/Piteraq, as two medal positions were still available behind the winning lineup with current and former members of Germany's national team team in 4-way Women and 4-way Open.

German Indoor Nationals 2025			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		7,B,15	17,L,P,2	E,14,22	O,3,J,F	10,M,19	11,9,A	13,K,16	D,N,5,H	12,Q,G,1	C,20,21	Total	Avg
1	Piteraq ud der Zauberlehrling	DE	24	23	19	28	19	23	19	26	19	19	219	21.9
G	Skynamite &Friends	DE	26	23	17	28	21	19	21	24	22	17	218	21.8
2	Fi4na	DE	21	17	15	23	17	20	19	21	15	17	185	18.5
3	Paratus	DE	21	17	17	23	19	18	17	16	17	15	180	18.0
4	Dark NeVa	DE	20	17	14	21	16	19	16	22	17	12	174	17.4
5	Feierabendflieger	DE	19	15	15	22	16	20	15	19	16	17	174	17.4
G	Air-W	CH	20	16	14	22	16	15	15	20	15	14	167	16.7
6	Operation Radler	DE	18	14	15	21	15	16	15	18	16	13	161	16.1
7	Vollgas	DE	16	14	13	21	14	17	15	17	14	13	154	15.4
8	Südwest	DE	19	11	13	20	15	14	16	19	15	12	154	15.4
9	Quo Volatis	DE	19	15	14	18	14	16	14	15	13	11	149	14.9
10	Paranodon Futura 6.9	DE	16	13	12	19	14	16	13	17	12	12	144	14.4
G	Blue Whales	AT	18	12	13	17	14	15	14	13	13	9	138	13.8
G	Kommt Noch	AT	15	12	12	16	14	16	14	15	10	12	136	13.6
G	Blue Wombats	AT	10	9	9	12	11	12	11	11	11	10	106	10.6

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Fi4na - Paratus at the German Indoor Nationals 2025

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Several candidates were lined up behind the two former 4-way Women teams on the top of the leaderboard to compete for the two sets of German AAA Class medals, as Skynamite was registered only as a guest team with their Swiss member Marco Keller. It was a field of four teams who were in contention for the 2nd and 3rd places this time, after finishing in lower positions on the German AAA Class leaderboards of the past years.

Fi4na and Paratus eventually distanced themselves with new team record averages from Dark NeVa (4th) and Feierabendflieger (5th), who increased their scoring and performance level, as well. The Dark NeVa lineup included once again new Airbus 8-way member Henning Stumpp, while Operation Adler's Olaf Biedermann competed with Feierabendflieger.

The final duel between Fi4na and Paratus was almost a copy of the situation a year ago, when the same two teams had a 1-point battle for the 6th place. Wintertunnel came back this year with a new team name, Fi4na, and the same two teams competed for the German AAA Class medals behind Piteraq this time. The new German indoor silver medalists were formed in 2019, after team members Ralf Bissbort and Jupp Kampmann both did not continue with NeVa and launched their own new 4-way team, Wintertunnel, with Daniela Sickendiek and Marion Thomas in the original lineup. Wintertunnel was formed as an indoor team, even though the team members were also outdoor competitors.

Germany Indoor Nationals 2024			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		K,P,18,E	B,2,3	J,G,22,13	15,6,C	N,D,M,19	4,O,8	17,1,21	L,5,H,16	A,12,9	7,14,F	Q,20,10	Total	Avg
G	Qatar Lions	QA	27	24	26	24	33	24	24	33	26	22	23	263	26.3
G	NFTO	UK	32	26	21	25	31	20	24	29	27	28	22	263	26.3
1	Airbus Illertissen Oceanside	DE	28	23	21	25	31	22	23	29	25	27	-	254	25.4
2	Brusler Talentschmiede	DE	25	19	18	18	28	18	20	21	22	24	-	213	21.3
3	Meltemi Oceanside Illertissen	DE	23	19	18	19	24	18	19	22	22	25	-	209	20.9
G	Qatar Cheetahs	QA	21	16	18	18	25	15	16	19	20	23	-	191	19.1
G	Crazy Donut	PL	22	17	17	17	23	16	16	19	20	17	-	184	18.4
4	FfF Flystation Munich	DE	19	17	17	14	23	17	17	17	17	21	-	179	17.9
5	Dark NeVa	DE	19	16	17	16	20	14	15	18	17	17	-	169	16.9
6	Wintertunnel	DE	18	14	16	16	20	13	15	18	16	21	-	167	16.7
7	Paratus	DE	19	14	16	15	20	17	16	15	16	18	-	166	16.6
8	4XMPL	DE	15	13	15	11	18	12	13	12	13	14	-	136	13.6
9	GIGA Fehrbellin	DE	13	14	15	12	18	14	8	11	14	14	-	133	13.3

Marion Thomas is a former member of Chicas who competed for Germany in 4-way Women at several FAI/ISC events until 2018. She did not continue with outdoor training and competition, and Wintertunnel recruited Simone Kaster to complete the new lineup and make plans for Germany's national outdoor championship, as well.

Former Airbus and new Operation Adler member Thomas Spielvogel has been coaching Fi4na successfully to the 2nd place at the national indoor championship. He was also competing at the indoor championship (Operation Radler), together with his 8-way opponents Uli Sehrbrock and Karin Bauch. The 4-way and 8-way veterans of Operation Radler could not keep up with Fi4na and finished far behind the two contenders for the indoor 4-way medals.

The more serious challenge of Fi4na came once again from Paratus, after the 1-point indoor battle last year, and both teams will probably have a re-match at the national outdoor championship, as Paratus compete in both environments, as well. They won the German Outdoor Nationals in the AA Class of 2023, after taking the indoor title the same year. They moved up to AAA Class competition last year and met Wintertunnel at the indoor championship. Both teams then skipped the outdoor championship and were back with new indoor and outdoor plans for 2025. Fi4na won the first duel of the year, and the same two teams will most likely follow up with their first outdoor battle. The first outdoor medals could be in reach, as well.

Germany Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	22,Q,O	C,8,19	13,15	A,F,G,6	L,4,J	1,7	2,H,11	B,14,P	D,21,N	9,E,M	Total	Avg
1	Paratus	14	14	14	18	17	17	15	15	17	25	166	16.6
2	Paranodon Fraction 3	12	13	12	18	15	15	13	14	15	26	153	15.3
3	Vollgas	11	12	13	17	14	15	12	17	15	26	152	15.2
4	Flips	12	10	10	19	12	15	11	18	14	23	144	14.4
5	TeamPommes	12	10	9	14	13	13	10	12	12	21	126	12.6
Germany Outdoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	1,13	20,G,14	L,B,N,E	9,O,J	22,H,6	F,19,K	21,15	O,7,M	18,D,A	11,4	Total	Avg
1	Paratus	11	10	15	20	11	13	10	18	-	-	108	13.5
2	Paranodon Futura 7	9	7	19	16	9	11	8	14	-	-	93	11.6
3	Devil's Dive	10	8	11	13	8	12	6	11	11	-	79	9.9
4	Saulgau Flips	7	9	11	14	9	12	7	10	9	-	79	9.9
4	On Air	10	8	10	13	7	10	8	13	9	-	79	9.9
6	Sharkmeido	9	8	11	9	10	11	7	12	-	-	77	9.6
6	Fr4ggles	9	5	10	14	7	11	7	14	-	-	77	9.6
8	Flying Cowboys	6	5	12	12	7	9	7	12	-	-	70	8.8