posted Mar 28th, 2025 - The FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 is just around the corner, and the same counts for the Shamrock Showdown 2025. The NSL News had reported on 25 June 2024 that Paraclete XP and Skydive DeLand would offer an indoor/outdoor double-pack in April 2025.

A similar cooperation took already place between 2012 and 2015 when Paraclete XP supported the first outdoor competition of the year in Florida, after the annual Paraclete Indoor Championship in February, and the Shamrock Showdown/Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship in March at Skydive DeLand. Once again the coordination of the two events seems to work well this year as the participation level is back to the highest level since 2014.

The indoor world meet at Paraclete XP is scheduled for April 8 - 13 and the Shamrock Showdown follows at Skydive DeLand on April 18 - 20. Aethers Medjay (FR), Arizona Airspeed (US), Qatar Lions (QA) and Netunos 8 (BR) take advantage of the double-pack while being on the east coast of the United States. Only one national team is eligible to compete for each country at FAI World Championships in the Formation Skydiving events, while the Shamrock Showdown outdoor competition is open for any team in any category. The quality of the field in the last two years (2023, 2024) was on the highest world class level, where it used to be in the earlier years of the Shamrock Showdown. This year's event will again be a preview of the 2025 season, as it has been in the past. Most of the national qualification events for the next outdoor world championship in 2026 will take place this year, and the FAI Outdoor World Cup in Teuge, Netherlands, is the major outdoor competition.

Shamrock Showdown 2025			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Aethers Medjay	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Golden Knights	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Qatar Lions	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Airbus 4-way Illertissen	DE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	Qatar Cheetahs	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Kirk and the Double D's	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	4Action	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	8-way Open		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Netunos	BR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	AA Class		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Relentless	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	DeLand's Hit Show	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	A Class		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Qatar Juniors	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	JumpFlorida Pop's Tards	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1	Door BlockerZ	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Event schedule of the Shamrock Showdown 2025

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Traditionally, the Shamrock Showdown has been the outdoor starting point for any teams, who could measure the progress after their first scoring numbers on the early leaderboard. However, often enough it turned out that the winner at the Shamrock Showdown would be identical with either the USPA champion of the year, or with the world championship or world cup winner and other medalists.

Arizona Airspeed has been dominating the annual Shamrock Showdown in the last two decades after the first visit in 2002. In fact, only the reigning 4-way world champions of 2001, Airspeed Vertical with John Eagle, Craig Girard, Neal Houston, Mark Kirkby and Mark Steinbaugh on camera, ever lost the 4-way competition at Skydive DeLand. They were facing the new DeLand Majik team at their first visit in 2002 and lost by three points after all ten rounds.

Both teams then lost against the Golden Knights the same year at the USPA Nationals, and the U.S. Army team represented the United States at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2003. DeLand Majik won the Shamrock Showdown 2003 and followed up with the 1st place at the USPA Nationals 2003. Eventually the DeLand home team won the FAI gold medals at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2004 - after winning the Shamrock Showdown at the beginning of the world meet season.

Shamrock Showdown 2024			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		G,5,19		7,12,15		18,21,Q		17,16,A		E,L,22,11		2,10,M		F,6,N,9		J,13,O,8		C,K,H,P,B		D,20,4		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	27		22		23		27	-2	25		23		34		25		53	-5	23		282	28.2
2	France Aethers	FR	21	-1	18		22		24	-1	21		20	-1	29		22		42	-1	20		239	23.9
3	Golden Knights	US	23	-1	17	-2	18	-3	24	-1	21		21		27	-4	19	-2	40	-2	19		229	22.9
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	19		16		18		22		19		17	-1	27	-1	22		39	-1	17	-1	216	21.6
5	Nephtys	FR	14		16		17		18		17		17		20	-3	20		31	-2	17		187	18.7
6	Chicken Bolts	US	17		14		12	-2	15	-3	13	-1	16		21	-1	16		29	-4	16		169	16.9
7	Thyra	NO	10	-2	9	-1	10	-1	12	-2	14		15		19	-1	16		23		10		138	13.8
8	Teiwaz	US	8	-1	11		11		13		11		11		15		8		14	-1	10		112	11.2
Rank	AA Class		G,19,Q		7,15		18,21		A,11,9		E,L,22		2,M,8		F,6,N		J,13,O		C,K,H,P		D,20,4		Total	Avg
1	4Action	US	9		7		7	-1	8		10		9		11		10		14		7		92	9.2
Rank	A Class		G,19		7,Q		21,N		A,9		E,L,8		2,M		F,6		J,O,B		C,K,H		D,4		Total	Avg
1	Air Go	US	3	-2	5		5		5	-1	4	-1	3	-1	6		-		-		-		31	4.4
2	Waitin' on a Woman	US	4	-2	4		5	-1	4		2	-4	6		-		-		-		-		25	4.2

Arizona Airspeed have won every single Shamrock Showdown ever since, and they have hardly missed any of the season starters in DeLand. This was also the case in 2023 and last year, when all medal winners of the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships at Crystal Coast measured each other up in March at Skydive DeLand.

Arizona Airspeed outscored Aethers Medjay by 43 points (282 - 239) after all ten rounds, which was preceded by the very unfortunate accident of French outside center Tom Mattoni. He broke his leg during a training jump in DeLand right before the Shamrock Showdown 2024. National coach Mathieu Bernier stepped in as the substitute, and the new lineup could not keep up with the well trained reigning world champions of 2022.

Both teams will be back in full strength and with their complete lineups. Nothing will be the same though. Aethers Medjay have already shown at the Wind Games 2025 and at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2025 that they have taken away the world's top spot in 4-way Open from Arizona Airspeed, at least for now. The Shamrock Showdown 2025 is the starting point for every country on the way to the next outdoor world championship in 2026. Aethers Medjay, Arizona Airspeed and Golden Knights have left no doubt that they all plan to become the new world champions, and the results at the Shamrock Showdown will be the first milestone on the way there.

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