posted Sep 6th, 2005 - Round eight brought the next shocker. After the DeLand Fire dominance throughout the first four rounds yesterday, the Golden Knights had taken control of the meet in rounds five and six. DeLand Fire recovered overnight and kept up with the Golden Knights this morning. However, it looked as if the Army team had found its rhythm and strength and was now solid on the way to the gold medal. It changed again in round eight.

Pete Allum is the new member of the Italian world class team Italy Sinapsi PD. He is in Perris to compete as the player coach with his "Second Team", Kachina. Of course, he is also observing the top competition in 4-way. The winning US team at the USPA Nationals will be the opponent for his own Italian team at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2006 in Germany. That is if he will be IPC eligible by then.

The NSL News saw Pete Allum studying the scoreboard after round eight. The Golden Knights had just lost this round by two points to DeLand Fire and by one point to Airspeed Odyssey. The 3-point lead after round seven was reduced to a small 1-point margin, and the meet was wide open again. Pete Allum commented the whole meet situation in this interview.

The meet is moving on a fast pace, and round nine has already been completed after the interview. Pete Allum mentioned that it was interesting to see that DeLand Fire had the nerves to do something they never had to deal with in the past: catch up from behind. This time, the Golden Knights had to recover from the loss in round eight, and they did, as well. The Army team won round nine by one point and carries a 2-point lead into the last round. Waiting for round ten...