posted Jul 1st, 2011 - It's time for the TEAM OF THE WEEKEND, and it is not easy to come up with the team that deserves special credit after last weekend's meets at four different locations.

The SDC Furies XP with the new lineup tied the highest meet average in the team's long history and had the title earlier this month. The Czech Bad Boyz prove a great attitude with a new team member and have improved significantly from the first to the second meet.

Rookie Class team Hvezdy posted high scores and beat the A Class 7-pointer in Round 3 with an 11-pointer for the identical sequence (K,O,M). Best of Relative's 9-pointer did the same in the Czech Republic. Dirty Slots had the most consistent performance of all 19 teams with five 7-pointers and one 6-pointer.

June 25th, 2011			Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Avg
Rank	Rookie		B,G,L	J,P,H	K,O,M	Q,C,A	F,N,E	D,B,J	Total	Avg
2	Dirty Slots	MASL	7	7	7	6	7	7	41	6.8

There were more sequences that were identical between different competition classes. Round 5 brought a slow sequence (14,F,1) to AAA Class and AA Class teams both. However, the order of scores from top to bottom between both categories was almost perfect in this case.

Round 2 (9,6) was identical between AA Class and A Class, but the scoring order was not flowing as well from top to bottom. A Class team ArchRivals of the Midwest Skydiving League outscored and tied almost all of the teams in the higher competition class with a 7-pointer. Only STF Wreckless from Georgia saved the honors of the AA Class teams, and the Wreckless 9-pointer was the last score added to the leaderboard on Tuesday.

The 7-pointer in Round 2 was one of the reasons why the ArchRivals deserve the title of the TEAM OF THE WEEKEND after the June 25/26 events.

June 25th, 2011			Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		B,11,G	9,6	K,O,M,2	Q,4,N	14,F,1	7,D,19	Total	Avg
1	STF Wreckless	GSL	8	9	9	6	-	-	32	8.0
2	Angry Birds	MWSL	9	7	8	8	5	-	37	7.4
3	Peregrine	MWSL	7	7	9	6	5	6	40	6.7
4	STF VELO-X	GSL	6	3	9	7	-	-	25	6.3
5	CZ Hot Dogs	INT	5	6	8	6	3	6	34	5.7
6	Jetstream Tango	MWSL	6	4	9	5	4	-	28	5.6
7	Team Ambiguous	GSL	3	0	4	3	-	-	10	2.5
Rank	A Class		B,G,2	9,6	K,O,M	Q,4	F,N,19	7,D	Total	Avg
1	ArchRivals	MWSL	5	7	7	5	6	4	34	5.7

The ArchRivals made the team's competitive debut last year in June (4.0 in the Rookie Class) and represented the first St. Louis area team competing in the Midwest Skydiving League since the Archway Hooligans in 2002.

The new MWSL team caught the NSL News attention after the August meet when the ArchRivals of 2010 improved the performance level significantly (5.2) and was named the most improved team. It became even better when the NSL News featured the ArchRivals as the US Rookie Class TEAM OF THE YEAR with the story on 8 October 2010.

This year's A Class lineup has changed. Steve Scheller has replaced Bredina Haden in the Point slot, and Carrie Morman is the team's new videographer. The ArchRivals still seem to be on the same progression agenda. The NSL News mentioned earlier that last weekend's 5.7 average is the highest meet result in the team career. The title of the TEAM OF THE WEEKEND is a new accomplishment that the NSL News awarded before exploring the ArchRivals' previous titles.