posted Jan 2nd, 2008 - Two teams of last year's Colorado Skydiving League took the first two places at the 4-way event of the Collegiate Nationals 2007. Air Force Invictus won the gold medals, and Revolution placed second. The annual event was held at Skydive Arizona in Eloy on December 30.

Air Force Invictus had already competed at three 4-way competitions in 2007, with Zach Alexander, Tadd Lahnert, Chris Oppenlander, Eric Towal and Ted Burgess on camera. The cadets of the Air Force Academy in Colorado attended two meets of the Colorado Skydiving League in May and August (8.3 - 10.7) before competing at the USPA Nationals 2007.

Invictus had raced with SDC Quattro for the bronze medals in the AA/Intermediate Class competition at Skydive Chicago and ended up in 4th place with an 11.4 average after ten rounds. The Air Force team posted a 22-pointer in Round 8 (J-O-H-D), which was the team's highest score of the 2007 season.

Air Force Invictus had already shown at the August meet of the Colorado Skydiving League that the team could handle the faster sequences of only random formations very well. The 20-pointer in Round 3 can be viewed on NSL-TV.

It would only become easier for Invictus at the Collegiate Nationals 2007 since the dive pool for this annual competition is identical with the A Class of the national and international NSL 4-way network. The A Class dive pool consists of all 16 random formations and 8 selected blocks. The sequences consist of three or four scoring formations. Any sequence of only random formations would already be complete after three points.

Rounds 3 and 4 of the Collegiate Nationals 2007 offered exactly that opportunity, and Air Force Invictus took full advantage of the sequences of random formations, with a 25-pointer in Round 3 and a 27-pointer in Round 4.

Invictus dominated the whole competition and won with a 16.0 average after six rounds. However, the other young team from Colorado, Revolution, managed to steal the highscore for a round from the Air Force cadets.

Revolution won Round 2 with a much slower sequence. In fact, the Air Force team was only one single point ahead of Revolution after the first two rounds. The fast sequences in Rounds 3 and 4 changed ths picture completely, and the Air Force team ran away with the gold medals.

Revolution competed with a different line-up at the Collegiate Nationals 2007 (Ben Worrall, Chris Romano, Kyle Smith, Charles Riordan who has permanently replaced Pat Roks) and posted the team's highest meet average (11.5) of the 2007 season. Revolution was in the same situation as Invictus, as both teams had competed in the AA Class throughout the regular 2007 season and had sequences of the A Class dive pool at the Collegiates.

Three additional teams competed in the Open Class, and seven teams attended the Advanced Class competition of the same event. Air Force Encore (James Hickeron, James Miltenberg, Brandon McCutcheon, Addison Schenk) shared the Advanced Class gold medals with USMA-Autobots (Brandon Quintana, Hunter Thornnal, Zachary Willey, Philip-Daniel Divinski).