Did you know that the Malevsky Memorial Cup has been upgraded by the IPC? posted: Mar 4th, 2004 The delegates of the International Parachuting Commission (IPC) upgraded the Malevsky Memorial Cup to one of the IPC's "1st Category Events" at the 55th annual IPC meeting in Lisbon at the end of January. The official name of the first-class competition in Stupino, Russia, is now "2004 Open European Championship and IPC Anton Malevsky Memorial World Cup".
The event is scheduled for June 29 to July 3, 2004. It will be the third year for the Malevsky Cup. DeLand Majik won both competitions in 2002 and 2003 and will try to defend the title this year once again.
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Did you know that the next SWSL Meet is April 3 at Skydive Arizona? posted: Mar 2nd, 2004 The next SSL Meet is April 3 at Skydive Arizona. Remember, this is the last chance for teams to qualify for the league's Grand Prize. The Grand Prize will include a trophy to be kept at the home dz for the winning AAA team; and one qualifying team in each category will be sponsored by the league to compete in the NSL Championships at SkyQuest in Florida this fall. In order to qualify for the prize teams must compete in at least four meets including one meet at each venue. (more)
Did you know that NMP PCH HayaBusa won the ESL Championship in their second year? posted: Feb 16th, 2004 The coverage of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 begins on Monday with the 8-way competition, and the best 4-way teams in the world will follow up later next week. There is still enough time to add some more information of the reigning 4-way world champions and their challengers.
NMP PCH HayaBusa has been the dominating indoor and outdoor 4-way team since 2014, and the NSL News is once again going back into the archives to explore the team's very beginnings. The recent update on October 21st included a preview of the 4-way regime change in Belgium in 2004.
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Did you know that Hayabusa challenges the defending champion in Belgium this year? posted: Feb 16th, 2004 Today is a good opportunity to finish the Belgian story before the scores of the season opener in Eloy will arrive at the NSL headquarters and keep the NSL News busy. The story of the tough Belgium 4-way competition to be expected this year still misses the introduction of the challenger.
The NSL News of February 9th covered the history of the Belgium 4-way competition and the situation of the defending champion, NMPV, the Belgium Army team. Team Hayabusa is getting ready to stop or at least interrupt the dominance of the current Belgian national team. The chances are better than ever before.
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Did you know that HayaBusa defeated NMP at the Belgian qualification in 2004? posted: Feb 9th, 2004 HayaBusa and Airspeed are probably in another competition for the most popular words and names in the NSL News database. Both teams go farther back in time than the current NSL website, and Arizona Airspeed is even several years ahead of NMP PCH HayaBusa.
The NSL News has been publishing interviews with Formation Skydiving celebrities that were recorded before SKYLEAGUE.COM was launched in 2003. There were also a few NSL News updates of these earliest days of online event and news coverage that were added into the database, and there will be plenty of more to come after all the early interviews... (more)