posted Dec 3rd, 2014 - The 8-way competition of the 5th Dubai International Parachuting Championship continues to offer interesting changes round by round.

France, the leader from the start, has not won a round since the 19-pointer in Round 6. Dubai Asaar posted the highscore for Round 7, and Russia won Round 8. Everything is still possible between the three top teams.

The same three teams were not happy with their last round, and each thought that they would lose some ground. Eventually, not much changed at all, and Russia gained a point on both teams ahead of them. Team captain and 8-way world champion of 2001 and 2003, Oleg Shalamykhin, was probably most surprised with the outcome of Round 8. The Sun Path Products NSL News met him when he came back from the boat ride across the water from the landing area. He said that Wednesday was not Russia's day...

5th DIPC 2014		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open	Q,5,6	F,22,18	19,8,21	4,16,K	14,A,H,17	B,12,E,3	O,J,15,L	C,20,N,G	Total	Avg
1	Venturi (FR)	17	20	13	24	14	19	20	16	143	17.9
2	Dubai Asaar 8 (AE)	16	18	12	23	15	18	21	16	139	17.4
3	Russia (RU)	16	19	12	24	14	17	18	17	137	17.1
4	Monaco Vitalsea 8 (MC)	12	17	11	20	14	16	16	14	120	15.0
5	Qatar Falcons 8 (QA)	13	14	9	16	11	13	13	11	100	12.5
6	Germany 8 (DE)	10	6	7	13	8	10	11	10	75	9.4

The NSL-TV camera also found other celebrities on Wednesday afternoon during a walk across the event area. JaNette and Steve Lefkowitz were two of the many 4-way competitors who visited the DZ for lunch during their off-day.

Luc Verstrepen, former NMP-PCH Hayabusa member and coach of the Qatar 4-way teams, explained the recent personnel change of the Tigers. The Tigers are gaining momentum round by round and seem to find back the form they had before the new lineup began with training. Qatar missed the world meet in Prostejov this year.

British team Raykipo is also back in Dubai and had groupies from Canada at the UK tent. Toxin member Valerie Poulin promised the Sun Path Products NSL News to introduce the Canadian Dubai lineup more in detail soon. The former French 8-way world champions of Monaco Vitalsea also had time for a chat between the jumps before Craig Girard took off on his bicycle and without audio...