posted Oct 6th, 2015 - Several teams competing at the FAI World Cup 2015 did not have much time between the last round of their national championships and Round 1 in Teuge.

VAF Warriors (July), Eclipse and 4mula (UK), French Girls and the Dutch teams (August) did not have to hurry too much to get to Teuge in time. There was more time pressure on NMP-PCH Hayabusa and the Italian teams (Ex3mo, Energy) with a longer travel distance, who had only two weeks between their two events.

The German team AtomiX YUU did not have any time for a break and drove their cars straight from Saarlouis to Teuge as soon as the German Nationals 2015 were completed, with just an overnight stop at a team member's home in Aachen.

FAI World Cup 2015			Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		1,4,D	E,3,L,G	C,16,N,9	13,J,11	Q,2,A,14	K,7,8	P,18,21	15,12,F	B,22,O,10	20,5,M	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	22	32	32	24	23	24	24	22	23	24	250	25.0
2	Black Cat	RU	21	26	27	18	23	24	21	19	20	20	219	21.9
3	VR4 France	FR	20	26	25	19	23	20	22	18	20	24	217	21.7
4	Artemis Saumur Espoir	FR	18	23	21	18	21	21	19	17	20	20	198	19.8
5	4mula	UK	16	23	23	16	18	15	17	16	15	16	175	17.5
6	Final Fire	AT	15	19	21	15	17	19	16	16	15	18	171	17.1
7	AtomiX YUU-Skydive	DE	13	17	17	13	16	16	17	15	14	16	154	15.4

It was not a smooth AtomiX transition from the national championships to the FAI World Cup, as one of the cars broke down half way into the trip. However, the team managed the incident and the challenging circumstances well and without much stress, even though the first rounds in Teuge seemed to be on a lower energy level.

AtomiX YUU eventually woke up and became stronger round by round, until they completed one of the biggest surprises of the event. Even the team members had not really expected to end up in the finals and in the group of teams who would be qualified to perform Round 10.

AtomiX had previously created a serious upset at the German Nationals where they surprised FSC Remscheid with a strong performance to steal the silver medals from the 4-way competition veterans and second half of the German national 8-way team Airbus Munchen.

German Nationals 2015		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	20,O,P,16	13,18,19	10,11,1	D,2,17	4,L,C,5	22,N,A,H	15,21,3	14,9,M	6,E,8	K,G,B,12	Total	Avg
1	Airbus Illertissen	20	15	13	21	20	20	17	23	20	21	190	19.0
2	AtomiX YUU-Skydive	17	13	12	17	15	17	13	13	13	19	149	14.9
3	FSC Remscheid	17	11	13	16	14	14	14	18	12	11	140	14.0

The young team was just as unimpressed by the increasing pressure at the FAI World Cup when the battle for the slots in the semifinals and finals heated up. The 15.4 average after Round 10 eventually turned out to be the highest 10-round average in the team's history.

AtomiX YUU will be rewarded for the impressive performance at the FAI World Cup. The German national 4-way team Airbus Illertissen will not compete for Germany at the World Air Games at the end of the year in Dubai. The German skydiving federation (DFV) has sanctioned AtomiX YUU to take the Airbus slot.

Atomix will meet some of the same teams In Dubai that they competed with in Teuge and collect more international meet experiences. The long-term goal is the top position in Germany. That's when the current national champion Airbus comes back into the picture...