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Did You Know...

... that Arizona Airspeed and Aerodyne Aerokart are the only club members on the 27-pointer level?

posted Jun 27th, 2015 - It's about time to complete the introduction of the new "4-way Indoor Elite Club" that the Sun Path Products NSL News introduced on June 19th with the three teams on the 23-pointer level.

The story on June 23rd had followed up with the two teams on the 24-pointer level, and there are only three more teams left on even higher levels: NMP-PCH Hayabusa, Arizona Airspeed and the French national 4-way team.

The majority of the SKYLEAGUE.COM audience had easily provided the correct answer to the previous poll question, that Hayabusa owns the highest indoor meet average in history. It was tempting to assume that the answer to the current poll question would be the same, but it isn't.

One round under 30-pointers in 2012: NMP-PCH Hayabusa
NMP-PCH Hayabusa has been the dominating indoor team for five years and brought the team's performance level up to only 25-pointers and higher at the World Challenge 2012 and Paraclete in 2014.

Hayabusa then increased the performance level again to only 26-pointers at three additional events (Aerokart 2012, Wind Games 2014 and Wind Games 2015).

However, the Belgian 4-way world champions missed the 27-pointer level, and it is difficult to imagine that any other teams could have outscored Hayabusa.

In fact, no team has been able to do that over a 10-round competition since 2011, as Hayabusa has been undefeated for five years at any indoor meets.

There are still two teams who managed to enter the 27-pointer level at two different events.

One of them was competing at the same meet where Hayabusa posted the highest indoor meet average in history.

Aerokart 2012Rd. 1Rd. 2Rd. 3Rd. 4Rd. 5Rd. 6Rd. 7Rd. 8Rd. 9Rd. 10TotalAvg
RankAAA Class10,9,34,Q,F,22B,E,11,198,15,A16,H,20D,K,L,C,18P,21,J,14O,17,N,512,M,G,613,2,7TotalAvg
1NMP-PCH HayabusaBE3133333030393245322633133.1
2Aerodyne AerokartFR3134352730383245292732832.8
27-pointer level: Aerodyne Aerokart in 2012
Roy Janssen, Dennis Praet, Andy and David Grauwels finished the Aerokart Indoor Championship 2012 with a 33.1 average after ten rounds, which is the highest 10-round indoor average in 4-way history.

However, the sequence in Round 10 (13,2,7) allowed Hayabusa only to move up to the 26-pointer level. Incredibly, the 26-pointer in Round 10 was Hayabusa's first and last score below 30 at this competition...

It was the French national team of 2012 (Julien Degen, Manu Sarrazin, Mathieu and Guillaume Bernier) who completed the same round with 27 points, which became the team's lowest score for a round in this competition.

Aerodyne Aerokart finished with a 32.8 average three points behind Hayabusa and had two 27-pointers as the lowest scores.

This is not the end of the 27-pointer story, as there would be another team on the same 27-pointer level at a different event in 2012.

Singapore 2012Rd. 1Rd. 2Rd. 3Rd. 4Rd. 5Rd. 6Rd. 7Rd. 8Rd. 9Rd. 10Rd. 11TotalAvg
RankAAA Class10,5,O12,D,L,2221,A,M,1417,3,7K,16,182,Q,N,FC,P,B,G,15E,1,11C,F,P,6L,10,E,199,1,13TotalAvg
1Arizona AirspeedUS302932302741392844302935932.6
27-pointer level in 2012: Arizona Airspeed
Arizona Airspeed's 2012 lineup (Thomas Hughes, Mark Kirkby, Josh Hall, Niklas Hemlin) traveled to Singapore a week after winning the outdoor gold medals by one single point over NMP-PCH Hayabusa at the Mondial Dubai 2012.

That's where Airspeed scored only 27-pointers and higher for all eleven rounds of the indoor meet.

The same Singapore draw had allowed SDC Rhythm XP and Evolution to enter the "4-way Indoor Elite Club" at the 23-pointer level.

Airspeed could not improve Hayabusa's 33.1 average, even though there were only one 27-pointer and one 28-pointer on the Singapore leaderboard for the new 4-way world champions.

It was the last meet for this Airspeed lineup, and it has been quiet for Airspeed ever since - indoor and outdoor. Hayabusa has been making the headlines, while Airspeed prepares to strike back very soon...

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