posted May 1st, 2012 - The other team that won $800 cash in the Shamrock Showdown Skins Game of the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2012 was another visitor from Europe, UK's national 4way team Satori.

The $800 was a deserved consolation for the unfortunate Satori circumstances. Tail Aaron Faith could not get his US visa timely. Julia Foxwell, John McIver, Ian Hodgkinson and Satori videographer Dave Head decided to make the trip to DeLand anyway and found XL member Steve Hamilton to fill the slot for the outdoor competition.

Satori was also one of the eleven teams that competed at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2012 and the World Challenge 2012 both. It was a successful double header for UK's national team, not only because of the $800 cash at the Paraclete meet.

Paraclete XP Outdoor 2012		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	Q,8,H,22	16,19,13	10,14,2	E,C,20,K	5,M,9	A,6,F,17	D,21,N,B	P,O,G,J,1	18,4,7	12,15,3	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	25	20	18	35	36	25	33	31	23	20	266	26.6
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	23	21	20	33	34	29	30	30	20	21	261	26.1
3	Aerodyne Aerokart	23	21	19	33	29	28	28	29	23	21	254	25.4
4	SDC Rhythm XP	21	17	15	28	29	23	27	27	19	18	224	22.4
5	Thunder	20	17	16	27	27	22	27	26	17	17	216	21.6
1	Aerodyne DB Defenders	19	16	15	23	27	23	24	24	16	14	201	20.1
8	Satori	15	14	12	23	26	23	22	23	16	16	190	19.0
2	Polaris	18	13	10	22	22	19	20	21	15	13	173	17.3
11	Bodyflight Voluntas	13	12	12	15	19	17	18	18	13	12	149	14.9
12	Dubai Asaar Red	10	11	7	13	15	15	16	15	13	9	124	12.4
13	Dubai Asaar Gold	11	11	7	15	15	16	14	12	12	10	123	12.3

Satori was one of the teams on the top of the meet average improvement list (19.0 - 23.8 = 4.8) between those two events. Only Dubai Asaar Gold, with Craig Girard in the lineup, increased the average (12.3 - 17.5 = 5.2) even more sigificantly. The average improvement (3.6) of all eleven teams between DeLand and Bedford also indicates the difference between indoor and outdoor competition in general.

Satori's better indoor scores were not a big surprise and somehow expected, as the team is well tunnel trained with original Tail Aaron Faith. Satori had first finished 11 points behind Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders and 26 points behind Thunder in DeLand. The UK team was then ahead of the French ladies and only three points behind Thunder after the ten rounds in Bedford.

The two leaderboards are showing several other changes, which speak for the highly competitive situation all across the field

World Challenge 2012		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	D,Q,9,10	17,P,11	2,21,7	14,J,O,M	A,L,18,16	N,H,20,G	C,E,19,22	1,8,4	K,6,3	12,F,5	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	34	33	25	36	28	35	30	25	28	30	304	30.4
2	Aerodyne Aerokart	31	31	25	37	28	33	26	23	27	30	291	29.1
3	Arizona Airspeed	34	29	24	34	28	34	29	22	26	30	290	29.0
5	SDC Rhythm XP	29	23	22	29	21	30	26	21	23	23	247	24.7
7	Thunder	29	25	23	31	16	23	26	21	24	23	241	24.1
8	Satori	27	24	21	32	22	27	20	19	23	23	238	23.8
1	Aerodyne DB Defenders	26	22	18	31	21	27	24	18	21	24	232	23.2
2	Polaris	21	19	18	26	18	23	21	17	18	18	199	19.9
15	Bodyflight Voluntas	21	19	16	25	19	22	18	17	19	21	197	19.7
22	Dubai Asaar Gold	17	15	16	21	17	21	17	16	17	18	175	17.5
28	Dubai Asaar Red	17	14	16	20	15	17	16	15	15	17	162	16.2

The scramble on the top of the leaderboard between Arizona Airspeed, NMP-PCH Hayabusa and Aerodyne Aerokart was covered earlier. The only surprise there was that France placed better at the indoor event. The team ususally prefers outdoor competition. Main reason was probably the challenging travel situation at the Paraclete XP Outoor Championship. Airspeed is still strong and undefeated at outdoor competition and gets used to Hayabusa's stellar indoor performance.

SDC Rhythm XP, Thunder and Satori were much closer to each other in Bedford (9-point separation) compared to DeLand (34-point separation). However, the ranking order was unchanged between those three teams. Satori still had to work hard in Bedford to leave the Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders behind this time.

Bodyflight Voluntas, Denmark's national 4way team, was one of the most improved teams in Bedford (14.9 - 19.7 = 4.8) and moved much closer to Polaris. It was the first time that a female lineup was the best team from Scandinavia at any 4way competition. It was only a 2-country situation at both events, and things may change when Sweden and Finland come back to this year's meets with some teams.