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.

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 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		10,9,3	4,Q,F,22	B,E,11,19	8,15,A	16,H,20	D,K,L,C,18	P,21,J,14	O,17,N,5	12,M,G,6	13,2,7	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	31	33	33	30	30	39	32	45	32	26	331	33.1
2	Aerodyne Aerokart	FR	31	34	35	27	30	38	32	45	29	27	328	32.8

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 2012

Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Rd. 10

Rd. 11

Total

Avg

Rank

AAA Class

10,5,O

12,D,L,22

21,A,M,14

17,3,7

K,16,18

2,Q,N,F

C,P,B,G,15

E,1,11

C,F,P,6

L,10,E,19

9,1,13

Total

Avg

1

Arizona Airspeed

US

30

29

32

30

27

41

39

28

44

30

29

359

32.6

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...