posted Mar 18th, 2016 - The weather situation was not very promising for the Shamrock Showdown 2016, however, all teams completed six of the scheduled ten rounds on Friay.

The new NSL Talk with the event judges (Chris Talbert, Jim Rees, Dirk Venter) revealed that the competition draw was very challenging. Traditionally, the Shamrock teams pull the numbers and letters for the competition sequences out of the hat (trophy) by themselves, and they were responsible for the fact that all six memory blocks (3,5,10,12,16,17) were drawn for six different sequences.

On top of that, the first six rounds were slower and technically challenging, with 15 blocks and 3 random formations. The meet averages after six rounds are not impressive for obvious reasons.

Shamrock Showdown 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		3,13,9	G,6,21	10,20,11	18,4,B	F,1,14	19,5,7	P,Q,16,A	C,15,M,12	J,L,K,2	E,O,22,17	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	23	24	19	22	24	24	-	-	-	-	136	22.7
2	Aerodyne French Girls	FR	21	22	17	21	23	20	-	-	-	-	124	20.7
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	22	16	21	19	19	-	-	-	-	116	19.3
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	19	19	15	19	21	20	-	-	-	-	113	18.8
5	Satori XL	UK	19	18	16	20	19	20	-	-	-	-	112	18.7
6	TurBu 2.0	US	15	19	15	15	19	-	-	-	-	-	84	16.8
7	Teiwaz	US	11	13	12	13	12	13	-	-	-	-	74	12.3
8	DeLand Momentum	US	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
8	Black Cat	RU	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0

The slow competition draw for the first six rounds still did not hold back the best teams to impress the audience with great performances. The meet videos of Arizona Airspeed's first five rounds are showing the new lineup in best harmony and on a very promising performance level with new Point Mikhail Markine.

It's an interesting lineup, as the three judges mentioned in the live NSL Talk on Friday. Only videographer Justin Price is an original U.S. citizen, while his team mates are all

U.S. immigrants. Thomas Hughes is from Great Britain, Niklas Hemlin from Sweden, Thiago Gomes from South Africa/Brazil, and the latest Airspeed member Mikhail Markine was born in Russia.

The Aerodyne French Girls are performing just as impressively as Airspeed is and hold the 2nd place over SDC Rhythm XP and Qatar Tigers. Take-off for Round 7 is scheduled for 8 AM on Saturday morning.