posted May 15th, 2017 - The 2017 outdoor season in the United Kingdom began on the first May weekend with the United Kingdom Skydiving League (UKSL) competition at Skydive Buzz in Dunkeswell.

The British 4-way teams had their first opportunity to measure up with each other at the World Challenge 2017 where a total of 18 teams completed the ten indoor rounds. UK's indoor national team in 4-way Open, Volition, finished in the top spot of the internal British leaderboard, followed by Chimera, who posted a new team record average in Bedford.

Chimera's performance at the World Challenge shows that the young team will have a serious word this year at the national outdoor championships. Chimera had finished with a 16.1 average in 6th place last year. The 24.1 average in Bedford indicates that the outdoor average will be significantly higher at this year's nationals.

However, none of the AAA Class teams in Bedford attended the first outdoor competition of the year, and new AAA Class team Manatee had no competition in this category.

World Challenge 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	D,B,6,22	12,E,17	20,G,C,10	N,M,15,H	Q,19,K,4	8,21,L	P,9,J,7	O,11,1	13,A,16	3,18,5	Total	Avg
9	Volition	25	24	19	34	23	21	36	24	22	21	249	24.9
11	Chimera	27	21	22	35	24	21	32	23	18	18	241	24.1
13	NFTO	20	22	21	29	26	20	32	22	21	18	231	23.1
14	ACM	25	15	18	31	25	19	34	21	21	20	229	22.9
19	Antimatter	21	18	17	23	20	17	25	19	17	15	192	19.2
26	Eros	17	16	17	24	14	16	25	17	12	12	170	17.0
28	Formihyrodynamitevisionx	16	12	16	22	19	16	24	16	14	11	166	16.6
29	Skyfool	18	15	15	21	17	15	23	17	13	10	164	16.4
32	Quasar	15	11	12	14	15	12	20	14	10	10	133	13.3
32	Mental BloX	15	11	11	17	12	12	21	13	11	10	133	13.3
Rank	AA Class	F,G,D,P	9,J,18	E,7,M	19,13	4,L,8	2,21	C,14,20	1,K,O	A,6,11	N,B,H,Q	Total	Avg
10	Salty Jacks	16	16	22	10	11	13	12	14	13	23	150	15.0
11	Vantage	18	13	17	10	13	12	12	14	12	22	143	14.3
13	Lobster Therma4	17	11	14	9	11	10	10	14	10	20	126	12.6
14	Manticore	17	12	19	8	9	11	8	12	8	21	125	12.5
Rank	A Class	D,J,P	M,C,7	G,21	E,H,19	F,B,8	Q,O,9	6,2	N,K,A	4,L	F,2	Total	Avg
4	Poor 4Cast	15	15	12	10	15	18	10	19	11	12	137	13.7
Rank	Rookie	D,G,M	L,H,K	B,N,C	J,F,E	O,P,Q	A,E,M	A,C,O	Q,K,B	F,J,L	D,N,H	Total	Avg
7	3CAAD	10	9	11	13	10	12	10	10	14	7	106	10.6
9	Recruitz 1	9	10	8	11	9	6	8	8	13	7	89	8.9
11	Recruitz 2	5	5	4	4	5	5	6	6	5	5	50	5.0

Vantage was the only British AA Class team that had also posted scores at the World Challenge and followed up with the first outdoor scores at the beginning of May. Vantage is a new British team and offered the Pajama Pumas serious competition throughout the 6-round meet.

Pajama Pumas competed in the British Rookie Class of 2016 and started the team career with the first scoring point in the last round of the UKSL May meet.

They attended all three UKSL meets last year (0.2 - 1.0 - 4.3) and then posted a 6.0 average for the 8th place at the national championships.

Pajama Pumas visited the A Class leaderboard only once at the ESL Championship in October and won ten ESL points with the 1st place in Germany. The British delegation ended up two ESL points behind Germany in 2nd place (34 - 32).

UKSL 2017 - May		1	2	3	4	5	6	Jumpoff	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	B,1,14	3,E,21	15,H,6	Q,10,9	J,18,7	8,20,5	2,16,N	Total	Avg
1	Manatee	5	2	6	5	6	4	-	28	4.7
Rank	AA Class	8,13	J,2,A	N,B,H,4	M,20,22	C,11,7	F,21,Q	14,15	Total	Avg
1	Pajama Pumas	7	10	13	7	9	10	-	56	9.3
2	Vantage	7	9	10	7	9	10	-	52	8.7
3	Dive Hard 4.0	6	10	9	8	6	10	-	49	8.2
Rank	A Class	K,8	21,B	J,O,D	A,F,7	O,19	C,9	P,G,6	Total	Avg
1	Poor 4cast	7	8	11	8	8	10	-	52	8.7
2	Boobasaurus Rex	3	7	8	10	8	10	7	46	7.6
3	Jurassic Pork	7	7	10	11	5	6	4	46	7.1
4	RAFSPA Fury	4	7	3	9	2	5	-	30	5.0
Rank	Rookie	F,H,E	O,B,C	A,O,D	H,M,J	K,P,L	G,C,M	H,P,C	Total	Avg
1	RAFSPA Shadow	2	3	7	5	4	4	-	25	4.2
2	Aero 4m	0	5	2	3	5	3	-	18	3.0
3	Let's Do It Girls	3	3	2	0	0	1	-	9	1.5

Pajama Pumas have not attended an indoor competition yet and came back in the AA Class a year after the first point in the Rookie Class. The 9.3 average at the UKSL May meet won the 1st place in the AA Class by four points.

Dive Hard 4.0 in 3rd place was also new to the AA Class competition, after a year in the A Class. Dive Hard started at the World Challenge 2016 and then attended all three UKSL 2016 meets before winning the bronze medals at the UK Nationals 2016. The three highscores at the first UKSL meet are showing that Dive Hard will also be competitive in UK's AA Class competition this year.

The second team that had also posted scores at the World Challenge 2017 was Poor 4cast who won the A Class competition in Dunkeswell. Poor 4cast competed in the Rookie Class last year and took on the A Class dive pool at the World Challenge for the first time.

The first outdoor competition in the new category was successful with the 1st place and an 8.7 average. Two new teams had a dinosaur fight for the 2nd place, including a jump-off round...