posted Oct 28th, 2017 - The last update that covered the final showdown in 2017 between NMP PCH HayaBusa and Weembi High Rollers at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 presented the situation at the end of the first day when five of the ten rounds were completed. The missing five rounds have now been added to the meet videos of both teams.

Eventually not much changed on the second day, even though Weembi came out of the starting blocks for Round 6 on Saturday morning as strong as it was expected and reduced the deficit from five to three points. However, HayaBusa reacted like world champions and did not allow Weembi to win another round until the meet was completed with a 7-point advantage for the Belgians.

Both teams had distanced themselves far away from the rest of the field, HayaBusa by 25 points and Weembi by 18 points from Arizona Airspeed and Black Cat, who were tied in 3rd place after Round 10.

It has never been much different at the events that the two teams have attended with their two lineups of five Belgian and three French 4-way outdoor world champions, with one exception.

Arizona Airspeed's 2015 lineup (Chris Farina, Thiago Gomes, Niklas Hemlin, Thomas Hughes) managed to position themselves between HayaBusa and Weembi at the Clash of Champions 2015 with a 30.5 average. The same event at Inflight Dubai was the start of the duel between the two teams that has been going on for almost two years by now.

Weembi's signature lineup had a great time in Dubai without investing a lot of training into the preparations for the event. The 29.5 average was promising enough to make plans for the near future.

The goal was simple and easy to define: Beat the three Belgian outdoor world champions of 2014 with their new member Jeroen Nollet in the tail slot that Weembi's Roy Janssen had left open after winning the gold medals for Belgium in Prostejov.

HayaBusa had just unified the FAI/IPC indoor and outdoor titles after winning the first FAI Indoor World Meet with their new lineup and won again a few months later at the Clash of Champions.

Weembi's High Rollers made plans only for indoor training and competition and did not intend to compete with the official French national 4-way Open Class team, RealFly-Sion. The next direct confrontation came almost a year after the first Clash in Dubai, at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016.

Weembi was a trained indoor team by then and ended up only four points (306 - 302) behind HayaBusa and far ahead (302 - 279) of RealFly-Sion in 3rd place.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	October 20		16,P,12	2,8,H	22,20,3	15,D,4	A,J,6,L	7,M,19	5,Q,21	18,B,17	G,14,C,N	K,E,10,11	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	30	29	25	30	47	33	34	34	37	28	327	32.7
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	30	29	26	30	41	35	32	32	37	28	320	32.0
World Challenge 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	April 7		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
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	33	29	29	46	34	28	47	28	28	29	331	33.1
2	Weembi Lille	FR	33	31	29	43	35	28	46	29	29	27	330	33.0
French Indoor Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	March 25		10,12,O	21,E,9	M,J,22,G	15,6,Q	4,N,14	19,2,F	18,A,16	D,20,3	B,17,8	P,13,K,1	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	26	36	37	33	29	32	29	30	29	32	313	31.3
2	Weembi Lille	FR	26	34	35	33	29	31	28	28	27	29	300	30.0
Wind Games 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	February 3		D,2,P,13	C,21,11	Q,O,17,A	6,10,18	5,E,K,22	19,1,F	8,20,J	L,N,7,9	16,M,15	14,G,H,4	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	28	27	43	25	35	31	26	45	34	31	325	32.5
2	Weembi Lille	FR	29	27	46	24	32	31	27	43	30	31	320	32.0
FAI Indoor World Cup 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	October 13		15,11,6	7,2,A	J,B,18,5	E,19,Q,3	8,P,21	12,L,O,C	G,20,F,16	10,D,22	N,9,K,4	14,M,17	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	25	32	33	31	24	31	32	26	41	31	306	30.6
2	Weembi	FR	24	30	33	33	25	33	31	26	36	31	302	30.2
Clash of Champions 2015			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	November 26		J,13,8	K,20,5	9,21,19	C,3,6	7,O,15	A,18,1	2,H,P,D	16,L,11	E,N,10,B	12,Q,F,22	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	26	32	30	28	33	29	41	28	37	29	313	31.3
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	28	30	29	30	34	27	39	28	34	26	305	30.5
3	Weembi Lille	FR	27	28	30	29	33	27	35	28	30	28	295	29.5

Then came the 2017 season, where both teams scheduled four indoor meets that they would attend, and HayaBusa won the first one, the Wind Games, by five points (325 - 320). A few months later, the Belgians invaded French territory and Weembi home turf in Lille for the French Indoor Nationals where did not allow the High Rollers to win any of the ten rounds (313 - 390). The four HayaBusa members also won the 8-way competition at Weembi Lille with the Fly-In Machine 44.

The High Rollers became even more motivated after the French Indoor Nationals. They were now officially qualified as the French national 4-way indoor team after finishing far ahead of RealFly-Sion, who were focusing on outdoor competition for France. The High Rollers were sanctioned to compete at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 where they were planning to win the FAI gold medals.

The training plans became more serious on a regular basis and included two hours of indoor training every month. The results at the World Challenge a few weeks after the French Indoor Nationals were very promising, even though HayaBusa fended off the next challenge by one single point.

The FAI Indoor World Meet in Montreal became the final and ultimate showdown, where both teams were once again on eye level and far ahead of the rest of the field. However, one bad round and a very consistent performance by the Belgians drowned the Weembi hopes for the gold medals, and NMP PCH HayaBusa continue as the reigning indoor and outdoor 4-way world champions. The Weembi High Rollers will hopefully make new plans for the 2018 season...