posted Dec 2nd, 2017 - Leaderboards of a size like the recent one at the ISR Grand Prix 2017 offer a lot of interesting information and topics for team stories. The next one does not cover the winners or top contenders, like the ISR FireFlash update or the HF Junior Cub story did.

The competition between the Monaco Indoor Skydive Team and Tenanine for the bronze medals in Roosendaal alone was already exciting enough with a 4-point difference after Round 8. However, this duel behind the two top teams generated much more than only an exciting battle.

The lineups of both teams include French 4-way and 8-way celebrities who have won several medals at FAI world meets and world cups years ago. The current Monaco indoor lineup still competes with Jeff Ronzevalle and Franck Vazille who were 8-way team mates in the French national teams of the 80's and 90's.

Tenanine competes for Mauretania, with two more French competitors in the lineup. Martial Ferre was still an active French 8-way competitor in the lineup that won gold medals at the FAI World Meet in Menzelinsk 2010. Mathieu Cannesson was in the French 8-way lineup Venturi and won a bronze medal at the FAI World Meet in Prostejov 2014.

ISR Grand Prix 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		21,17,12	B,H,Q,10	D,9,K,P	18,22,F	3,G,O,M	16,L,N,E	11,J,15	2,C,A,14	Total	Avg
1	ISR Fire Flash	BE	18	34	37	21	31	30	24	23	218	27.3
2	Amnesya Fly In	IT	20	29	31	19	31	26	24	25	205	25.6
3	Tenanine	MR	17	29	24	21	27	23	20	21	182	22.8
4	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	16	25	31	17	25	24	21	19	178	22.3
5	Team White Project 20+	NL	17	25	30	16	24	21	19	18	170	21.3
6	HF Flying Circus	CZ	17	28	29	17	20	21	19	18	169	21.1
7	Out Of The Blue	NL	15	25	31	14	22	22	18	18	165	20.6
8	JETMAX	BE	14	23	29	17	23	22	17	19	164	20.5
9	Flyzone Les Affranchis	FR	14	24	21	15	20	21	18	15	148	18.5
10	Skycentrum	CZ	12	17	23	11	18	18	14	14	127	15.9
11	Gravity Abuse	BE	13	18	21	13	17	16	14	13	125	15.6
12	Crash Test Dummies	BE	12	16	17	12	16	16	14	16	119	14.9
13	Cool Runnings	NL	13	18	16	8	16	15	11	15	112	14.0
14	4igami	NL	11	13	18	10	13	11	10	11	97	12.1
15	Blue Rebels	GR	11	12	18	11	12	10	7	11	92	11.5

The stories of the lineups themselves alone are interesting enough, and both teams with their French connections have also run into each other at a few events ever since Tenanine joined the 4-way indoor world at the World Challenge 2015.

Tenanine has easily won each single direct confrontation with Monaco so far, three times this year (Wind Games, French Indoor Nationals, ISR Grand Prix).

However, things have changed, and the close competition between the two teams in Roosendaal, based on a significantly higher performance level of the Monaco team and a new 22.3 record average, caught the NSL News attention even more than the colorful lineups.

A closer look at the team rosters in Roosendaal was showing a personnel change for Monaco, while Tenanine has competed with the same lineup at the seven indoor meets since the Wind Games in January 2016, and the 22.8 average in Roosendaal was a new team record, as well.

The Monaco Indoor Skydive Team had a new team member at the ISR Grand Prix 2017 last week whose name has not been on any AAA Class leaderboards so far.

Kylian Forsans joined Stéphane Mattoni, Jeff Ronzevalle and Franck Vazille in the Outside Center position and helped lifting Monaco to a new performance and scoring level.

Wind Games 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		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
3	RealFly-Sion	FR	25	28	46	23	29	30	26	39	29	28	303	30.3
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	23	27	38	21	26	30	23	39	29	25	281	28.1
5	Gavroche Weembi	FR	23	23	37	19	27	25	22	36	27	25	264	26.4
6	Ninja 4	IT	24	22	37	18	24	26	20	30	26	23	250	25.0
7	Airheads Realfly	CH	20	17	29	19	22	25	22	29	22	22	227	22.7
8	Chimera	UK	20	22	27	15	23	23	20	27	24	24	225	22.5
9	Amnesya Fly-In	IT	20	20	31	15	19	22	17	27	24	24	219	21.9
10	Tenanine	MA	17	20	23	17	21	22	20	29	21	20	210	21.0
11	Papea Masculino	ES	17	18	26	17	20	21	17	27	24	22	209	20.9
12	Monaco Tunnel Team	MC	17	18	24	14	18	20	17	25	20	18	191	19.1
13	Amrap	FR	16	17	29	15	13	17	18	24	20	17	186	18.6
14	Flyspot Sky4Four	PL	16	17	21	15	19	19	15	22	17	19	180	18.0
14	Jetmax	BE	17	18	24	14	17	18	16	21	17	18	180	18.0
16	4motion	PL	14	16	24	14	17	17	15	19	18	15	169	16.9
17	Aladeen	HU	17	15	25	10	15	15	15	16	19	18	165	16.5
18	Shamal Loutres	FR	15	16	20	12	14	17	16	21	15	16	162	16.2
19	Shamal Haut	FR	12	14	19	10	14	13	11	20	15	14	142	14.2
19	Alakran	ES	13	15	18	12	13	14	14	15	13	15	142	14.2
21	Mmmh Shamal	FR	14	13	16	11	14	11	11	18	12	16	136	13.6

Kylian Forsans is a French 4-way competitor, as well, and his name has also been in team rosters on other previous leaderboards. In fact, he has even won FAI medals before - in the 4-way Junior category. He was in the Aerokart Ak'demie 1 lineup that competed with Aerokart Ak'demie 2 team for the trip to Montreal at the French Indoor Nationals 2017 and lost by two points in an exciting AA Class 10-round battle.

His Ak'demie team had won the silver medals at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016, where Ak'demie 2 placed 4th. The French Indoor Nationals 2017 were the qualifier for all French teams to compete in Montreal, and Kylian Forsans missed the trip to Canada.

The 22.3 average for Monaco in the 8-round AAA Class competition in Roosendaal came after four sequences with slot switchers for the front piece that Kylian Forsans was flying together with Stéphane Mattoni. The Monaco lineup with the 4-way junior still finished closer to Tenanine than ever before.

Tenanine member Mathieu Cannesson was also a coach for the Aerokart Ak'demie junior project, and he surely knew of Kylian Forsans' skills. Monaco will probably try to keep him in the lineup for future events, and Tenanine has to be ready for a lot of pressure coming from the new Monaco junior/senior combination...