posted Dec 22nd, 2017 - The Belgian Indoor Nationals 2017 took place without the Belgian indoor and outdoor world champions, NMP PCH HayaBusa, who are enjoying their much deserved winter break.

There was one exception though, as the team's inside center David Grauwels was filling an open slot slot for the Italian team Amnesya.

It's the second HayaBusa member who has been helping the Italians. Tail Jeroen "Bob" Nollet was in the tail slot at the ISR Grand Prix 2017 where team member Antonio Delogu was missing.

Amnesya coach David Grauwels took the same tail slot, which is his B-slot in the HayaBusa rear piece with Jeroen Nollet. He was also competing in 8-way with FlyIn8.

Amnesya's outside center Michele Silvi was not available at the Belgian Indoor Nationals, and the Italian team competed with only two original members, Chiara Brunetti (Point) and Giuseppe Cossu (Inside Center). Mario Fatturoso stepped in and took the outside center slot for the Fly-In meet.

Belgian Indoor Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		0,3,18	22,14,N	Q,2,B,E	L,A,F,19	P,4,H,5	9,10,8	6,13,16	K,G,17,C	21,J,1	15,20,12	Total	Avg
1	Amnesya	IT	21	17	26	30	27	21	18	32	20	15	227	22.7
2	Airbus	DE	19	18	26	29	26	18	17	30	19	17	219	21.9
3	ISR FireFlash	BE	20	18	27	23	22	18	17	26	20	16	207	20.7
4	JETMAX	BE	17	16	24	26	17	17	17	16	19	15	184	18.4
5	Ludo's Pinkcakes Deluxe	BE	13	12	22	21	18	15	14	18	16	11	160	16.0
6	Just 4 Fun	DE	12	12	17	19	14	12	11	16	14	11	138	13.8
Rank	AA Class		F,11,18	14,L,21	A,13,E	9,19	H,P,2	M,B,G,20	1,Q,15	6,7	D,O,J,22	8,C,K	Total	Avg
1	Falco	BE	15	15	16	18	17	19	16	16	17	14	163	16.3
2	S.P.A.R.T.A.N.	UK	13	12	14	15	16	19	11	18	16	12	146	14.6
3	XLR4	NL	12	12	11	15	19	18	12	15	13	12	139	13.9
4	Blok 43	NL	13	11	12	13	19	14	14	14	13	12	135	13.5
5	Ahzoe Skydive	BE	12	12	13	16	16	11	9	14	14	14	131	13.1
Rank	A Class		F,B,G	E,9	H,7	Q,N,M	19,K	2,L	J,4	8,A	C,O,6	P,D,21	Total	Avg
1	Ayro	BE	35	26	22	31	17	13	15	17	21	20	217	21.7
2	Not So Fast But Furious	BE	30	24	22	30	12	17	14	16	16	17	198	19.8
3	Aeropotam's	BE	29	21	22	27	14	13	14	16	19	18	193	19.3
4	Stardust	BE	29	22	16	30	9	13	16	15	15	14	179	17.9
5	Just The 4 Of Us	BE	22	18	16	28	10	12	11	12	14	14	157	15.7
6	Bazinga	DE	24	14	16	15	13	13	13	15	18	14	155	15.5
7	Random4	BE	24	14	16	15	8	11	12	11	13	9	133	13.3
Rank	Rookie		M,F,L	K,B,J	A,H,Q	O,G,D	N,E,P	C,Q,O	M,P,D	E,F,L	C,B,N	A,J,H	Total	Avg
1	4-Mation	BE	24	19	17	10	15	20	21	16	17	16	175	17.5
2	G4z	BE	19	17	15	14	7	20	25	19	13	13	162	16.2
3	Alternate	BE	19	17	19	14	11	13	16	19	11	9	148	14.8

Mario Fatturoso is in fact the new Amnesya member who will replace Antonio Delogu in the tail slot next year. He is a former eX3MO competitor who was in the lineup that posted the team's highest outdoor average (19.9) at the FAI Mondial 2012 in Dubai, together with Pete Allum, Fabio Lorenzetti, Ivan Quadrio and Massimo Fiorini on camera.

He left eX3MO at the end of the 2013 season and is now joining Amnesya. The new lineup will begin with training in January.

The German national team Airbus finished in 2nd place behind Amnesya. It was the first indoor competition for Airbus, and the lineup is the same that trained and competed in 2017 and will represent Germany at the FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia.

The Italian opponent at the world meet will probably be eX3MO who won the national outdoor championships this year by one single point.

ISR FireFlash ended up in 3rd place after recently outscoring Amnesya with Jeroen Nollet at the ISR Grand Prix. FireFlash competed with a different lineup, as outside center Wesley Claessens was not available.

Belgian Indoor Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		3,18,L	D,21,A,F	6,M,C,2	13,G,J,9	4,P,22	H,16,B,12	17,7,15	5,10,1	N,Q,11,8	E,K,19,O	Total	Avg
1	FlyIn8	BE	22	19	20	19	23	19	16	15	17	17	187	18.7
2	Octo-Minions	BE	12	12	13	13	11	17	10	10	10	12	120	12.0
3	Thai Cuisine	BE	5	6	9	9	8	7	3	3	7	-	57	6.3

Luc Verstrepen helped out, and FireFlash had to scramble the center slots. Sven Ibens and Luc Verstrepen are both former HayaBusa members, and they both trained and competed in the inside center position for the Belgian national team.

Sven Ibens had left HayaBusa at the end of the 2006 season, and Luc Verstrepen was his successor when HayaBusa became a full-time team in 2007. Sven Ibens switched to outside center to accommodate the only slot that Luc Verstrepen was prepared for.

FireFlash's Fly-In lineup completed 30 minutes of indoor training the night before the competition and then followed up with the ten meet rounds in 4-way. Amnesya and FireFlash also joined forces for the 8-way competition.

The rear piece of the Fly-In Machine 44 lineup was almost complete with David Grauwels, Glenn Cuylaerts and Sven Ibens. Amnesya member Chiara Brunetti took Jeroen Nollet's slot. Maya Van Campenhout was the only M44 front piece member.

Giuseppe Cossu (Amnesya) and Elischa Weber from Germany joined her on the other side of the 8-way formations, and Luc Verstrepen completed the lineup in Andy Grauwels' slot. The international FlyIn8 lineup did not have serious competition in 8-way and won easily.