posted Mar 30th, 2018 - The Italian duel between the reigning national outdoor champions of eX3MO and the reigning national indoor champions of Amnesya had its next stage at the French Indoor Nationals 2017.

It is not really a serious indoor duel any longer, as the outdoor challenger has moved quite far away from eX3MO's 4-way veterans when it comes to indoor competition. Former eX3MO member Mario Fatturoso, who had joined the Amnesya lineup with the beginning of the 2018 season, has made the team even stronger, and last weekend's 26.8 is a new team record average.

Mario Fatturoso had trained and competed with eX3MO until the FAI Mondial 2012 and before he turned to canopy piloting. He came back to 4-way competition last year when Amnesya was looking for a new team member. He mentioned in the new NSL Live Talk that things have changed a lot since 2012 and that he has been re-learning techniques and details on a regular basis.

The name of his new team, which stands for memory loss, as the original team members confirmed, might be a helpful reminder that a lot of his previous 4-way experiences have to be left behind or changed. NMP PCH HayaBusa member David Grauwels has been giving Amnesya direction and coaching, and the results are showing.

French Indoor Nationals 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way AAA/Open Class		7,Q,13	L,H,O,1	3,19,F	15,A,8	N,K,17,18	6,M,B,4	C,E,12,11	J,2,20	P,9,16	10,D,G,21	Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Weembi Girls	FR	29	37	31	28	33	33	29	26	35	29	310	31.0
2	Qatar Tigers	QA	29	39	31	26	27	34	28	28	34	27	303	30.3
2	Aerodyne Realfly	FR	29	36	28	28	30	34	29	26	35	28	303	30.3
4	Amnesya	IT	24	33	26	26	28	30	25	20	33	23	268	26.8
5	Gavroche Weembi	FR	25	29	27	24	27	30	23	20	30	23	258	25.8
6	Weembi Legion	FR	25	31	23	22	24	28	23	22	28	22	248	24.8
7	Odin Parachute System	FR	23	29	26	22	23	28	23	22	29	20	245	24.5
8	Espoir Weembi Lille	FR	24	30	23	21	21	25	23	19	29	22	237	23.7
9	HF eX3MO	IT	24	29	22	20	23	28	18	22	27	19	232	23.2
10	Tenanine	MR	21	29	24	19	23	22	22	19	29	23	231	23.1

Amnesya was not looking at the eX3MO scores at Weembi Lille, as they had defined a new target. The French team Gavroche Weembi had finished in front of the Italians at the Wind Games, and goal was to change the outcome.

Gavroche Weembi had to replace Julien Degen with Thomas Perrin and scored lower on their home turf, while Amnesya posted the Italian indoor record average.

However, the indoor season is almost over, and Amnesya will re-focus on outdoor competition as soon as the trip to Norway for the European Indoor Championship is completed. eX3MO will once again become the main target.

One of the updates from Italy last year mentioned that there was trouble with the scheduling of national championships and sanctioning of Italy's national teams for the FAI World Meet 2018.

The problems seem to be resolved, and there will be a qualification event approx. a month before the trip to Australia. Amnesya and eX3MO both plan to compete for Italy downunder, and only one team will win the tickets.

French Indoor Nationals 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		11,9,8	13,2,M	12,4,A	3,P,C,10	H,N,Q,1	5,16,B	19,L,J,21	E,15,18	G,7,D,17	O,6,K,F	Total	Avg
1	Weembi Elder 8	FR	23	19	34	32	37	29	21	28	26	28	277	27.7
2	Qatar Falcons	QA	17	21	32	30	35	30	23	26	25	30	269	26.9
3	Weembi Girls	FR	21	21	31	27	34	28	24	25	27	30	268	26.8
4	Veloce QRF	IN	17	18	29	24	33	23	18	26	20	23	231	23.1
5	Fan8ics	IT	17	17	26	20	30	21	17	20	16	22	206	20.6
6	Vair8maxxxx	FR	16	16	25	18	27	22	16	21	19	22	202	20.2
7	Insomniaques Weembi	FR	15	15	22	22	22	21	17	20	18	23	195	19.5
8	After 8	FR	15	15	21	19	24	20	17	20	19	20	190	19.0
9	Shamapasl'air Clermont	FR	12	15	22	22	21	20	16	20	17	22	187	18.7
10	PCP Coyotes JCM	FR	14	12	20	19	19	16	13	19	17	16	165	16.5
11	Project Ride the Dragon	UK	15	13	17	18	17	20	13	18	16	17	164	16.4
12	Monaco SkyDream Team	MC	11	12	22	16	18	17	12	18	16	18	160	16.0
13	WitBiz	FR	12	12	19	14	21	15	12	14	16	17	152	15.2
14	Lazy Functors Corbas St Flo Nord	FR	11	11	12	13	16	14	9	14	14	15	129	12.9

The national championship will be the first outdoor competition for the new Amnesya lineup with the former eX3MO member, while the reigning outdoor champions have continued with the same lineup.

eX3MO and Amnesya were both involved in the Weembi 8-way competition, as well. The complete eX3MO lineup joined forces with Amnesya member Giuseppe Cossu and three former eX3MO members and friends (Antonella Chiarin, Giovanni Carne, Fabio Lorenzetti) to compete in 8-way with Fan8ics, after two hours of indoor training. Giuseppe Cossu said that the 8-way project will probably continue.

A second Amnesya member competed in 8-way, as well. Chiara Brunetti had joined the Weembi Girls for last year's 8-way competition at the French Indoor Nationals and was back in the lineup last weekend. The Weembi Girls became the official French 8-way champions, even though Chiara Brunetti made it clear that she is Italian and will not compete for France.

The Fan8ics were a guest team and placed 4th on the Open Class leaderboard, 5th on the combined one. FAI/IPC have not sanctioned 8-way indoor competition yet...