posted Jan 18th, 2019 - The exciting January competition of the World Tunnel League did not only feature the special family situations on the top of the leaderboard and the battle of the female 4-way generations in the Czech Republic.

The AAA Class field alone had even more to offer in the middle of the leaderboard. Pro Team and HF Flying Circus were separated by only two points for the AAA top spot. However, another 2-point thriller also took place between the Skydive University team from Slovakia, who visited the Hurricane Factory in Prague for the January competition, and Blackjack at the Fööni wind tunnel in Helsinki, Finland.

In fact, there was also a 2-point difference between Blackjack and the next Finnish team, Tempo, and all three teams battled for the 6th place. Skydive University Slovakia and Blackjack were even tied after Round 9, and the last round brought the decision to the advantage of the Slovakian team at the Hurricane Factory.

The three teams shared and tied the highscores for the ten rounds almost equally, and each team had the lead at some point in time. However, only the two Finnish teams knew how tight it was between them in Helsinki, as the scores at both locations were not posted simultaneously.

World Tunnel League January 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		Q,E,F,18	3,9,11	D,K,21,16	14,G,M,17	O,L,B,7	5,15,6	P,A,12,20	C,13,1	10,8,N	22,J,H,4	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team	FI	34	20	27	24	37	23	19	23	20	21	248	24.8
2	HF Flying Circus	CZ	34	21	23	25	39	19	21	22	21	21	246	24.6
3	HF Bad Boys	CZ	31	21	22	23	33	19	21	19	19	19	227	22.7
4	HF Cubs	CZ	29	19	20	19	31	17	17	18	16	21	207	20.7
5	HF Chicks	CZ	29	19	19	20	29	17	15	15	16	20	199	19.9
6	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	24	17	20	19	27	15	16	16	16	18	188	18.8
7	Blackjack	FI	28	13	19	19	29	15	16	16	15	16	186	18.6
8	Tempo	FI	23	17	21	19	26	15	15	17	14	17	184	18.4
9	Telakka	FI	24	17	19	18	24	13	16	16	14	16	177	17.7
10	Sky....	CZ	20	14	18	18	29	15	14	15	14	15	172	17.2
11	Silver Knights	FI	18	13	16	17	24	15	14	14	13	16	160	16.0
12	M Team	CZ	19	11	14	13	21	10	10	14	11	14	137	13.7
13	Accord	CZ	16	11	13	15	21	11	9	12	7	13	128	12.8

Skydive University Slovakia - Blackjack - Tempo at the World Tunnel League January 2019

Skydive University Slovakia probably just staid in Prague, as they had planned to compete at the Czech Open Indoor Championship, as well.

The Slovakian team is a regular visitor at the World Tunnel League events at the Hurricane Factory and get plenty of competition practice at the meets.

The January competition was the 15th time for the Slovakian team at a WTL meet in Prague since 2016. After seven meets in the AA Class of 2016 and 2017, they felt ready to attend the first international competition and traveled to Bedford for the World Challenge 2017, where they won with a 20.7 team record average.

Then it was time to move into the AAA Class, and the Slovakian team posted the first scores on the AAA Class leaderboard (16.3) once again at the Hurricane Factory in November 2017.

They attended each of the monthly WTL meets between November 2017 and April 2018 and then went back to Bedford, this time for the AAA Class competition.

World Challenge 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
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	15,22	Total	Avg
1	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	29	17	29	14	16	16	13	20	17	35	-	206	20.6
2	Bahrain	BH	26	17	30	15	17	16	15	17	16	28	15	197	19.7
3	Alakran	ES	27	20	27	14	15	16	13	18	17	30	14	197	19.7
4	HF Junior Cubs	CZ	23	19	27	12	16	14	17	19	17	31	-	195	19.5
5	HF Junior Flies	CZ	23	14	25	15	13	13	11	16	15	23	-	168	16.8
6	Koloncok	HU	18	15	24	12	12	13	13	16	14	28	-	165	16.5
7	Tahma	FI	22	16	21	11	11	12	14	17	11	23	-	158	15.8
8	Zero!	IT	25	14	20	11	11	13	12	14	13	24	-	157	15.7
8	Brain Storming	IT	21	16	22	10	13	13	13	14	12	23	-	157	15.7
10	Salty Jacks	UK	16	16	22	10	11	13	12	14	13	23	-	150	15.0
11	Vantage	UK	18	13	17	10	13	12	12	14	12	22	-	143	14.3
12	Ballista	IE	19	12	18	11	9	10	10	14	13	22	-	138	13.8
13	Lobster Therma4	UK	17	11	14	9	11	10	10	14	10	20	-	126	12.6
14	Manticore	UK	17	12	19	8	9	11	8	12	8	21	-	125	12.5

The April meet of the World Tunnel League 2018 and the World Challenge 2018 were still not the end of the April meets for Skydive University Slovakia. They also traveled to Norway just a week later and represented Slovakia for the first time at an FAI/IPC competition, the FAI European Indoor Championship 2018.

April was still not over when the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2018 took place at the Hurricane Factory, and the Slovakian team is probably the only team in history that completed four 10-round meets within one month.

The efforts were rewarded with the first 20-average finish in Prague at the last meet of the indoor winter season of 2017/2018.

Skydive University Slovakia have not missed a WTL meet this winter season, which began once again in November last year. The January meet brought the confrontation with the Finnish teams, and the previous competition practice and experiences then paid back with the new AAA Class record average of 20.2 at the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2019.