posted Mar 31st, 2019 - The German Indoor Nationals ended without any surprises, and Airfource lifted the team's average from 25.6 at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2018 to 27.2 after Round 10 in Munich on Saturday.

Airfource will compete for Germany at the upcoming FAI Indoor World Meet, even though the new team did not compete at last year's national indoor championships, which was the official qualification event.

The 2018 indoor winner, Airbus FSZ Saar, is not interested much in indoor training and competition and was even training in DeLand, while this year's national indoor championships took place at the Jochen Schweizer Arena in Munich.

AtomiX would have been next in the qualification order after finishing in 2nd place last year. However, AtomiX have the same preferences as Airbus and focus the team priorities exclusively on outdoor competition. Winter training takes place at Oceanside in California, summer training at the new home DZ in Hildesheim. AtomiX still competed at the national indoor championships, even though they have also forwarded the slot as the national indoor team in 4-way Open to Airfource.

German Indoor Nationals 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		21,22,G	E,M,Q,A,11	19,7,14	P,10,O,15	H,4,2	B,1,F,J	13,3,5	6,17,C	18,N,20	9,12,16	Total	Avg
1	Jochen Schweizer Arena Airfource	DE	23	38	26	27	25	37	21	28	24	23	272	27.2
2	Oceanside AtomiX/Skydive-Hildesheim	DE	21	34	22	22	24	32	21	26	20	21	243	24.3
3	Skynamite FSZ Saar	DE	19	29	16	20	21	31	19	20	15	21	211	21.1
4	Piteraq	DE	15	29	19	20	15	33	19	19	19	19	207	20.7
5	No Limits	RU	16	28	19	17	17	28	19	20	18	15	197	19.7
6	Hoo Lee Shit	DE	16	23	17	18	18	26	14	19	16	19	186	18.6
7	NeVa FSZ Saar	DE	16	22	17	16	17	27	17	17	14	16	179	17.9
8	Wintertunnel	DE	16	23	14	16	14	26	13	16	9	16	163	16.3
9	SkymaxX	DE	13	22	15	13	14	22	10	14	12	14	149	14.9
10	4 xmpl	DE	13	17	14	14	14	23	13	13	11	15	147	14.7
11	HorschD - FSZ Saar	DE	13	20	15	12	11	21	13	14	11	16	146	14.6
12	Airgrips	DE	13	21	13	14	14	22	13	11	10	12	143	14.3
13	4Motion - Eisenach	DE	10	17	12	10	10	17	9	9	10	11	115	11.5

Airfource and AtomiX at the German Indoor Nationals 2019

It makes sense that Airfource competes for Germany at Weembi Lille, as the team is by far the strongest indoor team. There was a 29-point difference between the winner and AtomiX in 2nd place, who still finished with a new team record average.

In fact, the 24.3 AtomiX average in Munich is the highest German indoor result behind Airfource and improved last year's Airbus winning total of 240 by three points. AtomiX had a 22.9 in the records before this weekend's 24.3 in Munich. The Airfource 27.2 average is still significantly better and confirms the qualification status that the German federation granted after the team's impressive performance at the Belgian Indoor Nationals last December.

The most recent Airfource scores indicate that the German national indoor team in 4-way Open could be in contention for the positions not far behind the medal rankings, even though there will be very strong teams like Qatar Tigers, Echochamber, IFS-Moscow trying to get close to the Top 3 (NMP PCH HayaBusa, Weembi High Rollers, Arizona Airspeed).

AtomiX and Airbus will continue to focus on outdoor training and competition where AtomiX is the German top contender this year. Airfource has not decided yet if they will try to become the German 4-way champions in both events.Skynamite FSZ Daar and Piteraq at the German Indoor Nationals 2019

The situation is different in 4-way Women, where the indoor winner of 2018 will compete for Germany at Weembi Lille in April. Skynamite FSZ Saar are the German indoor and outdoor champions in 4-way Women and competed as the national team at the FAI World Meet 2018 in Australia.

Skynamite has a new lineup with new member Sylvia Schlaphof. Yasmin Schütte, Sandra Dederichs and Janine Tillenburg are back from the 2018 lineup.

It was not easy for Skynamite to defend the 4-way Women indoor title successfully as the first step. In fact, the competition for the 3rd place was a dramatic 4-point battle, as the newly formed Piteraq lineup was seriously threatening the defending champions.

Two Chicas members (Susa Serra, Sylvia Maier) teamed up with Linda Koelb of the German national 8-way team Airbus and former military competitor Evangelina Warich.

Skynamite will be back for outdoor competition after the indoor world meet and try to defend the German 4-way Women title, as well. The German Outdoor Nationals 2019 are the qualification event for the next FAI world meet in Tanay 2020.