posted May 4th, 2019 - Most of the teams who finished in the Top 10 of the 4-way Open Class competition at the FAI Indoor World Meet were probably satisfied or happy with their performances and final positions on the leaderboard, even though competitors usually always strive to do more and better.

Weembi High Rollers surely wanted to win, and the 34.4 average is not the team's best result. However, the second best team in the indoor world and in 4-way history still posted more impressive numbers, and the Belgian winners are simply a tough team to beat when they are well prepared.

Arizona Airspeed surely planned to finish closer to the two top teams, while nothing more than a 3rd place was realistic, and the U.S. team delivered a solid indoor performance. It is also well known that Airspeed is much stronger when exits from jump planes are a part of the competition.

The Qatar Tigers in 4th place finished as expected, as well, and they posted their third consecutive 30+ average at the indoor world meet. There were no surprises in the first four places on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard.

FAI World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
8	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7
9	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
10	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7

Echochamber - Airfource at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019

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The happiest team in the Top 10 were probably Airheads from Switzerland, the most improved team of the indoor world meet. Airheads finished in the team's best international placing and with a new team record average. They benefited from the fact though that Black Cat from Russia could not copy IFS Moscow's 30.9 performance at the World Challenge 2019, and U.S. team SDC Rhythm XP was not eligible for the FAI world meet. However, the Swiss team was still the only one in the Top 10 with a new record average at Weembi Lille.

ACM Weembi placed higher than expected in the NSL Power Rankings, which are based on previous recent results at other events, and HF Flying Circus accomplished a Top 10 finish for the Czech Republic.

The teams who came to the world meet with higher expectations will evaluate the performances and the situation and try to find ways how to do better next time. Black Cat will not have to go too deep with the analysis, as two team members (Valentin Ilin, Vladimir Pavlenko) have other higher priorities with the Tanay 8-way team.

FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open - NSL Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	Black Cat	RU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	Echochamber	SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	Airheads	CH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Airfource	DE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	ACM Weembi	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	Pro Team	FI	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Two other teams who finished behind expectations will probably make more efforts to take a closer look at their own performances and the ones of the opponents. Besides Black Cat, Echochamber from Sweden and Airfource from Germany ended up in lower positions on the final leaderboard, compared to the expected ones.

The German Airfource attended only the team's third competition at Weembi Lille and are still in the process of orienting themselves on international leaderboards. The two previous events were national championships (Belgium - Germany). Airfource were ready after the indoor world meet to make new plans for the team's indoor future.

Echochamber from Sweden may have more work to with the debriefing of the event. The team was well prepared and highly motivated. They have been using their own sophisticated technology to communicate regularly with coach Mattias Nord, even when team and coach were at different locations on the planet.

The helmets include a radio system that allows team members and coach to communicate on site and remotely via the internet, as well. Echochamber were not able to harvest yet after intensive training efforts and creative technical innovation. However, the Swedish team has plenty of energy and motivation to move forward and tackle the 30+ benchmark at the beginning of the next indoor season. In fact, the Swedish team is already in the middle of the next training camp - in Eloy, Arizona...