posted Nov 29th, 2019 - The third 2019 meet of the World Tunnel League this month at iFLY Sao Paulo in Brazil ended with an upset for the country's top team in the past decade, CTR Optimum. The two challengers, So Pressao and Go Fly, used the opportunity when CTR Optimum could not attend with the complete lineup.

Andre Ferraz and Juliana Sé were not available for the November meet, and CTR Optimum needed two substitutes. George Narita and Daiton Ribeiro recruited Beatriz Ohno and Deborah Schroder for the competition, who train and compete with CTR Storm. Their own team had attended the first two WTL meets this year in April (17.5) and June (17.9) and had no plans for the November meet.

The CTR Optimum/Storm combination finished well above Beatriz Ohno's and Deborah Schroder's highest previous averages with the 19.4 which was still not enough to defend the top spot successfully.

SO Pressao and Go Fly pushed each other to 20+ averages in an exciting 1-point battle, and CTR Optimum had to accept their first defeat by any other Brazilian teams since 2005.

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World Tunnel League November 2019 - Brazil		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	K,13,E,17		11,C,1		N,M,16,6		14,9,B		Q,D,3,7		21,18,L		8,10,G		4,H,O,F		Total	Avg
1	So Pressao	20		19		21		21		22		16		16		28		163	20.4
2	Go Fly	18	-1	20		23		18	-3	21		18		18		26		162	20.3
3	CTR Optimum	19		16		21	-1	21		20		18		15		25		155	19.4
4	North Force	18		19		20		16	-3	17	-2	13	-2	16	-1	22	-4	141	17.6
5	Carpe Diem	15	-2	18		17	-1	18		16	-1	13		15		21		133	16.6
6	Netuno	13	-2	16		17		18		16		14		14		22		130	16.3
7	Anima	15		16		17		16		15		13		15		20		127	15.9
7	Amitie	16		16		16	-1	12		17		14		15		21		127	15.9
9	Paradocks	13		13		16		16		15		11	-1	10	-1	16		110	13.8
Rank	AA Class	P,13,18		11,C,1		N,M,6		14,9		Q,D,7		21,L,B		8,G,F		4,H,O		Total	Avg
1	RJ Revolution	12		9	-1	16		14		17		15		10		15		108	13.5
2	TMJ	7	-1	7	-1	9	-3	10		14		11		8		10		76	9.5

So Pressao - Go Fly - CTR Optimum at the WTL November at iFLY Sao Paulo

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It is an amazing fact that the winning team, So Pressao, have been sharing the 14-year history of 4-way competition in Brazil with CTR Optimum. It was exactly the same So Pressao lineup who competed together with CTR Optimum at the first meet of the newly launched Brazilian Skydiving League in April 2005.

André Ferraz is the only original CTR Optimum member in the current lineup, even though he missed the November meet. So Pressao had an indoor comeback with the 2005 lineup who competed when André Ferraz launched the Brazilian Tunnel League in December 2018.

The So Pressao comeback peaked with the team's first 20+ indoor average this month, which was also enough to outscore Go Fly by one single point. Both teams had their previous 1-point battle in December 2018, at So Pressao's comeback event after the 14-year break. Go Fly won this duel at the April meet, and So Pressao turned the table again at the November meet, this time with the 1st place after the next 1-point battle.

Go Fly had a personnel change at the last meet of the Brazilian Tunnel League (Circuito Brasileiro de Paraquedismo Indoor of 2019) at IFLY São Paulo, as well. Isabela Castro was in Renato Diogo's tail slot for the meet, together with joined Fabiano Florio, Ricardo Pereira and Pedro Ushizima.

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World Tunnel League November 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		K,13,E,17	11,C,1	N,M,16,6	14,9,B	Q,D,3,7	21,18,L	8,10,G	4,H,O,F	J,A,22,5	12,15,P	Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	CZ	23	24	28	30	25	23	19	32	25	21	250	25.0
2	HF Flying Circus	CZ	23	24	26	26	26	19	19	35	20	19	237	23.7
3	So Pressao	BR	20	19	21	21	22	16	16	28	-	-	163	20.4
4	Go Fly	BR	18	20	23	18	21	18	18	26	-	-	162	20.3
5	CTR Optimum	BR	19	16	21	21	20	18	15	25	-	-	155	19.4
6	North Force	BR	18	19	20	16	17	13	16	22	-	-	141	17.6
7	Carpe Diem	BR	15	18	17	18	16	13	15	21	-	-	133	16.6
8	Netuno	BR	13	16	17	18	16	14	14	22	-	-	130	16.3
9	Anima	BR	15	16	17	16	15	13	15	20	-	-	127	15.9
9	Amitie	BR	16	16	16	12	17	14	15	21	-	-	127	15.9
11	TeiwaZ	US	16	16	17	19	14	11	12	19	16	12	152	15.2
12	M Team	CZ	15	14	16	19	13	13	12	21	15	11	149	14.9
13	SCZ ZEUS	US	14	13	15	15	15	12	11	18	14	11	138	13.8
14	Paradocks	BR	13	13	16	16	15	11	10	16	-	-	110	13.8
15	FSL Kickers Tampa	US	14	14	16	7	13	15	9	20	14	13	135	13.5
16	4 V Tunelu	CZ	12	10	15	16	15	11	11	16	12	11	129	12.9
17	Accord	CZ	10	14	13	15	14	10	10	17	12	11	126	12.6

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Pedro Ushizima reported from Brazil that CTR Optimum and Go Fly both teams didn't train much before the November meet: "This was a BIG mistake, because So Pressão from Brasilia and North Force from Acre/Amazonas trained with Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine at IFLY Brasilia last month!" The training and meet preparations paid off, as So Pressao won the meet with a fast and clean last round.

The Brazilian AAA Class teams have positioned themselves in a very strong block behind the two best Czech teams, HF Cubs and HF Flying Circus, on the World Tunnel League leaderboard for November.

The WTL leaderboard is not complete yet, as Finland's 4-way teams are still coming together for their last 2019 meet in Helsinki. The Pro Team will take on the 25.0 average that the HF Cubs posted on the top of the leaderboard, and a few other Finnish teams have the potential to outscore the three Brazilian AAA Class teams behind HF Cubs and HF Flying Circus.

The November leaderboard of the World Tunnel League will most likely set a new participation record, and a new WTL record average in the AAA Class would be no surprise...