posted Dec 6th, 2019 - NSL-TV is following up on the November meet of the Finnish Tunnel League League with the meet videos of the three AAA Class teams.

The videos are showing the third 26+ meet of Finland's Pro Team since the 24.6 finish at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019, which was just short of the last Top 10 position. The current 26+ performance level after 30 competition rounds since June is one of the team's steps on the way to a significantly improved placing at next year's indoor world cup and outdoor world meet.

The video also offers some insights of the Pro Team engineering. Finland's national team is one of the minority of teams who distribute the traditional slot-switching blocks (3-5-10-12-16-17) in a more even balance between front and rear piece.

The front piece is carrying the whole burden of slot-switchers for the majority of teams. Blocks 5 and 17 create memory for both pieces, while the other four blocks (3-10-12-16) switch the slots of the piece partners only in one piece, which is usually the front piece. Of course, each team has the freedom to choose a specific engineering and continuity plan, and the Pro Team has added one of the six specific blocks to the rear piece's agenda.

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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	Pro Team	FI	29	24	27	30	26	23	21	35	(24)	(22)	215	26.1
2	HF Cubs	CZ	23	24	28	30	25	23	19	32	(25)	(21)	204	25.0
3	HF Flying Circus	CZ	23	24	26	26	26	19	19	35	(20)	(19)	198	23.7
4	Just4Fun	FI	21	21	22	22	20	17	16	27	(17)	(18)	166	20.1
5	So Pressao	BR	20	19	21	21	22	16	16	28	-	-	163	20.4
6	Go Fly	BR	18	20	23	18	21	18	18	26	-	-	162	20.3
7	Blue Steel	FI	21	17	21	22	21	18	16	23	(19)	(16)	159	19.4
8	CTR Optimum	BR	19	16	21	21	20	18	15	25	-	-	155	19.4
9	North Force	BR	18	19	20	16	17	13	16	22	-	-	141	17.6
10	Carpe Diem	BR	15	18	17	18	16	13	15	21	-	-	133	16.6
11	Netuno	BR	13	16	17	18	16	14	14	22	-	-	130	16.3
12	Anima	BR	15	16	17	16	15	13	15	20	-	-	127	15.9
12	Amitie	BR	16	16	16	12	17	14	15	21	-	-	127	15.9
14	TeiwaZ	US	16	16	17	19	14	11	12	19	(16)	(12)	124	15.2
15	M Team	CZ	15	14	16	19	13	13	12	21	(15)	(11)	123	14.9
16	SCZ ZEUS	US	14	13	15	15	15	12	11	18	(14)	(11)	113	13.8
17	Paradocks	BR	13	13	16	16	15	11	10	16	-	-	110	13.8
18	FSL Kickers Tampa	US	14	14	16	7	13	15	9	20	(14)	(13)	108	13.5
19	4 V Tunelu	CZ	12	10	15	16	15	11	11	16	(12)	(11)	106	12.9
20	Accord	CZ	10	14	13	15	14	10	10	17	(12)	(11)	103	12.6

Pro Team at the WTL November meet

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For the Pro Team, it is Block 16 (Compressed Accordion - Box) that creates a slot-switching sequence for the rear piece, instead for the front piece, which is the most popular engineering. This continuity plan makes it a total of three slot-switching situations (5-16-17) for the rear piece, while the front piece is down to the potential of five rounds with memory (3-5-10-12-17) in a 10-round meet where all 22 blocks are drawn.

The traditionally heavy load of memory sequences for the front piece is actually beneficial for outside center and point who get much more practice of the B-slots to master the brain challenges as good as possible. However, the rear piece cannot escape slot-switchers without long "swing moves", as Blocks 5 and 17 create memory sequences for inside center and tail, as well.

Adding another slot-switching block to the rear piece agenda is a productive option, as inside center and tail get more practice for a situation that they have to master anyway whenever Blocks 5 and 17 are drawn for any sequence in a competition.

The memory load between front and rear piece is still out of balance (5 - 3), even with Block 16 on the rear-piece plate.

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Just4Fun and Blue Steel at the WTL November meet

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The other two meet videos from Finland feature the domestic battle between Just4Fun and Blue Steel, which ended with a 7-point difference. The tight competition in Helsinki pushed Just4Fun to the 4th place on the World Tunnel League leaderboard for November. Only the two best Czech teams, HF Cubs and HF Flying Circus, finished ahead of Just4Fun, while the Pro Team took the top spot of the AAA Class leaderboard.

Just4Fun was formed for the 2019 indoor season at the Fööni wind tunnel in Helsinki when Blackjack did not continue this year. League organizer Vesa Vuorenkoski joined Just4Fun, while his original team mate Matthew Iles found former Tempo member Jorma Löfgren and Nadja Lönnroth for a new lineup.

Opponents Vesa Vuorenkoski and Matthew Iles go back as team mates to the early 90's. They trained and competed together for Chymos in 1994 and 1995, became one of the top teams in Finland and eventually the 4-way national team for the world meet in 1997.

Vesa Vuorenkoski came out on top this time, and Matthew Iles will try again at the coming meets. Their former Chymos and Blackjack team mate Oscar Salonaho was back in action in November, as well. He won the AA Class competition in Helsinki with Sörkan Laskuvarjourheilijat, who finished behind the two Czech junior teams in 3rd place on the WTL November leaderboard.