posted May 23rd, 2020 - The next NSL Live Talk update came from the Netherlands, where national 4-way team Out of the Blue are waiting out the corona virus crisis. The complete lineup met with the NSL News online on Friday to discuss the current situation.

The team members provided overviews of their own competition career and explained how the current Out of the Blue lineup came together. Mandy Feijen, Mechie Voermans, Bart Daenen and Ralf Pijnenburg attended their first meet at the Belgian Indoor Nationals 2018. Team videographer Leon van Leeuwen was filming the team for the first time at the Tomscat Trophy 2019.

Mechie Voermans and Leon van Leeuwen have been team mates for a long time and started together with Whooops in the Rookie Class. They have competed for the Netherlands at several international events, including the FAI World Meet 2012 with Whooops, and again in 2016 with M4trix. Mechie Voermans was also in the Out of the Blue lineup at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018.

The complete current lineup then competed for the Netherlands at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019. The next and first outdoor world meet, the FAI Mondial Tanay 2020, was supposed to be the next highlight for Out of the Blue.

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Dutch League May 2005		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class	Q,2	8,21	6,M	O,K,L	D,7	C,4	Total	Avg
1	Go Fast Girls	7	4	8	8	5	5	37	6.2
2	Tiramisu	7	3	7	8	6	5	36	6.0
3	Fourmica	5	4	4	5	3	5	26	4.3
4	Drop Out	3	4	7	5	1	4	24	4.0
5	Double Trouble	2	3	6	2	5	3	21	3.5
Rank	Rookie	M,Q,N	B,J,A	E,D,C	O,K,L	M,G,F	B,H,P	Total	Avg
1	Whooops	1	2	0	2	1	4	10	1.7
2	TGV	0	1	1	0	1	1	4	0.7

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The team members said that Out of the Blue will still compete for the Netherlands in Tanay next year. As in several other countries, The Dutch federation has already confirmed Out of the Blue as the national team for the delayed world meet. The team members said that they have no problem with spending an additional year together, due to the great team dynamics.

The team members all grew out of the Dutch 20+ Project, which supported the participating teams financially for a while. Out of the Blue continued after the project ended and were then able to make their own choices of team members.

The current Out of the Blue lineup made their last jump together at the Dutch Nationals 2019 and then started planning for the 2020 world meet season with 200 training jumps. They still followed up with indoor meets at the ISR Grand Prix in November and the Belgian Indoor Nationals in December.

The new year began as planned with a trip to Spain at the end of January, where Out of the Blue finished with a new team record average at the Wind Games. Then the 2020 season came to the abrupt halt with the outbreak of the corona virus.

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Wind Games 2020			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		Q,F,6,14		1,13,4		8,J,15		O,9,D,5		21,A,P,H		N,C,20,12		7,G,K,19		10,16,22		17,E,11		M,B,3,L		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32	-1	29		28	-1	44	-3	45		29		35		25		34		47		348	34.8
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	34		24	-1	29		45	-2	41		29		34	-1	23		34		39	-1	332	33.2
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	33		25		27	-1	44	-1	41		26		30	-3	23		30	-2	41	-2	320	32.0
4	IFS-Moscow	RU	27	-3	20	-3	25	-2	45	-2	36	-1	25	-1	30	-1	23		29	-2	33	-5	293	29.3
5	ISR FireFlash	BE	30		23		26		39		36		22	-1	27	-2	20		29		29	-4	281	28.1
6	Weembi Unicorns	IT	28		23		26		42		36		23		29		20		22	-4	26	-3	275	27.5
7	NFTO	UK	28		21		22		38		36		21		27	-1	18		24	-3	32	-1	267	26.7
8	Echochamber	SE	28		21		22		37		35		21	-1	23	-2	19		26		29	-4	261	26.1
9	Nephtys Weembi	FR	26		19	-1	20	-1	35		32		22		26	-1	19		22	-2	32	-1	253	25.3
10	Oceanside AtomiX	DE	25	-2	21		19	-2	31	-1	31		19		27		17	-1	22	-1	31		243	24.3
11	Out of the Blue	NL	25		19		21		31	-2	29	-1	18		25		17	-1	24		16	-7	225	22.5
12	Blue Steel	FI	24		18		20		29		26	-1	20		24		15	-1	21		27	-1	224	22.4
13	Windobona Black Mantis	AT	27		18	-1	21		27	-3	27		19	-1	24		17		21		19	-5	220	22.0
14	Papea	ES	22		19		21		29	-1	27	-2	19		21	-2	17		22		19	-5	216	21.6
15	Lucky Boys	HU	20	-2	18	-1	20		28	-1	27		18		23		17	-3	18	-3	24		213	21.3
16	Voss Vind Girls	NO	22	-1	19	-1	21		28	-1	27		16	-1	14	-3	17	-1	21		22	-3	207	20.7
17	3 Boys 1 Girl	FR	21		16		18		27		26		17		19		15	-1	19	-2	24		202	20.2
18	Realfly Fire	CH	23		16	-3	18	-2	25	-1	28	-1	13	-2	23		17		19		19	-4	201	20.1
19	Windobona Angels	ES	21		16	-1	17	-2	26		26	-1	17		21		15		17	-1	20	-4	196	19.6
20	Standby	IT	20		13	-3	16		22		24		12	-1	19	-2	12	-1	15	-1	23	-1	176	17.6
21	Equinox	LT	22		17		15	-1	20	-2	21	-3	16		17	-2	13		12	-2	16	-3	169	16.9

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Original Whooops, M4trix and Out of the Blue member Leon van Leeuwen started in the active lineup of the new team in 2017 and then took a break in 2018. Bart Daenen was filming Out of the Blue at that time, and Rick Verbunt was in the outside center slot.

Bart Daenen said that he has always been an active competitor and was glad to move back in front of the camera with the beginning of the 2019 season. That's when Leon van Leeuwen came back and took the slot behind the camera. He is now the team videographer and copies the move that David Grauwels is doing for NMP PCH HayaBusa.

The Tomscat Trophy 2020 would have been next for Out of the Blue, which has been canceled as all other summer events. The team is now waiting for the restart for indoor and outdoor training.

The NSL Live Talk took place on a Friday evening in the Netherlands. Team training was originally scheduled for a long weekend, beginning on Thursday, and the team would have been enjoying a beer together at the end of a training day under better circumstances. It turned out to be the NSL Live Talk from three different locations instead...