posted Jan 27th, 2021 - The 2020 leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League is finally complete, even though it does not look much like that. The corona virus pandemic put a large hole into it, and it will probably still take a while until it looks again like it did at the end of the 2019 season.

Nothing has changed on the top of the leaderboard where Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP keep dominating the monthly events. However, the ICL Midwest team, with SDMW NEXT members Megan George and Lauren Byrd organizing the events, joined the Indoor Cloud League only in August 2020 and won three of the five months. There is a new contender for the top spot who will most likely continue to challenge Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP in the future.

The iFLY Seattle team had the 3rd place at the end of the 2019 season and posted scores only in January and February 2020 before the impact of the corona virus crisis halted the events, and still does. The same counts for the new Capital Region team who had joined the Indoor Cloud League in November 2019, just a few months after iFLY Jacksonville had recruited a new ICL team for the first time. Florida's iFLY Tampa team had been iFLY Seattle's duel partner for several years and appeared only sporadically on the 2020 leaderboard.

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Indoor Cloud League 2019			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	144	142	140	108	118	134	114	101	146	104	125	130	1506
2	Paraclete XP	US	100	131	132	110	98	-	111	144	142	94	92	100	1252
3	iFLY Seattle	US	115	91	118	82	85	82	93	107	80	102	94	102	1151
4	iFLY Tampa	US	91	106	112	77	92	102	106	82	75	95	103	93	1134
5	iFLY Dallas	US	67	76	102	88	105	99	89	67	87	92	85	101	1053
6	Capital Region	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	108	194
7	iFLY Jacksonville	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	50	21	49	42	162
8	iFLY Atlanta	US	-	40	41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	82

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The two top teams had their own difficulties to maintain a complete scoring table throughout the year of the pandemic. Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP both still managed to collect scores and videos for nine months in 2020. They also had to improvise and use windows where the wind-tunnels were in operation, and when participants were ready to use the opportunities.

The Paraclete XP team had to go into January 2021 to complete the December leaderboard. The Indoor Cloud League accepted delayed submissions to fill the holes that the implications of the pandemic were causing.

Morgan Womble's and Jeana Billings' efforts for Paraclete XP resulted in a very colorful internal December leaderboard. Arizona Airspeed member Niklas Hemlin has recently spent a lot of coaching time in Raeford (Golden Knights, Vega XP), and he was available in December to fill some open ICL slots.

First he player-coached Vega XP members James Hall and Ian Drennan to the first AAA/AA scores, with new SDC RhEvolution XP member Chris Webb completing the lineup. Later Morgan Womble, Jeana Billings, Kirk Verner outscored the earlier lineup, and Alex Bucevicius took the AAA/AA highscores away from his new team mate.

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Indoor Cloud League December 2020 - Paraclete XP	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	N,11,E,12	O,11,8	C,G,7	C,G,O	M,N,E	M,E	Total
Morgan Womble, Jeana Billings, Kirk Verner, Alex Bucevicius	25	21(-1)	-	-	-	-	46
Cheryl Stewart, Niklas Hemlin, Radim Studeny, Dominic Perry	-	-	19	31	-	-	50
Morgan Womble, Jeana Billings, Gavin Stuart, Steve King	-	-	-	-	29	24	49
Paraclete XP's Best of December	25	21	19	31	25	24	145

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Paraclete XP's Indoor Cloud League highscores for December 2020

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Niklas Hemlin also player-coached another lineup to the highscores for the A/RRR sequences. He had Cheryl Stewart, Radim Studeny and Dominic Perry in his second lineup that eventually ended up on the internal Paraclete XP leaderboard.

Paraclete XP's December team produced the highest 2020 total with 145 points. However, it was still not enough to take the first place away from the Hurricane Factory. Jan Klapka's team had used a short window in December to add 137 points to the 2020 total, which was enough to defend the top spot for another year.

However, Morgan Womble and Jeana Billings introduced two more new participants (Gavin Stuart, Steve King) to 4-way training and competition, and to Paraclete XP's ICL team last month. They have had numerous new participants month by month at their events.

Hopefully, the 2021 season will make the indoor environment more acceptable for organizers, teams and competitors who have participated in the past, and there will be stories of ICL comebacks regularly. New teams are also welcome to join at any time, of course...

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Indoor Cloud League 2020			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 14+ Feet
1	Hurricane Factory	CZ	147	154	134	-	158	122	117	110	123	-	-	137	1202
2	Paraclete XP	US	110	135	114	-	-	-	139	114	141	90	108	145	1096
3	ICL Midwest	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	142	130	149	127	104	652
4	iFLY Dallas	US	89	109	96	-	-	-	-	-	-	103	92	99	588
5	iFLY Tampa	US	101	104	55	-	-	49	-	36	-	56	-	-	401
6	Capital Region	US	106	117	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	223
7	iFLY Seattle	US	92	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	202
8	iFLY Jacksonville	US	18	66	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	-	-	111

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