posted Feb 25th, 2021 - The first preview of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 covered mostly the history of the event. The story pointed out that the Golden Knights Gold team won the next Paraclete XP Indoor Championship in 2016.

Matt Davidson, Kurt Isenbarger, Jeshua Stahler and Sean Sweeney won the 4-way competition, and the U.S. Army's 4-way Women lineup took the 2nd place in 4-way Open, ahead of SDC Rhythm XP. The U.S. Army's 8-way team won the 8-way competition at Paraclete before they added the next set of FAI outdoor gold medals in September.

Jesse Stahler was in this Golden Knights 4-way lineup who won the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship the one and only time so far. He left the 8-way team at the end of the 2016 season to focus on his 4-way VFS project with a Golden Knights lineup.

He was back for the restart of the Golden Knights 8-way team with new captain Andrew Starr and new plans for the coming years. The new Golden Knights 8-way lineup, with Jesse Stahler back in the lineup, finished only eight points behind Airspeed XP8 at the USPA Nationals 2019.

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NSL TV Unfiltered on February 25th at Paraclete XP

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The NSL News mentioned in earlier updates that team captain Andrew Starr was planning to use a lot of 4-way training to build a foundation for the 8-way team. The Golden Knights have been working a lot with Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin, and the results of the 4-way training are visible.

Jesse Stahler is now back in Paraclete's 16-foot flying chamber with a new Golden Knights Gold lineup in 4-way, five years after winning the competition in 2016. His team mate Jennifer Davidson had finished only six points behind him in 2016 (282 - 276), and she is in the new Gold lineup together with him.

David Flynn is actually the Gold member who makes it a new lineup. Jennifer Davidson, Andrew Starr, and Jesse Stahler have been training and competing together in 4-way in 2019 and 2020, when David Flynn was still a Golden Knights Black member.

He has a traditional Golden Knights career behind him, starting as alternate and videographer (2015 - 2016) before moving to the front of the camera and winning his first FAI 8-way gold medal in the active lineup in Australia 2018.

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		4,19,7	C,18,6	21,2,15	P,B,J,E,5	A,8,M,1	F,20,10	9,Q,14	L,K,G,H,22	N,16,O,12	D,11,3	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights Gold	US	24	27	23	44	29	24	32	31	25	23	282	28.2
2	Golden Knights Female	US	23	28	23	41	26	24	29	31	24	27	276	27.6
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	21	24	22	44	26	23	30	29	25	24	268	26.8
4	Perris Fury	US	22	23	23	40	25	23	30	31	23	23	263	26.3
5	Savolo	ZA	15	18	18	33	20	20	26	22	20	19	211	21.1
6	Verve XP	US	20	17	17	29	21	19	24	18	18	19	202	20.2
7	Golden Knights Black	US	18	17	16	29	19	13	23	15	16	15	181	18.1
8	Spaceland Lite	US	14	12	16	29	18	16	22	18	17	15	177	17.7
9	The Four Horsemen	US	15	17	14	26	18	13	22	18	17	16	176	17.6
10	CSC Survival Instinct	US	15	14	16	20	18	16	15	20	15	16	165	16.5
11	Fabio’s Angels	US	15	14	13	20	17	13	18	16	15	12	153	15.3
12	Christy's Love Slaves	US	14	13	15	17	19	14	19	16	13	11	151	15.1
13	Southern Mix XP	US	16	13	12	18	17	11	14	16	14	12	143	14.3
14	Fallout	US	15	12	11	18	14	11	16	16	13	12	138	13.8
15	Armageddon	US	14	9	12	23	7	13	19	13	13	14	137	13.7
16	CT Centerpoint	US	14	11	12	18	15	11	17	16	12	10	136	13.6

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The training videos of the Golden Knights Gold team on Thursday at Paraclete are very promising. Even coach Niklas Hemlin said that the Golden Knights Gold team may surprise some teams on this weekend's leaderboard with possibly unexpected scoring numbers.

The new NSL TV Unfiltered video clip also features SDC Rhythm XP during parts of their training for the event. The video is showing how the reigning U.S. 4-way outdoor champions are engineering a training sequence carefully.

The Cataccord (Random Formation G) offered two different options, which were explored with all details on the creepers. The vote came out unanimously for the "Russian Version", which bends the formation and switches inside center and tail in their positions. The execution of the engineering followed flawlessly in the flying chamber.

There was also an unexpected competitor in the flying chamber. Former Airspeed member Andy Honigbaum has been coaching the Air Force Academy teams for several years. He was back in action to fill an open slot. His AFA team was preparing for the AAA Class dive pool.