posted Feb 12th, 2023 - The Spanish 4-way teams completed their national indoor championships at Windoor Barcelona on Saturday. Papea, Spain's national indoor and outdoor national team in 4-way Open since 2017, finished with a new team record average, despite a slow competition draw for the ten rounds.

Papea is also Spain's military CISM team, as the NSL News mentioned in the past, and they can usually be found at the same 4-way events where NMP PCH HayaBusa and Qatar Tigers compete at the same time. The consistency of the current lineup has lifted the ranking positions for Spain at the recent international FAI/ISC events to a reliable presence in the Top 10.

Miguel Antonio Gomez Rivas, José Carlos González Herrera, Christian Molto Gonzalez and Oscar Marsal have been training and competing for Papea since 2020. Miguel Antonio Gomez Rivas and Christian Molto Gonzalez were together in the same lineup since 2017. José Carlos González Herrera replaced Oscar Garcia in 2020 for the current lineup.

The Spanish CISM management has also been supporting a second Papea lineup that Oscar Marsal first trained and competed with, before he was recruited for the national team. The second Papea team finished with a new team record average at the national indoor championships, as well.

Spanish Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	G,N,18,4	3,K,M,J	10,O,2	8,E,F,A	12,17,14	13,5,D	C,Q,21,20	6,B,9	16,11,1	19,7,15	Total	Avg
1	Papea 1	24	31	21	30	19	24	25	33	23	25	255	25.5
2	Windabona Alakran	19	27	20	31	18	22	22	29	21	19	228	22.8
3	Papea 2	20	23	21	28	19	21	18	24	19	20	213	21.3
4	Windabona Angels	17	19	16	25	15	16	19	23	14	15	179	17.9
5	Windabona Angels Chicas	15	20	14	20	12	15	15	21	11	15	158	15.8
6	Falling Stones	10	13	10	14	7	12	10	16	6	10	108	10.8
7	Mamma Mia	9	10	6	11	6	7	10	13	5	7	84	8.4
Rank	A Class	P,H,D	21,F	M,19	9,4	6,A	7,B	G,L,Q	2,C	O,8	K,N,E	Total	Avg
1	Magyx	12	9	9	6	10	11	6	6	6	8	83	8.3

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Papea 1 and Papea 2 at the Spanish Indoor Nationals 2023 - Video Footage Courtesy of Windoor Barcelona

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Both military Papea teams train and compete indoors and outdoors. The national 4-way team had finished in 5th place at the FAI Tanay Mondial in August 2021 and confirmed one of the positions right behind the currently four best 4-way nations in the world with the 6th place at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022.

The previous Papea lineup of 2018 had finished in 14th place with a 15.3 average at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2018 in Australia. Spain's last civilian 4-way team had placed 18th at the FAI Dubai Mondial 2012.

Both Spanish teams behind Papea's top team still managed to win or tie a few rounds at the national indoor championship. Windobona Alakran, the most improved team of the event, split the military lineups once again on the leaderboard, as they had done at the Spanish Outdoor Nationals 2021. This time, the civilian team split the two Papea lineups, despite the well improved performance of the second Papea lineup. Alakran try to get as close as possible to Spain's national 4-way indoor and outdoor team, while Papea 2 put pressure on the 4-way civilians.

FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Top 10		20,16,B		P,D,21,13		17,K,11		E,A,19,22		2,9,M		C,14,F,12		3,6,18		4,10,1		8,Q,O,H		5,7,J		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	-1	28		27		27		31		23		21		20		32		31		261	26.1
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	20	-1	25	-2	21		23		28		20	-2	19		17		29		26		228	22.8
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	-2	23	-1	22	-1	21	-1	26		18		17	-1	17		28		28		219	21.9
4	France 4-way Open	FR	19		23	-1	22		23		27		20	-1	18		15	-1	20	-5	27	-1	214	21.4
5	Chimera	UK	16		21	-2	19		19	-1	18	-5	18	-1	16		14	-1	23	-1	24		188	18.8
6	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	20	-1	18	-1	21		21	-2	18		15		15		21	-1	20	-3	186	18.6
7	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	14	-1	21		19		19		20	-1	17		16		15		24	-1	20	-1	185	18.5
8	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	16		18	-2	19		16	-1	20	-1	13	-3	15		14		19	-2	22	-1	172	17.2
9	Agera FS 2022	NO	16		16	-2	17	-1	17		18	-1	15		15		13	-1	18	-3	21		166	16.6
9	4Astrophe	CA	15	-1	20		19		15	-2	21		15		15	-2	14		16	-3	16	-2	166	16.6

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Chimera - Papea - Echochamber at the FAI World Meet 2022 - Video Footage Courtesy of FAI/ISC and OmniSkore!HD

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Spain's 4-way teams at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving since 1985

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Alakran and Papea both had competed at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022, where the Spanish CISM team claimed a Top 10 spot, as well. Without the presence of ISR FireFlash and Skydive Midwest NEXT, Papea would have taken the 6th place.

Only one team will compete for each country at the upcoming indoor world championship in April, and Papea will most likely at least try to defend the 6th place of the outdoor world championship, after the 14th place of the previous lineup at the last indoor world championship in Weembi Lille 2019.

It will be a challenging task though, as the same four top teams in Eloy last year are still too far away at indoor competition, and there will be other well prepared national teams from other countries. British 4-way team Meraki will probably be just as competitive for the British delegation as Chimera was in Eloy, and they had also finished ahead of Papea in Charleroi last year.

Czech national team HF Flying Circus won bronze medals at the European indoor championship of the same event, ahead of Meraki and Papea both. It seems like the next exciting battle for the 5th place is coming up soon, and Papea will be a part of it.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open - Top 10		O,18,14		L,C,F,9		1,J,H,19		3,E,P,Q		20,7,16		2,13,8		17,D,6		N,22,A,G		12,5,11		M,21,4		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	29		54	-3	35		41		29		25		39		37		27		30		346	34.6
2	Aerokart Monaco Akdemie	FR	25	-1	58		28	-3	39	-2	25		25		33		32		24		28	-2	317	31.7
3	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	23	-1	54	-1	30	-1	38	-2	26		23		32		31	-1	24		28	-1	309	30.9
4	ISR FireFlash	BE	22	-1	41	-4	27	-2	36		22	-1	21		31		28		21	-1	27		276	27.6
5	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	22		44		28		30	-2	20	-1	22		26	-1	27		20	-1	24		263	26.3
6	HF Flying Circus	CZ	21	-1	39	-3	27	-2	33	-1	20	-2	21		28	-1	27	-1	21		23	-2	260	26.0
7	Meraki	UK	19	-1	43		25	-1	30	-1	23		20		26		27		20		24		257	25.7
8	Papea Masculino	ES	20	-1	41	-1	26	-2	31		21	-1	17	-2	25	-1	27	-1	21		24		253	25.3
9	SDC Rhythm XP	US	20		39	-2	25		31		17	-2	20		25	-1	22		18	-2	24		241	24.1
10	Out of the Blue	NL	20		39	-2	25		30		17	-2	19		27		23		18	-1	22		240	24.0
10	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	19	-1	43		24	-1	31		18	-2	17	-1	26		23		17	-2	22		240	24.0

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Papea at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 - Footage Courtesy of FAI/ISC/Airspace Charleroi

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