posted Feb 23rd, 2023 - The competition draw of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 included a Super Sequence for the 4-way AAA Class teams in Round 4 (M,B,G,E,F) that was randomly drawn for the national indoor championships of the United States.

The scores had no significant impact on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard, as most of the teams performed according to their ranking positions. Only XPG4 and Greenlight scored significantly higher than teams ahead of them in the rankings.

The scores for a Super Sequence can have a much stronger impact, and the situation at the German Outdoor Nationals 2021 is probably still the most dramatic recent example, where the 3-point leader after Round 9 lost the following Super Sequence by 10 points and ended up in 2nd place.

The top teams are usually very well trained for a potentially drawn Super Sequence, physically and mentally, as it can change the outcome of a competition in just one single round. It was an interesting fact at Paraclete XP that the winner by 44 points after Round 10, Arizona Airspeed, scored only two points higher than Golden Knights and Qatar Tigers in Round 4. The reigning world champions actually created the distance in the rounds with more technical sequences.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA/4-way Open/Women		15,14,5	19,9,1	10,J,17	M,B,G,E,F	3,18,4	Q,6,C,D	11,7,8	16,H,2	K,N,L,13	A,20,P,O	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	28	31	60	25	42	25	29	37	37	340	34.0
2	Golden Knights	US	20	27	30	58	20	34	23	26	30	28	296	29.6
G	Qatar Tigers	QA	21	26	26	58	22	34	21	24	29	31	292	29.2
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	20	23	25	52	19	32	23	25	30	27	276	27.6
4	Paraclete XP4	US	21	25	24	43	21	30	21	24	28	26	263	26.3
5	XPG4	US	18	23	24	48	18	29	20	23	25	26	254	25.4
6	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	19	20	19	45	18	32	19	18	26	24	240	24.0
6	Lightspeed XP	US	19	23	23	38	17	31	19	20	23	27	240	24.0
8	Greenlight	US	18	19	20	45	19	25	18	18	27	26	235	23.5
G	Qatar White	QA	16	23	19	39	17	27	20	20	28	25	234	23.4
G	Qatar Maroon	QA	15	20	21	37	18	23	20	20	23	20	217	21.7
9	Figjam	US	12	14	15	37	11	23	15	17	20	19	183	18.3
10	SNE Fly Girls	US	10	15	16	36	12	17	15	14	20	14	169	16.9

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Super Sequence in Round 4 of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023

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Chief Judge Jim Rees, who is also a U.S. delegate to the FAI International Skydiving Commission (ISC) and is active in the organization's Formation Skydiving Committee, pointed out that Arizona Airspeed's 60-pointer in Round 4 beats the highest scoring number in the FAI/ISC records.

Airspeed's 2017 lineup (Niklas Hemlin, Mikhail Markine, Thiago Gomes, Ari Perelman) owns the standing record number after the 59-pointer in the jump-off round with Russia's Black Cat at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2017 in Montreal, Canada.

The judging logistics at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship are not matching yet the required FAI/ISC standards, even though the judging panel was completely FAI-rated.

The used scoring system at Paraclete XP has not been approved by FAI/ISC yet, and the judging procedures were not consistent with ISC competition rules.

The approved 59-pointer of 2017 is still the official world record for a single round. There have been quite a few higher scoring numbers in the past. However, a world record only becomes official after FAI/ISC approves the procedures applied at one of the sanctioned events.

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Indoor Super Sequences between 2007 and 2010 - World Challenge 2011 - World Challenge 2018

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The highest score for a randomly drawn sequence is still Perris Fury's 66-pointer in Round 2 (J,M,E,D,L) of the World Challenge 2010. It was not really randomly drawn, as event host Paul Meyer had always added one round with only random formations to his 10-round draw at Bodyflight Bedford. Only the five random formations for the Super Sequence were unknown before the competition draw.

The World Challenge dropped the format with one guaranteed Super Sequence after the World Challenge 2012, and the next Super Sequence in Round 5 (9,B,P,A) of the World Challenge 2018 was drawn originally and without any manipulation of the procedures. The event took place one more time in 2019 and was then discontinued.

The most serious manipulation of a competition draw was even more planned compared to the World Challenge. The participating teams at the Weembinamic 2022 did not only know that there would be a Super Sequence in Round 10. They knew months ahead of the event that they would have to perform a specific sequence (P,M,J,E,F) in the final round. It was no surprise that one of the teams (Apix Weembi) managed to post the first 70-pointer in history. FAI/ISC will surely not sanction and approve the Weembinamic format for this Super Sequence, and the official FAI/ISC highscore is still Airspeed's 59-pointer of 2017.

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Super Sequence in Round 10 of the Weembinamic 2022

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