posted Feb 10th, 2024 - Most of the featured people in the NSL Profiles are former 4-way and 8-way competitors, often world champions and celebrities, and most of them are still active in the sport, one way or another. Some of them are even still active competitors, including reigning world champions Niklas Hemlin (Arizona Airspeed) and Kirk Verner (GKXP8), also NMP PCH HayaBusa's top contenders Dennis Praet and David Grauwels.

Julien Degen was recently added to the featured NSL Profiles, as the NSL News reported on January 30th. He represents the combination of a former world champion, as the profile story pointed out, and the ongoing activity in the sport. He is not a reigning world champion, however, he matched Kirk Verner's speed and skills level when they competed together for Ultim8 at the Weembinamic 2023.

The indoor event at Weembi Lille has been covered comprehensively by the NSL News, and the profile story explained that Weembi Lille is Julien Degen's indoor home project. There was still an aspect of the whole profile picture and the athletic accomplishments that escaped the NSL Profile and NSL News coverage both. The profile story mentioned that Julien Degen, Jeremie Rollett, Guillaume and Mathieu Bernier missed the first double-gold opportunity in 4-way and 8-way at the same world championship by one single point in Maubeuge 2008. He still compensated later for the miss long ego.

Weembinamic 2022			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way		19,1,16	4,D,5	22,Q,G,A	8,14,13	2,21,18	11,A,3	N,H,O,K,9	15,B,10	6,20,L	P,M,J,E,F	Total	Avg
1	Unicorns	FR	22	26	25	21	21	22	44	23	23	65	292	29.2
2	FCUK	UK	20	24	26	17	22	22	42	20	22	68	283	28.3
3	Les Chat-toyants	FR	20	23	24	19	21	21	38	20	23	67	276	27.6
Rank	8-way		21,10,11	18,15,13	4,M,F,17	16,2,D	9,P,12	C,8,7	N,Q,22,H	5,19,J	L,A,K,6	3,1,E	Total	Avg
1	Ultim8 Weembi	FR	20	23	28	28	19	24	24	20	31	43	260	26.0
2	Unexpected Weembi Team	FR	19	23	29	20	18	19	26	21	27	43	245	24.5
3	QRFG8	US	20	23	25	23	18	22	23	21	25	35	235	23.5

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Unicorns - Ultim8 at the Weembinamic 2022, Video Footage Courtesy of Weembi Lille

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In fact, Julien Degen has accomplished 4-way and 8-way double-gold sweeps twice in the last two years alone. The NSL News covered the Weembinamic events separately in 2022 and 2023 and did not connect them, even though Julien Degen completed a unique accomplishment at his own two events.

His teams won the 4-way and 8-way events on the traditional leaderboards in both years, and the logistics for indoor double duties are even more challenging compared to outdoor events. Teams at outdoor world championships and world cups have five days to complete the ten competition rounds, while indoor events are usually completed after only two days.

Julien Degen did not only complete the ten 4-way and ten 8-way rounds in these two days and won both events in 2022 and 2023. He always adds some more 10-round commitments with other teams to his indoor agenda, switching back and forth between the winning teams and the additional obligations. He was with two 4-way teams on the podium in 2022 (Unicorns, FCUK) and in 2023 (Black Hole Dynos, Unicorns), next to the extra 20 rounds with other teams in 4-way and 30 more rounds with more 8-way teams in 2022. He completed 30 rounds again with his medal winning 4-way and 8-way teams in November 2023, then added 50 more rounds with other teams for a total of 80 rounds in two days. He may have spent more time in antechamber and flying chamber than he did outside of the windtunnel...

Weembinamic 2023			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way		L,4,20		B,14,6		19,O,D,15		2,13,5		11,17,22		3,P,K,G		18,10,1		A,H,12,J		8,21,16		Q,M,F,C,N		Total	Avg
1	Black Hole Dynos	UK	22	-1	23	-2	28		23	-1	21		31		20	-1	29	-1	21	-1	75	-3	293	29.3
2	ISR Fireflash	BE	19		19	-2	27		21		22		29		20		30		21		71	-4	279	27.9
3	Unicorns Weembi	FR	24		26	-1	21	-3	21		21		30		19	-1	29	-1	20	-1	66	-2	277	27.7
Rank	8-way		G,L,E,3		B,14,6		6,2,P		15,4,17		9,D,8		A,21,22		7,1,11		H,19,N,5		18,F,12		M,Q,J,16		Total	Avg
1	Ultim8	FR	36	-1	25		21		35		23		23		27	-1	22	-1	31		42	-3	285	28.5
2	After 8 Weembi	FR	30	-4	20	-3	21		29	-3	18	-1	21		22	-1	23		25		47		256	25.6
3	Veloce QRF	FR	33		19		18		29		19		19	-2	24	-1	21		20		39		241	24.1

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Black Hole Dynos - Ultim8 at the Weembinamic 2023, Video Footage Courtesy of Weembi Lille

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