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... that the NSL News detected an unusual Russian 4-way leaderboard?

posted Jun 5th, 2025 - As usual as it has been in the past years at formation skydiving competition events, InTime provided the scoring system for the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025, as well. It was created by Claire King and Dirk Venter, who are also experienced FAI judges, and their services have become more popular year by year since they launched it in 2019.

The onsite and online services include leaderboards of the events that they are covering, and the leaderboards often include links to the competition videos that they generate for judges and audience at the events. NSL News and InTime have been working together since their scoring system was launched and became the standard for not only formation skydiving competition events.

However, the competition videos of FAI/ISC events, indoor and outdoor world championships and world cups, are not always available at InTime, as the world's sanctioning organization is posting them on their own FAI/ISC website for the audience. For an example, the competition rounds of the most recent event at Paraclete XP, the indoor world championship, can only be viewed at the FAI/ISC website, even though they encourage participating teams and audience to download them for further use.

It was a surprising leaderboard at InTime that was catching the attention of the NSL News a few weeks after the completion of the indoor world championship. It featured four of the five teams who attended the 4-way Women competition at the indoor world meet, and one additional team in the middle of the unexpected leaderboard.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2025
12345678910TotalAvg
Rank4-way WomenD,4,17C,22,105,P,Q,181,M,J,O16,6,19H,8,2112,13,AL,G,K,915,F,7E,2,N,BTotalAvg
1China CN 28-121-229-238-324-326-124-239-627-436-129229.2
2Nephtys FR 28  23  29-236  25  24  24-239  31-230-228928.9
-Siberries RU 27  22  27  38-124  24-125-137  28-130  28228.2
3XPG4 US 24  19-124-335-123  22  21-138  24-231-126126.1
4Airdrops CH 16-315-218-230  20  18  18  27-120-125-120720.7
5Singapore SG 17  10-215-221-112-216-110-514-519  16-315015.0

Siberries at the Russian Indoor Cup 2025
Russian 4-way Women scores on the copy of the InTime leaderboard of the FAI Indoor World Championship
Russian 4-way Women team Siberries
It became even more surprising when the competition draw for the ten rounds was identical with the one that was used at the indoor world meet. The scores were also exactly the same, and only the team names were different. Only the 4-way Women team from Switzerland, Airdrops, was not on the unusual leaderboard.

It turned out that Russia's new windtunnel in Kemerovo, near Tanay where the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2021 took place, had scheduled their annual Russian Indoor Cup on the same date of the indoor world championship at Paraclete XP, and they applied the same competition draw for their ten rounds in Kemerovo.

Russia had previously acquired the InTime online judging system that was already used in August 2021 for the outdoor world championship in Tanay. They used their part of the system to post the scores and the videos of the 4-way Women competition and created the unusual copy of the leaderboard at Paraclete XP. It is surely not unusual that teams and organizers synchronize and copy competition draws, either for training purposes or even within the NSL 4-way Network, sometimes in cooperation with the National Skydiving League, sometimes without. Fact is that scores for the same competition draw can still only be used for rough comparison, as at least meet environment and judging are usually significantly different. Only the 4-way Women event was published on InTime, where Siberries finished in 3rd place and a medal position. The NSL News still copied the Russian procedure in 4-way Open where VDV would have only taken the 4th place away from Skywalkers Junior by three points.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2025
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Rank4-way OpenD,4,17C,22,105,P,Q,181,M,J,O16,6,19H,8,2112,13,AL,G,K,915,F,7E,2,N,BTotalAvg
1Aethers Medjay FR 32 23-135 41 28 27 29 45 32 37-232932.9
2Arizona Airspeed US 27-224 31 34 26 26-127 49 34 36 31431.4
3NMP PCH HayaBusa BE 29-122-233 40-124-323-426 43-428-338-330630.6
-VDV RU 25-123 26-336-126 272639-429-336-129329.3
4Skywalkers Junior CZ 28 22-230 39 25 23-425 38-227-333 29029.0
5NFTO UK 24-122 26-128-422-122 22-136 29 30 26126.1
5Fly X Amnesya IT 26 19 25-232-123 22-223 32-527-432 26126.1
7Qatar Lions QA 26-119-328-131-524 21-222-134 24-431 26026.0
8Echochamber SE 23-117-227-132-222-122 25-134-327-228-425725.7
9Papea ES 26-118-325 35-219-221-321-233-328-229-325525.5
10Out Of The Blue NL 22 18 21-329-221 21-120-128-325-124-222922.9
11Realfly Fire CH 22 14-323 31 19 18-318-126-421-325-121721.7
12Netunos BR 20-116 20-326-218 18-118 27 21-119-320320.3
13Singapore SG 16 10-411-417-514-115-211-415-315-219-114314.3
14Thailand TH 8-17-27 11-57 7-35-38-411 8-3797.9

VDV at the Russian Indoor Cup 2025
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