posted Jul 27th, 2025 - The potential bronze medal position for Sweden's Echochamber on the FAI European Indoor Championship leaderboard at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 is meaningful for many reasons, as the earlier NSL News update pointed out.

There is no FAI medal for the best unofficial amateur team behind the official medal positions and the contenders for the three sets of medals. However, the integrated European indoor and outdoor championships at world cups offer at least an opportunity for the unofficial European 4-way amateur teams to step onto the podium during the award ceremonies. France, Russia, Belgium and Norway have taken turns in winning gold and silver at the European part of the events, often the bronze medals, as well.

4-way teams from additional other countries (Italy, Germany) have used the rare opportunities when they came up and won a few sets of European bronze medals at outdoor events, at least between 1998 and 2017. The adoption of indoor world championships and world cups by FAI/ISC then added new opportunities for European teams, at least at the indoor world cups. Swedish teams are not on the list of outdoor medal winners at any FAI/ISC events so far, even though they have finished in European indoor bronze medal positions twice, Gryttjom Volo in 2016, Echochamber in 2018.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2016			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		15,11,6		7,2,A		J,B,18,5		E,19,Q,3		8,P,21		12,L,O,C		G,20,F,16		10,D,22		N,9,K,4		14,M,17		Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	25	-2	32	-2	33		31	-2	24	-2	31	-3	32	-1	26		41		31		306	30.6
2	Weembi	FR	24	-3	30	-1	33		33		25	-1	33		31		26		36		31		302	30.2
3	Gryttjom Volo	SE	23		24	-2	24	-2	26		24		27		26		20		29	-1	25		248	24.8
-	Echochamber	SE	20	-1	27	-1	27		22	-1	20	-1	26		25		18		29		24	-1	238	23.8
4	XOTeam	RU	19	-1	24	-1	26	-1	25	-1	18	-3	24	-1	22	-2	19		28	-1	25		230	23.0
5	Sky Dragons	SI	18	-2	24		23		26		21		20	-2	23		18	-1	27		20	-3	220	22.0
6	ACM	UK	19		22		21		22		19		22		23		15	-1	26		22	-1	211	21.1
7	Bad Boys	CZ	19		23	-1	19	-2	22	-1	21		19	-2	22	-1	17		26		21	-2	209	20.9
8	Energy	IT	17		21	-2	20	-1	23	-1	18	-1	21		23		16		23	-2	21		203	20.3
9	VAF Warriors	DK	17		20	-1	18	-2	22		18	-1	20	-1	20		18		21	-1	18	-1	192	19.2
10	Sky4four	PL	19		19	-2	15	-2	22		19	-1	19		17	-3	10	-4	24		16	-4	180	18.0
11	Aladeen	HU	17		20	-1	16	-1	21	-1	16		20	-1	14	-4	12	-2	20	-2	21		177	17.7
12	Equinox	LT	13	-1	18		7	-3	15	-2	16		16		17	-1	12		19	-1	17	-1	150	15.0

In fact, Gryttjom Volo and Echochamber both were in 3rd place on the European leaderboard of the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016. Unfortunately for the two Swedish teams, there was no European championship integrated at the first indoor world cup, a year after the first indoor world championship. They left after 5th and 6th places ahead of all other unofficial amateur teams and without FAI/ISC medals.

Gryttjom Volo did not continue after the event in 2016, where Martin Bäcklin, Johan Edvall, Ulf Liljenbäck and Rikard Rodensjö competed for Echochamber. The same lineup recently attended the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 in April. The first FAI European Indoor Championship was not even a part of an indoor world cup and took place separately in Voss, Norway, in April 2018. Martin Bäcklin, Johan Edvall, Ulf Liljenbäck and Rikard Rodensjö traveled to Norway two years after the event in Poland and won their first set of official FAI/ISC bronze medals.

The Echochamber outdoor lineup, now with former Volo member Mattias Nord for Martin Bäcklin, and with Anders Brouzell on camera, followed up on the European indoor bronze medals with the unofficial amateur world champion title at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2018 half a year later and confirmed the position a week later at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018. This indoor world cup in Bahrain did not include a European indoor championship leaderboard.

FAI European Indoor Championship 2018			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		G,12,20		F,16,22		N,E,D,21		17,L,4		18,14,O		19,2,5		7,15,Q		6,B,M,P		K,11,9		8,H,J,C		Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Realfly	FR	25		29		39		31		26		26		32	-1	45	-1	33	-2	38	-2	324	32.4
2	Black Cat	RU	23		31		36		32		25	-2	26		32	-1	46		30	-2	35	-2	316	31.6
3	Echochamber	SE	21	-1	26		34		27		23		23	-1	29	-2	38	-1	27	-2	35	-1	283	28.3
4	Airheads	CH	21	-2	26		35		26	-1	22	-2	23		29		40	-1	28	-2	32	-4	282	28.2
5	Amnesya	IT	21	-1	28		29	-2	22	-3	24		22		29	-1	39	-2	27	-2	38	-3	279	27.9
6	ACM Weembi	UK	19	-1	24		29		24	-1	20	-1	22		29		35	-2	25	-2	28	-3	255	25.5
7	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	16	-1	18	-1	20	-3	19		17		16	-1	21		25	-2	21	-1	20	-4	193	19.3
8	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	14		18		21	-1	17		15	-1	14	-1	19	-1	27		21		25		191	19.1
9	Norway	NO	13		14	-1	19	-1	13	-2	14		15		16	-2	26		19		15	-3	164	16.4
10	HF Bad Boys	CZ	16	-1	22	-2	22		21	-1	-		-		-		-		-		-		81	20.3

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Echochamber (SE) - Airheads (CH) - Amnesya (IT) at the FAI European Indoor Championship 2018

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The next indoor opportunity, this time with an integrated European championship, was coming up at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 at Charleroi in Belgium. It was the new Echochamber lineup who would compete in Charleroi and then at the outdoor world championship in Eloy 2022, as well, with Ann-Marie Jarzebowski replacing Johan Edvall (Ulf Liljenbäck, Mattias Nord, Rikard Rodensjö, Anders Brouzell back on camera).

The new 1-year lineup was not tuned in well enough, especially not at the beginning of the year, and Echochamber ended up in 6th place, tied with Dutch team Out Of The Blue. The Dutch national 4-way team will be one of the same opponents, with the new lineup at Skydive Teuge. Roald de Leest and Paul Hofstee have replaced Mandy Feijen and Bart Daenen. Both teams competed with their current lineups at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 in April, where Echochamber had the upper hand.

Out Of The Blue's indoor and outdoor lineups are identical, while Echochamber has different ones. Most likely, last year's lineup at the outdoor world championship will be back in the Netherlands (Johan Edvall, Ulf Liljenbäck, Mattias Nord, Rikard Rodensjö, Anders Brouzell on camera). The 19.6 average at Crystal Coast would have been enough to win the European bronze medals in Norway 2023. Echochamber is the top contender for the 3rd place, which could win the team’s first outdoor FAI medals this year.

FAI European Indoor Championship 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		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	Aerokart Monaco Akdemie	FR	25	-1	58		28	-3	39	-2	25		25		33		32		24		28	-2	317	31.7
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	23	-1	54	-1	30	-1	38	-2	26		23		32		31	-1	24		28	-1	309	30.9
3	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
4	Meraki	UK	19	-1	43		25	-1	30	-1	23		20		26		27		20		24		257	25.7
5	Papea Masculino	ES	20	-1	41	-1	26	-2	31		21	-1	17	-2	25	-1	27	-1	21		24		253	25.3
6	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	19	-1	43		24	-1	31		18	-2	17	-1	26		23		17	-2	22		240	24.0
6	Out of the Blue	NL	20		39	-2	25		30		17	-2	19		27		23		18	-1	22		240	24.0
8	Amnesya	IT	17	-1	33	-7	25		29	-1	21		19		24	-1	25		19		24		236	23.6
9	Windabona Black Mantis	AT	18	-1	39	-2	25		29		21		18	-1	25		23	-2	14	-2	22		234	23.4
10	Bronteroc	HU	19		41		24		31		19		15	-3	22	-2	24		18	-1	20	-2	233	23.3
11	Equinox	LT	14	-4	34		21	-2	25		19		14	-1	21		16	-3	15	-1	22		201	20.1
12	Flyboys	IL	16		26	-3	16	-3	16	-4	15	-2	14	-1	20	-1	16	-2	12	-1	19	-1	170	17.0

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Echochamber (SE) - Out Of The Blue (NL) at the FAI European Indoor Championship 2022

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