posted Sep 20th, 2025 - It was not only the 5-team battle for the highest ranking position behind the medal winners at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 that compensated for the overwhelming dominance of the French Aethers Lille on the top of the 4-way Open Class leaderboard. Golden Knights and NMP PCH HayaBusa were also too far away from each other at this point in time to create a thrilling competition for the 2nd place.

However, the battle for the remaining last position in the Top 10 on the same leaderboard was offering the same excitement, as only one of three involved teams could finish there. The last event preview with NSL Power Rankings was showing Agera Oceanside (NO), Out Of The Blue (NL) and Papea (ES) in the last three positions of the Top 10, with RhEvolution XP (US) and Ayro (BE) following behind.

Yesterday's update pointed out already that Agera's new team record average at Skydive Teuge lifted Norway's national team in 4-way Open to the 8th place, after the 10-round battle with the other four teams in this group of contenders for the 4th place. OOTB and Papea ended up in the expected Top 10 battle, together with RhEvolution (US) and Ayro (BE), while the final order of the same four teams was very different than expected.

FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Power Rankings		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Aethers	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Golden Knights	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	U.S. Team One	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Echochamber	SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	Skywalkers Junior	CZ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Agera	NO	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Out Of The Blue	NL	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	Papea	ES	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	RhEvolution XP	US	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Ayro	BE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Les Hermines	FR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Chop Chop!	AU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	British Army Volt4ge	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Axis	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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RhEvolution XP (US) - Out Of The Blue (NL) at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025

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The expected 4-team battle had also and eventually turned into a competition between three teams, as the fourth U.S. team, RhEvolution XP, finished with a team record average, as well, significantly higher than previous results with other RhEvolution lineups. Christine Bruchac, Kim Hollander, Chris Normandeau with player-coach Andrew Happick, had finished with 16.7 at the USPA Nationals 2024, with Radim Studeny on camera. The new lineup with Lucas King and Zach Winoker (Andrew Happick, Chris Normandeau, Amanda Cole on camera) posted an 18.2 average at the outdoor world cup.

The new team record average secured the 9th place for RhEvolution XP, seven points ahead of home team Out Of The Blue (182 -175), who finished three points over Belgian team Ayro in the last Top 10 position.

The Dutch team was actually trailing the Belgian neighbor throughout Round 6 and then turned the table in this duel with consecutive highscores in the last four rounds. OOTB finished the ten rounds with exactly the same average as in Crystal Coast 2024, where the 17.5 average won the 8th place of the 12 national teams in 4-way Open at the outdoor world championship.

FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		B,Q,19,F		G,13,K,A		12,7,8		16,E,6		1,J,9		10,15,21		5,18,L		M,20,11		C,17,2		22,O,P,3		Total	Avg
1	Aethers Lille	FR	36	-2	36		20	-1	25		29		20		24	-1	24		24	-1	25		263	26.3
2	Golden Knights	US	33		31	-2	20		24	-1	27	-1	16	-2	23		24		24		24		246	24.6
3	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	33		28	-3	19		24		30		18	-1	19	-2	22		21	-1	23		237	23.7
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	27	-1	22	-5	17		22		21	-3	14	-2	20	-1	18	-1	20		19		200	20.0
5	U.S. Team One	US	24	-2	21	-2	17		20		24		15	-1	18		19		21	-1	19		198	19.8
6	Skywalkers Junior	CZ	28		22	-2	16	-1	20		23		15	-1	18		18	-1	17	-2	19		196	19.6
7	Echochamber	SE	26		25		16	-1	20		24		12	-1	16	-1	19		18	-1	19		195	19.5
8	Agera	NO	27	-1	23	-1	17		18	-2	23	-1	16		17		17	-1	17	-2	19		194	19.4
9	RhEvolution XP	US	27		22		15		18	-1	21		15		13	-2	17		17		17		182	18.2
10	Out Of The Blue	NL	21	-2	22		13	-2	17		21		14		16		17	-1	17		17		175	17.5
11	AYRO	BE	24		22		13		18		21		12	-1	13	-2	17		17		15		172	17.2
12	Papea	ES	21	-3	22		17		18		18	-3	14		13	-1	15	-2	16	-2	16	-1	170	17.0
13	Chop Chop!	AU	18		16		11		12		16		9		10	-1	14		12	-1	13		131	13.1
14	Les Hermines	FR	17	-2	16	-1	10	-1	12		15		8	-1	10		14		13		13		128	12.8
15	British Army Volt4ge	UK	16		12		10		12		14	-2	11		9	-1	11	-1	10	-1	11		116	11.6
16	Axis	UK	13	-1	10	-2	10		10		14		9		8		11		10	-1	9	-2	104	10.4

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Ayro (BE) - Papea (ES) at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025

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Spanish CISM team Papea did exactly the same between the last outdoor world championship and the world cup with their 17.0 average. It was enough to make the top 10 at Crystal Coast and not enough at Skydive Teuge.

Another new team on FAI outdoor leaderboards denied Papea the expected Top 10 position. The second Belgian team Ayro finished with their own new team record average, as well, and lifted it from the 16+ level in the past years to 17+ for the first time. Ayro's new lineup missed the Top 10 by only three points to Out Of The Blue with the 17.2 average.

The 2025 outdoor season was still not over for the teams from Belgium and the Netherlands after the outdoor world cup. NMP PCH HayaBusa (BE), Ayro (BE), Out Of The Blue (NL) and Funky Falcon (NL) were back in action for their combined national outdoor championship events two weeks later. They could add only four more competition rounds to their team accounts, as the weather was just as bad in Belgium as it was in Germany before. Coach Gary Smith also visited the BENELUX Championship after the outdoor world cup and will soon recall his latest experiences.