posted Oct 18th, 2026 - The same location that hosted the NSL Live Talk conversation withSven Ibens and Andy Grauwels later served as the setting for a discussion with Australia’s 4-way Open Class team, Random Fixation. This time, there was no need to relocate during the conversation when rain unexpectedly interrupted activities before. The FAI Outdoor World Championship 2026 marks the first major international event for Australia’s national 4-way Open team. Random Fixation were still competing in the A Class just three years ago before moving up to the AA Class in 2024. At the end of that season, the team made the transition to the AAA Class dive pool, recording a 9.5 average with the same lineup.

Just over a year later, Random Fixation improved to an 11.2 average at Australia’s national outdoor championship in March, finishing third behind Havoc, Australia’s national 4-way Open team at Crystal Coast 2024. Chop Chop!, which represented Australia at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025, took second place at this year’s national championship.

A third team, Whitefish, had represented Australia at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2023 in Norway. Together, the three AAA Class teams at the top of this year’s Australian national championship leaderboard have represented their country at international competitions over the past three years, ensuring Australia has maintained a presence in the 4-way Open Class arena.

Australia Outdoor Nationals 2026		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	13,P,L,N	12,17,J	F,K,10,15	20,19,D	B,7,A,4	22,G,5	6,H,M,1	11,E,14	Q,9,C,16	3,8,18	Total	Avg
1	Havoc	15	12	13	12	16	11	15	13	17	11	135	13.5
2	Chop Chop!	14	10	10	11	15	10	11	10	13	9	113	11.3
3	Random Fixation	9	7	11	11	15	9	13	11	15	11	112	11.2

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NSL Live Talk with Random Fixation (Australia) on 17 October 2026

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4-way Open Class participation between 1985 and 2026

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Australian teams face more than just the longest travel distances when competing at events in the Western Hemisphere. They must also contend with the fact that the seasons are reversed, creating a different calendar for outdoor and indoor 4-way training and competition. The same three teams completed their national outdoor championship while teams in the United States and Europe were making their final preparations for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2026. It is therefore hardly surprising that no Australian 4-way team has ever participated in an FAI indoor World Cup or World Championship.

However, the indoor competition records do not reflect Australia’s contribution to the international formation skydiving scene. In outdoor competition, the opposite is true: Australia has rarely missed an outdoor world championship since 1985. Australian national 4-way teams have been absent from only two of the 22 events held over the past 41 years: in 2010 and again in 2020/2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international competition.

At the other end of the 4-way Open Class leaderboard in Eloy, Australia’s Random Fixation will face a team with a very different international competition history: MeXtreme from Mexico. MeXtreme has only one 4-way Open/AAA Class competition on its record, the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2016. This year, the Mexican team prepared for Eloy by competing in the 4-way Intermediate/AA Class event at the USPA Nationals in Perris last month, just as it had done in 2015. Both Random Fixation and MeXtreme will now face the challenges of longer sequences and slot-switching blocks in their upcoming AAA Class contest.

Australia Outdoor Nationals 2026		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	13,P,L,N	12,17,J	F,K,10,15	20,19,D	B,7,A,4	22,G,5	6,H,M,1	11,E,14	Q,9,C,16	3,8,18	Total	Avg
1	Havoc	15	12	13	12	16	11	15	13	17	11	135	13.5
2	Chop Chop!	14	10	10	11	15	10	11	10	13	9	113	11.3
3	Random Fixation	9	7	11	11	15	9	13	11	15	11	112	11.2

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Random Fixation at the Australian Outdoor Nationals 2026

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