Did you know that Round 8 will challenge Arizona Airspeed? posted: Jun 12th, 2011 It came as it had to be expected. Sweden's national team Bardagi had to accept the 3rd place position in the AAA Class overall rankings, and Arizona Airspeed has no problem so far beating the 20-point level in each round. In fact, there is a very good chance that Airspeed will score only 21 points and higher.
Even the slowest sequence of the meet in Round 2 (13-20-Q) turned out to be a 21-pointer for Airspeed. This weekend's videos of the Swedish national team Bardagi include Round 2, which brought together the odd combination of Block 13 and Block 20. The latest dive pool change allowed this... (more)
Did you know that Bardagi has the lead until Midway Battle scores come in? posted: Jun 11th, 2011 It was 5:30 PM at Skydive Chicago when the three AAA Class teams heard their 20-minute call for Round 1. The scores from the United Kingdom and Sweden have been coming in all day long, even though the weather was not perfect everywhere. The Midway Battle was obviously suffering the most of all meets this weekend. However, more scores will probably be added later.
The teams in Europe have been done for a while for today, as they are five to six hours ahead of the US teams. Two of the three Swedish teams are not knew to the NSL News audience. Bardagi is the national 4-way team that competed together... (more)
Did you know that the Valentine's/World Meet combination has scored five times since 1995? posted: Jun 10th, 2011 The Midway Battle at Skydive Chicago is only a confrontation between the weather and the teams so far. There was one attempt to get a plane to jump altitude, which did not work out well. The whole load, including Arizona Airspeed, landed with the Twin Otter. The competitors on site have been entertaining themselves with playing games ever since, Thomas Hughes reported.
Mark Kirkby mentioned that the competition draw is surely "middle of the road". There is no 3-block sequence, and none of the jumps has more than two random formations. Seven of the ten rounds begin with a block, and only three... (more)
Did you know that an international meet weekend with Airspeed is coming up? posted: Jun 9th, 2011 The upcoming meet weekend will be an exciting one. Arizona Airspeed is at Skydive Chicago to defend the Midway Battle title that the 2010 lineup won with a 26.4 average after five rounds. It was only a small 5-team field last year, which was still very competitive with top contenders Perris Fury, Canada Evolution and SDC Rhythm XP.
The home teams, SDC Rhythm XP and SDC Furies XP, are the only other teams coming back to this year's Midway Battle. However, Airspeed will definitely break the first record of the 2011 season and take the lead as the busiest competition team at this point in time.... (more)
Did you know that awards list at the Z-Scrambles is almost as long as the leaderboard? posted: Jun 8th, 2011 The NSL News story on 29 May 2011 reported that 14 teams participated at this year's Z-Scrambles at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida. It took a little bit longer than expected until the event report can be completed now with scores and more details.
Teiwaz and the SinnerZ launched the Z-Weekend with the first scores on Saturday. Several of the players on Saturday then continued on Sunday for additional four rounds in the Z-Scrambles.
Teiwaz member Bob Byrne guided the 5 Cans as the team captain to the 4th place. SinnerZ members Gary Fox ended up one single point behind the 5 Cans in 5th... (more)
Did you know that Russia has a strong delegation for the World Cup 2011? posted: Jun 7th, 2011 The first week in August will bring the biggest international meet of the 2011 season to the NSL News audience, the World Cup 2011, which will be hosted by Germany this year. The NSL News will provide live coverage from the competition site in Saarlouis.
The total number of currently registered teams is already higher compared to the World Cup 2009 in Prostejov, Czech Republic, where the NSL News was also live on site. 29 teams competed in 4-way in 2009, plus five 8-way teams. 28 teams are pre-registered in 4-way for this year's event, additional ten teams plan to compete in 8-way.
There... (more)