Did you know that it's still a 6-point difference between Hurricane Factory and Paraclete XP? posted: Dec 3rd, 2018 The Indoor Cloud League update on November 5th presented an exciting situation after the conclusion of the October competition. The Czech teams at the Hurricane Factory had come out of their summer hole and won the second consecutive month over the Paraclete XP team.
The difference for the year was down to six points, while Paraclete XP still had the lead. The difference between the two Indoor Cloud League powerhouses is still at six points at the end of November (1316 - 1310). However, the Hurricane Factory won the November competition by 12 points, and the 6-point advantage is now on the Czech... (more)
Did you know that the 4-way gender mix in Australia was 11 - 8 - 7? posted: Nov 22nd, 2018 International FAI/IPC events include three different 4-way Formation Skydiving events, Open - Women - VFS. The NSL News usually features a combined leaderboard of 4-way Open and 4-way Women, where the teams use identical competition draws. The combined leaderboard of the FAI World Meet 2018 was posted with the story on 24 October 2018.
The combined leaderboard is showing additional battles between more teams who are closer to each other in the same competition with the same competition draws. Most of the teams in both events compare their scores with the numbers on the other leaderboard anyway,... (more)
Did you know that the USPA Intermediate Class competition was dramatic and exciting? posted: Nov 5th, 2018 The USPA Nationals 2018 are over and Arizona Airspeed won their 12th consecutive 4-way open title with the biggest winning margin ever. The old and new champions won by 32 points this year.
SDC Rhythm XP could not offer the same opposition as they had in past years, due to Doug Barron's injury, and the team did not have enough time with substitute Rob Radez to get to at least a similar performance level and put some pressure on Airspeed. The Golden Knights did not even complete a single round in 4-way or in 8-way. They were ordered back to their Army headquarters when Hurricane Florence threatened... (more)
Did you know that Paraclete XP (1183) and Hurricane Factory (1177) are separated by six points? posted: Nov 5th, 2018 The Indoor Cloud League competition on the 14+ leaderboard is turning once again into a tight battle between Paraclete XP and Hurricane Factory.
The Czech team won the October competition and has reduced the difference to six points (1177 - 1183) after ten months. HF Flying Circus claimed both Open Class highscores for the AAA and AA sequences, and two of the three junior teams (HF Rebels, HF Dragonflies) won the RR and R categories. The Paraclete team posted the highscore for the RRR sequence and tied the Czech score in the A Class.
The situation was the opposite last year at the same point... (more)
Did you know that USPA Advanced Class champion Jeana Billings has joined Ranch 2nd Generation? posted: Nov 3rd, 2018 Ranch 2nd Generation (R2G) has been the shooting star in U.S. 4-way competition in the most recent years, as the NSL News has pointed out several times ever since the team was founded in 2015.
The lineup of 2016 and 2017 (Michelle Karamon, Brenn Richards, Christopher Kuhlmann and Joey Marshall, with Sonic on camera) entered the AAA Class competition at the USPA Nationals 2016 with a 15.0 average and a 2nd place in the Advanced Class. A year later, they won in the same USPA category with a 16.5 average.
The lineup changed this year when Brenn Richards stepped back at the end of the 2017 season,... (more)
Did you know that 4-way Women teams once again stuck together on the combined leaderboard in Bahrain? posted: Oct 31st, 2018 The NSL News aftermath of the FAI World Meet 2018 included as usual the combined leaderboard of the 4-way events that use the identical competition draw, 4-way Open and 4-way Women.
It was published with the story on 24 October and pointed out that "the three 4-way Women teams who eventually finished with only a 2-point difference between each other (Team X, Sweden - Phoenix XP, United States - Boomerang Betty, Australia) were also glued to each other on the combined leaderboard."
It was the battle for the bronze medals in 4-way Women that the three teams were fighting throughout the ten... (more)