posted Aug 21st, 2016 - iFLY SFBay's Indoor Cloud League teams came back together last week, and nothing is the same any longer on the August leaderboard. Lori Connor's new lineups did not leave any of the previously posted six scores unimproved, and iFLY SFBay has taken the August lead by nine points over iFLY Orlando.

The same nine points would finally eliminate the difference between the two teams, as iFLY Orlando was exactly nine points ahead for the year (865 - 856) at the end of the July competition.

iFLY Orlando has the three highscores for AAA - AA - A while iFLY SF Bay outscored the Florida team in the three Rookie Class categories. iFLY Orlando's team had another Indoor Cloud League event last week, one day after the ICL night in Northern California. Scores and videos have not been added yet. Lori Connor posted her own meet report of last week's event:

iFLY SF Bay - August	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	D,11,H,3	D,6,11	D,H,6	D,H,G	M,D,H	M,D	Total
Volker Haag, Raymond R. Hebert, Maria Garcia-Sheets, Eli Rhodes	-	9	11	-	-	-	-
Sylvain Florand, Lukasz Weber, Vignesh Elamvazhuthi, Christian Trefault	-	8	9	-	-	-	-
Achal Asawa, Bolek Kulbabinski, Ben Myles, Julius Frank	-	-	-	17	23	-	-
Joanna Kulbabinska, Deanna Frank, Angie Clifford, Lauren Pruett	-	-	-	16	19	-	-
Laura Reed, Deanna Frank, Jackie Rhodes, Ronald Put	-	-	-	-	17	15	-
Camden Michael, Marcel Pomerleau, Mark Fosbury, Lee LaBarge	-	-	-	-	13	15(-2)	-
August 4th	-	9	11	17	23	19	-
Ray Hebert, Maria Sheets, Pete Swan, Julius Frank	-	-	13	-	-	-	-
August 10th	-	-	13	-	-	-	-
Lori Connor, Will Harris, Volker Haag, Deanna Frank	12	14	-	-	-	-	26
Ethan DeLano, Michelle Hart, Kiran Shivaram, Eli Rhodes	-	10	15	-	-	-	15
Mahlon Chute, Tim Mattson, Trina Mattson, Julius Frank	-	-	12(-1)	18	-	-	-
Lauren Pruett, Angie Clifford, Lukasz Weber, Julius Frank	-	-	-	20(-1)	26	20	46
Bolek Kulbabinski, Ben Myles, Achal Asawa, Richo Healey	-	-	-	17	24(-1)	22	22
Jackie Rhodes, Jessica Lee, Pete Swan, Deanna Frank	-	-	-	-	18(-2)	16	-
August 17th	12	14	15	20(-1)	26	22	109
iFLY SF Bay's Best of August	12	14	15	20(-1)	26	22	109

Last week's Tunnel Kicker at iFLY SFBay marked the last opportunity for the NCSL teams to improve their scores on behalf of iFLY SFBay for submission to the National Skydiving League.

The teams definitely flew hard for iFLY SFBay and increased their overall scores on the leaderboard by 33 points! The scores are unofficial until the NSL judges them and updates the overall leaderboard. iFLY SFBay is currently in 2nd place on the year-to-date leaderboard for 12' tunnels participating in the Indoor Cloud League behind iFLY Orlando by 9 points.

Our new submissions from last week put us ahead of iFLY Orlando for August by 9 points! However, iFLY Orlando also had an additional Tunnel Kicker on August 18th and those scores have not been posted yet! We'll have to wait to see how we place after all scores are added to the leaderboard which is open until the end of the month!

Indoor Cloud League 2016			AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Rank	August 12+		D,11,H,3	D,6,11	D,H,6	D,H,G	M,D,H	M,D	Total
1	iFLY SF Bay	US	12	14	15	20(-1)	26	22	109
2	iFLY Orlando	US	18	18	19	16	12	17	100
3	iFLY Sacramento	US	-	12	15	8	16	10	61

August marked the first month using the "new format" for the NCSL Tunnel Kickers where there are less teams at each kicker and the teams fly longer - but there are more Tunnel Kickers each month!! Additionally, each team flies two classes and the rotations are designed during the 1-hour practice to be building blocks so that the teams can really focus on learning the key randoms and/or blocks.

Hopefully the new format also produces higher scoring during the Indoor Cloud League competition at the end of the evening but regardless the flyers are increasing their skills in 4-way which is the reaffirmed goal of the NCSL. The feedback among flyers attending the Tunnel Kicker is that they really like the new format and that they feel the different transitional sequences throughout the practices help them focus their learning and are then better able to put it altogether during the ICL competition.

Congrats to the teams who had high scores and whose videos were submitted to the National Skydiving League. Check out the photo that lists the "Best of August" for iFLY SFBay that lists the high scores per team per class throughout August. Here is the link for the August 17th Tunnel Kicker video that shows the winning videos in each class in addition to the full coverage (all teams) of the Indoor Cloud League at the end of the evening.