posted Aug 19th, 2012 - The NSL News reported on 21 July 2012 that UK 4way champion Satori had seven Academy teams at the July meet in Hibaldstow and followed up with a review of Satori's performance at the same event on 27 July 2012.

Then the NSL News covered the UK Nationals 2012 with the first story on 13 August 2012, which was mostly related to the female 4way competition between Sweden's guest team Fire and UK's national team Bodyflight Aerodyne Langar.

It is about time to catch up with other parts of the record breaking event, as 72 teams competed in Hibaldstow and brought the number for the highest attendance up from 55 in 2011.

Satori is again in the spotlight, this time with the 20.0 average performance over ten rounds at the UK Nationals 2011.

UK Nationals 2012		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	D,N,O,E,11	Q,B,12,6	16,18,22	J,A,7,L	5,14,G	13,C,K,P	4,M,9	1,3,20	15,F,10	8,2,21	Total	Avg
1	Satori	25	19	15	30	19	20	24	16	17	15	200	20.0
2	Voodoo (ZA)	22	17	15	24	16	17	19	15	14	15	174	17.4
3	Kaizen	23	15	12	16	14	16	20	13	14	13	156	15.6
4	Vision	18	16	12	21	13	16	20	11	13	11	151	15.1
5	Pink Panthers	17	15	11	20	13	14	19	12	13	13	147	14.7
6	Eureka	18	12	11	19	13	14	18	11	14	12	142	14.2
7	Escondido	19	14	11	19	13	13	15	11	13	13	141	14.1
8	Ma Sticazzi	16	15	11	22	11	15	15	10	14	11	140	14.0
9	Bodyflight Aerodyne Langar	17	11	11	16	12	13	18	12	12	12	134	13.4
10	DWS	13	13	11	16	13	13	17	12	12	11	131	13.1

It is not the highest meet average that UK's national 4way team has ever posted, as the graph shows. However, the highest average in team history was supported by the Super Sequence at the World Meet 2010 in Menzelinsk, and the 20.0 average last weekend has a completely different value considering the cirumstances.

It was the highest Satori average in a 10-round meet this year and with the new lineup, which has Ian "Milko" Hodgkinson in the Point slot. More importantly, the 20.0 average was scored while the team was coaching the other ten (!!!) teams of the Satori Academy at the same time.

Julia Foxwell explained to the NSL News that none of the Satori members was in a player coach slot at this year's championship event. Satori has recently made an effort to leave the teams alone in freefall with complete lineups and without any help: "We felt that it would be better, and fairer, if all the teams jumped by themselves. Yeh, we were still coaching the teams, plus the others that we have worked with throughout the year. It wasnt too bad though, and people understood that we were also competing."

She added that it felt good for the team to break back into the 20-average level: "We feel things are coming together and we are really looking forward to the World Cup!"

The situation at the World Meet 2012 will be very different. Satori will have all the time in the world to focus on the team performance.

The 4way competition at the UK Nationals takes place on a weekend, while the international events have a 5-day time frame, which is split between 4way and 8way.

There are no coaching jobs for Satori members at the World Cup in Prostejov, and the British team can fully focus on the Thunder challenge for the top spot in the unofficial battle of the "amateur teams".

Medals are also in reach, as no US teams are registered for the competition, and the German team Paratec-Saar showed last year how to grab a set of medals. The NSL News will be report live from Prostejov.