posted Jul 28th, 2021 - The NSL News reported on July 12th that Kjetil Nordin owns national 4-way and 8-way titles in Norway and Denmark. He had won the Danish Outdoor Nationals 2021 with Sequence, and he was still reigning Norwegian 4-way and 8-way champion of 2020. The Danish 8-way championship is still coming up at the beginning of August.

He went back to Norway shortly after Denmark's 4-way championship event, and he cannot defend all his Scandinavian titles any longer. The Norwegian national team in 4-way Open, Agera FS 2022, surprised Kjetil Nordin's pickup team for this year's event, Blue Bellycan, with an unexpected 16.9 average.

The 4-way veterans were not prepared for such a strong performance by the young 4-way competitors in the national team, and there was no chance for any other team on the AAA Class leaderboard to get even just close. Agera claimed all eight highscores for each round and won with a new team record average, which was significantly higher than their last one (13.9) in July 2020.

Even Punky Fish's winning average of 16.4 last year, with two Norgies in the lineup (Lise Aune Nansen, Pål Kolbenstvedt), Arcteryx member Ole Petr Hjelle and Kjetil Nordin would probably not hold off the new Norwegian national team at their third national championship.

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Norwegian Outdoor Nationals 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	C,F,9,20	G,3,16	7,M,K,N	B,14,5	22,A,12	J,15,E,Q	8,18,O	17,21,H10	Total	Avg
1	Agera FS 2022	21	15	21	16	12	18	14	18	135	16.9
2	Blue Bellycan	16	13	19	12	10	16	8	15	109	13.6
3	Mixed Trouble	8	9	13	8	4	9	8	10	69	8.6
4	BT 4.0	10	7	12	8	4	10	6	9	66	8.3
5	Humleswing	9	9	10	6	5	8	-	-	47	7.8
Rank	A Class	6,9	H,G,O	F,E,7	N,J,19	C,A,2	4,L	21,B	D,P,K	Total	Avg
1	Viken Warriors	12	17	16	11	12	9	10	-	87	12.4
2	Skyla FS 2022	9	14	14	8	10	3	10	-	68	9.7
3	Posterboys	9	14	11	8	7	6	8	-	63	9.0
4	URUS	6	8	7	4	7	6	7	-	45	6.4
4	Pink Pelican	4	8	8	7	6	5	7	-	45	6.4
6	Veteranene	5	7	5	5	5	3	6	-	36	5.1
7	En Pose Skills	6	3	8	4	3	2	5	-	31	4.4
8	Avecillas FS 2022	3	4	3	6	5	2	6	-	29	4.1
9	Rolf's Angels	3	1	5	2	3	2	3	-	19	2.7
9	Exitboys-Sesong 2	4	3	4	0	4	3	1	-	19	2.7
11	NTNU Prøver	3	2	2	1	2	2	3	-	15	2.1

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Kjetil Nordin was not disappointed at all. In fact, he gave the new Norwegian 4-way champions all the credit that they had earned: "I am actually moved by their performance. I have liked these youngsters very well for a long time, but I am beyond impressed by their progress this year. And they are my new heroes. I did not expect them to be as good as a 17-average team. And I am super stoked that Norway has a national team of this level now."

Agera FS 2022 were his opponents in 4-way and his team mates in 8-way. The complete Agera lineup joined forces with Kjetil Nordin's team (Derek Nordlund Broughton, Sondre Armand Tommervold, Ole Petter Hjelle, with Kristoffer Overli Andersen on camera), and Pal Kolbenstvedt joined the 8-way celebration, as well.

Kjetil Nordin was enjoying the 8-way competition just as much, and he defended this title successfully without much serious opposition:

"It was incredible getting to jump 8-way with Agera, and with Ole Petter and his Arcteryx team mate Derek, plus Pal of the Norgies. So four generations of Norwegian national teams were there, mine being the lowest scoring one. That makes you humble and grateful. I love our sport... "He was relating to his own 4-way team X3M4S Elements who competed for Norway at the FAI World Meet 2010 in Menzelinsk, Russia.

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Norwegian Outdoor Nationals 2020		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	K,8,14		15,N,21		D,22,11		18,H,E,16		6,2,M		P,3,Q,C		7,A,13		F,B,10,20		Total	Avg
1	Punky Fish	14		16		12		14	-1	18		21		19		17		131	16.4
2	Agera FS 2022	14	-1	14		11	-1	14		15	-1	15	-2	16	-1	12	-3	111	13.9
3	Humleswing	9		8		8		9	-1	11		10	-1	8	-3	8	-2	71	8.9
Rank	A Class	M,19		A,9		21,K		B,Q,7		E,P,2		O,6		H,F,J		D,L,C		Total	Avg
1	FS 2020 Volare	7		15		10		12		11		13		21		-		89	12.7
2	URUS FS 2020	7		5		7		8		7		8		18		-		60	8.6
3	Viken Warriors	3		10		7		11		7		9		8		-		55	7.9
4	FS 2022 Avecillas	5		2		2		1		2		5		5		-		22	3.1
5	Three and a Half Men	1		4		4		1		4		3		2		-		19	2.7
6	Exitboys	0		1		2		2		3		1		2		-		11	1.6
7	A-Laget FS 2022	3		0		1		0		0		3		0		-		7	1.0

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The Norwegian FS 2022 4-way project is showing great progress and serious results. DeLand Norgies member Carl Erik Tuv, triple FAI 4-way bronze medalist of 1999, 2001 and 2003, launched the project in 2019, as the NSL News reported on 9 August 2019. Ten 4-way teams had competed in 2019 and 2020, and the number went up to a total of 16 this year.

Agera extended their participation soon until 2022, even before the cancellation of the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 was announced. The re-scheduled event next month is still the team's first world championship experience, and they will have a second one next year in Eloy.

Three other project teams (Skyla, URUS, Avecillas) competed at the national championships this month, with their respective Agera members as player-coaches. Project member Christiane Wilhelmine Sørfjord Tuv (Skyla) competed with two teams, as well. She had her father Carl-Erik Tuv in the Mixed Trouble AAA Class team. She had started with one of the first FS 2022 teams in 2019 (Volare), together with Kristoffer Overli Andersen, who is now on camera for Agera. He was also filming the 8-way winner.

Kjetil Nordin transitions to Danish 8-way competition next, where he has the next title defense coming up...

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Norwegian Nationals 2019		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	H,13,O,22	B,17,L,M	19,K,10	4,6,D	N,C,9,16	5,F,21	3,Q,J,E	1,7,15	Total	Avg
1	All Star Team	10	16	12	13	17	14	17	13	112	14.0
2	FS 2020 Agera	11	15	10	8	12	14	12	11	93	11.6
3	Humleswing	11	12	9	10	11	7	8	8	76	9.5
4	Veteranene	4	3	3	5	3	3	4	4	29	3.6
Rank	A Class	D,F,9	C,L,4	P,A,E	19,21	TBD	TBD	TBD		Total	Avg
1	FS2020 Volare	10	7	15	0	9	10	11	-	62	8.9
2	A Team Has No Name	11	5	9	4	5	6	5	-	45	6.4
3	Nivå 3	4	5	8	4	7	6	5	-	39	5.6
4	Bad Ass NoPro	4	5	5	4	6	5	6	-	35	5.0
5	Butelysium	5	3	6	4	3	3	2	-	26	3.7
6	Flying Chicks ?	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	-	10	1.4

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