posted Mar 30th, 2023 - The series of national indoor championships across the world continued with Norway's event on March 10/11 at Vossvind, the same location that will be hosting this year's FAI Outdoor World Cup in August. Skydiving center and windtunnel are both located in Voss, outside and east of the city of Bergen.

The DeLand Norgies, now under the new name of DeLand Norgyx, were back with the same lineup (Ole Petter Hjelle, Pål Kolbenstvedt, Carl-Erik Tuv, Torstein Valen) who had outscored Norway's national 4-way team Agera at the outdoor championship in August last year.

The team name changed from DeLand Norgies to DeLand Norgyx when former Arcteryx member Ole Petter Hjelle joined the team to replace original Norgies member Lise Nansen. Arcteryx became Norway's national team in 4-way Open when the DeLand Norgies officially retired after winning three sets of FAI bronze medals for Norway (1999 - 2001 - 2003).

The original Norgies members Lise Nansen, Pål Kolbenstvedt, Carl-Erik Tuv and Torstein Valen continued to challenge their respective successors year by year, and they still do it presently. Most of the times, the DeLand Norgies win the national outdoor championships, while the new national teams compete for Norway at the international FAI events.

Norwegian Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	H,10,19	O,14,12	15,13,G	8,1,F	E,C,18,11	4,N,J,M	A,2,L,20	B,7,16	21,17,D	K,3,6	Total	Avg
1	Agera	20	18	21	21	21	27	21	22	21	20	212	21.2
2	DeLand Norgyx	17	18	21	21	21	23	19	24	22	21	207	20.7
3	Thyra	18	16	17	20	17	21	17	22	20	19	187	18.7
4	Reservebenken	8	9	8	8	4	12	8	11	8	9	85	8.5

The DeLand Norgyx are still the reigning national outdoor champions, even though they had to allow the official national team, Agera, to win the national indoor title. It was the first time that DeLand Norgies or Norgyx attended Norway's national indoor championship, and they made it difficult enough for Agera to win by only five points.

Carl-Erik Tuv, one of the original Norgies members, was back with the Norgyx this month. He had competed in his tail slot for Agera at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022, as the NSL News reported on 1 October 2022.

Original Agera member Kristoffer Thorstensen could not travel to the United States in October last year, after missing the outdoor training camp at Skydive DeLand, as well. Carl-Erik Tuv had won his three FAI bronze medals in the tail slot and could help out easily. Agera finished with the team's highest 10-round average in Eloy and placed within the Top 10.

Kristoffer Thorstensen did not come back into his Agera tail slot after the outdoor world championship, and Norway's national team recruited a new team member for the same slot.

FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open Top 10		20,16,B		P,D,21,13		17,K,11		E,A,19,22		2,9,M		C,14,F,12		3,6,18		4,10,1		8,Q,O,H		5,7,J		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	-1	28		27		27		31		23		21		20		32		31		261	26.1
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	20	-1	25	-2	21		23		28		20	-2	19		17		29		26		228	22.8
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	-2	23	-1	22	-1	21	-1	26		18		17	-1	17		28		28		219	21.9
4	France 4-way Open	FR	19		23	-1	22		23		27		20	-1	18		15	-1	20	-5	27	-1	214	21.4
5	Chimera	UK	16		21	-2	19		19	-1	18	-5	18	-1	16		14	-1	23	-1	24		188	18.8
6	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	20	-1	18	-1	21		21	-2	18		15		15		21	-1	20	-3	186	18.6
7	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	14	-1	21		19		19		20	-1	17		16		15		24	-1	20	-1	185	18.5
8	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	16		18	-2	19		16	-1	20	-1	13	-3	15		14		19	-2	22	-1	172	17.2
9	Agera FS 2022	NO	16		16	-2	17	-1	17		18	-1	15		15		13	-1	18	-3	21		166	16.6
9	4Astrophe	CA	15	-1	20		19		15	-2	21		15		15	-2	14		16	-3	16	-2	166	16.6

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Agera with Carl-Erik Tuv at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022

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Amund Meier was the new Agera member at the national indoor championship, and Carl-Erik Tuv was back together with the same Norgyx lineup. Amund Meier merged quickly into the new Agera lineup and won his first national 4-way championship title in his very young 4-way competition career career.

The new Agera lineup represent Norway at the upcoming FAI Indoor World Championship 2023 and will probably try to defend one of the Top 10 positions in Slovakia. The NSL News will soon follow up with the first power rankings for the event.

Carl-Erik Tuv has another new challenger who is coming from his own family. The lineup of the very young and all-female team Thyra includes his daughter Christiane Tuv. The NSL News mentioned on 1 November 2022 that Thyra would become the new national team in 4-way Women. Thyra finished not too far behind the two two Norwegian top teams with an impressive 18.7 average and will probably soon catch up with them.

Norway's all-time record holder of national championship titles, original Norgies member Pål Kolbenstvedt, ended up empty-handed on the AAA Class leaderboard this time. However, he guided once again his Viken Warriors to the next A Class title that the same team has won since July 2021, indoors and outdoors.

Norwegian Indoor Nationals 2023		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class	K,D,7	L,C,A	E,O,M	B,6	4,8	2,N	19,Q	F,21	H,G,P	J,9	Total	Avg
1	Viken Warriors	21	24	34	20	11	13	14	18	27	27	209	20.9
2	Lightning	16	20	30	16	12	12	8	20	27	13	174	17.4
3	Urus	15	9	28	12	7	11	7	12	16	20	137	13.7
4	Reservebenken	15	15	20	14	9	11	8	17	13	13	135	13.5
5	Rosa Helikopter	10	13	20	13	7	11	11	12	16	17	130	13.0
6	Blokken Bruse	15	7	19	12	7	9	10	12	20	12	123	12.3
7	Airbenders	10	9	15	10	5	8	7	11	7	13	95	9.5
8	You'll Never Fly Alone	9	8	17	9	6	8	7	9	8	12	93	9.3
9	Winx	3	10	19	11	7	7	9	11	10	5	92	9.2
10	Blockchain Technology	7	7	13	11	7	8	6	6	11	10	86	8.6
11	Three Boys One Girl	6	6	16	8	5	9	8	10	7	4	79	7.9
12	Fifty Fifty	1	2	16	10	4	8	7	8	4	10	70	7.0