posted Nov 1st, 2022 - The story of Norway's national team in 4-way Open, Agera, actually began in the later 90's when Carl-Erik Tuv trained and competed with the DeLand Norgies. The same lineup (Lise Aune/Nansen, Pal Kolbenstvedt, Torstein Valen, Carl-Erik Tuv) won three consecutive FAI bronze medals at the world meets in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Then they retired from the intensive schedule of a world-class team.

However, they never really retired, as the scores of this year's national championships were showing. Three of the original members were in the lineup that won the national 4-way title in August, and Carl-Erik Tuv was one of them.

He knew by then that he would be heading the Norwegian delegation at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022. He had also made plans to visit Skydive Arizona together with the manager of the FAI Outdoor World Cup at Skydive Voss in Norway next year, Victor Engholmen. Carl-Erik Tuv will be the meet director at the same event. He did not know in August that he would eventually be back in his original tail slot for training and competition at Skydive Arizona.

The NSL News update on October 1st included NSL Live Talk with Norway's current national team in 4-way Open, who explained how Carl-Erik Tuv ended up in the tail slot at his 4th outdoor world meet in 4-way Open, almost exactly 20 years after winning his third FAI 4-way bronze medal.

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Norway Outdoor Nationals 2022		1		2		3		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	H,1,P,12		F,N,6,B		2,21,3		Total	Avg
1	DeLand Norgies	17	-2	21		13		51	17.0
2	Agera FS 2022	17	-2	16	-3	13	-2	46	15.3
3	Thyra	10	-1	12		8		30	10.0
4	Utopia	8		10	-3	7	-1	25	8.3
5	Gloriasses	8		8	-3	6	-1	22	7.3

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DeLand Norgies - Agera - Thyra at Norway's Outdoor Nationals 2022

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The DeLand Norgies, with former Arcteryx member Ole Petter Hjelle in the lineup, and with Seth Eriksson on camera, had still outscored Agera at this year's national outdoor championships. A few months later, Carl-Erik Tuv then had to help out the young national team in 4-way Open when one Agera member was not available in Eloy.

Carl-Erik Tuv knew what to do, as there is probably only one former Arizona Airspeed member in 4-way history (Mark Kirkby) who knows the tail slot even better than he does. Agera with Carl-Erik Tuv finished in 9th place, together with Canada's 4Astrophe, and the Norwegian team performed on the same level where they expected to be at with the complete lineup, and they finished with the highest 10-round average in team history.

Carl-Erik Tuv and Victor Engholmen were available for NSL Live Talk at the end of the second meet day, after all 4-way teams had completed eight rounds. Agera were in 10th place at that time, and they could improve their ranking position slightly with the fast two sequences in Rounds 9 and 10.

Meet director Carl-Erik Tuv and event manager Victor Engholmen provided general information of the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2023 and hinted a few surprises for the visiting teams and competitors.

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FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		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
11	Out of the Blue	NL	16		16	-3	17		17		14	-2	17		12	-1	13	-1	21	-1	18		161	16.1
12	Ripper	AU	14	-1	16	-1	18		16	-1	21		15		12		10	-3	19	-1	19	-1	160	16.0
13	Sky4Four	PL	13	-1	14	-3	14		16		16	-2	12	-1	12		13		21		18	-1	149	14.9
14	HF Flying Circus	CZ	13		10	-7	16		15	-1	18	-2	12	-1	13		11	-3	16	-5	17	-1	141	14.1
15	Sequenz	DK	10	-2	16		15		14	-1	17	-1	12	-1	12		11	-1	17	-1	11	-3	135	13.5
16	INIT-Y	BR	12	-2	14	-1	14	-1	13	-4	16		11	-2	10	-3	12		17	-1	15	-3	134	13.4
17	HSV Red Bull Aerodynamix	AT	10	-2	16		14		15		15	-1	8	-3	9	-2	10	-1	15	-1	13	-1	125	12.5
18	Adventure Flyers	PY	9	-1	13		12	-1	11		16		11		10		9		14		14	-1	119	11.9
19	Equinox	LT	10	-1	12	-2	12		12	-1	13	-1	10		10		9	-1	12	-4	14	-1	114	11.4
20	Tina & The Dinosaurs	NZ	5		8	-1	4		9		9	-1	8		5		4	-2	10		8		70	7.0
21	La Playa	GT	2	-1	7	-2	5	-1	3	-3	7		5		3	-1	5		-		-		37	4.6

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Agera at the FAI World Meet 2022 - Video Footage Courtesy of FAI/ISC and OmniSkore!HD - NSL Live Talk with Carl-Erik Tuv and Victor Engholmen

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Participation of Norwegian 4-way teams at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving since 1985

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Carl-Erik Tuv and Victor Engholmen pointed out that the Norwegian currency, Krone, is currently weak in exchange with Dollar and Euro. Only adult beverages are on the pricier side, even though there is a brewery in Voss that is also on the list of places to see.

Carl-Erik Tuv will not compete in Voss next year, and Agera will hopefully not need him again anyway. He will be too busy in his position of the meet director. However, his daughter Christiane Wilhelmine Sorfjord Tuv will be in Norway's 4-way Women lineup. Thyra could not compete in Eloy, as one team member was too young for outdoor eligibility in the United States. Thyra will compete for Norway on home turf.

It will be a strong Norwegian delegation in Voss. Agera will compete in 4-way Open, Thyra in 4-way Women, and VFS team Blue Pelican will try to defend their bronze medals that they won in Eloy.

However, Carl-Erik Tuv also mentioned that there are even plans to bring back a Norwegian 8-way team onto the leaderboard. His DeLand Norgies team mate Pal Kolbenstvedt has a strong passion for 8-way training and competition, and he even competed with the Veloce QRF signature lineup at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2020.

The DeLand Norgies had trained and competed with the country's 8-way team before they turned to 4-way. They had finished in 4th place at the FAI World Meet 1991, one point behind the 8-way bronze medals, then again two years later three points behind Russia at Skydive Arizona. The other three DeLand Norgies could try to resume the bronze medal battles with Russia - if the Russian teams will be able to participate...

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FAI World Meet 1991			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open - Top 6		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	15	23	21	17	19	15	18	22	14	17	181	18.1
2	France	FR	17	19	20	19	18	15	18	14	16	16	172	17.2
3	Russia	RU	13	16	16	17	14	9	7	13	13	10	128	12.7
4	Norway	NO	12	14	16	16	9	12	13	15	9	11	127	12.7
5	Switzerland	CH	9	14	11	12	10	9	10	13	11	7	106	10.6
6	South Africa	ZA	9	10	8	10	7	7	4	12	7	10	84	8.4
FAI World Meet 1993			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open - Top 6		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	16	15	17	17	19	17	18	15	17	18	169	16.9
2	France	FR	11	20	17	18	14	17	19	16	18	18	168	16.8
3	Russia	RU	12	14	17	16	15	9	11	11	13	15	133	13.3
4	Norway	NO	15	13	14	10	12	11	14	13	13	14	129	12.9
5	Germany Remscheid	DE	14	12	12	12	9	11	11	10	11	12	114	11.4
6	Switzerland	CH	13	8	14	12	11	12	6	11	12	13	112	11.2

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