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NBHF's advent calendar 2024 - Door 7

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NBHF's advent calendar 2024 - Door 7

This article was translated by AI. The original article is written in Norwegian.

Most people answered yesterday’s door correctly — namely the Giant from Spjelkavik: Trond Ove Gangsøy. The overall standings therefore look like this:

Which table hockey player is hiding behind door 7?

1. What is/was your favourite combination or trick?

Don’t know of anyone else who does this, and I haven’t exactly scored loads with it either, but when it comes off it’s smooth as can be: a cheeky little feed from the right wing to the center. The winning goal against Yngve the first time I won the veterans’ Norwegian championship.

2. What is your favourite lunch at a table hockey tournament?

I don’t come to a tournament to eat… 😉

3. Which tournament do/did you like travelling to the most?

I can give you several…

  • Kolvereid Open 1999 was my second tournament. I finished fourth.

  • Östersund Open. First foreign trophy (won the B division in 2004? 2005?). (And I believe I beat Daniel Wallén in one of the tournaments).

  • Grand Lake Open in Colorado. Two third places and one win between 2000 and 2004. (The biggest trophy I’ve ever won…). 15 hours of straight (and fast) driving from Los Angeles to a tiny village way the hell up in the Rocky Mountains.

We’ll go with Grand Lake.

4. What is your best table hockey moment?

Three big ones. Should have said my first NBA tour win — Jæren Open 2013, Frode Hagerup in the final (4-0). (But it was only Frode Hagerup, after all). But there are two that rank above it.

  • The third place at the Norwegian championship in 2011, two days after finishing cancer treatment. (Quarter-final win over Øyvind Hansen.)

  • But I think I’ll go with the quarter-final win over Peder Østlund at Norway Open 2012. 4-2, winning on a reverse Spjass in sudden death in game 6, and with that a third place in the tournament. It is my greatest international individual achievement.

5. When do you get up in the morning if the tournament starts at 10:00, and you have a 15-minute trip to the venue?

08:37.