Christoffer steals Pilvi’s shoelaces

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Christoffer begins by scavenging for materials: he finds a black bin bag in a bin and empties it, then locates a cloth bag in the kitchen, which he jokes about using to parachute himself off the roof. After considering using his own shoelaces as cords, he decides to ask Pilvi for hers instead. She obliges, even though this makes her shoes difficult to walk in.

Christoffer attaches Pilvi’s shoelaces to the cloth bag, and then connects them to a paper cup, in which he places the egg, on a bed of orange peel.

He launches his parachute from the left-most of the three windows of the second-floor room, singing Ave Maria as it descends onto the stone steps below. Pilvi check the egg and finds it to be intact.

In the studio, when Jaakko asks about Christoffer’s choice of music, he says that he thought Ave Maria was dramatic, as he interprets the words as high mountains and the word ‘aave’ itself as an older Finnish expression for ‘spirit’. When Jaakko says that, in his opinion, the reference to mountains belongs more to The Sound of Music, Christoffer says that he’d realised that as soon as he’d started trying to explain it.

Since the eggs’ fall times were comparable across the board, Jaakko awards points based on dramatic flair. Christoffer earns 3 points, plus a bonus point for his intact egg.

(Written by Suurmestariprofessorn and proofread by Karl Craven)