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Espen destroys all of Kristoffer's and Live's work

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

Upon receiving his secret sabotage task, Espen seems genuinely excited about what he has to do. The team makes the decision that each of them should just keep one hand on their own hip, rather than forming a chain together. Espen gets started right away with his sabotage, trying to stall the team by questioning whether they know exactly where the hips are, and suggesting that they search online to make sure. He then chooses 'Japan' as his first country, copying Kristoffer, and ensuring that the pair of them both have to start again. He then uses 'Japan' again, pretending that he didn't know it couldn't be reused after a restart, and stands by the pile of cans, claiming that he can't think of any other countries. He then knocks over the table and all the cans on it, while stacking his first can, forcing the team to rebuild and name multiple new countries. He then distracts the team by making them help him drag over another table, and then attempt to lift the original table, with its can tower, on top of that. During this process, all of the cans, of course, get tipped off the smaller table again. The team quickly rebuild a small tower on top of both tables, but then Espen manages to knock it over again. They finally rebuild a two can tower on the larger table, in the final seconds. Kristoffer and Live seemed stunned by how incompetent he is throughout the task, with Kristoffer stating, at the end, that he'd thought he liked Espen Eckbo (thus coining the episode title). During the task, the team are observed to name Japan, China, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mongolia, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, and France. Upon learning of his betrayal, in studio, Live seems devastated. Kristoffer, meanwhile, is relieved, giving Espen a hug and sharing with him that he'd been going around telling everyone what an idiot Espen was, based on his performance that day. Olli confirms that the team managed a tower of two cans, but points out that they were on the wrong table, so do not count. While Espen earns five points for his effective sabotage, his team-mates thus earn zero points.

(Written by Karl Craven)