Ine Helvik

New year, new opportunities!

Sunday I go to Portugal to complete Team Norway in the Europeans. The rest of my team went today as they are playing 14-1 tomorrow and I am not, I start monday with 10-ball. This will be a strange year for me as I am the only female player. More strange, I have played almost every EC since Antwerp (Belgium) in 1995 and I have always been joined by Line Kjørsvik. This is my first year without her and her support and I will miss her dearly.

But, my teammates this year are awesome! They are: Mats Schjetne, Thomas Fjæran, Matias Sætre and Kim Ronny Nygård. Our general secretary Frode Myhre Larsen is the team leader and our president Robert Rysjedal will come for the EPBF General Assembly. Also my good friend Alison Chang will be there so I am well taken care of:)

This year will be special in many ways. I normally play all four disciplines and team and this year I play two and the Eurotour. I start with the 10-ball monday, then I skip the 8-ball to attend the General Assembly, and then I play 9-ball and the Eurotour. The reason for this is that I am running for Treasurer in the EPBF and need to be at the GA. If everything goes as planned I will be Treasurer from saturday 25th march, if not the members found someone else they wanted to take that position. I do hope I get elected, I think European pool politics would be great after being around the Norwegian pool politics for so long. Those of you who know me also know I am very dedicated when I get into politics, sometimes a little too much, but I really like it:) I think that if you have an opinion you have to use it and if you want to be heard you need to take an active part and do something. So, fingers crossed, I will off course let you know how it goes.

And I will try to update from my matches, but this time we do not only have the best livescore and draw/results page, but off course also the best livestream, streaming 24 tables this time, from Kozoom! So if I fail to update you promptly, please go to:

europeanpoolchampionships.eu for all four disciplines and the teams event and KOZOOM for livestream. Men, Women and Wheelchair

Thank you KAMUI and OB Cues for your support and also my federation🙂

And thank YOU for reading!

Ine:)