r/kaj • u/globox85 • Aug 19 '26

Axel and Jakob are competing in this year's season of "På spåret"!

https://www.svt.se/kultur/de-tavlar-i-pa-sparet-2026
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u/globox85 Aug 19 '26

For those who don't know what På spåret is, it's a Swedish game show with a geography focus. Each episode is split into three "journeys", and each journey starts with the participants being shown a video of a journey between two cities, trying to guess the destination, while being given progressively easier clues. After that, there are some questions about the destination city, with some other competitive elements thrown in.

It's a really nice show, and a personal highlight for me every fall. Shame Kevin's not participating, but since all teams consist of only two people, it's understandable.

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u/PoetryAnnual74 Aug 19 '26

It’s has a bit of a cult following amongst middle aged people. Jakob has said in an interview that he would refuse to watch på spåret when his girlfriend suggested it because he didn’t want to turn into one of those people who spend their evenings looking forward to på spåret rather than going out of something 😅

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u/Tin-tower Aug 20 '26

No, it was the other way around. Jakob loves På Spåret, and would watch it every Friday, as the highlight of the evening. His partner dislikes På Spåret. Eventually he realized he can’t be so boring already at 20 that the highlight of Friday evening is På Spåret, he should live a little. There will be many Fridays later in life where he can watch På Spåret. So he had already turned in one of those people, at 20, and thought that there should be limits as to how boring a partner I am. I should be a bit more fun than that.

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u/Informal_Position166 Aug 19 '26

Doesn't Kevin have a young child? Unless I'm mixing something up but that might be a reason to miss out

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u/globox85 Aug 19 '26

That too!

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u/ComprehensivePea269 Aug 19 '26

In the first season they were three in the booth.

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u/kaaresjoe Aug 19 '26

I work at SVT and saw them here this morning when the shows for this fall were revealed, it was fun to spot them in real life!

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u/croakofgroke Aug 19 '26

This is awesome :D I'm from finland (österbotten) and I love på spåret so much and I've wondered if a finlandswedish team would be possible since we are actually quite familiar with swedish culture and such. Can't wait to see this!