Although Oftebro has won on home snow once, in Lillehammer in December 2022, he has yet to finish higher than third in Oslo, which he achieved twice in successive days in March 2022.
His elder brother Einar Luraas Oftebro (NOR) could also put the seal on a superb breakthrough season, which has featured his first five podium finishes including a maiden win, by cementing third place in the overall World Cup standings.
The 27-year-old is 62 points ahead of Ilkka Herola (FIN) and 73 in front of Julian Schmid (GER) heading into the final competition, a Gundersen on the HS134 Large Hill on Sunday, 15 March, which will follow PCRs for women (09:30 CET) and men (11:00) on Saturday.
Oslo will also be the World Cup swansong for the great Akito Watabe (JPN), who 20 years after making his World Cup debut as a 17-year-old in March 2006, will bid farewell in the city where he claimed four of his 19 individual World Cup wins.
The 2017-18 overall champion, who finished in the top three in the standings eight times in 10 years from 2012 to 2021, confirmed after the final individual event of his sixth Olympics recently (below) that Oslo – his 303rd individual World Cup start, more than any other Nordic Combiner – will be his last.