Pinkbike Poll: Who Will Win the 2014 Red Bull Joyride Slopestyle Contest?
Red Bull Joyride at Crankworx Whistler is hands down the biggest stop on the FMB World Tour, and a win here can skyrocket an up and coming rider's career into the stratosphere. Thousands of excited fans fill the Whistler base area and clamber up the sides of the course, eager to catch a glimpse of their favorite athletes flipping and spinning in every way imaginable as they try to earn a portion of the $50,000 CAD prize purse.
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Who are the favorites going into this year's contest? Any one of the twenty competitors is capable of throwing down a winning run, but there is a core contingent that stands out from the rest. Brandon Semenuk certainly tops the list, as the hometown hero has stood on the podium four out of the last five years, including two first place finishes. Known for the massive amount of amplitude he brings to his runs, Crankworx Les 2 Alpes winner Anthony Messerre is another Canadian who'd like nothing better than to snatch the win. The same goes for Brett Rheeder, who has quickly returned to form after being sidelined with an injury last season. And then there's Nicholi Rogatkin, the cashroll spinning, visorless American, who has a fierce bag of tricks that he's itching to dump out onto the course.
![Slopestyle Photo Epic- Crankworx Les 2 Alpes]()
Hailing from the other side of the pond, Sam Pilgrim will be gunning to improve on last year's third place position, and Thomas Genon, who won in 2012, would no doubt like to step onto that top step for a second time. Of course, Antoine Bizet is always a threat with his double flips, and the same goes for Yannick Granieri as well. That's the beauty of the Red Bull Joyride - all of the invited athletes are ridiculously talented, making for a wildly entertaining show for the spectators who have tuned in to watch the world's best slopestyle athletes perform their craft.
Who do you think will win? Cast your vote below, and tune in for the live webcast on August 1th at 4:30pm Pacific Time.
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Can Semenuk repeat last year's winning performance?
Who are the favorites going into this year's contest? Any one of the twenty competitors is capable of throwing down a winning run, but there is a core contingent that stands out from the rest. Brandon Semenuk certainly tops the list, as the hometown hero has stood on the podium four out of the last five years, including two first place finishes. Known for the massive amount of amplitude he brings to his runs, Crankworx Les 2 Alpes winner Anthony Messerre is another Canadian who'd like nothing better than to snatch the win. The same goes for Brett Rheeder, who has quickly returned to form after being sidelined with an injury last season. And then there's Nicholi Rogatkin, the cashroll spinning, visorless American, who has a fierce bag of tricks that he's itching to dump out onto the course.
Coming off a win at Crankworx Les Deux Alpes, Anthony Messere will be trying his hardest to earn another victory.
Hailing from the other side of the pond, Sam Pilgrim will be gunning to improve on last year's third place position, and Thomas Genon, who won in 2012, would no doubt like to step onto that top step for a second time. Of course, Antoine Bizet is always a threat with his double flips, and the same goes for Yannick Granieri as well. That's the beauty of the Red Bull Joyride - all of the invited athletes are ridiculously talented, making for a wildly entertaining show for the spectators who have tuned in to watch the world's best slopestyle athletes perform their craft.
Who do you think will win? Cast your vote below, and tune in for the live webcast on August 1th at 4:30pm Pacific Time.
Whistler Mountain Bike Park
Trailforks.com
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I'm looking forward, and as a german guy I miss #partyhenke for miles..
Reboul, Bizet, Godziek, Reynolds will kill it!
Gotta say though, even though I disagree with Zink's bellyaching over money, the fact that the entire purse is only $50,000 instead of 1st place being at least that much is pretty f*cking lame. Especially after I just read somewhere that the purse for DOTA competition players (congratulations if you have no idea WTF DOTA even is) is in the millions. Fat, sweaty, greasy, couch potato, dungeon dwelling momma boys can win millions for basically being the most epic of losers, while the raddest dudes on the planet are essentially by comparison, just scraping up chump change. This is a pretty wealthy industry & would be even if it were not for all the profiteering crap the shit heads do to make even more scrilla (pointless wheel diameters, axle diameters, derailleurs instead of gearboxes etc.) so all I'm saying is that these dickhead corporations should stop being such dickheads & step the fvck up.