2013 Red Bull Rampage: Top 3 Winning Runs
Kyle Strait's Winning Run
Strait's winning run makes him the only rider to have won Red Bull Rampage more than once.
Plenty of history was made on Sunday at Red Bull Rampage, including the fact that Kyle Strait became the only rider with multiple Rampage wins. His run was solid and smooth, punctuated by a perfect suicide no-hander off the top feature of the Oakley Icon Sender.
Kelly McGarry's Second Place Run
New Zealand's McGarry earned second place at his fourth Rampage appearance.
If there's anyone you'd peg as the person who could flip the 72-foot-long canyon gap at Red Bull Rampage (if you thought it was possible at all), it would be Kelly McGarry. He's known for flipping huge distances, among other things, and that's exactly what he did in his run on Sunday. Ridiculous!
Cam Zink's Third Place Run
Zink enjoys making history on the Oakley Icon Sender: first the 360 in 2010, now the huge backflip.
It's no secret that Zink has a tendency to call things out to help get himself psyched-up and committed to a given move. When it's at Red Bull Rampage it usually seems impossible, but so far, he's running a perfect record.
Check out more photos, video, interactive content and more at the Red Bull Rampage site.
Strait's winning run makes him the only rider to have won Red Bull Rampage more than once.
Plenty of history was made on Sunday at Red Bull Rampage, including the fact that Kyle Strait became the only rider with multiple Rampage wins. His run was solid and smooth, punctuated by a perfect suicide no-hander off the top feature of the Oakley Icon Sender.
Kelly McGarry's Second Place Run
New Zealand's McGarry earned second place at his fourth Rampage appearance.
If there's anyone you'd peg as the person who could flip the 72-foot-long canyon gap at Red Bull Rampage (if you thought it was possible at all), it would be Kelly McGarry. He's known for flipping huge distances, among other things, and that's exactly what he did in his run on Sunday. Ridiculous!
Cam Zink's Third Place Run
Zink enjoys making history on the Oakley Icon Sender: first the 360 in 2010, now the huge backflip.
It's no secret that Zink has a tendency to call things out to help get himself psyched-up and committed to a given move. When it's at Red Bull Rampage it usually seems impossible, but so far, he's running a perfect record.
Check out more photos, video, interactive content and more at the Red Bull Rampage site.
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Gutted for Aggy, his run was sick. I personally feel like his first run should still have scored in the 70s even with the crash/slide out at the bottom.
SIck riding all around despite the shit judging (imo).
While i agree with protour, that the judges are judging on how tech the line is and how smooth they are, i feel that tricking those lines are much more difficult than just riding them smoothly.
Also while i agree the rankings were pretty fair, (i dont feel like any of the top three got robbed) i still think that Lacondeguy and Aggy should have pulled higher scores. just my two cents.
Mcgarry on the other hand. Top notch kiwi. I was really hoping he had it after that canyon flip. After watching him flip the 60'er at crankworx last year I knew if anyone would do it he would. I'm so hyped on rampage this year. SO EPIC!
And for those who say judging sucked. Remember that the judges walk each line so they know exactly what the riders are going down. The Camera can't possibly show the full difficulty of the lines.
Hands down the best rampage yet!
My podium:
1.strait
2.zink
3.lacondeguy
Rampage isn't a trick contest,it is true freeride contest!the line choice and the flow on her is more important like just tricking every jump!
Who can get down that mountain from the top like strait did?? A handful of people that's why he won!
Can't believe how many "mountain bikers" are missing this HUGE point!!
The end of Zink's run was very disappointing (perhaps he was riding tactically, get a good score on the board and throw down in run 2)
McGarry's run was probably a bit too easy up top, but he certainly kept it going all the way to the bottom, flipping that last drop. I appreciate that, particularly off those features, backflips are very difficult... but perhaps he could have scored more by adding variety? I think corked flip and canyon flip were a good combo, but then throw down a different trick off that last drop?
Given how well Strait was scored for his flowy big mountain line I'm surprised Lacondeguy or Fairclough didn't do any better... Although Fairclough "straight aired" his canyon Gap, his was definitely less groomed and therefore probably more challenging than either icon sender or the wooden canyon gap
A "technically safe run"
You win the award for being absolutely clueless.
First off, all ya'll poons (Speaking in generalities) were whining like "this ain't no slopestyle it's big mountain, take the wood out of it" and know ya'll like "McGarry did 3 flips, and strait did one suicide no hander! It's so unfair!" and ya'll are judging it based on a slopestyle judging standpoint. So make up your damn minds, is it slopestyle, or big mountain. You can't have it be a big mountain event, then want it judged like a slope event so McGarry wins... damn there's some idiots on here.
Second, Kyle and Cams line up top was insane. It was steep, loose, and tons of exposure. That shit was way more technical than McGarry's top section, which looked like one of the easiest ways off the top. Therefore, Cam and Kyle score way higher on the top section.
Very good judging in my opinion. This contest is about gnarly steep lines, going fast, smooth, and big. Not just tricks. What if some pleb took a super easy line with tons of 10 foot manicured gaps and flipped 10 of them? Should he win just cause he did the most backflips? Hell naw. It's about steep, techy, dangerous ballsy riding, and Strait had the whole package. McGarrys run was phenomenal don't get me wrong, but the judging was fair. get over it. Bitching about it on the internet won't fix shit.
If there's another "Norbs got robbed" situation this year with McGarry, then I'm fukken out. Ya'll nancies should go ride instead of bitching about who did better than who, when you aren't even qualified to judge.
Rant off.
Just saying...
1. Mcgarry (flowy & insane trick)
2. Lacondeguy (smooth,flowy & fast)
3, Zink (big balls)
Was massively stoked for Zink after the sender flip, then SO bummed when he dropped the ball on the rest of that run... the potential! I can only imagine the adrenaline pulsing through him though!
Way pumped for McGarry's full on charge. F-yeah!
TMac's stuff was killer, well worked out, a pleasure to watch.
Was nice to see Fairclough rip a good run.
Difficult to fault Strait's run, highly technical with good speed and flow as i remember, pretty straightforward airs but big run, need to watch it again now for sure.
Some brutal crashes.
Hands-down amazing event and all the top finishers delivered some *insanely badass* riding. Feel cheated by the wind, but not by the riding, and cant really fault the judging.
*edit: watched the four runs again (Lacondeguy, Strait, McGarry, Zink), and I would rank them exactly in that order. Lacondeguy and Strait may keep leapfrogging 1st and 2nd in my head everytime I watch their runs though!
McGarry def played the top line easy, but pulled out all the stops with the big hits, and Zink, oh Zink, the potential for that run! the top line was techy like Strait's, but you only put down half a (sick) run!
You can't just throw big tricks and think you will win if anything freeride would be more about hitting insane lines and gaps and less about tricks. In which cause strait would have won again anyway.
Freeriding started with big gaps and crazy lines, the tricks developed later, the core value of rampage will be big and crazy lines. How smooth they hit these lines are worth more than a trick.
Do tricks matter, sure because at that level you need all you can get but I fail to see why those against the results are putting so much emphasis on tricks.
However, please do not forget people, it is just about the tricks. A lot of people here seem to be confusing Rampage with a slopestyle contest or best trick it appears. The judges have their criteria and I think they did a pretty good job of ensuring that the event was a freeride event first and foremost.
What Kyle did is what Rampage is supposed to about. People so quickly forget what this contest is supposed to be and just want a high light reel of banger tricks from top to bottom like we see in films all the time.
Watch the runs again. Kelly's run outside if the big flip wasn't all that great. He starts out slowly riding that mellow ridge the whole way until he does his first flip four feet off the ground. That's not going to score high. Then he's very slow and deliberate through a not all that technical line leading to the gap flip (which was awesome). After he pretty much butchers the bottom much like Zink, going way offline.
To me straits run was overall better.
I hope rampage stays primarily a big mountain contest. I understand the big jumps bring the crowd of watchers that wouldn't otherwise understand the contest as much. That is cool and all but that still is only one part of the score. I think Zink had a strategy to pump up his insane trick. That brings spectators and that is great, but I don't think that in and of itself qualifies him to win, so I thought his score was fair.
Personally I loved Andreu's run, that was big mountain at its finest. Strait's was awesome, so was T-mac's (I mean that natural drop was roughly as big as the built one, which should get some points I think for doing it without the manmade feature.
I think all that mattered to him was stomping that back flip , win or lose , much like the time he done the 360 , he done nothing else in his run just to secure the 360 , fair play to him for pushing the envelope but I expect he was fully aware 1 move would not win it and did not care. ( specualtion )
Zink didn't have to win to become a legend, he went into Rampage as a legend, and just added to that.
I guess this kind of event is always very subjective, but this year I think no one can complain on being robbed. Anyway all the top three were amazed by stepping on the podium!
The Kiwi's run was super fun to watch and between the people and the judges there is no denying he was friggin awesome! Diamondback is Back.
www.pinkbike.com/news/Redbull-Rampage-Judging-Explained-2012.html
it's probably being withheld for the new Hero 3+ promotional stuff - you can't go ten minutes on mtb sites without seeing Hero3+ ads.
I do not understand, how could Strait took first?
My Top 3 on Rampage 2013: McGazzy, Lacondeguy and Zink
But this is a subjective contest in a lot of ways, which makes it difficult to say who won, exactly. In my mind, just showing up and going down that mountain is already winning. This contest is not much different from judging a figure skating contest, right? Same criteria apply too (degree of difficulty, flow, etc). And before anyone hates on this comparison, keep in mind that as lame as figure skating appears to be, doing those spinning things while jumping is probably hard to do and requires a lot of skill (reminds me of another sport... haha!). Bottom line is just take the contest for what it is and enjoy it. They're all winners.
for me Andreu Lacondeguy or mcgarry´s run was the best
I hear ya'll saying that the winning run should not be a pure slope style tricky run, but its also not purely a big mountain run. Or else there would be no buiding etc.
One trick, should not ever be the deciding factor for the winner. I think Kyle Straits run was lacking in the variety department. He zipped through a less-er tech top section than most other riders, with only the sender on his mind. then didnt even perform after the suicide NH. kelly and andreyu at least put together a run after their banger.
Andreyu's run had it all, so fast and tech through the top. So fast. Then blasting flips, superman, One handed superman seatgrab!!!!!! NO ON ELSE EVEN HAS THAT SHIT. He had the most complete run even compared to the top three. i bet if he was able to three the sender, maybe a bar, or tailwhip he would have taken first. I feel so bad because of another 4th place finish for the spaniard. I just wish he won the people choice. But I'll even say i'm pleased with the peoples choice results
Every single time there is a big event I am shocked and astounded by the things people say on this site. Really kills my faith in humanity.
2or1) Strait
3) McGarry
4) Zink ?
:-)
That crazy f*cker, too bad his second score didnt count he should have made podium
Strait`s 1st plase?!!!! What a f*ck?!!! Zinc and McGarry the best!!!!!!!!
Judging confuses me man. Glad I'm not doing it.
You have a guy in first that did what I like to see as far as fast and smooth and creative. But he didn't really do any tricks. And the next two guys were slower than hell but both stuck HUGE tricks with Kelly landing 3 flips.
Not sure what guys are suppose to plan to do?
I just got done watching all the runs.... WTF? Cam got robbed AGAIN.
Dude went huge. Took a different line. Went fast. Was smooth as hell. Did 1 MASSIVE can can up top. Another one down below that was suppose to be a flip I think but he was off and made a wise choice. And a no hander. And finishes 7th?
I don't get it man. Judges hating on this dude.
If you're gonna put Cam in 7th then I think Kelly should have won first and Cam second.
Straits deserved the win hands down.
1-McGarry
2-Zink
3-Strait