Vienna Air King - Course Ride w/ Tyler McCaul

 I agree with you there....I'm still watching, but I was expecting more. AT's showdown course looked sicker

 As boring as the course does look there could be other things involved too like lack of budget to build a crazy course (this is a silver event), city approval blah blah blah. Straight jumps do allow riders to pull off their best tricks though which is putting on a good show for the crowd, also the course looks tame to us in the mtb community but to outsiders who have never seen this kind of riding then the course looks great (from an organizer's perspective). But I do agree that the course is pretty lame but hopefully with the riders designing the Crankworx course this year at least that will be unique.

 I agree with you that considering the location and what not the course is good publicity wise. If it were as decked out as some of the others I guess spectators would be a bit confused. It is a DJ event so I guess they want to focus in on the tricks, like you mentioned.

 good point there with the way the course looks to non-riders @eleventyfive, hopefully some sick tricks will go down!

 Yes, the course isn't really imressive, but the fact that justifies the builders is that they had few days to build all the jumps.

 Thinking about it another way, how can non riders fully appreciate te difficulty of an alternative line to a straight jump? To us riders a wallride to 360 out left hander would look sick, because we know its bloody difficult. But to them, they would find a 720 over a big straight jump far more impressive.

 Our Polish friend hit the nail on the head. When you only have a couple days to build a set-up you can't be moving tonnes of dirt literally. More important than the setup, you have even less time to tear it down. No sense in building scaffolding for massive drops when its going to be around for a day, the budget just wasn't that big. You look at something like Cranwork Whis or Colorado, they start setting up and pushing dirt 2 or 3 weeks before. It's all a numbers game, contests aren't cheap to put on by any stretch. If there is no big name sponsors, or key sponsors, the course will be minimal. Generally speaking though, these guys will still throw down what they have, the crowd will still be stoked, everyone gets paid. Great day!

 2 or 3 weeks before? 2 or 3 months more like it, Crankworx Whistler starts building the course in May for a August event

 They start building the boneyard in May just as the boneyard with nothing too too gnarly. By about mid July they start to add the "Crankworkz" features. Yes, the overall line is decided at the conception of the Boneyard. That being said, almost all the sponsored features are built and erected mere days before. Last years course and the years before was built 2 or 3 weeks before the event with all the fine tuning done the day of practice. Occasionally they'll leave one or two of the features from Crankwork open to the public, as long as they can be guaranteed ski patrol won't spend the day peeling kids off of features they can't hit. The Monster drop wasn't built until 3 days before, prime example of what money and sponsorship does. Build the scaffold, 2 days later, tear it down! That my friends, is expensive! The morning I see the ski hill leveled when I'm heading to work is pretty exciting, it usually means that there's gonna be a park in a week or two. Happy times!

 i missed it... i freakin missed it... were can i find it?

 It'll be worth it man

 Only 8hrs 28mins 30secs to go... Can't wait

 I wish it wasnt at 5 in the morning here