Put your glasses on, brendog's features were small compared to the other riders.... Doesn't matter how unique the features are if there half the size of others and your doing no tricks....
Dude have you seen his run_ Exposure, steepness, style, extension on that backflip, Canyon gap, The Rock*, I mean... What else is Rampage all about ? For super tricks we have slopestyle
Brendog deserved a much higher score. That was FREERIDE. He had his own line, used natural features and with all that he threw a massive backflip. I don't care what anyone else says, you were robbed.
True so true - It's all slopestyle - just down the mountain. New Event - all raw - the Josh Bender Invitational - you just go down and survive your lines. The DH guys are use to going down and landing in rough shit.
Aggy and Zink had no place in this years rampage as they are still healing. Could barely get down compared to the others. And they knew it too. They are just big names that took up the spots from the up-and-comers. Reece was robbed of a spot plain and dirty. Adolf went f*ckin huge and barely scored!? Brendog!? The RAMPAGE controversy may never end...
@peterepp99: Exactly...He knew there would be little chance for him to compete with his shoulder. But still decided to take the spot anyways. Aggy barely rode and the commentators gave him praise for riding smart and safe because of his scapula. Smart and safe at Rampage? Don't even show up. They let Aggy just show up and cruiser it down? What a waste. Probably only showed up to fulfill contract terms even knowing he would not be able to compete at the podium level. Not healed enough to ride at Rampage level, and knew it, but still took the spots. Big names taking spots from the up-and-comers.
Brean comes and sends the gnarliest lines down the mountain every year and the just does fuck him over because he can't throw a no hander with his back flip or pull a 360, I feel like you could see the disappointment in his eyes this year. What a joke, people's champ!
Brendan Fairclough line uses natutal elements. Other lines mostly look like skatepark/slopestyle and they are so polished. In my opinion he had one of best and most interesting lines. Real freeride, as this competition should be?!?! Maybe not first place, but not last for shure!
@the-lorax: sorry to say but perhaps a new head judge. Present one is a carry over from years past, maybe explains why the big mountain natural element always gets overlooked. The top runs were the top runs tho
@rad8: I actually don't know which one is the head judge. I just know that's the list of judges this year. Love Nico Vink and Kyle Jameson, but they are pretty slopestyle heavy riders though. The other three are very big mountain oriented.
Amongst all the judging critiques (though I also would've like to see Brendan higher), I actually think the very top guys were pretty accurate. TVS and Rheeders flat drop flips were both bonkers. Would have been interesting to see what Semenuk had in store, along with Carson... no one else sent a 360 as big as his today. Godziek deserves some praise too, his 360 drop was pretty massive - to think that in his rampage prep video he was practicing 3 drops on his DH bike off a 10ft cliff!
Love the praise for Godziek but what about Silva? not even top ten for biggest send of the day, certainly fastest down the mountain, and people's choice? Great event, but I'm flabbergasted by scoring Brendog and Silva so low. Also wish we got to see a complete run from Semenuk.
What I really want to see are edits from film sessions over the next week, with riders staying to nail everything as they envision...
And ditch the big heli, just use drones next year.
You can clearly see a “name factor” in judging after not finished run. Godziek’s first run with nice drop, fu$£%ng backflip over 2 features almost (almost died on that miscalculation) and than even fromtfliping Jump got him lesser score than Semunuk’s cork crash on top and than doing nothing.... Same with Silva.
Fairclough´s line was the most creative and underscored. Silva has been touched by the gnarliest wand. Rheeder is a massive proffesional. Lacondegui really had that "want to win" aptitude I missed in other riders. Remi should stick to Hard line kind of competitions. Bas massive back flip keept the cam zink spirit. Carson's round was impressive, a shame he couldn't nail it.
Is judging rampage impossible? It's certainly awkward. I think going to a jam format like the fest series would be the ticket. Let the riders push themselves for each other & the crowd, not some arbitrary scores that cheapen what they just did.
Why do they give the riders those tiny ass bottles of water when they get to the bottom? Like that's the worst possible thing they could do environmentally speaking, and that's not enough water for any of those riders at that point.
I think if a rider crashes, they shouldn't wreck the whole run. Go to a jam style format, have guys like semenuk get a bunch of tries. He had some crazy shit, but had to pull it in one run.
I don't really know how to fix the problem, but I feel like there is a big hole in the way that they run and score the event.
Also, whoever was switching cameras was smoking crack. The helicopter camera view sucked. Cool event and the people who won deserved it.
A monent of silence out of respect to Freeride
In my opinion he had one of best and most interesting lines.
Real freeride, as this competition should be?!?!
Maybe not first place, but not last for shure!
-Nico Vink
-Kyle Jameson
-KC Deane
-Josh Bender
-Gregg Watts
Who would you substitute?
Great event, but I'm flabbergasted by scoring Brendog and Silva so low.
Also wish we got to see a complete run from Semenuk.
What I really want to see are edits from film sessions over the next week, with riders staying to nail everything as they envision...
And ditch the big heli, just use drones next year.
Godziek’s first run with nice drop, fu$£%ng backflip over 2 features almost (almost died on that miscalculation) and than even fromtfliping Jump got him lesser score than Semunuk’s cork crash on top and than doing nothing....
Same with Silva.
Silva has been touched by the gnarliest wand.
Rheeder is a massive proffesional.
Lacondegui really had that "want to win" aptitude I missed in other riders.
Remi should stick to Hard line kind of competitions.
Bas massive back flip keept the cam zink spirit.
Carson's round was impressive, a shame he couldn't nail it.