Results: Slopestyle - Crankworx Cairns 2024

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BiNARYBiKE FL (May 26, 2024 at 7:46)

Other than Rogatkin not finishing run 2 and Emil not being able to demand a second run out of Godziek, I thought that was a really good comp overall.

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plyawn (May 26, 2024 at 11:32)

Women looked great, ridiculous tricks from the men, rookies had great runs, no serious injuries, course improved from past years, decent announcers (who at the very least know the sport), final results in the range from correct to defensible for all us internet judges; a small rain delay in what is a jungle is no big deal, so overall a great event!

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juanmenendez (May 26, 2024 at 1:06)

What happened to Patricia this time round ?

BigAge FL (May 26, 2024 at 5:05)

I was thinking the same, I had her on my fantasy team. Got 4/5 of the men though so points should still be good

dawgdude (May 26, 2024 at 11:29)

Cool competition and congrats to Godziek! Nice to see people agreed on the standings for a change!

paddonq FL (May 26, 2024 at 11:58)

Everyone was killing it today. Course changes were awesome too. Such a good comp.

korev FL (May 27, 2024 at 9:21)

I wonder if Isted regrets his all or nothing approach, he's effectively leaving with nothing which isn't going to help his overall ranking

barp (May 27, 2024 at 11:53)

I'm sure he regrets that he didn't podium. I'm sure he also would have regretted only giving it 90% effort and taking, say, 3rd place when he knew he had the skill to take 1st. The push ups and backflip he did after wiping out on the last jump tell me he's not too upset about it. I really like the cut of his jib.

Sscottt (May 26, 2024 at 5:22)

The downhill was a very Australian result sheet but the slopestyle is very international.

Trail6 (May 26, 2024 at 6:07)

Seems like its missing some big names at crankworx this year, or is it just me?

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mi-bike (May 26, 2024 at 6:28)

Not just you. I was missing too.

bigmeatpete420 (May 26, 2024 at 8:59)

Judges absolutely smoking crack scoring anyone near Alma. Insane

The-Foiling-Optimist (May 26, 2024 at 11:13)

They want to award tricks on all the feature and Goomes did that, but there has to be a big bonus for properly formed tricks, which is what Alma has. If she can add tailwhips to her repertoire she's going to be in Emil dominance territory. I just re-watched her run and she really only missed a trick onto that sloped platform, so yes the scores might be closer than they should be.

plyawn (May 26, 2024 at 11:28)

She's got tricks that no one else does, so deserved to win even though there were some gaps in her trick game. Not sure "smoking crack" is warranted because a random on the internet doesn't agree with the magnitude of her victory in a judged event where the only thing that matters is the final ranking, but you do you.

highland-hippie FL (May 26, 2024 at 20:40)

Some of this is magnified by the idea of having scores in the first place. Rampage has exactly the same problem.

The riders should be "ranked", not "scored". Given that the scores are largely arbitrary (not coded to a precise standard like gymnastics or similar), they give viewers an inaccurate measure of how close one rider is to another.

If we all ignored the scores and looked only at the ranking, there would be far fewer arguments.

All that said: Alma is amazing. Wish we had seen Patricia Druwen compete. Because I agree: no-one else came close, whether or not they tricked every little feature. She was throwing down combos on almost everything, with much more variety and complexity.

FredFreeRideGang (May 27, 2024 at 1:50)

Godziek !!!!!

Saucycheese FL (May 26, 2024 at 6:56)

Way to go Griffin! Keep it up!

valanidi (May 26, 2024 at 9:54)

finally!!!!!

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anchoricex (May 26, 2024 at 2:54)

not a fan of the weird lil ramp features people were flaring/whipping/barspinning out of. but i guess if the riders like it thats cool, who am i to speak to it.

godziek definitely squeezed quite a bit more in, and its long overdue he gets a win. i dont have any qualms with the judges top 2 here.. but damn that looked like.. i dunno.. some exhibition nitro circus shenanigans where people are just trying r. willy type stuff and if they dont land they eat it into an airbag. generally not my cup of tea, but congrats to him.

dont want to be like "rip style 2024-2024" cause that's always been the corniest comment, but i largely enjoy seeing emils flow more then godzieks. that finesse is the kinda stuff u see people jamming with at dirtjump tracks, just like a cool amount of "wow that was real clean" mixed with some acrobatics on the bike.

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scott-townes FL (May 26, 2024 at 5:31)

I think the most impressive part is how many poor takes you were able to squeeze into one post.

anchoricex (May 26, 2024 at 17:40)

@scott-townes: eh its whatever, its a lil disingenuous to feign that we haven't seen preferences on either side of the convo regarding slopestyle so.. i guess don't act so surprised but also maybe don't pretend it's loaded with hot takes. it really isn't, we've all seen the true hot takes on pink bike. that was a medium take at worst. sometimes you just want to share your thoughts and not be a dick about it, perhaps spark some discussion. ive been on both sides of this fence, the semenuk era saw a lot of it, when barspins tails and corks started coming to rampage we saw a lot of it, its a never ending discussion sure. i just noticed during that comp i enjoyed watching emil more, that's all. suppose biking means different thinks to different people. my enjoyment/preference does not imply that the judging should somehow shift to trying to reward the entirely too-subjective 'flow or style' of a run. that would obviously never work out. and apologies if this feels like im diminishing godzieks dub at all, nah he deserved that. he had the better run. i personally wouldn't even have put emils that close to his if i was in the judge booth. the judging almost feels a little obscure in that sense. if truly weighted heavily towards tricks, the gap should be huge between 1 & 2

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CristianoSebastiao (May 26, 2024 at 1:23)

Why are women’s scores so close to the men’s?

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angryWaki FL (May 26, 2024 at 1:34)

Because they are being compared to each other rather than the men.

Duh…

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CristianoSebastiao (May 26, 2024 at 2:24) (Below Threshold)

@angryWaki: thanks that makes sense. It is just not that obvious these days

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dkendy1 FL (May 26, 2024 at 4:54) (Below Threshold)

Because if the winning score was 30.4 it might make them feel bad.