Results & Replay: Red Bull District Ride 2022

 I'm thinking that the sport should move away from each rider posting a single score and tour points being awarded on the back of the resultant event positioning.

I liked the scoring system at District Ride a lot more than at the Crankworx events but I still feel that judging seems skewed towards 'difficulty' (read, technicality) of tricks, rather than reflecting each athlete's contributions to the spectacle of the event and sport as a whole, as expressed through each run.

As demonstrated at Joyride with 'Lemoine got robbed', and now District Ride with 'Rogatkin got robbed', it feels like the sport is being dragged in one fairly narrow direction in favour of the technical riders. And yet, how do you fairly directly compare a 1440 to the tech Emil throws? What about Tom Isted's line on the Quarterpipe district, skipping two or three whole hits despite the wow factor of his barrel roll flat drops, vs the BMX-esque tech of some of the other riders there? What incentive can we create to incentivise trying a world first at the bottom, even if you've slipped a few pedals up the course somewhere? Are barspins the answer to everything?

I feel it'd be more compelling if there were separate categories being judged on each event, and each awarding their own tour points. I haven't defined exactly what those categories should be but, for instance, one should reward going huge, one should reward producing 'wow'/cinematic moments, and there should probably be one for bringing unusual tricks into runs. There could be a winner and a ranking of each of these in each event, each win carrying bonus points. These would not just be the current criteria the judges claim to look at, and would ideally each be judged by different judges/panels. The weighting of these new points categories could be relatively light at first, relative to the main scoring, as the system is refined and balanced.

It'd keep the points race really interesting, and if tuned well could reward creativity, individuality, and initiative far more than currently.

 Wouldn’t hurt to just post the final results

 Whoever the second announcer is gives me fears Discovery will find someone equally annoying to commentate the World Cups. Rider gives some fans a high five… “Gotta love the interaction, muh hahaha.”

 Sad to see Emil have purely a worse run than rogatkin and win. Slopestyle is just going in the direction that snowboarding went…

 Godziek on the podium??? So sick!!!

 matt on the commentary could do a better job of pointing out what the riders are doing instead of what they could have added...

 Emil just got a 90, weak!

 Excitement free district.