I am consistently amazed by the introspectiveness of some of the kids on here, and this isn't a europe v america thing, but you get a kid saying that candide (blasphemously spelt wrong) shouldn't have won x slope last year which is clearly bs and another saying that twall and ahmet are better than jon, andreas, tj etc. I mean sure they're sick but they really aren't on the same level.
What I'm saying is that you need to realise there's more to freeskiing than the ns bubble of darlings. Sure, you may be able to realte to them better, but that doesn't mean they are the be-all and end-all. If you wanna look at contest contenders outside of dumont/tanner for pipe then you've got Mike Riddle, Kevin Rolland, Xavier Bertoni and Andreas Hatveit. Slope has more contenders, but still to say that guys like ahmet and twall are gonna dominate the major comps this year is ludicrous.
Unless of course they do and I end up getting owned...