So wrong it hurts.
I also want to finally publicly claim responsibility for those guys being there.
I was on the X-games selection committee for a few years, and the first time they had me they said "We want to take everything into account - movie segments, contest results, style, tech tricks - everything"
I was like "Guys, I think I'm going to really fuck up your selection process, because I have a very strong opinion about what makes the best skier."
My votes were extremely high for Pep, Pollard and Andy. My logic was that I felt that if you were judging skill, I completely believe that it takes every ounce as much skill to do a super stylish cab 3 as it does to do a big cab 10 (which was a big trick then). So I made my voice heard.
Pep and Andy made it into X that year. I think a lot of the athletes were pretty angry, and I eventually fired myself from the committee and suggested that they just start choosing everyone from competition results instead of trying to have true, deep, slow, smooth style count.
I defend my position to the core because frankly for anyone who has played Amped 2, you will know that a fucking video game can score style really high using only math, because it treats slow smooth motion as a multiplier vs. only one part of the score.
