Official rails 2 riches thread

There were TONS of cameras around, I'm sure more photos and edits will come out soon. Most people don't go straight to editing after the event and get it out in the same night.
 
Should have gotten $100 and a spot into the Dash for Cash...yes...should have podiumed...no.

While he did some crazy tricks, and rode really well, the podium is what it should have been. The only one who really came close to the podium besides the Saga team (including Kutcher) was Kieran.
 
it was weird. during qualis, people were hopping over it, barely missing it, and making some crazy saves, but i think I only saw one person just bump into the closeout, and definitely nobody flip over it.

then finals came, and it was just one person after another smashing into it.
 
Most amazing save was the kid who went for a switch 2 on, didn't get the right pop or something and only got switch 1, landed on only his left foot (inside of the close out), managed to get his right foot on to the maybe 6 inch ledge on the outside of the rail and lift his left ski up and over the close out with no contact...it was pretty epic.

But yeah, kids were getting worked on that close out during finals (one kid didn't finish finals cause it). At one point like 3 kids in a row got closed out on it. I think the combination of being tired from hiking all day and being pumped to try and win some cash was the main problem, cause there certainly wasn't a lack of talent in finals.

Also, on a related note, the female snowboarder that won the whole thing (can't remember her name at the moment) slammed into the close out during qualifiers, still managed to make it to finals, had to get something like 14 stitches (can't remember the exact number), then came back and won. Some serious respect for her.
 
pros flew in and went ham. i do say i really wanted to see kieran on that podium, he brought that OG trippy flow steeze to the table
 
This been skiing with him for the last couple weeks and hes been putting WORK into that pretzel. Kids branching off in a new direction.
 
Mildly off topic, but did anyone else watch the snowboard completely face plant trying to flip (lincoln?) out of the flat-up rail in the mouse run park?
 
big up for all the snowboard homies on podium!(timmys gonna get it one of these years though, he killed it)

yales flip to down bar was insane.. didnt completely stomp an ride away, but still fucking out of his mind to try it like 5 times...

oh an did compton not do it?

 
the people bitching were clearly either:

A. not at the event

B. watching an entirely different contest

C. full retard.

D. all of the above
 
It's got to be an incredibly hard event to judge. The level of competition is very high, and style is actually considered in the judging. There's a lot of different stuff to compare; for example, kieran's 2 tailside pretzel, and LJ's front swap misty 4. both tricks are incredibly difficult in their own right, but they take pretty different approaches to the setup.

However, what it really comes down to is that tricks were graded on a point scale, there were tons of people putting down tricks worth whatever the highest trick score was (4, i think), and the winners were the people who did more of them.
 
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