Official X Games Discussion Thread 2015

Love seeing T-Wall qualify first. Feels like a blast to the past and its awesome to see him still killing it. Gonna really be pulling for him to take the gold
 
"YOWZERS"!!! Wasn't expection Wally to qualify first!! He exceeded even my expectations! STOKED!!

McRae, Oscar and Jesper got robbed imo. But nothing should surprise us with XGames Judging.

Great to have LVV announcing. His voice is music to my ears.
 
13305886:RubberSoul said:
what did ________ do?

henrik

wallisch

goeper

gus

many thanks live feeders
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Henrik had some great shit on the wallride and rail features, slayed the jumps, and went into outerspace on his last hit.

Wallisch murdered the rail section. absolutely slayed it. Clean jumps. Just an overall perfect slope run from him.

Goepper was doing well up until the last hit, he was "too excited" as he put it in his post-run interview

and then the sign took gus out.
 
I have no idea where Joss' scores are coming from. Really average, 2012, uncreative slopestyle run. Oscar, jesper and McRae robbed. BOOOYEAH Woodsy!!
 
Actually appreciated Goepper's humility in the interview. He looked over confident hanging that trick out there, and ended up stalling the rotation, almost like he was trying to make it look really casual and easy for him. He pretty much owned it. And, he actually admitted that he felt a ton of pressure on him and that it affected him. Maybe this will be a turning point for him. Also, the arms crossed pouty face while still on the landing of the jump move is either slightly better or worse than the arms up and out in jubilance, mouth agape while still on the landing move, I'm not sure which.

Henrik out there boostin to the moon with some grown ass man landings. Bellemare was out of control with that 4 pretzel 4, even if rail spinoramas blow, it was ridiculous for the feature and how others were approaching it. ABM had the most unique and creative trick selection and was underscored. Oscar Wester was underscored. Bringing up the puppies at this point is...depressing, regardless of the intended audience of the broadcast. LVV is the man, and does a really phenomenal job of making some tech aspects or more visually subtle things and making them relatable to the uninitiated, even if he has to sacrifice at times a lil bit of accuracy (rodeo vs. cork, kind of half true statement but would be visually distinguishable for novice). Mcrae Williams looks really, really angry. I get it, it's a bummer, but he should take a page out of Wallisch's playbook for keeping it in perspective. Judging overall was pretty strange, but it's clear they're holding out on scores in anticipation of triples getting tossed.

I hope finals sees everyone really pull out the stops. I don't remember seeing so much "strategy" and caginess in terms of what tricks people are throwing or not throwing 5 years ago. Just an interesting change, and definitely a reflection of the seriousifying of skiing. I hope we still always see characters like Henrik and Wallisch who seem to have a smile on their faces and enjoy what they're doing regardless of how successful they are on any given day.
 
13305895:casual said:
Actually appreciated Goepper's humility in the interview. He looked over confident hanging that trick out there, and ended up stalling the rotation, almost like he was trying to make it look really casual and easy for him. He pretty much owned it. And, he actually admitted that he felt a ton of pressure on him and that it affected him. Maybe this will be a turning point for him. Also, the arms crossed pouty face while still on the landing of the jump move is either slightly better or worse than the arms up and out in jubilance, mouth agape while still on the landing move, I'm not sure which.

Henrik out there boostin to the moon with some grown ass man landings. Bellemare was out of control with that 4 pretzel 4, even if rail spinoramas blow, it was ridiculous for the feature and how others were approaching it. ABM had the most unique and creative trick selection and was underscored. Oscar Wester was underscored. Bringing up the puppies at this point is...depressing, regardless of the intended audience of the broadcast. LVV is the man, and does a really phenomenal job of making some tech aspects or more visually subtle things and making them relatable to the uninitiated, even if he has to sacrifice at times a lil bit of accuracy (rodeo vs. cork, kind of half true statement but would be visually distinguishable for novice). Mcrae Williams looks really, really angry. I get it, it's a bummer, but he should take a page out of Wallisch's playbook for keeping it in perspective. Judging overall was pretty strange, but it's clear they're holding out on scores in anticipation of triples getting tossed.

I hope finals sees everyone really pull out the stops. I don't remember seeing so much "strategy" and caginess in terms of what tricks people are throwing or not throwing 5 years ago. Just an interesting change, and definitely a reflection of the seriousifying of skiing. I hope we still always see characters like Henrik and Wallisch who seem to have a smile on their faces and enjoy what they're doing regardless of how successful they are on any given day.
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it was good seeing wally dickin' around at the top. just goes to show where his head is at. just out there to have some fun and put together a clean line.
 
13305900:DeebieSkeebies said:
it was good seeing wally dickin' around at the top. just goes to show where his head is at. just out there to have some fun and put together a clean line.
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I agree, it was a good reminder to not make the whole affair too serious. Pretty entertaining qualifiers for sure.
 
13305886:RubberSoul said:
what did ________ do?

henrik

wallisch

goeper

gus

many thanks live feeders
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Henrik: Wallride, mellowish, but clean. Tweak safety 450 onto the third rail to sw. sw rt dub 9, ridiculous big and stylish nose dub 12 blunt, and a sw left dub 12 I think but maybe 9...I was too mystified by how fucking big it was and how he kind of compressed from damn near landing flat but he powered through it to notice what he actually did. He stalled out the rotation and splayed the safety out so far it was like in slow motion.

wallisch: 2 pretz 2 down donkey, left lip 450 on to down to switch, to sw 4 on the gap down to left dub 12, to those two jumps he's done for 4 years, and it was all really fucking clean and Wallischian.

Goepper: sort of mirrored wallride tricks, I wanna say he hit them both switch? I'm blanking on his rails kind of. He did a sw dub 9 and a couple dub 12s, all basically flawlessly until the last rt dub 12 I think mute to japan where he sort of stalled the last 180 and kind of didn't get fully back on axis and ended up laying it down on his hip which let Gus sneak into the finals. Had Goepper landed clean, he would've been top 5-6 no doubt.
 
I understand people can misunderstanding some decisions of the judges but i think we have to understand that the time when slopestyle skier only had to do a switch 1080 mute on the money booter and win whatever happened before that last jump is done. Judges want to see skiers killing the rails as much as they do on the jumps.. and i think thats what wallisch and bellemare did for example..
 
Here are the full results in case it wasn't posted earlier.

Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best

1 Tom Wallisch 72.00 R89.66 89.66

2 Joss Christensn 88.00 78.66 88.00

3 Alex Bellemare 86.00 75.33 86.00

4 Bobby Brown 18.66 83.33 83.33

5 Henrik Harlaut 20.66 82.33 82.33

6 James Woods 81.66 80.33 81.66

7 Alex Beaulieu-M 78.00 29.33 78.00

8 Gus Kenworthy 77.00 7.66 77.00

9 Nick Goepper 76.00 35.00 76.00

10 McRae Williams 75.66 73.66 75.66

11 Jesper Tjader 69.00 30.66 69.00

12 Oscar Wester 64.00 66.66 66.66

13 Oystein Braaten 28.33 61.00 61.00

14 Evan McEachran 60.66 12.33 60.66

15 Alex Schlopy 54.66 19.00 54.66

16 Antti Ollila 49.66 22.66 49.66

What happened to Jossi Wells? Didn't even get a shot?
 
Regardless of judging, it's going to be a sick final. So much talent in the top 8. FIS can suck it.
 
13305891:DeebieSkeebies said:
Henrik had some great shit on the wallride and rail features, slayed the jumps, and went into outerspace on his last hit.

Wallisch murdered the rail section. absolutely slayed it. Clean jumps. Just an overall perfect slope run from him.

Goepper was doing well up until the last hit, he was "too excited" as he put it in his post-run interview

and then the sign took gus out.
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13305913:casual said:
Henrik: Wallride, mellowish, but clean. Tweak safety 450 onto the third rail to sw. sw rt dub 9, ridiculous big and stylish nose dub 12 blunt, and a sw left dub 12 I think but maybe 9...I was too mystified by how fucking big it was and how he kind of compressed from damn near landing flat but he powered through it to notice what he actually did. He stalled out the rotation and splayed the safety out so far it was like in slow motion.

wallisch: 2 pretz 2 down donkey, left lip 450 on to down to switch, to sw 4 on the gap down to left dub 12, to those two jumps he's done for 4 years, and it was all really fucking clean and Wallischian.

Goepper: sort of mirrored wallride tricks, I wanna say he hit them both switch? I'm blanking on his rails kind of. He did a sw dub 9 and a couple dub 12s, all basically flawlessly until the last rt dub 12 I think mute to japan where he sort of stalled the last 180 and kind of didn't get fully back on axis and ended up laying it down on his hip which let Gus sneak into the finals. Had Goepper landed clean, he would've been top 5-6 no doubt.
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you guys are fucking awesome, thank you

pumped to hear it sounds like they might be factoring in rails more than they ever have before, as well. really pumped to see the finals now
 
13305935:Grendels said:
http://xgames.espn.go.com/events/2015/aspen/results/400608545/men-ski-slopestyle

a little easier to look at
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and you get to wallisch and joss's runs. maybe they will ad more....
 
13305871:FreeskiThe603 said:
Love seeing T-Wall qualify first. Feels like a blast to the past and its awesome to see him still killing it. Gonna really be pulling for him to take the gold
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Yeah holy shit he's back on it huh?
 
Wester and Braaten really deserved higher scores. TV definitely plays a role in the scoring, having Tom and Joss in the finals definitely brings in more viewers, i wouldnt be surprised if the judges take that into play. maybe i'm wrong, but it sure seemed like it.

regardless, so pumped for tom.
 
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