Sorry Joel, but I've never disagreed with you on this... and I've always felt that this is one of those instances in which you're guilty of being a Canadian first and a skier second. Yes, Tanner's rails were better than Gagnier's. Significantly. However, he was also not by any means outskiied on the bottom section of the course. His landings were not perfect. He touched a hand on the 10. But he looked better in the air than Charle did, and honestly, a switch 3? Come on now. Looked like it was about 5 feet off the snow. Add to that the fact that watching Gagnier ski switch from feature to feature isn't the prettiest sight, and that BOTH of his jibs were ugly enough to DETRACT from his score (hand up in the air on the 1-footer and coming off the f-d early), and that his stuff in the air, while clean, looked like he was spinning like a top on the first hit... well... yeah. Am I saying there's no room for argument that Charle was better in-air? No, I'm not. But I am saying that even if he was, it wasn't by nearly enough to overcome the nollie lip and 450 on 27 out. Tanner won slope. They just didn't give him the medal.
I should note that in my opinion Jon beat both of them completely just by virtue of how easy he made insanely difficult tricks look, from the 27 all the way to the switch 10 which he landed effortlessly... but as someone on here accurately said a while ago, robots like Jon get judged differently from us average human folk.
I can't believe I'm still arguing about the fucking X games from last year... shows how little actual comp stuff we get a chance to talk about. I think when it comes down to it, Andy Mahre said it best: "X games this X games that... who cares who won a fucking tv show." So despite all the stuff I just said and the fact that I probably come across as a major hypocrite here... I think I'll drop it at that.