Rank the best ski company teams

mmccarthy81

mmccarthy81

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Saw people talking ab teams in the K2 thread and was curious who everyone thinks is the best and so on.

Personally I really don't pay enough attention but in terms of who I think the sickest teams are:

1. Faction

2. Armada

3. K2

4. ON3P

5. Line
 
4frnt's team is small, but the quality is high. Hoji and Kye are probably 2 of the 5 best skiers in the world, definitely 2 of the 10. They've got other guys who rip too.
 
Secretly, Atomic has one of the best team.

Gus Kenworthy

Jossi Wells

Jackson Wells

Beau James Wells

Elias Ambuhl

Nicky Keefer

Fabian Bosch

Mike Riddle

Mitchell Brower

Dennis Ranalter

Taylor Seaton

Klaus Finne

Lisa Zimmerman

Stacked Stacked Stacked
 
Faction ... I'm biased after seeing This is Home at first chair saturday so they are my #1. Candide, delorme, the sildarus, and so many hard charging jibbers

Then next tier is Line, armada, atomic

on3p and moment have solid skis and great teams... k2 and rossignol have solid budgets
 
13843433:Park_Ranger said:
Secretly, Atomic has one of the best team.

Gus Kenworthy

Jossi Wells

Jackson Wells

Beau James Wells

Elias Ambuhl

Nicky Keefer

Fabian Bosch

Mike Riddle

Mitchell Brower

Dennis Ranalter

Taylor Seaton

Klaus Finne

Lisa Zimmerman

Stacked Stacked Stacked
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Amazing how many C level pro's you listed while ignoring some of the true stars of their brand.
 
13843466:Session said:
Amazing how many C level pro's you listed while ignoring some of the true stars of their brand.
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Seriously. Sage, Benchetler, and Durtschi are arguably the best riders on their team.
 
13843483:84west said:
Seriously. Sage, Benchetler, and Durtschi are arguably the best riders on their team.
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Gus is by far and away the best skier on their team. You're wildin if you think that Durtschi and Benchetler could throw a single thing that Gus coulnd't do if he really wanted it.
 
13843466:Session said:
Amazing how many C level pro's you listed while ignoring some of the true stars of their brand.
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I don't think that I listed any "C level pro's". A C level pro would be someone like Joey Vandermeer. Everyone that I mentioned is either competing on the world stage, inventing tricks/going huge, and/or have been in the game for quite a long time.

Guess that I forgot a few TGR guys. Further reinforces how strong their squad is.
 
13843489:Park_Ranger said:
Gus is by far and away the best skier on their team. You're wildin if you think that Durtschi and Benchetler could throw a single thing that Gus coulnd't do if he really wanted it.
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Durtschi and Benchetler can actually ski the mountain. They destroy Gus, if you think he is the best skier in their team you really don't know anything about skiing.

Daron Rahlves and Sage are the best skiers on the team. Until Gus Kenworthy does something of note in big mountain he will never be even close to those guys.
 
13843418:dan4060 said:
4frnt's team is small, but the quality is high. Hoji and Kye are probably 2 of the 5 best skiers in the world, definitely 2 of the 10. They've got other guys who rip too.
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Wiley Miller is so underrated. From park laps to AK spines, that dude rips. Super cool guy, too.

Thayne is someone to look out for as well. He's been killing it for a few years now, but finally getting into some bigger movies with bigger parts!

Also, CRJ was easily top 5 skiers of all time.
 
13844097:.lencon said:
Wiley Miller is so underrated. From park laps to AK spines, that dude rips. Super cool guy, too.

Thayne is someone to look out for as well. He's been killing it for a few years now, but finally getting into some bigger movies with bigger parts!

Also, CRJ was easily top 5 skiers of all time.
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Willie was real wonderkid one time, but since apo is out of the game i havent heard about him. Nice too know, he still killing it.
 
13844224:Davomet said:
Willie was real wonderkid one time, but since apo is out of the game i havent heard about him. Nice too know, he still killing it.
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Who are you talking about?
 
13843437:JohnJonsz said:
Faction ... I'm biased after seeing This is Home at first chair saturday so they are my #1. Candide, delorme, the sildarus, and so many hard charging jibbers

Then next tier is Line, armada, atomic

on3p and moment have solid skis and great teams... k2 and rossignol have solid budgets
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did candide have a lot of shots?
 
13844236:Davomet said:
im douch, sorry, I mislead Wiley Miller with Willie Borm.
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Haha you're good. I was just confused with the whole APO thing, but yeah.. Wiley miller is up there for sure
 
13844231:SofaKingSick said:
did candide have a lot of shots?
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Yes he has a one of those days style seg shared with henry sildaru. Like henry is taking fun inbounds jump laps and suddenly candide is literally flying by so henry follows him for a few super hot laps. But idk if candide had any other shots in the movie.
 
13844497:JohnJonsz said:
Yes he has a one of those days style seg shared with henry sildaru. Like henry is taking fun inbounds jump laps and suddenly candide is literally flying by so henry follows him for a few super hot laps. But idk if candide had any other shots in the movie.
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Sick. Can't wait to watch
 
.lencon Also, CRJ was easily top 5 skiers of all time.

ok if we are including skiers who died not just current lineups then the rankings change big time. My new top ten:

Armada (JP) jumps to the top

Faction

4frnt (CRJ)

atomic

line

k2 (mcConkey)

on3p

moment

rossi

solomon
 
13844709:Brule. said:
I'm surprised no one even mentioned the HG team and the Vishnu team...
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Without googling it name 3 riders on each team lol. The only 2 I can name I kilbride and billsfan.
 
13844711:frickindarn said:
Without googling it name 3 riders on each team lol. The only 2 I can name I kilbride and billsfan.
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Franchino, Hackel, and JermVey for HG. Kysen, P-Ring, and A4 for Vishnu.
 
13844712:Brule. said:
Franchino, Hackel, and JermVey for HG. Kysen, P-Ring, and A4 for Vishnu.
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I’d like to say I’m a huge fan but I’m just not yet. From what I’ve seen with HG there’s TONS of young talent. I like Vishnu but don’t love em. I wanna see both succeed though.
 
13843433:Park_Ranger said:
Secretly, Atomic has one of the best team.

Gus Kenworthy

Jossi Wells

Jackson Wells

Beau James Wells

Elias Ambuhl

Nicky Keefer

Fabian Bosch

Mike Riddle

Mitchell Brower

Dennis Ranalter

Taylor Seaton

Klaus Finne

Lisa Zimmerman

Stacked Stacked Stacked
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And Sage Catabriga-Alosa

And Tim Durtschi

And Nick McNutt

And C. Bentchetler

**This post was edited on Oct 13th 2017 at 2:04:33am
 
Candide is the best skier alive, therefor automatic win for faction..... Thats how that works right?
 
13844763:skidemon22 said:
And Sage Catabriga-Alosa

And Tim Durtschi

And Nick McNutt

And C. Bentchetler

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Haha. I was gonna say that he missed the most important ones.
 
13844088:dan4060 said:
Durtschi and Benchetler can actually ski the mountain. They destroy Gus, if you think he is the best skier in their team you really don't know anything about skiing.

Daron Rahlves and Sage are the best skiers on the team. Until Gus Kenworthy does something of note in big mountain he will never be even close to those guys.
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Classic if you don't place in the Freeride World Tour, youre not even considered a skier post. While Gus is personally not my favorite skier, it is really hard to compare someone like Gus to Sage or Daron. They are all insanely talented in what they have focused on. Could Gus throw a 3 off a natural lip mid line in AK and not tomahawk 100 feet to the bottom? Could Sage do a dub cork 14 in the pipe and stomp the piss out of it?
 
Faction has a crazy team and I'm not super biased cause I haven't seen This is Home Yet. ON3P, Armada, and Atomic have awesome teams too. 4Frnt's big mountain team is really good with Hoji, Thayne, Kye, and Wiley.
 
1. ON3P

they have the sickest team of all time if you ask me. Granèr, Fostvedt, LSM, Doan, Meeks, Anttu, Ware and Maximilliam. And their skis look sick and lasts longer than most other skis. i ordered a pair of magnuses on preorder, stoked as can be.

2. Line

Who doesn't know?

3.Armada

Dollo, B-Dog, Tanner Hall, Torin, Hornbeck, Carlson and Boberg

4. Faction

one name needed: Candide Thovex.

It was hard continuing from here
 
13844714:frickindarn said:
I’d like to say I’m a huge fan but I’m just not yet. From what I’ve seen with HG there’s TONS of young talent. I like Vishnu but don’t love em. I wanna see both succeed though.
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Vishnu has way more young talent. Not hating but dudes like Franchino are mad washed. Killbride and Hackel are young blood tho.

Strongest team outside of the comp circuit is ON3P for sure. Also shout out to Line for sponsoring everyone and their dog.

Also, weakest team: J skis. Stepp it up Stephanie.
 
13845416:K-Dot. said:
Vishnu has way more young talent. Not hating but dudes like Franchino are mad washed. Killbride and Hackel are young blood tho.

Strongest team outside of the comp circuit is ON3P for sure. Also shout out to Line for sponsoring everyone and their dog.

Also, weakest team: J skis. Stepp it up Stephanie.
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YOOOO PLEASE explain to me how Christian franchino is washed. I’m almost certain he’s younger than both Hackel and Keegan..and he’s absolutely destroyed the field at rails 2 riches the last 2 years, beating out guys like sandy boville, Emile Bergeron and khai krepela to win it all in 2015. The kid has one of if not the most unique consistent rail game and is probably the most stylish skier on east coast right now.
 
ON3P

Meeks

Crazy Karl

Lucas

Magnus

Jake Doan

JOHN WARE

Anttu

B Mack

Siver

Kutcher

Mango and Kid just got put on too along with Chase Mohrmon
 
13845669:itscoop said:
ON3P

Meeks

Crazy Karl

Lucas

Magnus

Jake Doan

JOHN WARE

Anttu

B Mack

Siver

Kutcher

Mango and Kid just got put on too along with Chase Mohrmon
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cant forget my man J Nilla
 
13845669:itscoop said:
ON3P

Meeks

Crazy Karl

Lucas

Magnus

Jake Doan

JOHN WARE

Anttu

B Mack

Siver

Kutcher

Mango and Kid just got put on too along with Chase Mohrmon
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It's not just the people, it's that they represent their sponsor, and pump out the content. I saw nothing but content from almost all these guys. DEEP in to the summer.
 
13845669:itscoop said:
ON3P

Meeks

Crazy Karl

Lucas

Magnus

Jake Doan

JOHN WARE

Anttu

B Mack

Siver

Kutcher

Mango and Kid just got put on too along with Chase Mohrmon
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Would love to see them put Jonah Elston on.
 
remember when salomon had the most stacked team in skiing


**This post was edited on Oct 17th 2017 at 5:38:54am
 
some of you guys are ranking line above K2 but K2 owns line so in a way K2 has the line team to their name as well
 
13846020:CalumSKI said:
some of you guys are ranking line above K2 but K2 owns line so in a way K2 has the line team to their name as well
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K2 having bought Line doesn't make their two separate teams into one team. Still two different companies, two different kinds of skis, and two different teams. If they bought them out and branded what was once Line as K2, it would be a different story
 
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