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Men’s Top 10

1) Jacob Wester

2) Jon Olsson

3) Tanner Rainville

4) Bobby Brown

5) Michael Olenick

6) Simon Dumont

7) Luke Nutting

8) Peter Olenick

9) Josh Bibby

10) Anders Backe

Women’s Podium

1) Keri Herman

2) Kristi Leskinen

3) Athena Brownsen

 
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Men’s Top 10

1) Jacob Wester

2) Jon Olsson

3) Tanner Rainville

4) Bobby Brown

5) Michael Olenick

6) Simon Dumont

7) Luke Nutting

8) Peter Olenick

9) Josh Bibby

10) Anders Backe

Women’s Podium

1) Keri Herman

2) Kristi Leskinen

3) Athena Brownsen

So the Pros won that comp, thats knda weird to mee, i thought the point of the comp was to expose more talent, wow... jon got second in his own comp, sure some underdogs are on their, but im kind of disapointed. i really thought this would be a chance for younger underexposed kids to place in a big comp. guess not, skiing hasnt progressed as much as i thought.
 
what does established pros winning have to do with skiing progressing as a sport? And Bobby Brown is pretty new and underexposed
 
i agree with that, but i thought this was a comp put on by the pros, for the benefit of the younger kids, not the benefit of themselves.
 
Yea the results look a little gay by being pretty much stuffed full with pros but with 3 big step overish kickers that probly at least 2 maybe even 3 were dub-able, it dosnt surprise me that most of the top 10 were pros like dumont and olsson who can dub and then there are the rest that will throw stylie sw 10's because they have been doing them for 3 or 4 years.
 
Sickkkk. Fuck I had Wester on my FF team at one point but took him off cause he kept losing.

I never was under the impression that this comp was for lesser knowns to come up. If they can't compete against pros, then why do you think they deserve to automatically win a big comp? Obviously, smaller names arent going to win a comp if they eat shit in their run or are throwing small/weak tricks. The level of the game is freaking high these days.

That is what the Open is for. Anyways I see at least 3 people in the top ten that I dont think I've ever seen in any big comp top 10.
 
The jumps didn't give people with doubles an advantage, they were super sick jumps no matter what you were throwing. And the first jump was definitely not double-able.. it was fairly quick even for nines.

It was a straight up dope contest in every way but the weather.
 
Well after watching for the past 3 days, the pros won it in my opinion because .......they're pros and they are just that bit better, but the standard of skiing by most was absolutely stunning. This game is in a very healthy state and props to Jon and Simon and all the organisers. Top Comp
 
i dont see your logic...

Its an open event, anyone can enter pro's or lesser knowns whoever does the best wins... Granted the course was better suited for pros but none the less the point was not to give a win to someone who dossent necessarily deserve first just because they haven't been heard of.
 
If this was an open did why did this happen.

Pre-qualified Athletes

-Jon Olsson (2nd)

-Simon Dumont (5th)

-Peter Olenick (8th)

-Colby West

-Oscar Scherlin

-Jacob Wester (1st)

-Tom Wallisch

-Tanner Rainville (3rd)

Half of the Top 10 including the top 3 prequalified, it seems like all the hype about this event was kind of a bust, it was really the same Paul Mitchell Open they had every year at breck, but they just got Jon and Simon hyping it up for them.

To me this is kind of a joke.

 
I'm sure he will. Whatever though, I thought it was a pretty cool format at least, maybe some other comps will get the idea?
 
It was almost the same as all the other comps, just the qualifiers was a jam session, and that meant that it was different. The Pros pre-qualified so that there wouldn't be too many people on the course during normal qualifications...And, yay for Bobby in fourth.
 
Brian you have to realize that this is an open comp. Just like in golf and at the US Freeskiing Open anyone can enter pros and amateurs. Sure Jon and Simon hyped it up a lot but why wouldn't you hype up something you are putting your name on. Yeah I will agree I thought it was gonna be something completlely different but it wasn't. I am disapointed as well but maybe next year they will change it up.
 
if i had the money and the resources the "hosts" of north american open i would.

however my look at this North American Open was that it was a USSA comp, Marketed by Jon and Simon, bascially the USSA just got these guys names on it so more people would be stoked.

im not saying no pros allowed, im saying that i think the finals should have been all the people that came to the open and qualified. i also think its kinda whack that simon and jon competed in their own open.
 
Im pretty sure even if they didn't pre qualify, most if not all the pros who were pre qualified, would qualify anyways. If that makes any sence
 
Jealousy'll only make you stagger.  Do not enter the house of daggers.  I got gifts, but I ain't Santa.  There's no rights here, we don't know Miranda.

 
i was under the impression that it was only skiiers from the US and Canada competing. Guess I missed the boat on that one.
 
all you whiners are stupid. if you want to have a legit comp, you have to have pros invited. bottomline. every big open in every sport ends like this one, with mostly pros in the finals and a few killer ams stepping up. as for being new and innovative, you must have missed the qualifiers. that jam format was awesome. to see everyone throwing down on a big jump line and having two or three people on the course at once was sick. its too bad they didn't do the finals like that.
 
Sorry... what??!?

Only difference was the way they qualified.

The rest was the same - 5 of the pre-qualified athletes podiumed?

 
Top 3 = a podium....

Brian, I don't understand where all of your hate is coming from. This event has been one of the most exciting and successful events in a long time..... And it's not even over yet! Even those who didnt qualify for slope finals were super stoked on everything. In no way did this event play "favorites". Stop the hate and start to realize how good this event is for the future of our sport.

The NAO is already 10x better than the US Open IMO...........
 
Man I don't even know anyone on the podium or top ten. Lame. Oh well congrats to Tanner Rainville he has always been a favorite of mine and thats for damn sure. I would have like to see Tom and Lj though... Good for the swedes though!
 
BRIAN

I will try to explain this to you in the next video-blog (as always) that will be out tonight...

But seriously what are you thinking????
 
The US open pre-quals too. Almost every major comp does it. In the case of the US open, most of the pre-qualified athletes decided not to participate. Since this was a new event, and run by pros, of course they wanted to do it. You can't hate them for being excited about a new comp and wanting to do it.
 
Yeah this is a bit of a silly thread.... I mean the point of an open is to have a contest where anyone can enter and get a chance to go head to head with the pros. Thats exactly what happened... and pros are pros for a reason... because they're the best.

So really what these results are is what its supposed to be. Mostly pros, but a few up and comers who had the chops to compete against them.

 
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If you ask the people who didn't make it far they will still say it was and awsome comp because they were able to see the pros in action and ask them a ton of questions so all and all the comp was a big progression in the sport
 
The pros would not have deserved to be pros if every of them had their ass kicked by some new ams. Tiger Woods might get his ass kicked by an unknown a few times, but in most cases, he proves to the rest of the world why he's a pro. In every sport, the best pros are in 90% of the time better than the best ams and that's a normal thing. But at least, in an open format like this, the ams get their chance to prove that they can mess with the big guys. And that's exactly what happened, a few ams got in the top 10.
 
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After having the night to sleep on it and process other peoples opinions i see where everyone is coming from.

I think the event and the results is what i should have expected in the first place, and maybe i took the hype the wrong way.

I think the way the Qualifiers was set up was a really sick idea and after watching the video blog posts from the first day i was super excited and stoked to see what finals would bring, expecting the same kind of format, and jam format in the finals, not sure if that happened.

I think it varried alot from the events in Sweden, as far as the finals went.

My Personal Opinion (which of course is how i feel, and may be far from correct) is that if its gonna be called Simon and Jons NAO, that they should act more as hosts instead of skiing, and possibly even judge, because i think Simon handing out bibs in the qualifiers was sooo sick, and it would have been dope if the two of you had also judged the finals, and really made it your comp you know? thats just what i think though.
 
Let me express that i am not hating on this event, i see the problem with most of the comps today.

However i'd also like to add the way the qualifiers ran was incredible, and the on hill lunch and athlete interaction is also really sick. However as you can see in my other posts and some other peoples the finals looked a bit odd to me.
 
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