Rampage '24
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Not watched yet. Did Kyle Strait beat Brendog?
2024 Results
Brandon Semenuk - 92.73
Szymon Godziek - 91.66
Tyler McCaul - 90.66
Tom Van Steenbergen - 89.33
Kurt Sorge - 87.16
Thomas Genon - 85.83
Carson Storch - 85.00
Adolf Silva - 83.50
Ethan Nell - 82.33
Kyle Strait - 78.66
Brendan Fairclough - 76.00
Reed Boggs - 74.66
Talus Turk - 72.00
Luke Whitlock - 70.66
Tom Isted 50.53
Bienvenido Aguado Alba - DNF
Sooooo over it.
First, red bull f%cks up our DH world cup broadcast.
B, they f$ck up teh rampage. (B was on purpose, just making sure youre listening)
Now I hear redbull will f*ck up your prostate?
Boooooooooooo RB in the face
Ride your bikes. If you can't wheelie, make sure you can manual. My 2 cents.
First, red bull f%cks up our DH world cup broadcast.
B, they f$ck up teh rampage. (B was on purpose, just making sure youre listening)
Now I hear redbull will f*ck up your prostate?
Boooooooooooo RB in the face
Ride your bikes. If you can't wheelie, make sure you can manual. My 2 cents.
Computer game shit.
Semenuk is next level at busting out a run with repeated risky (for anyone else) tricks.
Brendan's run might have been a super difficult line. But other than his gap flip he didn't really pull anything in the same league.
Dunno why folk actually care who won (or who was robbed) It's just a show and they're all doing crazy shit we never could. So just enjoy the show.
Semenuk is next level at busting out a run with repeated risky (for anyone else) tricks.
Brendan's run might have been a super difficult line. But other than his gap flip he didn't really pull anything in the same league.
Dunno why folk actually care who won (or who was robbed) It's just a show and they're all doing crazy shit we never could. So just enjoy the show.
The move from the organisers and judges should be to ask Brendan to tell them where he thinks everyone should place. Nothing like forcing the riders to fight amongst themselves about the merit of their respective runs in order to get some bad blood flowing. These freeride guys are far too chummy
That is true.
And that is Senenuk. But...uhh this is mountain biking or is this slopestyle? I need help here.
Let the dudes ride the gnar. Not groom the shit out of the shit. That's my rub.
Who is that ginger American snowboarder? That is Semunuk's doppelganger. Yeah skillz. But yawnsville. Not MY grape jelly jam. I prefer strawberry rhubarb.
y u hate shawn whiteguy?
HA, I don't.
Shawn whiteguy. LMAO
Skillz man. But boring skillz. Like robot skillz.
If he did a skillz test he'd get 130 out of 100.
I'm not math guy, but that'd be pretty good, eh?
Still on the yawn of the mountain bike spectrum.
There, I said it.
Shawn whiteguy. LMAO
Skillz man. But boring skillz. Like robot skillz.
If he did a skillz test he'd get 130 out of 100.
I'm not math guy, but that'd be pretty good, eh?
Still on the yawn of the mountain bike spectrum.
There, I said it.
Erm... If you look through the entire history of Rampage it's consistently been won by the guy who busted the biggest/most tech tricks off ledges n lips. Nothing new here. Except they're now allowed far more time/equipment when building lines.
But no. It's not really mountainbiking... It's a consequential showboating competition. Otherwise known as Slopestyle.
Wait, I thought this thread was to make fun of Shawn Whiteguy? HA (Actually, isn't he a current or former RB athlete? I don't remember. Either way, kinda makes me LOL)
When is Hardline?
That is way more my jam.
Sorry a bit late on this. But yeah Shawn of the dead white Guy (I just made that up) Ginger. Long hair. Has only medaled in snowboarding for all the big events around the world, including the Olympics.
I believe his real name is Shaun White? But who really cares.
I do need to watch/read all the Brendog stuff. And doubt my opinion matters.
No worries.
I'm like 6 hours from Rampage. Drive time. I'd rather hit Champery for the World's and let Buckow buy me a beer.
Well as Champer's is in Switzerland, getting that beer shouted knocks like $50 off of the cost of your trip!!
Yeah. Eff and eh.
Beer always tastes better when you have to cross a giant pond for it.
$15 Guiness. Well...ok, a brother's gotta hydrate.
I think the controversy partially stems from the fact some other riders were commenting at how his line is interesting and difficult. TVS also seems to be unhappy with his scoring. I'd get if we didn't get it but riders were fine with scoring but they are not.
Overall the level is insane but it's a bit weird to see judges discouting your points if you have a slow and not very jumpy but awkward line no one else would ride. Because if super sketch, steep and narrow lines are not getting points at rampage where else should they be scored high? I get that doing a still tech line + a lot of tricks is super impressive but this type of judging actually means we are excluding certain types of riding and genreally favor execution over worlds firsts.
Also someone here or on pb made a comment if riders knew what their line max points were in advance like in that weird dancy skating or diving it would probably result in fewer people being mad.
lol, I was the person who made the post you quoted, and I also wrote the post suggesting riders should know their potential score in advance.
Pretty good article here: https://nsmb.com/articles/talking-rampage-and-judging-with-caleb-holonko/
(Caleb is a freerider & has dug at Rampage 4 times)
(Caleb is a freerider & has dug at Rampage 4 times)
I found that video a hard watch and tbh Fairclough is just starting to sound like a sore loser - as deserved as his bitterness may be. He is an incredible rider, but by his own admission he can’t tailwhip or double back, his lines dont look as technical as they really are and the sport and judges are moving past his era of freeride.
At some point you have to accept that it’s not the event that it used to be and move on. For all the vitriol about how he got robbed at best he was probably still below the top 5.
As a father of two (pretty much the only similarities I have with BF) I’d be delighted that I have a great excuse to not have to ride rampage again and can instead focus on planning deathgrip 3 or some other build project that doesn’t get judged and involve three days of hell building.
I think that's the thing that's annoying me. If they'd scored him 8th I wouldn't have given two shits. Give the dude and his style of riding a nod, tell him he gets to come back next year, and then move on to the riders who actually did the most insane shit. Tmac's canyon gap was one of the most bananas drops I've ever seen, and strong argument to be made that it was the most difficult drop ever done. Godziaks run was so fucking cool top to bottom, Semenuk is so goddamn good he spends weekends at the butter factory teaching the butter how to be smooth, and TVS did what was flat out the most insane Rampage run in history with that front flip back flip.
Donno. I imagine he'll be back next year despite what hes saying right now and scoring out of the top 8. Redbull has to have noticed that he's a huge fan favorite with mega branding and they'll get more viewers from giving him a slot than they will giving a slot to a no name up and comer, gives them a win win opportunity of setting it up as a redemption ark or a "see we were right all along" depending on his run, and Brendan has to know that rampage is the biggest thing he does each year keeping his current profession relevant.
Pretty sure Olly Deeks and Bren all thoroughly enjoy their yearly holiday to Rampage.
But as you say. Not making the cut (top 8) to be automatically re-invited isn't a bad thing. He's clearly over it. And yeah TBH realistically he's never going to rack up the same sort of score as someone like Semenuk, Zink, Godziek or Lacondeguy can when they're hitting and tricking all the big stuff. Unless he spends the entire winter learning next level tricks. Riding the least groomed path with a couple of backflip gaps isn't really going to cut it these days
But as you say. Not making the cut (top 8) to be automatically re-invited isn't a bad thing. He's clearly over it. And yeah TBH realistically he's never going to rack up the same sort of score as someone like Semenuk, Zink, Godziek or Lacondeguy can when they're hitting and tricking all the big stuff. Unless he spends the entire winter learning next level tricks. Riding the least groomed path with a couple of backflip gaps isn't really going to cut it these days
thats why you hit little balls with sticks while letting the wind blow over your nut sack
People saying Brendog was robbed is one thing. Underscored definitely, but robbed of what - victory? I don't think so.
TVS on the other hand - if there's a run that should win for a single trick that's it. Video games would get called unrealistic if they put that sillyness in.
Brendan says in the video above that he doesn't think he should have won, but he also should have gotten at least 8th (if not higher) to guarantee an invite the following year. From what I remember, he said afterwards they told him, well submit a video and we'll make sure it gets approved, and he's like, "Naw..."
saying his run was better than Adolf Silva's Where he backflipped a 60ft stepdown, Suie'd a big drop and pulled a double backlflip.
Ethan Nell's. flatspin 3s and backflip drops
and Kyle Strait's 3 drop, usual massive Suie, tailwhip and backflip suie
Personally I can understand why he placed below all of those guys.
The level is super high. You can't just skid down a rough steep line with a couple of backflips on straight jumps and take it for granted you''ll pull off a top 10 anymore
Brendan is just milking content to stay relvant now he's no longer a racer and isn't really a slopestyle guy. Fair enough. He has a family to feed.
Ethan Nell's. flatspin 3s and backflip drops
and Kyle Strait's 3 drop, usual massive Suie, tailwhip and backflip suie
Personally I can understand why he placed below all of those guys.
The level is super high. You can't just skid down a rough steep line with a couple of backflips on straight jumps and take it for granted you''ll pull off a top 10 anymore
Brendan is just milking content to stay relvant now he's no longer a racer and isn't really a slopestyle guy. Fair enough. He has a family to feed.
I’m not knocking what Fairclough did, this is pretty funny though.
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I mean I think we can make fun at this point right? The claim his run was underscored hinged on the idea that it had a high technical difficulty rating that wasn't being recognized because it lacked flippy spinny bits.
And two random dudes, one of whom was riding a used marketplace bike with a singlecrown, went and onsighted it.
Creativity and radness was there, but it turns out his run wasn't really underscored a ton.
And two random dudes, one of whom was riding a used marketplace bike with a singlecrown, went and onsighted it.
Creativity and radness was there, but it turns out his run wasn't really underscored a ton.
It does help that Brendan’s cause in one aspect…they made it look real sketchy!