Today saw a banger contest under blue skies, with the lead changing all over the place.
The ladies and men threw down in equal measure and got the season off to a great start.
This earned her 85.25.
Kelly put it down but it was lots of hits and variation but not much amplitude.
The judges took their time but only gave her an 80.
Kelly kept it clean and technical again, but some of the grabs went missing this time around.
Brita had the makings of a podium run for sure but it wasn’t her day today either.
Kelly cleaned up her run on the final time of asking.
There was a touch more amplitude and we think she got all her grabs.
Shoutout to Amy Fraser for her first podium too!
Although Gustvas dub 12 was sick he just backslapped out of it.
Finley Melville Ives put down the first legit run earning, 84.00 for his 3 dubs.
It took a couple of runs but then the big dogs stepped up and started stomping.
Alex Ferreira put it down with a tasty dub 14 to switch 10 combo.
Brendan McKay stomped 4 dubs including switch dub 12 to sw dub 10 up top to take the lead.
His down pipe dub 9 was sick too but he wasn’t entirely clean throughout.
Gustav Legnavsky put it down too and the 12 was fucking enormous.
Not bad for a 17-year-old.
Brendan sent a 16 of his own but couldn’t put it down.
Gustav threw down again, mixing it up a bit and cleaning up the run throughout.
Dub 12 wasn’t quite as enormous but alley-oop dub flat at the bottom was Torin-esque.
It lacked a bit on the tech front but it was a sick run nonetheless.
Only fourth place but another one to watch in the future.
Alex Ferreira tried to step it up with a right dub 14 but couldn’t quite put it down.
Nice direction from the judges there too.
Birk Irving saved his best for last.
The first hit on-axis switch 10 was a thing of beauty and he dropped an nbd (?)
down the pipe dub flat 7 for the lead.
Noah Bowman, our definitely biased favorite, put it down on the final run too.
Hunter Hess stepped it up but the lack of a switch hit seems to kill his scores.
Sick to see some new names up there though.
That left Birk, Brendan and Noah 1-2-3.
