The speed was there but the looker’s right wall the pipe took out a bunch of guys.

On the flip side, there were some positive signs for the future.

The allez allezs and his celebration at the bottom were still pretty hard to watch too.

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The judges actually seemed to agree about the lack of innovation and gave him an 88.

A couple of small bobbles limited his score but I think he’s going places.

Noah Bowman started off with a floaty three stale and had two crazy switch dubs for 85.3.

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Another different take on things which was super cool to see.

Run 2:

Birk cleaned it up to go third with an enormous dub 12 at the bottom.

David Wise took a hard slam too, as did Gus.

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All three on of them on the same wall.

The intrigue of the new dub rotations from first run was wearing off in a whirlwind of crashes.

It wasn’t a crash score but neither was it a clean run.

Again, the rest of the runs were all crashes meaning another big win for Aaron Blunck.

Ayana Onozuka put down a clean run too, but again missed a couple of grabs for 80.

Marie Martinod put down her clean, largely grabbed run for a large lead of 87.0.

Epic tartan pants too.

She actually jumped ahead of Marie Martinod, who has been dominating pipe this season.

Run 3: Devin Logan cleaned up her grabs to bump Annalisa Drew out of third.

But she didn’t put the 10 down clean, so Ayana took her first big win.