I´ve seen a lot of people posting about how Cosco and McTimmy and other people were ripped by the judges for not going to the finals with their dubs, while people qualled with sevens. Well, here´s what Stevje Sandlie (coach in Heming Adrenalin, the biggest norwegian freeski team and the
club of Fridtjof Fredricsson, Alexander Aurdal, Ole Mustad, Elvis
Harseim, Christopher Frankum, Yens Gunhildrud and other major Norwegian
talents, as well as one of the coaches of the newly established National Team) posted on his Facebook:
Changes made by the organizers of the event before the qualifications
turned out to be crucial for the riders in this years King of Style. A
sudden change of the competition format and the criterias the riders
were judged by, was not communicated to the riders and had a major
impact on the result lists. The riders stuck to the original premises
and mean that it's obvious they were judged by the wrong criterias. The
original plan for the qualifications was that technical difficulty,
performance and style should be equally counting factors in two out of
three jumps, and all the riders planed their runs according to this
format. However, due to the fact that lack of training was effecting
the situation in a big way, the format was changed after the
qualifications had begun, to one single counting jump, were style was
the only counting criteria.
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