Freeskeir skier award 8 best :)

The choice between Dane and Tom was my hardest. I mean clearly I chose Tom as he's my favorite and I felt he deserved it, but I felt really bad elliminating Dane because I really like his style as well, plus his BC skiing is so impressive. I think part of the reason there is such a wide margin is that Dane hasn't competed much. Let face it, Tom has a long list of impressive competition wins, not the least of which is Euro.Xgame Gold

dane got 3rd at the US Extremes...

hahaha

I had to flip a coin on sammy vs sean

Get dumont out of there

I hope Candide wins the whole thing.

The guy just came back from a very serious back injury and wins Linecatcher, the WFT and drops the two most amazing edits I've ever seen: Candide Kameras...

It would be a disgrace to the sports if anyone else wins it.. Except maybe for Bobby.

I think that's a bit too much

I dont know, candide was the skier who inspired me to start freesking, so for me, he deserves to win.

I've gone for
Pettit: His seg in The Way I See It blew my mind.
Sage: This was so hard but sage is killing it atm.
Wells: Never seen a smoother skier.
Brown: Dunno, feel like he's had more of an impression on me than dumont recently.
But i could have easily justified voting the other way on pretty much every person...i'm doubting my self already.

I actually expected Wallisch to win.  I don't agree with the sentiment., I don't think he should even be on the list, but this is a reader poll, so it is what the readers want. 

For me, the guys who had the best years last season were Candide, Sage, Petit, and Henrik Windstedt. 

I did not think I was going to disagree with the voting this much.  I also don't like the format.  It should be Sage vs. Candide for the title, not the round of 8.

For the record, I can't believe Candide vs. Ahmet was even close.  Candide is insane, he had one of the greatest competitive seasons any skier has ever had this season.  Winning the linecatcher, and the FWT, wow. 

I can't believe Seth lost by that much.  I can see him losing, given the voting base, but not by that much of a landslide. 

Freeskier's readers voted Wallisch skier of the year last year.  I know this won't be a popular thing to say, but I don't think most of them have ever skied something steep. 

I would really like to see some inferential analysis on the voting base.  Who people from different regions of the country are voting for.  Who people from different resorts are voting for.  What type of terrain people who vote for the given skiers tend to ski.  It would also be interesting to see how different age groups are voting.  Somehow I don't think Tom Wallisch is garnering his votes from people who ski at Squaw or Jackson, and probably not from folks who ski at Mad River or Stowe for that matter.  I could be wrong though.



I have heard plenty of sentiment while lapping the park that "I wish the snow were better."  I have never heard anyone say "I want to go ski the park" while hitting steeps, or nice pow lines.  Food for thought. 

I guess I should not be such an asshole.  If an east coast kid who does nothing but slide rails wants to rate Tom Wallisch and Ahmet as better than Candide and Sage, they have the right to do so.

What is sort of too bad, for me, is that the three best skiers are all in the top bracket.  In fact, the four best skiers are all in the top bracket.

petit, candide, wallisch, dumont. I don't like the direction that brown is taking freeskiing and dumont is a pioneer even though he is a douche

I definitely see where you are coming from, but there is no room to complain. It isn't 'this guy is the best skier in the world.' It's who people voted as having the best season, and it doesn't matter who was picked, there will always be someone that also deserved it just as much.

And, you sound just as bad as the park rats that would vote Wallisch over anyone. Its hard to say that Tim D, Bobby, or Sammy along with the people you picked couldn't have had arguably the best season.

sage petit
tom brown

If you are not hunting down footage, you are not making an informed decision.  Sean Petit has absolutely slaughtered it in the last three MSP movies.  Having said that, you don't seem to be interested n big mountain skiing, so that won't matter to you.

As for competition results, Petit came in second in the Red Bull Lincatcher, and I believe won the Red Bull Coldrush.  Those contests are insane.

If this competition were legit, they would require skiers to be at least good at skiing the mountain.  The fact that skiers like Mark Abma and Hoji and Windstedt are not listed, while Wallisch, Cabason, and Ahmet are is kind of a joke.

pretty annoyed casabon aint in

my bet is sammy vs bobby in the finals. triple flips ftw!

ahmet's segment was actually pretty sweet, be it the backcountry was all booters. as for abma his segment this year wasnt as jaw dropping as last season's movie, same goes with hoji (tho he was never as accomplished in the park as the others). as for henrick, his competition results were better before candide decided to come out of no where to dominate tho he is a dominator when it comes to piss your pants AK lines. doesnt really matter to me as long as candide wins, he has been dominate in ever facet of competition freeskiing (big mountain, big air, slope and pipe) now and always has put together segments that include style and wow factor.

sean, sage, tom, bobby. some tough choices though

But once again, you are only looking at big mountain stuff, you don't seem to acknowledge that park skiing makes people good skiers too. TGR would be much better suited for you.

in my opinion sammy is the skier of the year!