No more Snocross/Speed and Style at the Winter X Games !

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Good thing because this sport was taking way too much airtime and the ratings in the past few years must have been shit.
Let's say you're watching slopestyle and a few rounds of skicross came on the air, you're likely to stay on ESPN
Watching slopestyle and the Snocross quarter finals, you were likely to go do something else.
And also, the facilities needed for that sport were huge.

Oct 1 2011 2:43PM

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arandomname

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Cool hypothetical situtation bro.

Oct 1 2011 2:51PM

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Brenone

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I acdtually enjoyed the ski/snow cross races.

Oct 1 2011 2:54PM

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Ridiculous

Intredasting.

Oct 1 2011 2:54PM

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Those are stupid events, I agree.

I think whats really needed is a slopestyle event on the skicross course.
After skicross is done just reshape some of the features a bit, throw in some boxes/rails, hold a ridiculous, not-serious slopestyle on the last day of X.

Oct 1 2011 2:58PM

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paige.

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or merge the two events. so it's basically a slopestyle race where you have to hit a certain number of features through the length of the course and get time bonuses for the tricks you throw.

logistically near-impossible but it would be awesome to watch.

Oct 1 2011 3:55PM

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Inline.

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Have a slopestyle for sleds. The boxes would be big and stuff and ya...I don't know where I'm going with this.

Oct 1 2011 4:03PM

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Sklar

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snocross as in snowmobiles? or as in skicross?

Oct 1 2011 4:03PM

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bermbuster49

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fuck that snowcross is the shit, your gay as hell if you think dudes boosting 110 ft gaps on 400 lb snowmobilles is boring. people getting landed on and all kind of shit happens. but i will agree, speed and style is gay. those are two things that dont mix well. theres a reason why freestyle guys are freestyle and the racers are just racers

Oct 1 2011 4:03PM

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Yung_Steezer

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thatd be pretty fun to watch though hahaha

Oct 1 2011 4:11PM

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theabortionator

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THANK JEBUS!

Fuck that shit

They cut out parts of other shit.

Then sweet one 10 lap 1/4 final race, 2 10 lap quarter final race, a 3rd quarter final race.

Then semi final race

then you're like sweet it's gonna be the finals and done

NOPE

2 last chance qualifiers.

then the 50 lap final with replays

12 hours later you get to see something else

Now summer xgames has turned into a joke. Fucking every kind of dirtbike race, best whip, high jump, some other dirt bike race, another dirt bike race

A couple years they barely showed any bmx dirt. At least it got popular somehow and they show it now. That shit was retarded the years they didn't show it. At the time I rode trails almost literally 24/7. from 7 am till whenever everyday, sometimes worked on them late, had night sesh's with fire in the gaps and spent the nights there. Then xgames rolls around and they don;t even show it.

And the fucking announcers, holy fucking god damn shit balls

Foward to fakie 7 that's 2 rotations, fakie to fakie 900 that's 2 and a half rotations, fakie to foward 1080 that's 3 rotations. Obviously if you take off switch or reg your going to land a certain fucking way on a certain spin.

and all this shit, that's the spine ramp as we call it, he hit the 1/4 pipe as we call it, he did a toothpick grind as we call it.

Too bad b3 and other events didn't survive

FUCK SHIT COCK

COOL RANT BRO

SWEET MELT

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Oct 1 2011 4:12PM

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I want to see a slopestyle event with like 4 people going at the same time.

Oct 1 2011 4:46PM

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Smuffy

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i wanna see cage fighting with style judging

Oct 1 2011 5:34PM

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malonius_funk

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*golf clap*

Oct 1 2011 5:40PM

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deleted5

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good i hated that crap

Oct 1 2011 5:52PM

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belden...

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yay!

Oct 1 2011 6:06PM

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Doug.

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That would be UNREAL to watch

Oct 1 2011 6:13PM

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Oct 1 2011 6:36PM

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Aenigma

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I can only watch so many heel clicks and can-cans from rednecks before I lose interest. This usually happens after about one jump.

Oct 1 2011 7:36PM

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Jakx~

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I say snowmobilings gotta go!!!!! Can't quite tell whether your talking about ski cross or snowmobiles but here are my thoughts.

Like the ranter up there said its like twelve hours long! And nobody cares about watching it. Its like watching climbing, and most surfing, its really only enjoyable if your super into the sport. And majority of people watching the x games aren't rich enough to own a snowmobile.

And yeah it may be hard what they do but watching tv you want fast paced, technical movement that is clear enough to grasp. Snowmobile racing might be fast paced but it is way to blurry (in a sense) to really be able to focus on anything, especially for like thirty or fourty minutes. And the freestyle is way to slow of movement to enjoy, and not enough variations to be interested.

Oct 1 2011 8:03PM

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theabortionator

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I think skier/boarder x should stay.

Oct 2 2011 12:01AM

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come_at_me_bro

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So obviously what they need is a box racing course with some snowmobiles along the course, that why the skiers can box a few jumps while they speed/style their waydown

Oct 2 2011 12:04AM

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theabortionator

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Soon they'll be giving out gold medals for best looking dirt bike, and that contest will take 5 hours.

See who can run and jump over the most snowmobiles for a gold.

Oct 2 2011 12:16AM

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Jakx~

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Yes that should stay.

Oct 2 2011 10:15PM

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cool_name

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leave snowmobliing in just make them race down the skicross course it would be crazy watching them try to all fit down that course at the same time huge crashes for sure.......id watch that

Oct 3 2011 1:41AM

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skiP.E.I.

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I would go so far a to say there are more people who would watch snocross/motox than slopestyle skiing/bmx.

Oct 3 2011 8:45AM

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theabortionator

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Doesn't make it worth keeping. And the way the coverage rocks is fucking retarded.

I'd rather watch womens slopestyle then see every fucking lap of every fucking round of that snocross shit.

They should get rid of stupid shit like speed and style, how many times can you clap in the air, coolest snowmobile, best hairstyle, and actually do something cool

How about a fucking rail jam. Who cares if that wouldn't give them as high of ratings, there isn't going to be any shortage of funds. This is why xgames has been shit for a long time. It's all about the money and the noob fans at home. Best whip, best method, for a gold medal? Lol WUT

Yes whips are cool, yes old school methods are cool, but watching a contest of it isn't?

They got rid of fruitbooting but they spend time doing fucking dirtbike racing, enduro, more dirtbike racing, best whip, high jump. Lo wut

FUCK THE POLICE

Oct 3 2011 8:31PM

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