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lostheels
Posts: 371 - Karma: 746
Where the hell are the edit?? Cant find the shit.
Who gets your vote!!
Mar 5 2013 1:19PM
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MANDER
Posts: 4017 - Karma: 2,038
Really upset how true this is.
Mar 7 2013 11:12PM
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DizzyG
Posts: 698 - Karma: 296
Really hope wiley wins, that edit was amazing.
Also Pep Fujas' first line was fucking insane with that switch cliff drop at the end.
Mar 7 2013 11:26PM
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Mr.Huck
Posts: 6096 - Karma: 14,896
Pretty amazing how close the scores are. Edit de Pettit is going to be tough to beat.

Loved Pep's zero off the cliff. That shit was steep. If that had been me, my nuts would have been so far up into my throat, I'd have to treat my tonsils for jock itch.
Mar 7 2013 11:28PM
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NinetyFour
Posts: 8650 - Karma: 13,409
I just realized that all the shit we're voting for is only for the fan favorite... The whole contest is judged and the medal standings will be decided by judges only.
Mar 7 2013 11:32PM
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MothaHucker
Posts: 4678 - Karma: 2,591
good, I am very glad to hear this.
Mar 8 2013 1:49AM
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zahava
Posts: 7791 - Karma: 12,039
Wow. How the hell did we all miss that memo???
Mar 8 2013 2:26AM
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Jewschoolers
Posts: 1785 - Karma: 1,142
yeah but whoever wins this gets a large sum of money
Mar 8 2013 3:28AM
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Bread.
Posts: 769 - Karma: 540
guys VOTE WILEY!!!!
Mar 8 2013 3:44AM
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whodunit
Posts: 40 - Karma: 27
Gals VOTE WILEY!!!

(And watch all the videos. They all deserve to be seen by anyone who loves skiing and even those people who just sort of like it. Don't vote for any just on reputation or name recognition --watch the videos and decide.)
Mar 8 2013 4:12AM
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NPF
Posts: 5152 - Karma: 12,116
hahahahaha this.
Mar 8 2013 1:22PM
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NinetyFour
Posts: 8650 - Karma: 13,409
Aha I know. So crazy. Right off the X-Games site:

"Eight of the world's best backcountry freestyle skiers have submitted 90-second video parts for a shot at X Games gold. Medals will be awarded by a panel of X Games judges, but the Fan Favorite will be decided by YOU! Cast your vote today."

I feel like the judges will place T-Hall with a gold, Sammy with a silver, and Wiley with a bronze. Something totally weird like that...
Mar 8 2013 1:40PM
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Twig
Posts: 6407 - Karma: 60,032
most people probably didnt, it's been the same for all the real snow/street/whatever video events... fan favourite gets a certain amount of money, judges pick the winner
Mar 8 2013 1:50PM
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pghjibber
Posts: 1298 - Karma: 329
doubtful

i foresee

1. pettit
2. sammy
3. tanner or parker
Mar 8 2013 2:18PM
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neverbummer
Posts: 196 - Karma: 107
i think my favorite part is the Shaun White gum commercial you have to watch before every edit. its soo good!
Mar 8 2013 3:38PM
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ski_ENDUB
Posts: 2535 - Karma: 86
anybody picking a sammy vs pettit final should take a look at the bracket layout
Mar 8 2013 4:43PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,010
pretty sure everyone here watched the videos. Who would vote without watching the videos AND come on to NS to talk about it after? That's crazy talk.
Mar 8 2013 5:21PM
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Derelicte
Posts: 300 - Karma: 298
Sammy and Sean killed it, two best for sure. I voted Tanner over Wiley cause he had those crazy pillows. Wiley's was sick, but he only hit jumps.
Mar 9 2013 5:17AM
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jblaski
Posts: 5566 - Karma: 1,078
It's a new day people. Everyone go vote for Wiley again. Remember, you can vote on your phone too.
Mar 9 2013 11:25AM
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Saga.
Posts: 3812 - Karma: 45,331
love the support!
Mar 9 2013 11:29AM
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DeRizzo
Posts: 3827 - Karma: 3,485
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Mar 9 2013 11:37AM
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montanan
Posts: 1787 - Karma: 1,346
T def gets my vote over Wiley, i just really enjoyed both, but the skiing and pillows in tanners really is what made me throw him my vote. even tho in all honesty Wiley had better tricks, smoother landings etc, but like i said it was the actual ripping of very steep pillow lines that got my vote for T. def one of the harder match-ups in my opinion. good luck to all them tho! enjoyed every seggy for sures.
Mar 9 2013 11:53AM
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___ASP___
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Where was Tim Durtschi????????

You could have taken his whole part from EDIAS and he probably would have been top 3
Mar 9 2013 12:52PM
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NinetyFour
Posts: 8650 - Karma: 13,409
But Wiley still had a completely gnar pillow line to hand drag...?
Mar 9 2013 7:21PM
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GANDALF
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nailed it.
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Mar 10 2013 3:33AM
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skibum_mark
Posts: 515 - Karma: 567
real backcountry shouldnt have made made feature in it.. sure the landing is natural but the jump has the same amount of man made time into it as a park jump with a cat driver...

i'd like to see more tricks of natural wind drifts, cliff drops, and more REAL MOUNTAIN features. None of this hand shape perfectly manicured jumps and run ins.


Mar 10 2013 11:48AM
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skierman
Posts: 8334 - Karma: 7,761
Well I guess it's a good thing that there are many skiers out there pushing different aspects of the sport and that an X-Games video contest doesn't properly represent the current state of what everyone with a pair of skis is doing.

That logic you used is overused and a straight up stupid way to state an opinion that no one cares about. It's an X-Games video contest, not a "who can hit the coolest natural features" contest. You don't like what you see? Well then, fuck off.
Mar 10 2013 12:53PM
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jblaski
Posts: 5566 - Karma: 1,078
New day, vote for Wiley.
Mar 10 2013 5:48PM
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DeRizzo
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Vote for Wiley please!!!!!!
Mar 10 2013 9:03PM
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MaryO
Posts: 2583 - Karma: 5,996
Voted Wiley Sammy Dane and Chris!!!
Mar 11 2013 12:48AM
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t_rob
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Mar 11 2013 1:08AM
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MothaHucker
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If wiley fucking loses...
Mar 11 2013 1:40AM
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ShredMasterPlus
Posts: 1159 - Karma: 807
I'm routing for Tanner on this one. Dem Pillows. Wileys tricks and jumps were a lot better though so Its definitely tight.
Mar 11 2013 1:06PM
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doyle.
Posts: 1624 - Karma: 596
it's been like that from the beginning
Mar 11 2013 1:36PM
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Mr.Huck
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Same with Pep and Chris:

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Mar 11 2013 1:54PM
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DeRizzo
Posts: 3827 - Karma: 3,485
Vote for WILEY MILLER!!!
Mar 11 2013 9:59PM
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NBCskier
Posts: 3877 - Karma: -289
Wish sage could have made an edit that dude has some jibby bc shit.
Mar 11 2013 11:40PM
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thebusiness19
Posts: 799 - Karma: 6,702
I wish the fans could have voted for who they wanted to see in the contest
Mar 12 2013 12:22AM
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JAHrig
Posts: 738 - Karma: 2,649
This, Both segments were sick, but Wiley didn't make any pow turns in his edit. I respect Tanners for being so much more well rounded. Also I respect the fact that Tanner is not spamming the interwebs with these little "Vote for Wiley" facebook things with Saga offering to give away free shit to people who vote. Tanner has just been posting links straight up saying to vote for whoever you like best. Not that I don't think it is good for Saga to support their rider, I just think it should be based on the riding, instead it seems that Tanner took an early lead in the voting and then Wiley's fans/sponsors starting panicing and posting the #Vote4Wiley shit everywhere you look. I have not seen any of the other riders doing this other then him either.
Mar 12 2013 1:30AM
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aob
Posts: 134 - Karma: 81
Your wish will come true. Look out for Sages' edit in the TGR Colab contest later this year.
Mar 12 2013 1:36AM
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Rosstafarian
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Mar 12 2013 1:47AM
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Evangelista
Posts: 481 - Karma: 1,583
This! By looking at the bracket it seem impossible for Sammy and Pettit to go 1&2 or vise-versa.
Mar 12 2013 2:26AM
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Kreech
Posts: 4178 - Karma: 3,024
Voted for Sammy, Sean, Chris, and Tanner, although all of them were sick.
Mar 12 2013 2:39AM
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snomaster
Posts: 3344 - Karma: 5,748
It will be interesting to see how many people actually voted
Mar 12 2013 3:10AM
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mklammer
Posts: 388 - Karma: 610
Yeah wiley!
Mar 12 2013 1:25PM
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Tanner-D
Posts: 2061 - Karma: 4,116
If you vote Sammy over Petit in this next one you have gone full retard. You never go full retard
Mar 12 2013 1:30PM
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Feign
Posts: 28 - Karma: 53
Sick, we got a Sammy Sean bracket and a Chris Wiley bracket. Just like I voted. Now the hard part...

I'm probably voting for Sammy and Wiley.
Mar 12 2013 1:45PM
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K-Thomas
Posts: 2700 - Karma: 604
seriously this. as sick as sammy's edit was, it was mostly the same stuff we see in park edits every day... just with pow landings. Even the few shots of pillow skiing were him basically jumping over everything. Granted all that shit is terribly difficult, but Sean's had way more natural airs, cliffs, mixed in with some jump bangers. Plus that nose butter 5... off a cliff... in a line... come on now.
Mar 12 2013 1:51PM
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will_powder
Posts: 3194 - Karma: 5,445
Go Petit. Let's do this.
Mar 12 2013 2:19PM
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KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
stoked wiley made it to round two!
Mar 12 2013 2:35PM
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hollygrove
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Finals should have been Sean vs Pep.
Mar 12 2013 2:39PM
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