Name: FIS World Cup Slopestyle | Tignes | Results & Recap
Uploaded: 2023-11-05T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 11 s
Channel: Newschoolers
Description: A beautiful day for a banger contest in Tignes, on what used to be the EuroX course, turn and all.

Cover: Bucholz/FIS

A beautiful day for slopestyle, saw a slightly slushy course absolutely crushed by the women and men of slopestyle skiing. Unlike Big Air, there is still one event to go in slopestyle but it was still one heck of a show, on what used to be the EuroX Games course. Tignes is always a fun one because it mixes the rails in with the jumps, the course doing an almost 90 degree turn in the middle and making for a different set of runs from normal. Perhaps learning from recent events, the judging was a lot more conservative score wise, but the cramping on of the scoring in the men's field (2 points seperating first and 6th) seems like there still wasn't much margin. And yes, we're going to keep on mentioning this in every article, but it's still crazy to have 8 women and 16 men in finals.

The events actually ran seperately in Tignes with the women getting the first shot at the course earlier this morning, while the men went just after lunch. Tess Ledeux saved the best until last on the women's side, with a storming final run to take the gold ahead of Mathilde Gremaud and Olivia Asselin. Sarah Hoefflin took home the chocolate medal once again, and it was hard to argue too much with the scoring here. Tess stomping a perfect dub 12 on the final hit and keeping everything clean was a pretty clear win. Mathilde answered with a solid run, her dub 10 was perfect but it was pretty clearly a W for Tess. Shoutout Olivia Asselin for the swag on the flat 5 too and Sarah for obliterating the finishing coral switch.

On the men's side, however, it's fair to say that things were tight. You could make a case for just about any of the top six taking the win. Mac Forehand had a beautiful dub cork 9 on his final hit and went absolutely massive on his first hit switch dub 14 but there was a small bobble off the final rail. Tormod definitely had the style, and the 'rodeo pretzel' off the final rail was nuts. Alex Hall was perhaps lucky last night, but arguably unlucky today. As always he took more risks through the rails than others. Konnor Ralph and Troy P were solid throughout but perhaps lacked that single piece of flair that the other runs had but Andri, who ended up sixth was also pretty harshly scores. He actually did step up his rails, opting for a combo of swaps and sendy tricks, and stomped a couple of heavy 16s with locked grabs. Honestly, it could have gone anywhere but perhaps this weekend overall, raises some definite questions about scoring once again. Let us know who you think should have taken the W...

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