X Games Street Style Pro came to Copper Mountain, right off the back of the halfpipe WC - can you guess who was the only athlete to be at both? Bringing an urban-style rail jam format to X Games. With spots at Aspen X-Games up for grabs and an amateur showdown last night to earn spots for the finals which went down this evening.
The fast flowing jam format brought out the best in all involved. The live ranking system left much to be desired - shown halfway through the event and then disappeared until the end... make it make sense. This was, however, totally outshined by the skiing and this was a really good event.
In the women's field the vast array of styles was an excellent exhibition of skiing, Taylor Lundquist, Bella Bacon and Olivia Asselin brought steeze by the boatload. Eileen Gu - answer to question 1 - showed us she is unstoppable in all aspects of skiing. Winners of Next-X from last night, Marion Balsamo, Rylie Warnick, Finley Good and Eleanor Andrews put it down, the future is in good hands. Marion and Eleanor both won spots into the main event Street Style Pro in Aspen. Eileen took the W. Who'd have guessed it.
The men's field was just ludicrous. Mikkel BK took 3rd and therefore won himself a spot in Aspen, A Hall 2nd and Colby 3rd - already invited. I was somewhat confused by the judging, but it seemed to even out somewhat that Siver and Evan both got their invites to the Aspen finals. Hit the replay up for the full play by play and get hyped for the next one. Coz this was a banger.
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[Edit - the YT link worked when I went to bed, Jesus, man's gotta sleep sometime yanno. Guess what, I have the full replays here coz I'm nice like that. Yeah, not my best recap but here might be the only place you can watch the full thing if ya missed it. You wanna recap the next event? DM me.]
Women's Replay
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1102613/Street-style-pro-womens-mov
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Men's Replay
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/1102614/street-style-pro-mens-mov
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