Freeride World Tour

**meter-man** · 03-11-2022, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by weibo

It is not. Hank Bilious' younger brother Finn on the ski side. He was in slope and big air in the Olympics which should really impress the TGR crowd. On the Snowboard side it's a fairly local pro, I don't follow that side enough to comment (even here).

OMG Who Farted?! Did you just say "Olympics" and "slopestyle" in the FREERIDE World Tour thread?!? Get a rope.

otoh, he is a Bilous, so... I bet he wins the comp with Reine straightlines into a double cork thrown in for funz.

Psyched for a return to some FWT events! Cuz all we got here in the desert mountains of California is endless sun and a rapidly diminishing snowpack.

**powdork** · 03-12-2022, 02:11 AM

4* Final from Slovakia. No riders yet but looks like a strong venue

interesting in the snowboard results anna orlova is listed with no flag and no country

**gaijin** · 03-12-2022, 05:22 AM

The Jasna is on live now. Lots of talent on sight.

But my lord do the announcers suck. Stop talking about yourselves!!

And get off your goddamn phones.

Homie is front and center announcer of this event and there’s two minutes of silence while he’s texting.

I hope I never see those three announce again. Worst I’ve seen in 20 years.

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**gaijin** · 03-12-2022, 05:31 AM

“We are waiting for a score.”

So talk about the athletes. Mention that Hitzig just threw down at the Nendaz. Mention all of them.

/sorry for the rant. I would love to commentate these events. Talk about a dream job. And all three of these announcers obviously don’t give a shit.

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**gaijin** · 03-12-2022, 05:38 AM

One more time to the middle announcer— get off your fucking phone. Even your partner to your right is staring you down, begging for a conversation.

**baron** · 03-12-2022, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by gaijin

“We are waiting for a score.”

So talk about the athletes. Mention that Hitzig just threw down at the Nendaz. Mention all of them.

/sorry for the rant. I would love to commentate these events. Talk about a dream job. And all three of these announcers obviously don’t give a shit.

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WOW...they sound like 3 idiots at the bar , watching the comp and commentating

**gaijin** · 03-12-2022, 08:31 AM

They have got to be stoned. Dude in yellow spoke twice… about himself.

Sorry to be so livid. But I’ve always wanted this genre of live/online ski comps to gain traction.

These three can please never come back.

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**ill-advised strategy** · 03-12-2022, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by powdork

actually it's much less interesting with a deep base. the winning run from 2018

My favorite fwt skier ever I think. I really miss watching him and Tabke.

**TahoeJ** · 03-12-2022, 10:07 AM

Remember to put your Fun Bet predictions in. No excuses when I take this thing wire to wire.

**powdork** · 03-12-2022, 01:55 PM

Damn the crash at 4:41:00 was gnarly.

**Clownshoe** · 03-12-2022, 02:13 PM

I’m with Gajin on this one.

Venue looked fun, cameras and production was on point. Skiers were sending it.

The announcing was insanely bad. I’ll cut them a bit of slack for announcing in their second language, but that was hard to listen too. After about 3 skiers I muted the commentary and put some music on.

**baron** · 03-12-2022, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by powdork

Damn the crash at 4:41:00 was gnarly.

Knocked the Helmet off ! change of underpants required

**BassBone** · 03-13-2022, 03:14 AM

Got a kick out of someone rocking a piss at 3:51:09 behind Pavel Bozak waiting for his score.

**gaijin** · 03-13-2022, 06:32 AM

You see how that chain of events went?

We went from bitching about shitty announcers to other, cool, non-paid wanna-be rad announcers, to “I don’t care if they’re drunk.” to finding the moment of a guy peeing.

Jesus fucking Christ.

**skinipenem** · 03-13-2022, 10:21 AM

Life is good. (Sounds better than all in the world is right. )

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**baron** · 03-13-2022, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by gaijin

You see how that chain of events went?

We went from bitching about shitty announcers to other, cool, non-paid wanna-be rad announcers, to “I don’t care if they’re drunk.” to finding the moment of a guy peeing.

Jesus fucking Christ.

LMAO

After watching it all, the announcers were not bad- they just had zero experience doing play by play during the runs.

...One bad moment though, cheering a tomahawk before she came to a stop and waved the O K signal.

WHATEVER

...the SKIING was super fun to watch! Such a challenging face to run on, and riders totally charged for a try at a good score.

**BassBone** · 03-13-2022, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by gaijin

You see how that chain of events went?

We went from bitching about shitty announcers to other, cool, non-paid wanna-be rad announcers, to “I don’t care if they’re drunk.” to finding the moment of a guy peeing.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Couldn't help myself; it put a ribbon so nicely on the shit in a box commentary.

At least the skiing is incredible. I love watching the first attempt full send on a face they just sized up and scaled. Massive blind sends, variable snow, some skied out of ridiculous crashes... It's super entertaining, just obviously lacking in one area that's easy to shit on - they could arguably remove the commentary altogether if it's gonna be that bar banter quality, or at least build something into the wait-for-score minutes, like damn.

Can't shit on the skiing, have to shit on something I guess, no toilet in my sleeper sedan.

**roQer** · 03-13-2022, 11:37 AM

Max Hitzig got obviously a wildcard for Fieberbrunn. Dude is on fire, deserves it.

**Angle Parking** · 03-13-2022, 11:47 AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdD8eorWsw

Pollard makes some interesting observations about the 2 run format and how Fibberbrunn might not be the best venue for it.

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**Angle Parking** · 03-13-2022, 11:48 AM

Having said that,I am pumped for Monday’s comp. anyone know what up with Weazy?

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**powdork** · 03-14-2022, 12:46 AM

On the website it's listed as Ski Women, Ski men, Snowboard men, Snowboard Women but it doesn't say how the second runs will go. It can't just be reverse order since the snowboard women can't be at the bottom and the top at the same time.

edit-nvmnd. first thing they said was same category order but riders will be reordered within categories

edit edit, pumped about Craig Murray in the middle of the booth

**powdork** · 03-14-2022, 01:15 AM

jess hotter is so fucking impressive. that middle sction was throwing up zero spray

**powdork** · 03-14-2022, 01:37 AM

seems like there's gonna be lots of flat light holds. hope they can get it all in

**gaijin** · 03-14-2022, 03:07 AM

Don't mind me when I rant, boys. I'm all in jest/sarcasm/banter just screaming into the void.

Regardless, Hitzig is a beast. My lord that dude has dropped onto the radar in no time. What do we call a Rookie to being a Rookie? Rookie Squared?

Moga.... crickie. Homie runs uphill to get his ski after that rag doll. Another beast.