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Red Bull Rampage 2024 Finals Results
Men's Finals from Red Bull Rampage 2024 - Full replay
Finals Results
1st. Brandon Semenuk: 92.73
2nd. Szymon Godziek: 91.66
3rd. Tyler McCaul: 90.66
4th. Tom Van Steenbergen: 89.33
5th. Kurt Sorge: 87.16
6th. Thomas Genon: 85.83
7th. Carson Storch: 85
8th. Adolf Silva: 83.50
9th. Ethan Nell: 82.33
10th. Kyle Strait: 78.66
11th. Brendan Fairclough: 76
12th. Reed Boggs: 74.66
13th. Talus Turk: 72
14th. Luke Whitlock: 70.66
15th. Tom Isted: 50.53
Bienvenido Aguado Alba: No Score
GoPro Moment: Kyle Strait
Best Trick: Tom Van Steenbergen's front flip drop
Digger Award: Brandon Semenuk's team of Evan Young and Justin Wyper
People's Choice: Brendan Fairclough
Toughness Award: Bienvenido Aguado Alba
Trailblazer Award: Brendan Fairclough
McGazza Spirit Award: Ethan Nell
I very much empathize with the rigour of judging an event of this caliber, alongside the difficulty of tabulating scores when riders are bringing a host of different trick skillsets to the table and are riding different lines, each with their own unique set of challenges. However, you have to question the extent to which the free ride aspect of Rampage has been undermined, in favour of a scoring sheet that favours slopestyle lines and tricks.
Fairclough's run will go down as one of the gnarliest Rampage runs in history, in my view.
Height - 6'/183cm (mostly legs)
Weight - 155lbs/70kg
Inseam - 34"/86cm
Ape Index - The Original Slinky™
Age - 23
Bar Width - 780mm
Preferred Reach - 485-500mm
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ReformedRoadie
6 months, 1 week ago
All that needs to be said is Brendog got robbed...
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Lynx .
6 months, 1 week ago
I think that Rampage needs to go back to it's roots, to less big, built features and more rough, raw, rugged, natural terrain like in the vid, that's Freeride to me. Also, judging needs to be broken down for the various aspects of how they judge, so amplitude, technicality, line choice etc., and judges should just put down their scores, no deliberating amongst themselves unless there's a serious question once things are done, drop the low and high score, avg the rest, show everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wserXOVOE20
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Timer
6 months, 1 week ago
Agree about the Freeride aspect. Might require a new venue, though.
Not sure if the overall-score is even necessary. The level of riding is so high anyway that the ranking might do more harm than good. They could just drop it and instead give out more awards for biggest jump, hardest trick, most difficult line, fastest run, etc.
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Bern
6 months, 1 week ago
Not sure I could really create a ranking of runs that is more fair to ALL riders. I think most of the riders deserve to finish on the podium! All the runs are literally insane... but, that said I'd absolutely love to see a rampage that rewards Brendog's riding. That run was out of this world to me -- truly an amazing freeride accomplishment.
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Lynx .
6 months, 1 week ago
You know what I was most happy for this year, that most riders managed a complete first run down, only poor Cam ate absolute crap, seemed much safer than previous years.
As to judging, I think there should be the panel of judges, but then also have the athletes also judge, then compare. Don't think they'd do that because then there wouldn't be the suspense of knowing exactly who is winning etc. Also, yeah prize money should definitely be more evenly split, because you're splitting hairs amoungst the top 10 runs in terms of how much gnarlier each is from the other.
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