The judging criteria was explained to riders beforehand, but I wonder if they really get into the weighting of flow/line choice and how they evaluate those? Brendog's was by far my favourite line (sad we didn't get to see Jordie's though) and I would've scored him 10 points higher but I still think you gotta give the podium to the dudes doing tricks based on the scroing criteria.
That said, I would love if they either changed the criteria (tricks = worth way less) or did something with line building to reduce the BMX/dirtjump perfectly sculpted jumps that would be great. Having one well built kicker/drop to showcase a trick would be fine but when the entire run is just perfectly sculpted hits... meh.
Oct. 31, 2018, 2:14 p.m. - grambo
The judging criteria was explained to riders beforehand, but I wonder if they really get into the weighting of flow/line choice and how they evaluate those? Brendog's was by far my favourite line (sad we didn't get to see Jordie's though) and I would've scored him 10 points higher but I still think you gotta give the podium to the dudes doing tricks based on the scroing criteria. That said, I would love if they either changed the criteria (tricks = worth way less) or did something with line building to reduce the BMX/dirtjump perfectly sculpted jumps that would be great. Having one well built kicker/drop to showcase a trick would be fine but when the entire run is just perfectly sculpted hits... meh.