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yea i dunno, it kinda seemed like the judges didnt care about rails, at all... sean logan did both way pretzels and stomped them in his finals run and got the same scores as regular switchups...

thats fucked if his pretzels got the same score as switch ups...but for sure the judging was based more on jumping then rails...only 3/7 of the course was rails/boxes

3. some hugo kid

2006 Results:

Jr. Quarter Pipe-- 1st place: Byron Wells... 2nd Place: Duncan Adams... 3rd Place: Pat Baskins... Best Trick: Alex Schlopy

Women's Quarter Pipe-- 1st Place: Angeli Van Laanen... 2nd Place: Jess Cumming... 3rd Place: Claudia Bouvier... Best Trick: Angeli Van Laanen

Men's Quarter Pipe-- 1st place: John Symms... 2nd Place: Matt Phillipi... 3rd Place: JP Solberg... Best Trick: John Symms

Jr. Slopestyle-- 1st place: Alex Schlopy... 2nd Place: Duncan Adams... 3rd Place: Hugo Pelletier

Women's Slopestyle-- 1st Place: Kaya Turski... 2nd Place: Claudia Bouvier... 3rd Place: Elizabeth Maney

Men's Slopestyle-- 1st Place: Sean Decker... 2nd Place: Ian Cosco... 3rd Place: Stefan Thomas

Jr. Halfpipe-- 1st place: Byron Wells... 2nd Place: Pat Baskins... 3rd Place: Parker White... Best Trick: Byron Wells

Women's Halfpipe-- 1st Place: Angeli VanLaanen... 2nd Place: Jess Cumming... 3rd Place: Jen Hudak... Best Trick: Angeli VanLaanen

Men's Halfpipe-- 1st Place: Stefan Thomas... 2nd Place: Scott Hibbert... 3rd Place: Erik Olsen... Best Trick: Erik Olsen

logans run was so sick, i don't think he should have won but i personally think he should have been on the podium for sure. the two pretzels opposite ways, pretty much the cleanest styliest 5's accross the width of the tables and cab 7's were so slow

which way decker spin? right or left cuz it was so clean in both ways

decker spins right naturally

I judged the rails in slopestyle. Keep in mind that I saw a total of about, I dunno, 500-600 hundred slopestyle runs over the course of the comp. Both of us on the rail tower absolutely loved Logans pretzels, and without the scoresheet in front of me I can tell you that he was certainly compensated for them. I can also tell you that I clearly remember some of his practice runs as some of the best through the rail section, definitely his own best runs. However, I don't think he quite got them as he wanted in his finals. Barely no one was spinning onto the second rail and it was explicitly discussed by the judges that he would be rewarded for doing so, not to mention a pretzel out.

I can't speak for the rest of the judges, because from where we sat it was impossible to see the rest of the run. So with that said, I can chip in only with my overall opinion on the results.

Decker and Cosco slayed the course all week long and deserved to be up top. But to illustrate the importance of style and impression, please look to Stef Thomas as he did nothign more than 5's and stuck with the nastest tail press I've ever seen on one of his rails. Let it be a lesson to the entire world of Slopestyle/Halfpipe/QP/Rail comps that STYLE is a massive contributor to solid results.

And for the record, it's a bloody shame that Phillipi hurt his ankle, because if I recall correctly he had the highest score out of anyones rail sections all week long. Too bad it wasn't in finals.

BROKE!

Garrett, don't be so defensive about your judging. Unless, of course, you don't think you did a good job.

well its good to know that one comp is actually judged on a certain degree of style.

jr. quarter pipe 3rd place pj bueregard mmy friend. not pat baskins... i never even heard his name

they messed up the judging, the kid from vail got 3rd with the antifreeze pants not the kid who was 3rd on the podiumm, the bib numbers were mixed up, the kid got a free pair of next years foils because of this mixup

what did ollsen do for best trick

switch 10 in the pipe

...and it was BOOSTED!

theres some pics up under jumps and some under rails

or under my pictures

oh yeah, Hugo got third, Byron got 4th, my bad.