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Semi-Official Olympic Snowboard Slope Thread

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cheaaaaaa
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Lets talk about some snowboarding
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-WZ-
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well torstein isnt going so that sucks but atleast we wont see that red headed fuck in slope


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cheaaaaaa
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Apparently there is 2 heats- top 4 from each make it to the final. then, of the those that didn't make the cut, there is a semifinal to decide the remaining 4 of 12 that make it to the final.

Kind of a funky format. Is skiing the same?
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ski_ENDUB
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anyone know where to find a start list?
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d-rok
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dont think so, if you look at the schedule skiing only has qualifying then finals, no "semi-finals". It' also sort of wack that the qualifiers and finals are on the same day.
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pow_pow~
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this is a snowboarding thread, not skiing. snowboarding has semis.

on the other hand i had to go to some serious trouble to get a stream here in aus (dont get me started im so annoyed). is anyone else on CBC and can barely hear the commentators?
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d-rok
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what?????
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eheath
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FUCK the next event isn't until 1am MST
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freestyle_kyle
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yeah im watching it on CBC now and i can barely hear the commentators
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nutz.
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Mine was fine
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pow_pow~
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why was everyone realllyyy average on the rails?
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pow_pow~
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wait was that it for the mens? and next is womans in 2 and a half hours?


howcome only 14 people competed?
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eheath
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That was only heat one mens, mens heat two is in 25 minutes
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pow_pow~
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Gotcha, thanks! Why the name change?
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David6
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Anyone else see Henrik in the crowd cheering his fellow Swede's on?
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Turkelton
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I am so stoked Jamie Nicholls got through, such a boss
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shr@gler
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McMorris was ROBBED!
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THUGwife
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I missed all of this.

To anyone that watched:

How was the judging?
Why does everyone that didnn't qualify go into a semi final? Do those that got to the semis then have a chance to go through to the final again?
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yaqwsxcde123vfr
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are the runs online?
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luc
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they realized that with only quali and finals the riders who didn't qualify would be already out before the olympics started. so they changed format, so every rider that did NOT make top4 in his heat today gets another chance in semifinal...the top 4 from there advance to the final aswell, so we have a 12 man final.
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DBL
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Yup, his interview on CBC was pretty funny, trying to hold back but not really beeing able to.
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LeChat
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Every rider will go so semi finals, but the 1st 4 in each heat are directly qualified for the finals, so Mc Morris will probably save his ass...

Here are the results :
 http://content.fluofun.com/p/news/19090/35244.png
http://content.fluofun.com/p/news/19090/35245.png






What Antti Ollila thinks about Shaun White :
http://skipass.fr/p/news/101693/169516.jpg





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EMH
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I love how one boarder girl lost control and landed straight to da FACE and was almost emotionless a minute or so after that and nobody gave a fuck, not a single medic showed up. Well done Sochi.
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d-rok
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mcmorris was robbed
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Joerga
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Definitely
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J-Wile
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Is there a video of Mark's run? Or are we not going to be able to watch any runs because the Olympics are so uptight about copyright or whatever
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theBearJew
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What time does coverage come back?
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cheaaaaaa
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in the US at least, they do not release replay videos until a particular event has aired during primetime
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Rusticles
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does this mean he is out??
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J.D.
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He's not out. There's a third heat made up of everyone who placed 5th or worse in the first two heats. If he gets top 4 in that heat, he's in finals.

The run is here. http://olympics.cbc.ca/videos/video/seoname=mark-mcmorris-2nd-slopestyle-qualifying-run.html

Not sure if you can watch it in the US though.
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J.D.
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Oh, and I didn't watch it so I can't speak to the judging, but just from that, his rails were pretty mediocre. If in fact the judges consistently took that portion of the course into account and docked people who mailed in the rails, I'm not at all opposed to that; in fact I'd much prefer it. You should never be able to win a slope contest just by murdering the jump section.
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Rusticles
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fuck, I'm in Canada, but my employer is out of the states so I cant watch it until I get home.
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BobYohan
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watching the coverage of the qualis here in Canada, it really shows how badly the media needs a pre-determined narrative to stick to. they've already decided that McMorris is the Canadian to watch, so most of the headlines are about him losing rather than Parrot and Toutant winning.
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ButteredToast.
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Eh? Skiing doesn't have semis? That seems really funky
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Drail
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Gonna try to stay up tonight and watch this shit live. I hope the wait between semis and finals isn't too long. Maybe go for a beer at the bar between - it is a Friday night after all. Sage and mark better not get fucked again. *shakes fist*
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*steeze_is_good
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What the fuck is the semi official in front of this thread for
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Sun_Ra
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11:30 EST semis
2:45 EST for finals

Dunno yet if I'll watch it tonite or just wait til tomorrow morning and watch the replay without reading any news online the results are not spoiled.


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eheath
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One thing that's nice about the live stream is they actually show every run
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Sun_Ra
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Actually + 1 hour
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eheath
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Ah shit I got stoked it was on at 930mst, 1030 makes more sense
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ski0
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This snowboard slope contest is craaazy ! The pressure is on. Especially for McMorris,

2 runs
21 riders
4 spots for finals
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ski0
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Sorry for dub post but ...

Its pretty fucking cool to see slopestyle broadcast live on cbc tv .

and

the course looks on point
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Schmaelzle
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RIP charles reid tailbone
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corona
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how the hell does one get an 89 with a really obvious backseat hand drag on a landing??

also McMorris would have had a killer first run if he didn't wash out on the last jump
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Schmaelzle
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He had to have gone north of 120' on that triple. Holy shit.
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ldc_
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Want to see Mark do well so bad after the judging from qualifications but he seems so rattled. Hope he can channel it into perfection.
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MilaKunis
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The announcing is quite possibly the worst I've ever heard. Holy shit.
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eheath
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thanks for point that out for the 33839391265 time bud


its a live stream, get over it guys
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MilaKunis
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As I read through this thread it appears to be the first time mentioned unless I missed something. Yeah it's a live stream but he could at least talk during the run.
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Schmaelzle
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Every single time the snowboard slope stuff is mentioned on NS somebody says something about the announcer on the NBC stream. Yeah, he's terrible. Who fucking cares. Mute it if it bothers you.
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eheath
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It's more so a general thing, not exclusive to this thread. I think there has been more discussion about how terrible the announcers have been than anything else.
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All times are Eastern (-4); Currently it's 0:13AM