Video From The 10th Annual Extreme Freeskiing Telemark Championships at Crested Butte, March, 2006

Men

Day 1

There has been a lot of discussion about the scoring at the comps over the years, in the bar after the event and on our TelemarkTalk Forum. With this in mind, we decided to do something a little different in our latest video from Crested Butte. In this one, along side the competitor's name, we put their score for the run shown. We also tried to show more of each run than in the past, we included the entire run of most of the ten competitors featured in the video.

For purposes of comparison we have also included the Day 1 run of a competitor who did not make the cut (sorry Andy T.) and we led off with Joseph Sipe's really clean and fluid run as a sort of benchmark. Sipe was only the third men's division athlete to drop in when he put together a fluid run with a medium sized but very smooth air to score 33.2 points. Fifty more competitors followed Sipe, but by the end of the afternoon his sweet run was the eighth highest score of the day among the men.

Watch the video and see how you would have scored these runs. Does the judging make sense to you, or not? What, if anything, would you change in the way these comps are scored? Let's talk about it on the Forum. At left is a list of the competitors in the video, in order of appearance, along with their Day 1 scores.

 Joseph Sipe-- 33.2

 Andy Tock-- 26

Jonathan Gurry-- 31.6

 J.T. Robinson-- 31

Scott Barady-- 34.2

E.J. Poplawski-- 32.8

Mark Robbins-- 34.4

Nick Devore-- 30

Gabe Robbins-- 34.8

Dylan Crossman-- 36.6

..TeleVision rating: "G" , Running time: 09:57

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Women

Day 1

The women really charged this year at Crested Butte, despite the firm snow and bony conditions. Here are a few highlights from Friday's qualifying round, including Sarah Light's excellent and athletic run, Erin Young's spectacular slide for life, the "return of the Heathers" (Paul and Peterson) to big mountain competition, and more.

..TeleVision rating: "G" , Running time: 08:10

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