Welcome to The Feed, a day by day update page on the 2019 X Games Aspen. Here you will find daily event times, where to watch, replays, highlights and results.
Thursday, January 24
To kick off the winter edition of the X Games in 2019, the Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding event will begin at 1pm EST. There is also Men’s Snowboard Big Air elimination rounds, a few ski events, and the night show will consist of the Women’s Snowboard Big Air Final LIVE on ESPN. Refer to the graphic below for LIVE times and where to watch. Stay Tuned for the stoke to begin!
Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding
A unique opportunity for the Special Olympic community and the professional snowboarding athletes to partner up and compete in a slalom -style snowboarding race. One Special Olympian and one X Games athlete team up against other 2 person teams.
Men’s Snowboard Big Air Elimination
First year ever that they are requiring an elimination round for Snowboard Big Air. Just means there is that much talent these days, and we are in for a truly exciting throwdown. Chris Corning, Mark McMorris, and Yuki Kadono are already pre-qualified straight to the final. Top 5 of elimination round moves on to join them in the final tomorrow night with their best 2 runs consisting of a left rotation and a right rotation.
Women’s Snowboard Big Air Final
8 of the gnarliest women snowboard athletes SEND IT over the massive big air jump over a 23 minute jam-style session. Event favorite, Anna Gasser was plagued with an ankle injury just weeks before the competition, which really opens up the final wide. The story was all about Jamie Anderson and Laurie Blouin battle back and forth for most of the session. Jamie goes down hard with a FS 1080 on her final run and looked like the rookie Laurie Blouin would wrap it up after a FS 900. Then Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who was sitting with a big gap to third place, threw down a massive switch BS 900 to tie Blouin for first with a 77.00. Tie went to the higher single score, which went to the rookie, Laurie. Zoi and Jamie finish out the rest of the podium.
Day 1 Highlight Show
Friday, January 25
Tune into The X Games Youtube page at noon (EST), to see the Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Elimination round after a few ski events. The night show will have the Men’s Snowboard Big Air Final LIVE on ESPN. Watch Mark McMorris kill it in both events.
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Elimination
16 men battle it out on the slopestyle course to be in the top 7 to advance on to the finals. With big names like, Chris Corning, Sven Thorgren & Stale Sandbech, you knew there would be a lot of drama. With only 2 runs, there is little room for any mistakes. Sebastien Toutlant, Sven Thorgren and Chris Corning are the first of seven to make it to the finals. Judd Hankes, the youngest X games competitor, makes it through as well. Stale Sandbech was not able to put a solid run together to advance. Stay tuned for the finals Saturday afternoon.
Men’s Snowboard Big Air Final
25 minute jam style session. Scored for a left rotation and a right rotation separated. Scores are out of 50 each for a max total of a 100. The Big air jump set under lights in Aspen is breath-taking. The Belgian, Sebbe De Buck, decided to woo the crown instead of going for the podium, with a double backflip, super slow front flip, double front flip, and an amazing triple front flip attempt (who does that!?). Chris Corning almost landed a quad cork 1620, which would’ve landed him on the podium most likely. Sven Thorgren gave a triple backside rodeo with some STEEZY style for a Bronze medal. Coming from surgery 7 weeks ago, Mark McMorris did a technical triple cork 1440, multi grab for a Silver Medal. 17 year old, defending big air Norway 2018 gold medalist, Takeru Otsuka took the event with authority with a cab trip cork 1620 for Gold. He almost landed a quad cork 1800, which has never been landed in competition before. Could you imagine!? We now know where the future of Snowboard Big Air is going. Quad cork 1800? Seriously!? The sky is no longer the limit. These guys are going straight up into orbit.
Day 2 Highlight Show
Saturday, January 26
Today is a big day for snowboarding at the X Games! Catch the action LIVE on ABC, starting at 1pm EST. Men & Women Snowboard Slopestyle finals will start the day off. The Snowboard Knuckle Huck, a new event scored on the style you put down hucking it off the big air jump landing knuckle. Be sure to check that out live on Youtube. The night show will wrap up with Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe Finals. Watch what will Chloe Kim do this year.
Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final
8 of the best women snowboarders attack this year’s slopestyle course in Aspen. They have 3 runs each for a maximum score of 100. The legendary, Jamie Anderson, dropped out due to a gnarly crash in Big Air finals Wednesday night. All the women laid it all out there. Enni Rukajarvi brings home Bronze with a 84.66. Hailey Langland takes Silver with a 90.66. But the show was all about Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, who whipped out a solid top rail section and back to back 900’s into a double back flip on the jump section on her first run for a 90.00. On her third run, she cleaned it up even more for a 91.00 to earn her first Gold medal.
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Final
10 Men came out to play on the slopestyle course today. A maximum of 100 score on the best out of 3 runs make the athletes really send it. The event started off with Mon Roisland, an alternate who filled in for injured Chris Corning, busting out a sick run of a 91.33. It looked like that score was going to hold out until the end when other athletes struggled a bit. Then, on his final run Rene Rinnekangas came out with a mesmerizing 94.00. But, wait Mark McMorris, going for his 16th X Games medal on his final run, brought a massive 96.00 run for the GOLD.
Snowboard Knuckle Huck
For the first time ever, X Games is trying out a new snowboarding event, Knuckle Huck! Athletes “huck” it off the the landing (also called a knuckle) of the Big air jump. This was all about style and STEEZY-NESS. The butter slides and hand drags were the pinnacle of the jam session and the “fridge”, Fridtjof Seather Tischendorf, did it best and earned the Golden Knuckles Medal. Be sure to check out the replay above to see all the action go down.
Women’s Snowboard Superpipe Final
8 ladies hit the SuperPipe in this final under the lights for the best attempt on a 3 run session. A memorable night indeed, as the legendary Kelly Clark announces her retirement and takes one last run down the pipe. The top contenders struggled tonight, Arielle Gold was not able to put down a finished run and ended up last in 8th, Maddie Mastro got bit by some snow snakes a few times for a 6th. This gave room for Cai Xuetong to snag a Bronze with a 72.66, Queralt Castellet put down a solid run with a 80.00. But the untouchable, Chloe Kim, rose to the top without even touching her best run attempt. There was talks of her doing a FS double cork 1080 for the first time in women’s snowboard SuperPipe history, or doing her back to back 1080s again. Her winning run of a 84.00 looked like a warm up run as it was too easy. We hope to see that double cork 10 soon. Maybe at the Burton U.S. Open!? (Fingers crossed).
Day 3 Highlight Show
Sunday, January 27
What an amazing few days of X Games Aspen once again. Each event has shown how the past year has progressed in Snowboarding and what possible variations could be in play in the next few years. Enjoy the Knuckle Huck if you missed it last night, which will air on ESPN2. But the event that we have all been patiently waiting for, the Men’s SuperPipe Final, will be going down at 8:30EST on ESPN. Will Scotty James box his way to the Gold? Or will Danny Davis show the boys that you can teach an old dog new tricks? Stay tuned for Stoke!
Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe Finals
The perfect event to wrap up the X Games here in Aspen. It never fails to bring the stoke. Everybody was absolutely sending it. But the bar has been raised so high, you need to do something extraordinary to get in the podium. However, Danny Davis brings his amazing style into his first run and does a unique run that was extremely fun to watch earning him a 83.66 for a Bronze. 17 year old Yuto Totsuka came out swinging on his first run of his first x games appearance with a 90.00 for Silver. Scotty James, on his second run, straps up his trademark boxing gloves and pulls a “mind-melting run” for a 94.00 to grab his second Gold medal in SuperPipe.
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