snowmatic Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) World Snowboard Championships Parallel slalom Kreischberg (Austria) which was hold at Lachtal Styria (5300ft-7300ft / 370-acre / 2 highspeed-six, 8 surface lifts). Lachtal is a newer made resort from this century. Most lifts (5) are from the decade we are now. Weather: sunny to clowdy, most time fog on lower part of the slope. Exceptional long course! There have been 30 gates to race. On normal PSL-races we find around 22 gates only. Single-run race. Hard and good grip on slope (man-made snow), steeper on start - flater on the middle - something between steep and flat to the end. T-bar lift beside slope. Podium men: 1. Roland Fischnaller (ITA) - SG.snowboards - Vist - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 2. Andrey Sobolev (RUS) - SG.snowboards - Vist - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 3. Rok Marguc (SLO) - Kessler red - Allflex red - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 white 7. Vic Wild (RUS) 14. Justin Reiter (USA) - failed on a gate on 1/8 finals 24. Jasey Jay Anderson (CAN) 29. Indrik Trahan (CAN) 31. Michael Trapp (USA) 33. Daren Gardener (CAN) Podium women: 1. Ester Ledecka (CZE) - SG.snowboards - Vist - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 green 2. Julia Dujmovits (AUT) - Kessler - K-Plate - F2.Titanium - Deeluxe Track69 3. Marion Kreiner (AUT) - BlackPearl - Vist - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 white 25. Ariane Lavigne (CAN) 30. Marianne Leeson (CAN) / DSQ 32. Caroline Calve (CAN) / DSQ No F2-CNC bindings on finals at all. Edited January 23, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 What's with FIS and new stupid single race format?!? It is impossible to make the red and blue course the same, it's highly unfair. If they wanted a single run, they need to go back to racing against the clock. Lots of SGs on the podiums again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 About the stupid single race format read my conclusion here. (Podium Bad Gastein)Single run format was introduced by FIS last season as a test. Since season 2014-2015 all races are hold as a single run format without any re-runs. The full finals can be done this way during 1 hour only, what was a demand for TV broadcasting. While the Years before finals took 2 full hours and TV was start brodacasting from the 1/4 final runs, now the full finals can be on-air. So a twice amount of riders can be see now on TV. This new single race format does affect a lot. While lucky chance becomes more important, rider with less power can reach the podium faster. On re-run format the winner and the second had to race 10 time (200 gates). Now You can be a winner in only 6 runs (120 gates). In contribution to that, slope got worn out much more on 10 runs than on less runs of all riders like we see it now on single run format. So athletes which did train a lot more and are comming with high power to the races the Years ago, they are now the loosers. Even very experienced athletes which are able to handle tricky worn-out slope conditions are loosers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.a Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Interesting.. if power and experience are losers then what for you was the winning combination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckmann AG Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 ^He might be suggesting that the previous format favored a rider with greater endurance, and the skill/experience/mileage to make use of a gradually degrading course. Whereas the new format favors luck and sheer athletic prowess? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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