snowmatic Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) As listed here we would see tomorrow February 7. one more Worldcup race. Sudelfeld PGS (Germany) would be hold as a re-run format with 21 gates. First time for this season! We had qualification runs today. On women tableau Caroline Calve CAN was qualified for the finals (rank 5). On men tableau Justin Reiter USA did it too (rank 6). Did not qualify for finals: 18. Aron Muss USA 34. Darren Gardener CAN 36. Michael Trapp USA 38. Sebastien Beaulieu CAN 41. Jasey Jay Anderson CAN Again Russia was strong and brougt 4 men to the finals, while other nations did only 2 (JPN / SLO / AUT / SUI), or 1 (USA / FRA / GER / ITA). Race would start February 7. 09:00 UTC and ends 11:15 UTC. Calculate Your local time. For the 1/4 finals there would be a on hour TV life broadcast. Because it's a re-run format, race takes longer than single run format. Single run format can be broadcasted over all the 1/8 final runs. As we like it from other races in Europe, there is a 1024x768 webcam taking Your eyes right to the finish line of the race! Even more than the half of course webcam is showing. Weather: it should be sunny tomorrow. Edited February 9, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted February 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 (edited) Sudelfeld ski resort of Bayrisch-Zell (Bavaria / Germany) was holding a good race. Beside the brand new six-chair highspeed lift with laser-blue bubbles and seat-heatings (Waldkopf / climbs 650ft), the PGS-Race was hold for first time this season as a real parallel-race. 150 volunters did a great job. PGS Sudelfeld starts on cloudy sky and ends on blue sky on small finals and big finals. Slope was very consistent and perfect all the time. No bad and deep trenches / not worn out until end of race. Made of Artifical snow and pure snow. Best fitting SCR was at around 22-23m for the boards on course. We saw many exceptional tight fights on that re-run race-format. Riders ride the heats not with that high risk, like we see it at single-run format races. So there are less crashes and on finish line 2 to 5 hundreds of a second did often the difference of winning or loosing. Podium men: 1. Andrey Sobolev (RUS) - SG.snowboards - Allflex - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 2. Vic Wild (RUS) - Kessler - Allflex - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 yellow-red 3. Zan Kosir (SLO) - Oxess - Allflex - F2.Titanium - Northwave.950 yellow-red 9. Justin Reiter (USA) 18. Aron Muss USA 34. Darren Gardener CAN 36. Michael Trapp USA 38. Sebastien Beaulieu CAN 41. Jasey Jay Anderson CAN Podium women: 1. Ester Ledecka (CZE) - SG.snowboards - SG-Plate - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 green-grey 2. Zogg Julie (SUI) - Kessler - Allflex - ACT Gear - Deeluxe Indy orange 3. Marion Kreiner (AUT) - BlackPearl - Vist - F2.Titanium - UPZ RC10 white-grey 5. Caroline Calve (CAN) Nations: Russia was again very strong (gold and silver for men). Russia is supporting his snowboard race program by around $3'400'000 to $4'500'000, even the Year after Sochi Olympics! This seem to be some bucks more than racers get in Canada and the USA for racing gates. Riders: Andrey Sobolev (Winner / RUS) won his first Worldcup race. Alexander Bergmann (6. / GER) had serios problems with chatter with the board on the gates. Chatter like we saw it no more since Years. He rides a yellow color Nobil snowboard (Poland). Julie Zogg (2. / SUI) switched from asymetric K-Plate to Allflex, even on bindings he switched from F2 Titanium to Japanese ACT Gear bindings. Edited February 9, 2015 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex Insider Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 Nice reporting snowmatic. I was at the race since it coincided nicely with ISPO in Munich. Bayrischzell/Sudelfeld is a really nice place. Perhaps the mountain is not huge but there is a chill, low-key vibe to the whole place. The locals put on a fun bib-draw party the night before the race. There are free cross country trails around town and on the road to Sudelfeld, there are parking lots where you can leave your car and hike up for some non-lift serviced riding. How sweet is that. The best part about the race format was the qualifiers were on Friday. On Saturday, the finals started at 10:30 and it was all wrapped up by 12:30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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