X Games Aspen Is ON | Everything You Need To Know…

The show must go on! X Games is kicking off the action this weekend and it's set to go off...

Competitive snowboarding is back. Laax Open last week and now we’re heading into another weekend of heated battle. With some big names in attendance like Shaun White (no X Games medal since 2013), Red Gerard, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Hailey Langland, Chloe Kim (2018 & 2019 Snowboard SuperPipe gold medalist), Scotty James (defending two-time Snowboard SuperPipe gold medalist), Yuto Totsuka, Anna Gasser (defending XG Norway Big Air gold medalist) and more.

It’s going to be a little different this year…no crowds, no parties. What impact will this have on the riders in competition? Less hangovers is a positive, but no crowd to amp you up is a low.

Saturday is the JEEP Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle and Pacifico Women’s Snowboard Big Air, before moving into the Monster Energy Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe.

Our money is on Stale to take out the slopestyle, amped up after missing out on competing in the Laax Open due to an ankle injury.

We’re backing both Anna Gasser and Zoi Sadowski-Synott for the Women’s Big Air. Anna is defending gold champ from X Games Norway and is riding solid on the board.

For the Women’s Super Pipe event, our money is on Chloe Kim. She’s only just returned back from competition since March 2019! Taking out the Laax Open…Her board is looking to be posted up on the top podium.

On Sunday, it is stacked with Monster Energy Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe, The Real Cost Men’s Snowboard Big Air and Wendy’s Snowboard Knuckle Huck.

We’re backing Scotty James hard to take out the three-peat X Games gold in the Super Pipe. It’s going to be a battle with Shaun, Yuto and more chasing his golden dreams.

Big Air we would normally go McMorris but he’s out due to COVID. So the gold is up for grabs and is really anyone’s for the taking. Marcus Kleveland is our guy.

Knuckle Huck…Zeb Powell is out. So we going double up with Kleveland.

Cool thing for the Super Pipe to note is both the men’s and women’s final will feature a 30-minute jam session where eight riders will be ranked based on overall impression. Riders are judged on progression, execution, difficulty, variety and amplitude.

Scotty…ticking all the boxes.

Weekend of snowboard viewing. Yes. But X Games is only doing partial streaming. So some events aren’t streamed live. Best bet is to keep an eye on their twitter account across the weekend as they will be dropping updated live stream info on their. Also follow Transfer here for all updated info.

How to tune in a watch the streamed events? Below is currently what can be watched live on Youtube. X Games YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/user/XGames/videos
Saturday, Jan. 30, 5am AEST: Jeep Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle: Watch on YouTube!
Saturday, Jan. 30, 11am AEST: Wendy’s Snowboard Knuckle Huck: Watch on YouTube!

Have you got ESPN? If so, you’re sorted to watch all events. If not, get it and you can watch on the app. Even better – hit the watering hole and watch as they’re both running during the day. Below is the timings for ESPN:

Sunday, January 31| 1pm – 3pm AEST
Monster Energy Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe

Monday, February 1 | 11am – 2pm AEST
Monster Energy Men’s Snowboard SuperPipe
The Real Cost Men’s Snowboard Big Air & Wendy’s Knuckle Huck

Zeb Powell is back and ready to LIGHT IT UP.

Below is a list of all invited snowboarders for the event:

Ryo Aizawa
Sonora Alba
Jamie Anderson
Laurie Blouin
Jake Canter
Queralt Castellet
Chris Corning
Brooke D’Hondt
Sebbe De Buck
Lyon Farrell
Anna Gasser
Red Gerard
Taylor Gold
Judd Henkes
Dusty Henricksen
Ruka Hirano
Kurumi Imai
Reira Iwabuchi
Scotty James
Chase Josey
Yuki Kadono
Chloe Kim
Marcus Kleveland
Hailey Langland
Julia Marino
Maddie Mastro
Haruna Matsumoto
Toby Miller
Kokomo Murase
Miyabi Onitsuka
Takeru Otsuka
Rene Rinnekangas
Mons Røisland
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Ståle Sandbech
Jan Scherrer
Sven Thorgren
Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf
Ruki Tomita
Yuto Totsuka
Sebastien Toutant
Shaun White

Bring on the weekend. Stay tuned for more updates…

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