Everything it said it wasn't going to be it is. Do you remember when Dyrdek buttered us up by saying street league was going to be a place for up and comers to get noticed or that he is tired of how all other contests only care about consistency? Street League is only open to the most unbelievably established pros and this contest, more than any other before, is all about consistency.
Some Choice commentary from the contest about consistency.
After Prod fell twice trying switch tre flip: "You know how it is when you skate, you get stuck on a trick and you want to do it. I don't want to see that here because every trick counts." Berra
After Chaz fell once! trying to feeble to back tail a long tall rail: "Chaz again showin a little bit of his weakness here in the technical section" Berra
The only positive thing I have to say about Berra is he did ask the question that was on all our minds, "Rob, what's going on with Prod's hat?"
On a final note you can say that Dyrdek at least brought the fun back to skate contests, oh wait.
Some Choice commentary from the contest about consistency.
After Prod fell twice trying switch tre flip: "You know how it is when you skate, you get stuck on a trick and you want to do it. I don't want to see that here because every trick counts." Berra
After Chaz fell once! trying to feeble to back tail a long tall rail: "Chaz again showin a little bit of his weakness here in the technical section" Berra
This format obviously just encourages people to try easy tricks and land all of them instead of trying a few times for hard tricks. Malto figured this out. Someone asked him what his strategy was right before he won the second stop. He said, "I just want to do easy stuff and land it".
Pretty much everyone realized while they were watching the pros would try a lot harder tricks if they had some room to fall. Something like if only the top 3 scores out of 7 tries counted for each section. I compiled the data and here is what the ranking would have been had that been the rules.
New Rules
1.Shane Oniell
2. Nyjah
3. Cole
4. Prod
5. t puds
6. Malto
7. ortiz
Original
1. Nyjah
2. Shane Oniell
3. tpuds
4. malto
5. cole
6. ortiz
7. p rod
I especially now vouch for the 3 out of 7 rules because it put shane oniell in the top spot which he obviously deserved. (Possibly just for the first try nollie flip noseslide bigspin out)
Another Gripe I have is with what counts as a fall. Here are screenshots of landings that earned 4.6 and 2.5 respectivly
Berra and Drydek Remided us repeatedly that as long as your body doesn't hit the ground it isn't a fall. I'm gonna apply that rule to my next video part to get kids really hyped on my double hand drag toe drag landings.
The screenshots also point out another problem, all that shit on the screen. Is it really needed the entire broadcast. I wanted to go back to see if Chaz did a flip 5-0 or a flip feeble and I got this
The only positive thing I have to say about Berra is he did ask the question that was on all our minds, "Rob, what's going on with Prod's hat?"
On a final note you can say that Dyrdek at least brought the fun back to skate contests, oh wait.On being asked what his strategy was for the second stop, "I'm thinking less fun, more I'm gonna win" - Mike Taylor (he did not look like he was kidding about that 150 G's)
Ps- download link for Street League Spreadsheet of data (All tricks, top 3 tricks per section, repeat trick count, and tricks in order of score)
