Ryo Aizawa

SNOWBOARDER’S X GAMES ASPEN 2020 KING AND QUEEN ANNOUNCED
PLUS ALL OF OUR FINAL GRADES FROM ALL OVER ASPEN.

words by Stan and Clavin

Yes, we are a bit late with our announcement… but we made up the award and there is no prize besides the title. The next major contest hasn’t even kicked off yet so we are actually still in the clear. (To be completely transparent, Dew Tour practice kicks off in the A.M. so we hit our deadline by just a few hours.) So for now, it is back to X Games. We’d be lying if we didn’t acknowledge the reality that we created the “Extreme King and Queen list” as more of a joke than a full-fledged contest where we actually count everyone’s mute grabs, but here we are. The people who took the time to read the list deserve an answer, and we are still getting the question “who won?” a week later. What happened to the 24-hour news cycle? Why are we being held accountable when actual new outlets are not? Nobody even bought us a single drink in Aspen. Move over, Wolf Blitzer… it’s time for an official King and Queen to be named. After a long deliberation in a cheap hotel room in Frisco…. we decided on a winner. Just like X Games, we are throwing the points out the window. We went with a freeform “jam” session to decide who we liked with the “overall impression.” We mean hell, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right?

Image credit: Art by Stan/SNOWBOARDER

Action continued at Buttermilk on Friday during X Games Aspen 2020, with a few more eliminations in Jeep Men’s Ski Slopestyle and The Real Cost Men’s Snowboard Big Air before awarding medals in Snowmobile Freestyle, Women’s Ski Big Air, Great Clips Men’s Ski SuperPipe Elimination, The Real Cost Men’s Ski Big Air and closing out with another new discipline, Snowboard SuperPipe Session.

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