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Aside from a few mishaps of relatively low consequence, Rampage went down in a much better fashion than years past. After a rough year last year leaving Paul Basagoitia in a horrendous state, and quite a bit of controversy over judging, it was safe to say that most left with a bit of a bad taste in their mouth. This year Red Bull made some serious changes, all of which were well received – they increased safety, took feedback from riders more seriously, increased pay and brought on 2 judges who are well respected by all of the riders – Kyle Jameson and Nico Vink. Both Kyle and Nico have competed in multiple, recent Rampage events. The finals were tense, and per usual wind was a factor…

Despite being in a bit of rough shape from a couple of huge crashes, Conor MacFarlane turned up at the rider’s meeting ready for action.

Brandon would charge his extremely technical upper section, blast a huge 360 flatspin on a step up, then pull this flat drop flip to take the highest score.

A broken pelvis will leave Aggy out for 8-10 weeks, but he won’t need surgery. In the grand scheme of how horrendous this crash was, he’s lucky.

Kyle Strait would straight air his first run on this big drop, but in run two he threw this massive no hander.

Cam Zink doing the unthinkable. He would over-rotate and crash injuring his thumb and deciding to sit out a second run.

Your top 3 riders. Brandon also won people’s choice, Carson would win best trick and Conor MacFarlane would win the Kelly McGarry spirit award.