September 27th, 2014 12:32pm
Qualifying for this weekends Rampage has been put on hold as storms rolled into the Virgin Utah area. With one run of Fridays Qualifying runs in the bag, event organizer Todd Barber had to stop the proceedings as conditions got too dangerous for the already gnarly terrain. The event was hoping to complete the runs today (Saturday) but the course is still closed due to the storm. If they are unable to complete the second runs, the first round scores will be used to select the qualifier for the final.
After One run, here is the current qualifying scores. Only the top 10 will move on to the finals
Brett Rheeder CAN 86.50
Tom Van Steenbergen CAN 83.75
Szymon Godziek POL 80.50
Kyle Norbraten CAN 80.25
Jeff Herbertson USA 80.00
Geoff Gulevich CAN 77.00
Bernard Kerr GBR 73.50
James Doerfling CAN 72.25
Carson Storch USA 66.75
Ryan Howard USA 62.00
Mike Hopkins CAN 57.75
Yannick Granieri FRA 55.00
Paul Basagoitia USA 49.75
Kyle Jameson USA 43.50
Mitch Ropelato USA 42.75
Graham Agassiz CAN 36.35
Mitch Chubey CAN 34.00
Robbie Bourdon CAN 33.50
Louis Reboul FRA 32.00
Chris Van Dine USA 30.75
Makken Haugen NOR 28.00
Wil White USA 16.25
Nicholi Rogatkin USA 10.75
KC Deane USA DNS
Nick Pescetto SPA DNS
Nico Vink BEL DNS
In the meantime, enjoy the photos from qualifying and Practice courtsey of RedBull media house.
Van Steenbergen drop in on the very steep section leading to a big sender.
Flipping the 75 ft Gap jump - Szymon Godziek puts himself in 3rd place and probably a position for the finals.
Another view of the GAP flip from Van Steenergen
Graham Agassiz shows the consequences of failure at the Rampage
Tom Van Steenbergen has a look at the drop into the big step down. Big is key word here.
No room for error. The lines are super steep and requiring exact lines. Robbie Bourdon of Canada threading the needle.
Jeff Herberton hits the big gap in his qualifying run. Jeff sits in 5h place after the first run.
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