xgames announced last year that they were introducing a year long team-based league.
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/40340230/x-games-league-feature-year-round-schedule-team-format
I love watching contests. Regular people don't give a fuck about skateboarding, because it's skateboarding. For whatever reason, people try to equate it to the act like it deserves to be the NBA, but it's more akin to cheerleading, or polo. This is not a dig at other sports, just that skateboarding doesn't need to be gassed into thinking it's more deserving of a large platform.
I also don't think skateboarding should constantly be in the public eye
My cousin who has never skated a day in his life watched an SLS or something with me one time, I don't recall the exact tricks but basically one guy did a bigflip front board and then Giovanni Vianna did one of his psychotic fakie combos.
My cousin could not for the life of him, no matter how I tried to explain, understand how Vianna's trick scored higher.
He even had me rewind the video to watch the bigflip front board again. "
You mean to tell me rolling backwards is harder than doing THAT!? There's just no way! These judges are dumb, man!I can do a kickflip and then a pop shuv and my fiance will say they look like the same trick to her.
I think people who don't skate will naturally watch your upper body and the board is just a blur.
So Mike-Mo isn't wrong about the "yes/no" point he was making.
My finace has seen a ton of skate videos, and by a long shot her favorite things have been Kasso and that SLS Team Games thing where they were doing shit like highest hippie jump and longest stationary wheelie.
I always figured she just liked that they were light hearted fun, but I can see she probably also liked that they were objective and she didn't need to know the difference between switch and fakie to know who jumped higher.