BATB12

[shouldn't]

i thought kelly on the mic was bad until manny santiago showed up with his purple fucking hair. how much attention do you need?

[Skatebeard]

Griffin vs Giger warmup game is up now-



The actual battle should be worth a watch based on this.

[moneen]

that's what all the hype was for? oof

[tuesday]

They seem to battle out who can go slower.

[silhouette]

I don't even need to watch to know who wins, it's clearly the algorithm.

[Paul Cicero]

I’d honestly pass on having those tricks if they had to look like that Giger blokes.

[youreamug]

Jamies style aint that bad on some regular tricks. Its all those whacky ones that make him look stinking, I guess everyone needs a niche though.

[dallou]

Pretty sur he is just having fun with it. Sur blabla illegal tricks blabla tastless blabla kook but who cares, he can control his feet like very few people and is experimenting. Also I heard he is super nice from a friend living in London.
Also in this game he did not throw the wackest tricks (double nollie and sw tricks)

[mtvic]

Its wild how many tricks both can do but cant proper frontside flip

[Banned from the room]

I went back and watched Chris Joslin vs someone else I forget that dudes name.

CJ is one of my absolute favorite skate styles. He’s got frickin bear traps for feet. Everything is executed to perfection near every try.
His kit screams I’m a skater and nothing else. It’s almost exactly what I always wore when I was a teen when I’d go skating. I’d never wear that hat. I don’t give a shit how much money was involved. I’d never skate the berries either tho. Or sls or the xgames or whatever. I’d probably only do Tampa so I could get free iv hydration. Send me to the moon coach hit me!!!! Oh never mind it’s just frickin fluid. You know my back kinda hurts can you write?

Something I noticed when he plays skate he’s thinking about it.
He runs half cabs
Then I think he’s seeing if your injured. He sees you flub a lets say nollie heel he might just ad rotation.

I thought about this yesterday watching him. 

[butterballs for jerry]

They seem to battle out who can go slower.

You try picking up speed, setting up, and doing a trick in that tiny space. Looks like less than 50ft of space.

[ish_wav]

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They seem to battle out who can go slower.

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You try picking up speed, setting up, and doing a trick in that tiny space. Looks like less than 50ft of space.

Bro literally! They both kill it imo.

[ilchymis]

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They seem to battle out who can go slower.

[close]

You try picking up speed, setting up, and doing a trick in that tiny space. Looks like less than 50ft of space.

[close]

Bro literally! They both kill it imo.

Exactly this, it was the most cramped game of skate I've seen in a while. Might as well have done it on a manny pad



BATB finals tomorrow, it's all downhill from here.

[Mariatorresflores]

This is better than any game they've had all year minus the dumb color commentating

Didn't expect Ronnie to still have so much control, wish we'd seen more of his skating over the last handful of years, dudes still got it.

[HiResDes]

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This is better than any game they've had all year minus the dumb color commentating

[close]

Didn't expect Ronnie to still have so much control, wish we'd seen more of his skating over the last handful of years, dudes still got it.

Should have been MJ vs Creager

[backinaction]

[Fongstarr.]

Pretty entertaining game. Giger making all those YouTube videos before his battle only to lose the first round. Tough business.

[Skatebeard]

I enjoyed that a lot more for it taking place away from the Berrics, you might not be into the style or whatever but these guys are good at what they do and there's evidently a lot of mutual respect there between them.

Wish more of the BATB games were remote, I'd probably cringe a lot less.

[ish_wav]

Pretty entertaining game. Giger making all those YouTube videos before his battle only to lose the first round. Tough business.

Jamie is a whole different beast though. Giger uploaded a warm up game on his channel that he won. It really could’ve gone either way. I’m personally a fan of both these dudes so I’m stoked either way.

[Coldpizza]

Dude in the white tee has an absolutely ATROCIOUS bag of tricks. He was also skating way too fast…

[HaveFunSkateboarding]

I’ve heard of Giger before but never the other guy. Honestly, this was one of the best games for this horrible batb’s. They’re both incredible skateboarders and this game, felt like more of two people just playing a game of skate and less of a production like the other episodes. Go figure, the one episode with two of the guys everyone hates on is one of the best. I have nothing but respect for both of these dudes.

[Grant Patronik]

Very entertaining. I laughed out loud when he matched the forward double flip.

[goodatmeth]

Respect to Jamie for doing tricks kind of fast, at least compared to Jonny

[rocklobster]

No reading-of-the-rules, faster edits and no Berra, good enough reason to watch it.

[burm]

Very entertaining. I laughed out loud when he matched the forward double flip.

Yeah that and the other whirly-twirly-wrappedy-wap flip, just did them perfectly with a shy smile telegraphing ”yup, I did my homework”, pretty funny.

Would have wanted to see some more.

[Skatebeard]

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Very entertaining. I laughed out loud when he matched the forward double flip.

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Yeah that and the other whirly-twirly-wrappedy-wap flip, just did them perfectly with a shy smile telegraphing ”yup, I did my homework”, pretty funny.

Would have wanted to see some more.

I'd like to see a gloves off match where they just get straight into the super techy and illegal stuff...just to see what gets thrown out.

Shame they got drawn against each other as they both deserve to go way further than a lot of the dross we've been subjected to sofar.

[Yonnycage]

That was awesome. Worst round 1 matchup of all time though. These dudes shoulda met up in the finals after taking out their share of cringefluencers

[ilchymis]

Wow, that was a great game. Seriously think that if jonny would have won the rock/paper/scissors, there would have been a different outcome.

Was rooting for Jonny just because I really wanted to see him go back to the berrics and get a second shot at the title, but Jamie seems to be a genuinely good dude. Slightly bummed, but at least now I can check out of this shitshow for another month or so.

[phlap]

Absolute crime for this to have been a round 1 matchup. Feel like they should have face off in the quarterfinals at least.

[StillTryin]

Yikes Spencer Barton is gonna have to go against that dude in his next round.