That course was seriously the most boring Tampa Pro course I can remember. The back smiths over the flat bar were so tedious. Everyone did them in their run and I don’t know why one of them didn’t stop to think “hey, the last 10 dudes all did back smith, maybe I’ll do a crook or feeble or something different as I cross the course.” It basically became an axle stall of a contest trick. Everyone did it, and it was mostly just a means of getting back to the other side while still doing a trick. Which leads us back to how boring the course was. Most difficult tricks on that section were all going one way, very little incentive or reason to skate it the other way.
They need to go back to the courses like the one Busenitz won on. It kinda felt like the olympics where most skaters identified one area to score from and that’s where most of the shit went down. Yawn.
I get the idea behind the no live scoring, but it kind of made it boring to watch. When you don’t know who’s in the lead, how are we as the viewer (and the skaters) supposed to know how to rate each run. You kind of need the benchmarks. Again, I get it though. Good try, but maybe not a success