I really don't like the argument he makes at the end for more "quantifiable" means for selecting SOTY. Yeah, obviously there's been a formula to win to years now, and even though I doubt that's going away I wish people would stop overthinking the award. The operative word for SOTY is
Thrasher's Skater of the Year. It doesn't have to be fair, it doesn't have to make the most sense, and it certainly doesn't have to be democratic. It's fun to think about SOTY and to compare top tier skateboarding, but the decision has never been about us and that's fine. Some of the talking points in this video are toeing awfully close to the Berrics' stupid populist voting thing, which absolutely nobody should give a shit about.