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With Draft Kings all the rage among the “people” we here at Yobeat have decided to liken one of the most inadvertently-jocky parts of snowboarding, banked slaloms, to football. In honor of this weekend’s Dirksen Derby at Mt. Bachelor, we selected five riders/industry insiders with a deep knowledge of the players of the Banked Slalom game to select their dream teams for the race. The rules were simple:
-Each team contains five players, four men, one woman.
-No racer can be used by another team, but racers can be traded by other team captains.
-Once a player has been swapped by another team when choosing, that racer cannot be traded again.
-All racers from all heats are open game, scores are based on official time only.
(In normal rules, each captain would pick one player at a time, but for the record, we weren’t that organized and the teams were picked in the order below. Each player could only be chosen once.)
Men’s Elite podium was 1. Eero Niemla 2. Harry Kearney 3. Austen Sweetin and Colleen Quigley topped the podium for the women.
Expert picks:
TEAM CAPTAIN: T-Bird
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Team:
Gus Warbington – 01:11.99
Temple Cummins – 01:06.81
Curtis Ciszek – 01:05.35
Austin Smith – 01:31.45
Colleen Quigley – 01:11.05
TOTAL TIME 366.1
Blair Habenicht
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Team:
Bryan Fox – 01:06.94
Jake Price – 01:08.95
Lucas Debari – 01:32.40
Nils Mindnich – 01:07.22
Brynn Hayes- 01:25.89
TOTAL time: 381.4
Team Captain: Grey Thompson
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Team:
Alex Yoder – 01:18.78
Taylor Carlton – 01:06.93
Tucker Andrews – 01:08.08
Johnny Brady- 01:06.58
Mary Rand – 01:15.29
Total time: 345.66
Team Captain: Madison Blackley
It’s lit.
Team:
Rob Kingwill – 01:36.63
Max Warbington – 01:10.47
Griffin Siebert DNS/default 1:36.63
Hans Mindnich – 01:07.36
Maria Debari – 01:11.76
Total time: 402.85
Team Captain: Colin Langlois
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Team:
Harry Kearny – 01:04.21
Nate Farrell – 01:07.48
Wolle Nyvelt – 01:06.59
Scott E. Wittlake – 01:27.03
Stefi Luxton 01:19.29
Total Time 364.6
In the end, our captains all picked pretty mediocre teams, missing the top riders all together. However, with a total time of 345 seconds, Grey Thompson wins our first found of draft kings and all the bragging rights that come with it! What can we say, the man knows his turns.