Crashed Ice, Saint Paul
Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship 2013
Published by Christine Blachford
Crashed Ice is back for the second of five outings in this 2012/13 championship. We're not hugely confident on the start time, but when it does get going, it's going to be some fast and furious downhill ice action, with the names we are growing to love once more battling it out for supremacy on skates. Kyle Croxall, defending Crashed Ice champion, was victorious at the last round at Niagara Falls, with Cameron Naasz and Kilian Braun following him to the top of the standings. Everything can change at the drop of a skate, though, so stay tuned to find out what happens this evening!
Gonna do my best to stay up for this tonight as i miserably fell asleep within 20 minutes of it starting in December!
christine's taking a power nap, i'm gonna stay up. tough time to schedule an event though!
want to be up at 8:30am for the tennis as well!
Best to practise messed up sleeping patterns for australia I suppose... :)
just don't ask when the final crashed ice of the season is...
If it is the same weekend as Melbourne we are going to get now sleep because the Sebring 12 hours is that weekend too
Oh WOW.
Well, that's a long weekend. :D
ahahaha
red bull by the truckload.
This gif perfectly visualises my reaction on how sleep is going to be possible in any shape or form that weekend
:)
the stream is go
ahh, i don't have it.
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oops
www.redbull.com/c…p;p=1243132123131
ooh there it is: live.redbull.tv/e…d-ice-saint-paul/
ace!
blimey, no messing, straight into the first race with a croxall it seems!
hope he doesn't crash out, christine is still asleep.
holy crap at that mega hairpin, it's texas' turn 1
yay scotty
hehe!!
ooooh it's alanis time.
i'll support horst.
director fail
shocking tv directing on this race?
lots of straights on this course
that corner is craaaaaazy.
close race!
nice to see all of it :)
much better than random shots of nothing happening :)
domoulin usually wins so I shall sayhim for this one
love the backdrop here. mahooosive castle.
it's crashed ice's hotel!
:) :)
that poor dude at the back is just sliding about
poor show from doumolin!
fiala only name i recognise.
helmet cam
They didnt do a DC, good start
made up a place, great view.
that was awesome.
oh it's a cathederal, not a castle.
another alanis!
Wow. Those trousers...
you don't see f1 driver's cycling in the paddock.
photofinish?
ooooh close!
instead of a photo finish cam, have a montage instead :)
drs enable, let's watch the start again.
tv direction is falling to pieces
I thought this wasn't supposed to start till 1:30
it was scheduled for 1:30, but red bull's countdown said 1am earlier so we changed it.
only the round of 64 though.
OK so I haven't missed anything important unless one of the big names went out early. Unlikely
nothing major. x2 morrissettes down.
He has the trousers again
terrifying!
a lovely shade!
Looks like a tricky bit of uphill on this track
was it here last year that they almost stopped, i forget?
I can't remember one event from another
joots
joooooots!
clooooose
wow!
cocky ending :)
Fab directing to show the names in two different ways
tyler witty, twitty, is a brilliany name.
Ah this one is on Red Bull TV on ipad, that's better. Last one wasn't. That's helpful as my broken PC won't run video properly and my netbook has the 24 Hours
oooh coool. assumed it was broken again. i'll switch to the telly then.
twitty won!
Best quality feed I've ever seen of this event.
Looks great on the PC feed too
Big crash
Niefy
niefy's having a shocker
oops
What is wrong with Niefy. Gets a great start so he falls flat on his face so that he is last then falls a few other times and finishes 20 seconds behind everyone else
heads straight off the course, he did not look happy
I think that must be Ralf Niefnecker
:)`
another photo finish?
Absolutely nothing in it
wowow
fake heikki!
no waitr, it's a different fake heikki
You are thinking about R2
panda!
That's the chap
nice football tackle at the end :)
Kyle Croxy
We have a another Witty
Not as witty as Twitty sadly
easy for kyle
The purple mohican has to be this year's coolest hairstyle
cheers pat :)
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see, it's just an older abu dhabi hotel.
are we on the round of 32 now?
I assume so but I have not seen R2 or Scott Croxhall
he was in the first race
Scott, I mean. No sign of R2
That will be why then
Nice. Wish I could do that.
I've been sat on this office chair since the 24 started.
i better wake christine.
Did he not have an injury at the last event
Ohhh I think you may be right.
On board time
"holy moley!"
What did the world do before GoPros?
squinted
:)
Scotty goes through
timed to perfection, cheers scotty.
Nice subtle stripes for Scotty
Woo, Scott a bit better this time, then!
he looks like a human liquorice.
To balance things out Niefy did worse. An awful lot worse
Scooby
marco dallago, another excellent name.
and i wish i could watch every sport this way :)
Dear me. Hard to believe he was champ once!
trying to figure out where arrtu is (translated):
Downhill skating season the favorite, Jyväskylä, Arttu Pihlainen not participate in the Minnesota race family and because of time pressures.
www.mtv3.fi/urhei…sotan-jaarannissa
Based on today's performance it is hard to believe he has skated before
sidepodcast.com/e…3#comment-3110937
his race was embarassing really, it was schumacher esque
:)
Oh, I'd forgotten those trousers.
a nice sight to wake up to.
he also punched a wall on the way down the track in anger, which is basically what schumi did to rubens
#neifmacher
Dare I say, this track doesn't seem as tricky as the last one.
excited commentator
All over the place!
it does have turn 1 from Austin though
Not as tricky but that uphill section is going to hurt after they have done it a few times andhave to race the good guys up it
i still think everyone is missing a trick, just ride down it in a dinghy.
Winner crosses the line seated :)
Well that's one way to finish :)
didn't realise fans battered the course as people come by. that'll help!
Commentators a bit confused. "Kolc comfortably leading... oh no wait, he's last!" Bit of a surprise to see him out early.
Especially as I have never heard of anyone else in that race
jootsy
Oops.
that dude did the finish in the same cocky way again.
witty vs wedgy
Twitty is back!
Derek seems such a normal name for skating.
There was also a Brian :)
people cleaning the track are more interested in chatting.
Ooh, I'll do that bit. Clean up the end, get to see all the action, don't skate far.
Oh.
...and talk a lot
They're saying one of them is such a big guy, if he gets in front no one can pass him. #needsmoreDRS
mega lineup
There's a bonus Finn!
big fallers
Bouncing over the ice on your front.
You can't have a purple mohican unless you can deliver in the race.
no-one's beating kyle today... ;)
Yet.
Why does Kyle have a German flag on his shirt?
Well done Other Heikki
panda has a flag.
There should be a hockey sticks round where they;re allowed to skate like hockey players and use the sticks to their advantage.
Or one where they have to get a puck to the end... kind of like egg and spoon but different.
croxall montage
Wrong one, tut.
that would be awesome :)
Good of them to catch St Paul's Cathedral whilst it's on holiday
:) :)
Wooo, gooo Scotty.
So everyone carries a stick and there are 4 pucks across the track at the finish line with a goal cut out of tha padding at the end. You are not allowed across the finish line until you have scored a goal
150,000 people?
holy flippin heck.
150,000 people there ??
Scotty took him apart up the hill
strong legs
That is super a lot. Especially because there can only be a couple of places with a good view. Do they have big screens?
Yes. You can see them in shot at times
Oh yes, I see one. That helps
Struggling to see it myself. There are two stadiums full of people there unless htey are hidden in the dark.
*aren't
"If you think you've got a shot at it, go feet first."
course covers quite a bit of land though. several streets worth of track there.
There is no short cut option on this track. it is just a single track all the way down
That was a really close one. Love a good photo finish.
Third and fourth tangled there, no pressure on the front two now.
I hope Derek Wedge calls his dreddlocks his Wedgelocks
That has happened a few times tonight
:)
Heheh!
massive round
syncro falling
Killian Brown tried to go vertical
They all had a go at falling there. Too easy for Kyle.
my internet is beginning to die on me so I think it may be time to call it a night
Shame to miss the two semis and the final
Aww, you did really well this time :)
I'm struggling to concentrate..
kyle does have a german flag.
#cheerslukeh
what the??
Racing with curling stones?
i am getting old and even more internet is tireding more than my mind too :)
Are they curling?
oh wow.
yeah, sleep.
Night Lukeh
#goandy
again scotty!
YES!
wheeeeeeee
I heard the blades clash
I am calling him Legs now, it seems.
Naasz is a real contender this year, then. Second last time, into the final now.
faaast start.
Sounded like skates clashing again
crazy close finishes today.
Really fast and close
Seems to have been a few photo finishes and a few where the field was completey spread out
predictions then. who's yer bet for the win?
Oh yay, the bit where they go backwards!
Uphill race
Kyle
You can't bet against Kyle, but weird things do happen!
easier than last time
Their thighs must be burning after that
Mr C, I only remember this once a year, but you promised to buy me something from here: http://www.teamltdshop.eu/
:)
i did? okay then. pink hat?
Do they sell Milky Bars?
I'll settle for a TeamCroxy wristband :)
No women's races this time.
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you wanna look like penny, i say pink :)
Oh, that is very me!
That shouldn't happen. They have to give the girls coverage along with the guys
There is no arguing with that
not sure if it's big enough in the US yet. see if they come back for the last race.
goooooooo
OMG!!!!!
Great race
What was that!
Brother hugs!
Wow! Race of the day
can't call that
That could be anyone's race. Well, three anyway.
wow. kyle gave second to scott.
Scott's practically lying across the finish line :)
brilliant event
Thanks for waking me, Mr C. Glad I got up to see that, brilliant stuff
You do know he is in the same room as you and you could just speak to him :)
hasn't happened in seven years.
I like to get these things down in writing. Saves on arguments later.
:)
Indoors next time, in the Netherlands.
hopefully the next event will be at a sensible time.
they won't get 150,000 indoors :)
Should be, Unless they have it at 3am Dutch time to suit the US
Look at that trophy!
I struggled to focus on it and seemed to miss most of the races looking at something else. Looking forward to a better time of day for the next one.
Classy trophy. Bernie would have a connery
Imagine taking that home on the bus.
Imagine having a trophy cabinet full of stylish silver trophies and that
arrtu still injured :(
Commentator says R2 is injured
cheers all!
Thanks for the thread.
Night all
Night peeps.
anyone still awake
guess not
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