Slopestyle Added to X-Games World Tour!

Rampage on NBC, slopestyle in X-Games, like it or not mountain biking is becoming more and more mainstream.

From PinkBike
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Slopestyle-Added-to-X-Games-2013.html


ESPN announced today that Mountain Bike Slopestyle has been added as an event for the Munich stop of the six city X Games world tour. From June 27-30, 2013, spectators will be able to watch competitors flip and spin on the slopestyle course to be constructed next to the Munich Olympic Park.

According to Tim Reed, X Games senior director of content strategy, slopestyle “was an event that the locals felt very strongly about and felt it was relevant. The hill has a great elevation change, so we figured it out."

Seven months after announcing the X Games would grow to six cities in 2013, ESPN on Monday revealed a diverse list of sports and disciplines that will take place at each of the six stops -- including the three new sites in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, Barcelona and Munich. It will be a mix of old and new, with local input weighing heavily, as event organizers crafted a docket reflective of regional cultures but also intended to present a global and comprehensive action-sports showcase throughout the series. Eight sports -- including Mountain Bike Slopestyle (in Munich) for the first time -- and 26 disciplines will be part of the show in the coming year. Other notable additions include BMX Freestyle Dirt (in Foz do Iguacu), a back-to-roots discipline that features natural-surface jumps, and Women's Skateboard Park (in Barcelona), which puts women in the concrete bowl for the first time since 2003.

When it comes back to LA I wonder where slopestyle action would take place?

Slopestyle will only be at the Munich event, I read it that way and made a call to a friend that is involved and he confirmed that it is how the statement reads that it is a "local input weighing heavily". So they are tailoring the events in each market IE: going for tv ratings.

You never know. If it's popular enough, it may be added to other events.

Nah... Local ratings push for the US will be extreme scooter's " real street " followed by the return of roller blades !

Damn, I didn't even think about the scooters. There's no chance.

ooo yes. i wouldnt be surprised.. scooters dominate the skateparks