>>209466
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2flmupYdw

Last year's World Championships. Men's and women's finals. The whole thing seems pretty small-time. The women's race, in particular, gives one the impression that this might actually be their first race.

it's weird to think how diverse the X Games were at the beginning, with weird stuff like this and sky surfing.

Now it's basically just a lower profile version of the olympic skateboard and bmx competitions. They need to bring back aggressive inline and add scooters or it'll be dead within a few years.

>>209660
>They need to bring back aggressive inline and add scooters or it'll be dead within a few years.

Scooters would be interesting, but I disagree with bringing back inline. Inline simply isn't very well-suited to TV. All the various grind variations are impressive to those in-the-know, but to a normie it's
>he slid down a rail
>he slid down a rail with his legs crossed
>he slid down another rail

That said, though, the X Games' format is actually changing in 2026 to something akin to a year-round global tour, like F1.

>>209668
>Inline simply isn't very well-suited to TV.
the x games was created because standalone inline contests were getting such high ratings.

Inline competitions are way more about the airs/spins/grabs which look spectacular to normies, definitely more so than "board flips in an imperceptibly different way" in skateboarding.

>>209668
> akin to a year-round global tour, like F1
Except no one will go to or watch it. Why did it take until 2026 to realize that? Lmao. It’s too late

>>209680
It was probably too late when the actual Olympics added skateboarding and all sorts of other X Games events.

>>209466
Nah