Syndicate Waterskis 2023 Collegiate Nationals October 26-28, 2023

[ROBOT]

Official page here https://ncwsa.com/nationals/y2023/

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[Cooper_Trelawney]

Looks like Pato Font set a new collegiate trick record 7260!  One thing that's great about collegiate skiing is that a world record holder and a beginner can both be competitors in the same tournament.   I think that's cool and a great opportunity for skiers to learn and be inspired!

[Horton]

Some of those trick scores are bonkers. Anyone know how the team battles are shaping up?

[Horton]

so I just got an update from Nationals. it looks like tomorrow morning's men's slalom could be massive. The current record is 3 and 1/2 at 41. there's at least three guys that could challenge that. and then on Saturday morning men's jump is just going to be bonkers. there's a possibility of the first ever collegiate 200-ft jump.

[jjackkrash]

10 minutes ago, Horton said:

 there's a possibility of the first ever collegiate 200-ft jump.

Is it still off a 5 footer?  Wow!

[Horton]

Yep. 

 

[Cooper_Trelawney]

@Horton you know jumping at Bennett's will be off the hook!  I'm looking at Will Roberts to put one wayyyy out there but honestly,  there could be 10 guys at 170+.  I think 195' is going to happen.  200' would be awesome!  Zack Worden went like 195' at Bennett's about 10 or 15 yrs ago for the then collegiate record.  His cut was so late it looked suicidal.

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Zack Worden 194'

 

[Broussard]

@Horton That men's slalom record has stood for 20 years! Would love to see it go down tomorrow.

Men's Jump will be pulled by MasterCraft ProStars (6.0L with 3 blade OJ props) and with guys like Chris Wharton, Chris Eller, and Trent Finlayson behind the wheel at the site where 4 of the last 5 Collegiate Jump Records have gone done we should be in for a treat...

[ToddL]

[Horton]

My poor Warhawks 😞

[NikolG]

D1 Standings after Day 1

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Congratulations to Aaron Davies for taking the D1 Men's Slalom victory with an impressive 1 @ 41 off.  I've had the chance to meet him at Bennett's.  He's a hard worker and a nice guy...a deserving champion.  The webcast is pretty cool to watch while it alternates the action between the jump lake and slalom lake too.  ULL looks to be unbeatable to me at this point.

[Horton]

Depressing 

[ToddL]

[ToddL]

1 hour ago, Cooper_Trelawney said:

He's a hard worker and a nice guy...

Yes!  Always positive attitude and always working judging assignments at every SCR tournament!

[Cooper_Trelawney]

I've been looking at some of the skiers equipment.   For the most part, they're all on current or recent slaloms.  Trick skis are of various ages.  But most of the beginning jumpers are on jump skis that are 30+ years old!  Crazy!

[Horton]

😞

[BlueSki]

Today’s webcast now shows as blocked due to SME (Sony music entertainment) copyright.  Probably some algorithm that scans videos and picked up background music. Does anyone know if that happens and ultimately gets overridden on a regular basis?

[Cooper_Trelawney]

@Horton @ToddL where are you getting the team scoring data from and is the entire scorebook posted?  Waterski Results doesn't always seem to display all the scores...

[Horton]

@Cooper_Trelawney

[ToddL]

Waterskiresults.com,  WSTIMS For Windows Web Scoreboard, Live Scoring, select the tournament.   Upper right corner Published Results.   There you will find PDF files of running orders and daily results when the scorer is able to upload them.  

[ToddL]

2 hours ago, BlueSki said:

Today’s webcast now shows as blocked due to SME (Sony music entertainment) copyright.

I was going to mention that to Kelvin, but he looked pretty tired after 2 days of camera switching.   I know he has dealt with it in the past.  I think he just mutes the offending audio and re-uploads the video.   It might not happen for a day or two.

He has to collaborate with other vendors (DJ for audio) on this webcast and they don't always ensure the site's music is excluded from the audio feed sent for the webcast.  

[BlueSki]

@ToddL Thanks, he does a great job with it. 

[Horton]

I hate to see my warhawks get so beat up but that Florian kid from ULL is next level. The way he rides his skis from the second wake to the ramp is the best thing I've seen so far today

[Cooper_Trelawney]

I just got home and got the broadcast going.  I see there's already 5 jumpers over 170 and a few in the 180s, fantastic!

@Horton your Warhawks really aren't that far off of the pace...several slalom scores at 38 off, early rotation jumps at 160, etc   It looks like Zane Nicholson has them moving in the right direction again.  It's great for college skiing when ULM is skiing strong.

Anyways, I'm ready to see some big jumps!

[Mateo_Vargas]

Why did they take the Day 2 video down? Trying to catch up

[Horton]

@Mateo_Vargas we think it was because of some silly music copyright issue. Yay YouTube! 

[Mateo_Vargas]

I didn't know that the Girls of Rollins College song was copyrighted?

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Alabama's men's jump team is an amazing collection of jumping talent.  Congrats to Will Roberts with the 193' for the win.

[ToddL]

Two teams dominated men's D1 jump. 

[kc]

As an Alabama fan, (my son’s alma mater), and a Midwesterner. I want to point out that the four Alabama jumpers who finished in the top eight, are all members of the “Midwest Air Force”, and are out of Illinois. They’re following in the footsteps of another jumper who cut his skiing teeth, in Illinois, at the P.I.T.S. Ski Club in Decatur. Some guy known as Freddy “The Nightmare” Krueger. 

[ToddL]

ULL

ULM

BAMA

[Luzz]

12 hours ago, Horton said:

I hate to see my warhawks get so beat up but that Florian kid from ULL is next level. The way he rides his skis from the second wake to the ramp is the best thing I've seen so far today

[Kelvin]

It looks like the Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner is the offending song for Day 2.  I'll try to get it cleaned up ASAP.

[BlueSki]

@Kelvin great work, and keep exposing those kids to Hendrix.  I had to explain it to some of them two years ago. 

[A_B]

I think ULL has won the last 4 Nationals.  

Annmarie W. has quietly won Nationals, Worlds, and now National Collegiate womens slalom titles this year.  

She got an unlucky draw at Pan Am games skiing in moring sun.  She said she couldn't even see the pre gates.  Not a good call making slalom skiers go out in known sun glare..  Wouldn't have won, but could have made final round, and then maybe podium if she skied up to her potential.

 

[ToddL]

[ToddL]

https://waterskiresults.com/Tournament/24U303/CM Overall Summary.pdf 

https://waterskiresults.com/Tournament/24U303/CW Overall Summary.pdf

https://waterskiresults.com/Tournament/24U304/CM Overall Summary.pdf 

https://waterskiresults.com/Tournament/24U304/CW Overall Summary.pdf

[Cooper_Trelawney]

Thanks @ToddLfor making the results convenient to find.👍

[Kelvin]

Day 2 sans Jimi Hendrix has been uploaded.  Day 2 on YouTube

[jcamp]

Thanks for the great livestream @Kelvin. My family watched a lot of it over the weekend. Go Mocs!

[jjackkrash]

Sucks we don't get any Jimi.  But thanks so much for getting this up and rolling.  

[Horton]

@Kelvin Amazing work with the webcast. 

[ToddL]

On 10/30/2023 at 1:00 PM, Kelvin said:

Day 2 sans Jimi Hendrix

We should have hired Griffin Stange to play it live.  
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.gonzales.790256/posts/pfbid02fzYuvz6j55DJqo7JsV8hRbDminD1tFZdeyAehkdfDH9wM3dwwyvwiW8t8yKH1NDsl

Maybe capture this video and cook it into the Day 2 video (take 3).

[dtrumbower]

What a fun tournament to be at! Day 3 had a live guitar spangle banner being played in the fog. You had to look hard to see it was live. 

@Kelvinfor  Thank you very much for the webcast and also being nice enough to email me my daughter's trick run. It has been a rough year for her tricking. Every tournament she started with a fall early on. 

The weather was outstanding and the talent was great to see. Not everyone gets to see Neily Ross and then hang out with her on the shore.
 

[ToddL]

4 hours ago, dtrumbower said:

live guitar spangle banner being played in the fog. You had to look hard to see it was live. 

Oh, snap!  I missed that!  It likely was Griffin!!!

[ToddL]

The video links in the original post seem to no longer be valid.  Here is a link to the playlist for all three days' videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4UaxtXYGLc&list=PLEKKfDsJOLQJgfe5GwxMXfLHuJOcx4OUP

 

[dtrumbower]

14 hours ago, ToddL said:

Oh, snap!  I missed that!  It likely was Griffin!!!

Wife took a little video of it.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9GoNPuMiWfrTki8s7