Finland plays host to the first round of the epic Crashed Ice tournament, a hectic fast-paced downhill race where four skaters battle to make it through to the next round. Over bumps, round corners, up and over jumps all the while going as fast as possible and avoiding contact with a fellow racer, Crashed Ice is exhilarating and exciting from start to finish. The Serena Ski Resort's permanent ice cross track is our destination as the brand new World Championship gets underway.
Crashed Ice, Round 1 - Helsinki
Published by Christine Blachford on
I am fully into winter sport mode woooooo
Liking the revamped Crashed Ice site. Lots of extra info about the skaters http://www.redbullcrashedice.com/en_INT/athlete/scott-croxall
I like that theres brothers. I like brothers in sport.
Woohoooooooooo!
Plus I can watch it all without falling asleep
Yay for Neify!
There are at least two sets, I think.
Also fake Heikki
maybe real Heikki should take it up, he's got a lot of free time these days
I think he's be good, the rets of finland seems to take part in this :)
I think fake Heikki is still retired.
Nooooo :(
I fell asleep too much
booo i thought id make it but im suddenly super tired. eyelids....heavy...
you are feeling... veeeeeeery... WAKE UP AMY!
zzzz
i feel your sleepy fail
Hello all
Been looking at the Round of 64 heats, looks like Callum Boyd qualified. Nice to see a Brit in there. http://www.redbullcrashedice.com/en_INT/results
Hi janna :)
have they done the 64 already then?
No, it shows the heats ready for them to add the results following the elimination (yesterday?)
ah-ha! was worried i'd missed already :)
by the looks of things the whole event is live on red bull tv, but the round of 32 is also on bt sport.
(i think).
wow, do red bull have their own tv channel, they are ruthless, ruthless advertisers.
own channel - http://www.redbull.tv/
we've got it on the apple tv, but there's also an app and you can view in your browser. all for free.
Watching on the iPad app.
May switch to BT later just to see what they do with it.
US people get screwed though, geoblocked, will be on Fox Sports tomorrow morning.
Aww, the countdown hit zero and changed to Live Soon. Silly countdown to nothing.
total madness.
Just refreshed & got the feed
oh so its an extreme sport type channel. glad its not a 24 hour seb vettel highlights show.
don't think i;ve ever seen f1 on it.
Not working on the app, but the snowboarding one is
I'm watching on Red Bull TV :-)
Kyle in this one
direct link - http://live.redbull.tv/events/324/red-bull-crashed-ice-2014-helsiniki-finland/
They need this event in The Jump.
Oh no, looks like Scotty has long hair again.
Finally settled down!
Braun! I remember him.
Interesting they're talking about peeps putting on weight over winter. Oppositeland to F1.
Twisty circuit this one.
I see a helmet camera on the ice
Uh oh, I think that chap hurt himself :(
go pro down!
Moriarty!!!
I hope moriarty wins. The game is on.
Love all the bright colours.
Woohoooooooooo!
cheers, first time ive seen this crashed ice, its like a cross between ice skating and bobsled.
Don't know any of the names in this one.
I like the sign at the start.
FIN.
LAND.
the land of fins.
Skube dube doo.
Is dragging the bloke down legal...
I like one is called Scooby
Photo finnish.
Hope he gets through :)
Those trousers!
So close..
Feet first, so he turns his feet away :)
Thanks. I'm updating the app. It is taking forever. Someone seems to have drugged my ipad, so slow.
Argh, he fell the wrong way.
There are judges who decide
alanis!!
:D
You're not supposed to but incidental contact is allowed.
As long as you do it subtly, or in traffic, you'll get away with it.
Tony Heikkinen?
Heikki merged into one word
Oh, heikkila.
Alanis didn't get through.
alanis is going home.
is.
Don't show Tilke that hairpin, he'll start putitng steps in his hairpins
"The ugliest helmet in the sport." Hehe.
Auerswald hung back & nailed that one
Ugly helmet got through by dint of staying on his feet. Love it.
Taru was shoving everyone there. And then he went down. Just desserts.
Don't crash!
he looks like chris hemsowrth's james hunt
Oooh, a finnish celebrity.
i likes floor cam.
Love that skate view!
close one!
I still think the ref is going to say "Gladiators ready" after he says "riders ready"
:)
"contenders ready!"
we need a crystal maze based track!
Weee!
This feet first thing is really coming into play today.
so close!!!
Niefy!
Niefy's up.
Easy for the nief.
He was niefer in doubt.
:)
When they fall I always wince how close the skates get to the fingers
why are the crowd wearing crash helmets?
go boyd!
aww, last,
Those other two didn't stand a chance with Wedge and Naasz there.
Oh... signal loss
Feed back & Jackson 5
Oops technical difficulties.
live on bt sport now.
The Red Bull iPad app worked after an update, but it was exactly 60 seconds behind the web feed. Having a look at BT now. They've added a US-like crawler of footie scores underneath.
HD crashed ice :)
Looks like some are sledging on the hill, maybe the crash helmets are for that?
ahh okay
I think BT maybe half a minute behind.
Maybe that was the technical difficulties, hooking up to TV.
we have BT Sport about 10 seconds ahead of web flash feed, which is 40 secs ahead of ipad app.
Fascinating to see their different training. That guy was on a wooden path through the forest on rollerskates.
Speaking of BT, round 2 of WRC is next week. Rally Sweden. Proper snow rally, hopefully.
Racing line has appeared
Dedication.
yay
That's what you need ;)
like the live explanation.
Love these track guides helmetcams
Dumoulin out already
Those first couple of corners look really bumpy
If Scott qualifies Croxalls together in QF
Eek!
Scooby v. Moriarty
Heikkila goes through for Lukeh.
Would you believe it's Heikkkila - too many kkk for one name
Ooh, so it is! That's just greedy :)
I've had to give up. The internet at this house is not happy at all.
Which worries me a lot for the F1 :/
...and indycar.
don't think i've ever heard a good thing about sky's broadband :(
It was them or talktalk. Lesser of two evils!
Those blue trousers look like jeans. It's confusing me.
Fisher looks like he's wearing jeans (or perhaps jeggings)
I agree
fibre upgrade an option?
Ouch.
Nah, not coming into the housing estate yet
4g it is then!
This looks like it could be a tough round. Niefy and Mater and Haywood.
The Winter Olympics has skiiing and snowboard versions of this so those will be worth watching :)
Huh, Niefy and the one I didn't know go through!
I don't think they have ice cross though
Brilliant!
Champ Wedge is up.
http://www.alpineelements.co.uk/community/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Oliver-Kraus.jpg
wedge batters someone!
under review
I remember him doing that last year. Not so much the battering but sitting back and then sweeping through before the end.
Wow pushed him over
Wedge disqualified
Kinda looks like the other guy didn't leave a car width though.
yellow guy went down by himself
Or used him as a brake :)
dq'd!
:)
Snowboard looks fun
A long season! 3 more of these
bliss :)
Team event looks amazing, so many people
Croxall vs Croxall
Blimey. I so thought the wrong Croxall was at the back but Kyle goes out!
And fell over at the end too. Oops.
Heikkimanyks through again.
Man in jeans is back
Everyone falls over!
That was chaotic!
Living The Dream down to one man left in the competition
looks like a wide line at the hairpin is safer.
Semi finals now. Important stuff.
I know they're always chilly, but the people here look properly cold.
Scotty and Mels into the final.
scotty!
Dallago was going so well earlier as well
high jump to finish.
Was just having a look to see what they earn from the competition and found the rule book for this year http://www.redbull.com/cs/userfiles/file/RBCI_Athletes_Handbook2014.pdf
As it turns out the overall winner gets 13,000 Euros
The other Dallago. Way confusing :)
naasz not happy
That confused me
Ooh, argument at the finish line.
"You have to use your feet to establish position not your arms."
I didn't see anything?
Wow he's out. I thought he'd win the final.
Ooh they do have some shoving.
all the way down. let im go!
No brothers together in the final, wonder if we will see that this year
approve of competitors interviewing each other
4 different nationalities also
This looks sooo slow
Interviewing someone we didn't see go down the track.. BT were on an adbreak
bit weird that. really like the convenience of bt, but less happy with all the ads.
who's your money on?
Would like Croxall
Not a good starting gate for Scotty Scotterson.
Croxall, but Mels could come through.
Croxall down
noooooo!
what happened?!
The other Dallago was miles ahead.
Wow! Dallago!
Lots of side by side, elbows
"He would have to lose a leg for these guys to catch up with him" :)
total loss of balance. oops.
Handy points though, they say.
enjoyed that return very much. yay for crashed ice.
Oh wait, that guy's French? Interesting.
Thanks for the commenting guys. See you in the middle of the night for the next one.
heh
awesome!
Fun stuff. I think I prefer the longer courses though.
Good that the next one is the 8th. No clashing Sebring/Aussie GP this year. ;)
I think they have bigger champagne bottles this year. Crashed Ice splashing out.
Definitely enjoyed it being on at a sensible time :)
Loved it, thanks peoples.
I just got in and found out that this was already finished. I had no idea it was on so early. Why can't they have them all in the missdle of the night when it is convenient.
start time has been on the sidebar for about a month!
next one is in your timezone.
I just see Crashed Ice and assume it will be around midnight because it almost always is. Had I realised it was on BY Sport I would have recorded it.
ahh shoot. is it on catch up?
It will be repeated. Everything gets repeated. Either that or I will find it on Red Bull TV.
The thing is though unless it is live it is not the same. Only 3 weeks to the next round anyway so no problem
the skiing is my favourite because they crash in far more spectacular fashion
For anyone who missed Crashed Ice live it is repeated on BT Sport 2 at 5:15pm. This time i have it set to record.
The second one race finishes they are back at the top for the next one. Speed sporting has gone too far
are you watching the edited version? it wasn't that fast for us.
It was BT Sport's re-run supposedly but clearly it was massively editted.