After three amazing initial rounds, Crashed Ice reaches the final, the pinnacle of the calendar in Québec, Canada. In 2010, Martin Neifnecker was crowned champion here, but he's already out of the running, allowing new challengers to compete. It's fast and furious, and soon to be over, so make the most of the final Crashed Ice of the 2011 season.

Credit: Jörg Mitter/Red Bull Crashed Ice
Claudio Caluori, Fabian Mels, Ghyslain Hotte and Kilian Braun during qualifying in Canada.
In previous rounds, we've seen the fast Finn Arttu Pihlainen absolutely dominate out of the gates, leading almost every single race he competes in. The Canadian brothers Kyle and Scott Croxall remained in contention, however Scott has fallen far behind thanks to a couple of controversial incidents. He's been disqualified from no less than two races at two different events, allowing his brother to streak ahead.
You'd be a fool for thinking Pihlainen won't do it, but anything can happen on the slippery slopes, and you can't count anyone out.
Position | Name | Country | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Arttu Pihlainen | Finland | 2800 |
2 | Kyle Croxall | Canada | 2500 |
3 | Scott Croxall | Canada | 1590 |
4 | Lukas Kolc | Czech Republic | 1250 |
5 | Kilian Braun | Switzerland | 1220 |
6 | Lari Joutsenlahti | Finland | 1080 |
7 | Fabian Mels | Germany | 890 |
8 | Michael Prochazka | Czech Republic | 880 |
9 | Louis-Philippe Dumoulin | Canada | 810 |
9 | Reto Maeder | Switzerland | 760 |
The racing gets underway at half past midnight in the UK, so I hope you can stay up and enjoy the racing with us. Red Bull are streaming all the action via Red Bull TV. It's been incredible to watch so far, and the final is going to be even better.
This starts in half an hour?
Yup.
I need more screens and eyes and FBFBs.
I think I need more lives
i can't do two things, so i'm gonna watch crashed ice and then switch back over when done.
How long does it last? I am thinking of having two streams running but having sound from Crashed Ice and concentrating on it
hour and a bit, may be longer cause of the final.
Thanks
On Lous phone to watch comments, go take heikki!!
Yay! We'll have to do good commentary.
I'm confident it will be great :)
Evening all. I'm looking forward to this...
our house is chaos. too many screens, too much tech. madness.
I think we all knew that
it's usually organised chaos....... this isn't. fun tho.
we're live!
Woooo! My brain is going to explode but I love it!
Expert run.
Big downhill bit.
90 degree corner.
Two ways to go, like last year.
helmet cam.
there's a tunnel!
Uphill bit.
My feed is a bit stop/starty
I may stop the Sebring feed to see if that helps
oooh, i remember that.
Bridge type bit and the end.
feed is great here. better than sebring has been all day.
Sounds like a great circuit!
That course looks brilliant!
gate didn't open!!!
Gate fail for yellow
someone got screwed, by a dodgy start gate.
Red goes over the bumps on his bum!
And over again!
Yellow got through in the end, despite the gate! Amazing.
They should have called a false start.
situation under discussion at the bottom.
Kyle in red for this heat.
good star this time
Red didn't get out first but is getting there.
Just noticed a 180 turn precedes the 90. Tough course.
Croxall leads.
kyle leads.
croxall and andre go through.
Feed works much better when I close 40 Firefox tabs and just run what I need in chrome
Braun in blue. Kolc in red.
lots of new names this week.
hehehehehe
silver fallen over
Blue leading easy.
only braun standing...
Red makes it.
seems to be a tricky course, everyone tackling it on their arses.
The human giant slide race? :)
it's like a big water slide :)
dumolain is in blue for this one.
blue leads easily.
3nd, 3rd and 4th cross the line on their backsides.
All three came across the line down.
*2nd
season recap.
Hi all this is the first time ive watched crashed ice and so far its been awesome
hey there tim. this is only our 5th race :)
Only my second
Someone called Nuttley.
Don't know any of these ones.
red & silver lead. someone called nutely in 4th.
yellow down.
crash at the end.
Blue bowled silver down into the wall at the end. Ouch!
Red = fake-Heikki.
go phelinen!
fake heikki leads!
second finn in 2nd.
Go on lad :)
Off he goes into the distance.
leading by miles.
blue leads best of the rest. go 2nd finn.
Fake Heikki wins
silver nicks 2nd.
Fake Heikki is just too good
Woop!
title still up for grabs, but he won't lose this now.
Scottie boy in red. Wait for the DQ :)
Is he the new iceman? (apologies if someone else has made that joke)
Croxhall - heard that name before
Kyle and Scott. Brothers.
There are two Croxhalls (brothers). This one's been dsq'd twice this year...
haha
scott = 2nd.
no idea how scott lost that lead, but he's though anyhow.
Niefnecker
Neify in red!
alanis in this one.
alanis is in yellow.
Neify leading for now.
WOO!
It will never last.
alanis comes in third.
Niefy wins
crowd of 110,000 today.
Amazing for this kind of event
some talking heads montage now, while the climb back to the top of the course.
hosting in the middle of a city is such a good idea.
I wonder how long before they decide to let them loose on a bobsleigh run
hehe, that would be mental.
So Scott and Neify in the same heat again. Last time that's where the DQ came from. Oops.
Kyle in red again.
So Fake Heikki, Niefy and one Croxhall should meet in one of the semis
Getting ahead of myself
Kyle leading.
kyle 2nd.
kyle is there. could 1st or 2nd :)
LEADING.
christine was correct. #badmrc
Leading
dumolan in blue.
go, go, go.
Canadian in silver
first gate got stuck!!!
Riders?
That was a false start if ever I saw one.
what is wrong with that gate?
leader falls.
How do the guys who get the bad start catch up so fast?
I think it was an attempted jump start that the gate blocked...
1,2,3 very close!
ahh.
yeah, massive jump start.
Nice technology
jump starter was disqualified anyhow.
If it was F1 it would take another half hour
TRUE!
Lots of shots of people falling over while we wait for the next heat...
fake heikki is up for this one.
Fake Heikki in red
heikki in red.
great start and he's in the lead.
Heikki leads
Blink and he'll be finished.
again battle is already for 2nd place :)
yellow falls.
I did - he wasn't
Blue actually quite close.... relatively speaking.
You are a few seconds ahead of me
Try again.
lavrov comes home in second. fake heikki wins but not by miles.
It woked
worked
:) :) :)
Scott and Niefy
Fake Hekki's next race is with Scott Croxall. Croxall can't win the championship, but he could hold fake hekki up for his brother...
Niefy in blue
Scott red
Kyle yellow, Neify blue, Kyle red, who knows silver.
Big heat.
3rd base?
Scott red.
I meant the other Croxhall. Need to pay more attention to first names...
red falls.
Scott down
Niefy leads
Scott fail.
scott in 4th now.
Come on Neify.
scott in SECOND?!
x2
Woooo!
Neify's first semi-final of the season!
i think the commentator got that wrong?
So Niefy, Scott and Fake Heikki in the same semi
First time I have watched him
kyle fell and went to 4th. scott stayed in 2nd, right?
Was he last year's champ?
yup
Thought so. Hasn't really been his year, has it?
women's run next.
awful defence.
Yellow down
women all still standing.
oh
hehe
what happened to silver?
ouch, silver went down hard. made it home though.
There is a female Fake Heikki?
more women's running. am gonna back yellow cause she's very tall.
never had a women's race before.
yellow leads.
blue and red hit each other.
Finn is second
blue falls again. no sig of silver.
The ladies seem less keen on falling down. Bit more dainty about it all :)
Can you be dainty with all that padding and helmets?
Kyle in red
Dumoulin in yellow
braun in silver
andreas in blue
croxall kyle in red
dumolain in ywllow
Did he not just retire from Sebring? Crossing the streams
hehehehehe
playing 'house of pain' over the speakers. start is taking a while
GO
go, go, go
huge crash for silver
Kyle 1st
LPD 2nd
KYLE!
3rd and 4th a long way back
need to see that crash again.
Just home, is it still on and is there a Justin link?
Kyle needs to win the final with Fake Heikki last
for kyle to take the title, he must win and fake heikki must come no higher than 4th.
live video: http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Red-Bull-Web-TV/001242832270051
http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Red-Bull-Web-TV/001242832270051
Neify yellow.
Fake-Heikki in blue. BLUE. Weird.
Scottie in red.
bad omen?
Niefy yellow
Fake Heikki Blue
Scott red
Loser silver
massive start for fake heikki
neify is last
Scott checked Niefy
fake heikki is walking it.
lavrov 2nd!
Scott out
NEIFY WHY ARE YOU SO RUBBISH
Figured as much. Cheers
Forced Flash relocation
*trudges downstairs*
Niefy last
aww
Scott pushed him. Looked like he stuck his hand in Niefy's face and that is why Niefy lost his position
we're watching... who now?
christ, they're all over the place.
These guys look so slow. I guess they always had flat ice
retired ice hockey players I think...
is it hockey people?
Ex-ice hockey players
cheers chris.
is there a stanley cup in ice hockey then?
That is the trophy they play for
S'ok
Am just bored of Flash video now. hurry up and become extinct
Am live and cheering now :D
There was a woman racing those hockey players?? Seems unfair
And it is a huge trophy. Only hockey players can lift it
women's final now. still backing yellow.
I think now we've got the final of the female races from earlier
wasn't there one in nascar?
Did Sebring non-video kill the interest?
yellow takes an early lead.
Blue is the Finn
No. They have the Sprint Cup that used to be the Nextel Cup and before that it was a lot more famous as the Winston Cup
red falls, and is last.
wait, yellow is last. i blinked. what happened?
No. Video is fine. Gene taking himself and McNish out killed the interest
ANd Lamy taking over Frank's car and dropping it at the first corner he arrived at
oooh yes.
There's plenty of interest.
interest in what? the server's overloaded at the moment!
There's a consolation final
yup. mini final.
I've Sebring on a Justin iPad and Crashed Ice on the Mac
#Poised
So we get more Niefy
espn3.com stream is fine for me ;)
And there's a corvette in second, so that makes me pretty happy.
Seems fine now. Too little, too late?
The video was only an issue for about half an hour
sebring got better after i had a hissy fit.
crashed ice has been perfect from the word go.
Slightly smaller audience?
waaaay more professional.
neify in blue, croxall in red.
Andreas- Yellow
Bruan- Silver
Scott- Red
Niefy- Blue
riders ready!
GoNiefy
RedBull seem to do media well
Scott takes the lead and loses it again
360 for scott
Niefy wins
scott second i think
"small final"
odd.
photo finish and scott gets it.
that's the best neify has done all season. steven should watch more :)
2nd, that is.
Kyle - Blue
Fake Heikki - Red
LPD - Silver
Lavrov - Yellow
fake heikki back in red this time
H.U.G.E final
Kyle needs to win and Heikki 4th, otherwise it's Arttu for the win.
GOOOOOOO
GO!
fake heikki leads
FakHeikki leads
croxall in 3rd, got nothing.
Easy win
ARTU WIIIIIIIIIINS
Woo!
It's like Amy's dreams. Finn wins chapionship
Best make the most of it, won't happen again for a while :D
i ♥ speed sporting.
Giggles TV needs to shift to these guys' servers
Flawless
:)
It needs more races though
Threepio must be over joyed
this is how you do live streaming.
Definitely. Bet it doesn't come cheap though
Well done R2
they gave him a second-hand car as a prize?
There's a recession on, don't ya knbow ;)
heh
Infinitis are needed for F1 promos
Amazingness.
cheers all for commenting this season. we shall be back with more crashed ice commenting in december.
They need a southern hemisphere championship in the summer
Really enjoyed that
same. so manic, but so good.