Full Recap – Crew Sweden Secures Fourth Title in 2024 Scandinavian Crew Battle

Featured Picture: Joachim Clausen Hansen

One other summer time means one other version of the Scandinavian Crew Battle at CopenHill. The out of doors occasion, which takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, was completely electrical in its fourth version, each metaphorically and actually since CopenHill provides clear vitality to town. Regardless of grand efforts from each crew, it was Crew Sweden who walked away with the win. This cemented them because the undefeated champions, as they’ve now gone 4 for 4, profitable each Crew Battle for the reason that occasion’s conception. The riders, climate and course have been all unpredictable, ever-changing and performative in the very best methods. That is far out of your common slopestyle competitors, so we’ll provide the rundown.

This 12 months’s occasion had just a few modifications, however the format remained the identical. 5 groups, every from a special nation, competed with two skiers per workforce. They rode the course as a pair, tapping out and in from the number of options that have been laid all through the inexperienced, turf-covered run. The groups are listed beneath:

🇸🇪 TEAM SWEDEN: Jesper Tjäder & Emil Granbom

🇳🇴 TEAM NORWAY: Johan Berg & Mikkel BK

🇩🇰 TEAM DENMARK: Jakob Ebskamp & Isabella Tvede

🇫🇮 TEAM FINLAND: Harald Hellström & Elias Syrja

🇦🇹 TEAM INNSBRUCK: Lisa Zimmerman & Tereza Korábová

So far as the variations between this 12 months and final, the options have been a giant one. This 12 months’s course was by far essentially the most intricate and attention-grabbing one we’ve seen. Probably the most memorable options, such because the quarter pipe and wall experience to down rail, have been saved round, with new editions added all through together with extra rail choices, moveable elements and even a tiny pool. Sure, you learn that proper. Try the immersive photograph gallery beneath for additional proof.

With loads of time and immense expertise, every workforce needed to get artistic with how they attacked the course. At one level Emil Granbom jumped into the swimming pool himself making his skis into a pleasant switch rail for his Swedish teammate Jesper Tjäder to experience. Mikkel BK of Crew Norway went greater than anyone else, tapping Johan Berg’s skis whereas holding an umbrella on the identical time. It was as if Marry Poppins and Pink Bull drew up the playbook. The Fins Elias Syrja and Harald Hellström thought outdoors the field and created a brand new rail themselves utilizing one of many fences meant to manage the group.

The occasion had scattered cloud cowl all through the vast majority of the two-hour showdown, and with quarter-hour left, the rain started to pour. This discouraged neither the group nor the riders, nonetheless, because it merely greased up the astroturf run and gave extra pace to the riders. As talked about above, Mikkel BK utilized this to his benefit and boosted into the stratosphere to finish the day, sending the group right into a frenzy. However even with the quantity of fashion and creativity, Crew Sweden couldn’t be stopped. The judges testified that, “they principally nailed each run all through all the day,” and, with their signature tandem backflips, they stole the present as soon as once more.

“This format is such a sick and enjoyable strategy to get artistic along with your teammate, and I feel it does an ideal job of as showcasing snowboarding to an viewers who almost definitely doesn’t know that a lot concerning the sport coming into it.” – Jakob Ebskamp, Scandinavian Crew Battle Occasion Organizer and skier on Crew Denmark

There’s no must cry in the event you couldn’t make it to the occasion. Photographers Joachim Clausen Hansen, Jesper Grønnemark and Carl Ulslev Degn have been on the bottom and snapped a jaw-dropping assortment of photographs which can be (nearly) nearly as good as the actual deal. Due to the organizers, workers, crowd and riders for placing on one other iconic version of the Scandi Crew Battle at CopenHill.

PHOTO: Carl Ulslev Degn

PHOTO: Jesper Grønnemark

PHOTO: Joachim Clausen Hansen