With fierce competitors, SuperPipe has made a grand resurgence in recent times. The SuperPipe is about 567 ft lengthy and 66 ft huge. The partitions attain a peak of twenty-two ft, sending riders launching over 35 ft above the bottom as they hyperlink methods collectively, striving for the proper run. The ladies’s and males’s fields every comprise eight riders who get two runs to rack up the very best rating, with the highest 4 scores transferring on to finals. There, factors reset to zero and the remaining skiers get two runs, with the very best single rating taking the gold.
Skiers in SuperPipe are judged on development, execution, issue, selection and amplitude.
This yr’s Males’s X-Video games Superpipe was completely stacked with heavy hitters like Aaron Blunk, Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper, Birk Irving and Hunter Hess, all going for gold. After a wild two-run playoff spherical, solely Alex Ferreira, Nick Goepper, Hunter Hess and X-Video games rookie Finley Melville-Ives survived to combat within the finals.
Alex Ferreira kicked off the Superpipe finals with a mind-blowing run that shot him straight to the highest of the leaderboard with an enormous rating of 90. However Nick Goepper got here to battle – he unleashed an insane first run, capping it off with a rightside 1080 right into a change Bio 9 that launched him into the lead with a 92.66. With all the pieces on the road in his closing run, Alex Ferreira went completely enormous, throwing down a rightside 1620 with an reverse tail seize on his final hit. He completely stomped the run and fired up the gang along with his signature pole twirl. When the numbers dropped, Alex had landed a 92 – simply .66 factors shy of the highest spot. With Nick seeded final to drop and never in a position to greatest his rating, he had formally claimed his 2025 X-Video games Superpipe Gold. It was time for a victory lap.
Again in 2023, Nick Goepper had walked away from Slopestyle with three X-Video games Golds below his belt and made the surprising change to halfpipe. Simply two years later, in his second X-Video games pipe look, he earned his fourth Gold medal. Final evening, Nick Goepper turned solely the third rider ever to overcome each Slopestyle and Superpipe. The final to do it was the legendary Tanner Corridor over 15 years in the past.
Alex Ferreira walked away with a silver medal, coming inside simply .66 factors of X-Video games gold. Hunter Hess rounded out an all-American podium with the bronze. I feel we witnessed the beginning of an epic rivalry between Alex Ferreira and Nick Goepper, and we had been excited for the 2026 X-Video games Superpipe.
You should definitely watch the highest podium runs and full occasion replay under!
🥇 Nick Goepper (USA) 92.66
🥈 Alex Ferreria (USA) 92.00
🥉 Hunter Hess (USA) 85.66
