๐Ÿ† 2022 Build of the Year - Planning

Personally I think the 3 category was great. Once you get more than that, itโ€™s really dilluted

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1: Innovation

2: Performance and reliability

3: Creativity

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  1. Waterproofing and Durability

  2. Meme

  3. Niche

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  1. most versatile

  2. lightest mofo

  3. i-dont-know-what-this-is-but-it-flys

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  1. Butt clenching speed

  2. Versatile Transformer

  3. Stealth Bomber

Some sort of 3 categories sounds good to me

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I nominate @Flyboyโ€™s Orbital anyways. Flag me your Duckchess.

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Alternatively, tallest build but you gotta measure from the center of the deck. Top of the deck material only so people donโ€™t just stack boxes in the middle of the board.

I am 100% just suggesting a category where I am the only one who actively wants that feature and enjoys it :rofl:

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Think @b264 might give you a run for your money on this one

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I can add at least another inch to my height without even going to the skate store right now :rofl: the bolts would look a bit dumb but I could do it if I needed to. Could also go a buy out all the half inch risers at my local store since they arenโ€™t even popular to begin with. I would not buy all the other risers though since those are used often and it would be rude to buy them all. And I donโ€™t have long enough bolts to use them all anyway

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should I

redo my build thread? or continue it :face_with_monocle:

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Most unobtainium build :grin:

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I reckon @Ace has that one in the bag

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You havenโ€™t seen nothinโ€™ yet :grin:

Just thought of another one

How in DA HAIL did u FIT all that in a PENNY BOARD? (aka most micro-build)

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@Evwan already got that

I was thinking

Urethane street
Pneumatic/tire street
Offroad

Pretty simple and leaves a lot of discretion up to voters on factoring in reliability, performance, etc.
I feel like urethane boards should probably have their own class now though, since itโ€™s a big jump to rank a street urethane setup like this:

To this:

You see what I mean? Theyโ€™re just in a different class I feel.
If you want to get tricky we could add a park urethane class alsoโ€ฆ but those 3 above seem pretty good for now.

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Drawing the boundaries will always be fuzzy here, but maybe we could be a little more precise by saying the distinction is longboard/shortboard decks/trucks VS. MTB decks/trucks. The wheels are secondary to the vibes youโ€™ve identified.

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The reason last yearโ€™s categories were hardware-agnostic is because itโ€™s kinda impossible to draw clear lines around different hardware types in this hobby. Separating the categories by usecase (as defined by the builder) completely eliminates the rules-lawyering and arguing about what hardware may have been on the build at some point through the year, etc.

Just makes way fewer headaches for me, because I dont want to be in charge of judging which boards quality for which categories.

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Make it the easiest on you bro.
Seems like anything more than 3 categories is just chaos.

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Yeah, keep it simple. Let me know when you start rounding up prizes. Iโ€™m always happy to pitch in.

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