🏆 2022 Build of the Year - Planning

Build Of The Year
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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 @Flyboy’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 don’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 aren’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 don’t have long enough bolts to use them all anyway

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Derail Jail 2022

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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 haven’t seen nothin’ 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

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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 it’s a big jump to rank a street urethane setup like this:

To this:

You see what I mean? They’re just in a different class I feel.
If you want to get tricky we could add a park urethane class also… 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 you’ve identified.

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The reason last year’s categories were hardware-agnostic is because it’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. I’m always happy to pitch in.

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I’ll pitch in as well

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I can donate a thing :+1:

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just a thought, for the sake of easier management without the categories being too general to exclude niche builds, why don’t we have two tiers of awards? A rewarded-tier consisting of the three basic categories somewhat like thane street/suburban vehicle/off-roading, and then a rewardless fame-tier that has a bunch of niche stuff such as lightest, fastest, widest, etc…

I’ve been working on too much shit to throw in a build this year that would have any chance of winning. There is something cooking though…

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