Scotty Cranmer may have won Las Vegas and taken the park cup this year, but Dennis Enarson will be the most talked about (again) this year as he takes the dirt cup home and 2nd place on the park standings. Impressively, Enarson still took home the dirt cup after a fourth place finish in Las Vegas. His previous outstanding performances in dirt would prove helpful as he beats out 2nd place dirt finisher Brett Banasiewicz by a mere 10 points.

So, to recap the event specifically, Scotty Cranmer won park and truly came back onto the scene after his injury-prone season a few years ago. Nobody is wondering where he went anymore, as he takes home the overall Dew Tour cup for park this year. Dennis Enarson will take second in park which is quite fitting as he finished second to Scotty on the overall park standings as well. Daniel Dhers takes third in park for the championship event but after a lackluster year it only lands him in fifth place on the overall standings.

Continuing with park, Brett Banasiewicz finished fourth in Las Vegas and fourth on the year, a funny coincidence as results for this specific event often match results on the overall standings for park. So, unfortunately, the golden child will not finish a podium spot in park but he makes up for it on the dirt side of things. Kyle Baldock is an exception to the rule as he places fifth in Vegas which will boost his season standing to 3rd place, clutching a podium spot with his previous good performances this year.

Moving on to dirt, we already talked about this year's overall winner (Enarson) whom only took fourth place yesterday so we'll move on to the rest of the pack. Brett Banasiewicz takes third in Las Vegas and second overall this year. Luckily for him, he takes home some hardware after JUST missing out in park. Kyle Baldock will take home two pieces of hardware, his 3rd in park and another 3rd in dirt. He actually WON the dirt event in Vegas which boosted his lower season scores in to a podium spot.

Ben Wallance and Brandon Dosch also boost their scores this season to land in the top 5 in Vegas and on the overall tour. Wallace takes second in Vegas and Dosch takes 5th in Vegas. With this, Wallace boosted his placing to fourth on the year and Dosch held a steady fifth place on the tour to round out the top 5. I must mention how close the dirt standings were this year, as places 1-5 were all about 10 points difference each.

Over on the vert ramp, I have been WAITING for this to happen. Last year I thought it was Coco Zurita that would come up and challenge the household vert names, but this year it's up and comer Vince Byron. The podium spots were easily lost and gained and, even though Bestwick won yet ANOTHER vert cup, it was a close battle where Steve McCann gave Bestwick a serious run for his money. In Las Vegas, Vince Byron won the event, Steve McCann took second, and Jamie Bestwick took third. The overall tour results, however, will be flipped. Jamie Bestwick wins this year's vert cup, McCann takes second (he has to be tired of the number 2 by now), and Vince Byron takes home 3rd and sets a tone for the future of vert.

Jimmy Walker, whom topped off the vert semi finals, took fourth in Vegas and fifth place overall this year. In front of him on the standings was Simon Tabron who placed a disappointing seventh in Vegas but will remain in the top 5 standings after impressive finishes earlier this year. Again, the scores were incredibly close as the difference between first and third for the year was 10 points, meaning McCann was less than 10 points away from a win. Also, 4th and 5th place were 6 points apart! Amazing.



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The Toyota Challenge was an odd event this year as each event featured 2 of 3 disciplines, so one misses park, one misses vert, and one misses dirt, to even out the season. This particular event missed park, arguably the most popular discipline in BMX, and only featured vert and dirt but Salt Lake City LOVES some dirt so I doubt anyone was complaining.

Brett Banasiewicz came back hard from a slight losing streak from previous Dew Tours and X Games. He has always had the potential to do well in dirt and has a win under his belt but needed to step up his consistency to go with his big bangers, and that's exactly what he did. He pretty much displayed what can be done on a BMX bike on dirt jumps in one run, from barspins to tailwhips to spinning to flipping (the ultimate example being his signature "cashroll"). It was the epitome of a Dew Tour run and he was rewarded for it.

Dennis Enarson is another rider who can lay down a typical Dew Tour run like nobody else, and would do so to earn second place. What earns him the extra points is his technicality and creativity, linking odd tricks and bringing new things to the table. Brandon Dosch landed in third with a solid run but may have been a bit overscored as everything looked forced, meaning not stylish.

There were definitely some riders going HUGE that didn't place well due to lack of consistency between all the sets such as Kyle Baldock and Jaie Toohey. Luckily for them, this event featured a best trick event on one big booter jump set up at night's end. It looked pretty rough as there probably wasn't as much time to get used to the jump and BAD slams were taken left and right. Buckworth tried a double front and landed flat on his back and Baldock was throwing no-handed double flips. Despite the falls, some of the gnarliest tricks ever attempted were going down from triple whip flips to nothing-double whips to no-handed cashrolls! In the end, however, it was Baldock's 3 down whip to oppo double whip that took the gold. It's like a windshield wiper plus one inside of a 360. Complex enough for you?

If that wasn't exciting enough, big things were happening on the vert ramp Sunday night. Jamie Bestwick has been on the Dew Tour for 7 years, racking up 23 wins, and a LOT of those wins have been in a row for the past two years, sweeping both seasons. This event, however, it was not about Jamie Bestwick. Steven McCann has been knocking on the door every event and it was only a matter of time before McCann's bigger tricks caught up with Bestwick's unmatchable style/height. This is like McCann's breakthrough year, after a win at X Games Big Air and now this. He definitely sealed the deal with a no-handed 900 that Hoffman would be proud of.

Despite not winning the event, Jamie Bestwick would take second with his signature tricks at height. Vince Byron put on a performance that I see easily beating Bestwick next event and maybe even McCann for that matter. Once Byron develops more consistent, action-packed runs he'll be a threat to McCann's energy boost of finally capturing first at a Dew Tour event.

So, with that said, see you in Las Vegas next month to find out who takes homes the big money and Dew Tour cup this year!



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Unfortunately, one of the best riders to do it on the mega ramp and last year's champion, Chad Kagy, came down hard on his leg and would only complete a run worthy of third place earning him the bronze medal. This made the race for gold quite exciting, however, as it seemed to be anyone's game with Kagy only completing a "safety run" (a run to secure a solid score, usually as a first run, to allow for a back-up score in case of not landing more difficult runs).

And so that race began. Jed Mildon cased on a double flip and wasn't able to piece together a solid run from then on, landing in 6th. Colton Satterfield laid down a solid run consisting of Dave Mirra's invention, the no-handed 360 flip, and a no-handed flair but both lacked in the height and originality department so he was underscored to 5th. Anthony Napolitan laid down an expected no-handed double frontflip but for the second year in a row failed to flip, spin, or whip the quarter and was therefore underscored to 4th. Chad Kagy's flip-whip to flair whip combo landed him in 3rd. Vince Byron upped the ante with a double-whip flip and a no-handed flair at height with a sketchy, flat landing to earn the silver medal.

All said and done, however, it's Steve McCann who takes home the gold medal with a run consisting of a double frontflip (with no variation) and a double tailwhip on the quarter. The difference is he picked some solid tricks and did them with height and textbook style. The Big Air event has become a talent show to display never-been-done-before maneuvers for BMX but in the end who actually wins the event? Those who landed tricks to the pedals and completed runs. Better write that down Jed and Anthony.

Jamie Bestwick achieved something no other athlete in X Games history has done by winning his 5th straight gold medal in BMX Vert, which is also the 8th of his career. Friday's win is already considered one of his most impressive considering the 40-year-old BMX legend fought off a brilliant charges by Australians Steve McCann and Vince Byron.

McCann, 28, came into the vert competition looking for his second gold medal of these X Games after winning last night's BMX Big Air comp in dramatic fashion.

Meanwhile Byron represents a new generation of BMX stars ascending the ranks. The kid from Brisbane is half Bestwick's age.

Official Results

1. Jamie Bestwick 45 + 42 = 87

2. Steve McCann 45 + 36 = 81

3. Vince Byron 42 +31 = 73

4. Simon Tabron 38 + 31 = 69

5. Jimmy Walker 31 + 29 = 60

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Jamie Bestwick is big number for same big number in Dew Tour vert. I can't recall the last stop he lost but that's not what's important. What's important is that Vince Byron didn't ride and this stop was close to being the one that Bestwick did not dominate. However, he did. Of course.

Jamie Bestwick... was just Jamie. Higher than anybody, further across than anybody, more difficulty than anybody. Even with an outstanding run by Simon, Jamie seems so far above the rest of the field. Tabron's still biting at his heels though. Simon Tabron earned 2nd place with a clean 900 and a slew of technical 540 variations and stylish tricks at height. Steven McCann took 3rd place with similarly high and difficult walls but lacks the unique bangers like Simons' 9 or Jamie's flair downside thing.

The rest of the field went like this:
4. Jimmy Walker
5. Coco Zurita
6. Chad Kagy
7. Austin Coleman
8. Zack Warden
9. Dennis McCoy
10. Vince Byron (didn't ride)



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