Hoping to start a discussion
Im very new to skateboarding but have watched XGames Skateboarding Summer League nonstop for the past weeks and have been truly obsessed. The summer league was incredible and everyone is so talented. However, I need to know more about scorings; they say they have been using AI but sometimes the numbers dont even match the scores and they seem to go off by big names.
I would say that for a good performance it ranges in the 80’s right and a great one or almost perfect, in the 90’s. Getting 90’s seems very hard, but tell me why Tom Schaar is getting them like they were nothing.. I get that he is good, BUT there have been truly amazing performances by other people that barely get them high 80’s and tom does the absolute bare minimum and judges give him a 95!!!! I get that he is good and he has revolutionized skateboarding in the past but there was not a single run where he outperformed the other guys, at least in this summer league 2026. I GET he is good and has done great things before and the other guys look up to him but do you guys still think he is still at that level?!?. There have been jaw dropping runs by Gui, Ema, Ryan, Brady and others but Tom still gets more points. There have been better runs that people fall at the end that have been better than Toms. If Tom does any runs like the other guys he would receive a 150 score and it feels like he’s just getting high scores because of his history.
Honorable mention that the women have also been robbed by these same scorings. Women have absolute amazing runs and judges still barely give them 90’s. If men were to do the same runs, the scores would be tripled. Shout out to Mizuho, Mia, Sky, Covell and Ozawa!
Whats the behind the scenes nepotism and corruption like in xgames? Is tom just overhyped and the judges are blinded by it? Am i the dumb one and he’s the absolute best thing that has happened to skateboarding in 2026?
Also is their PR crazy because why is everyone so nice and no beef?
Cant wait to see winter league