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 Supercross is back again. Feld (the promoter) has dumped the FIM endorsement (who are now working to create their own separate international Supercross series). And since everything about the pandemic is fine, we’re back to a normal schedule with the first race at Anaheim! What is supercross?  It’s motocross, but crammed inside an American football or baseball stadium. There are 2 classes, by engine size: 450 and 250cc four strokes. 250 is the intro class, with riders as young as 16, and is broken down into an East and West championship (based approximately on which state the race is in). The race format is below:  SX themselves wrote up a good primer here So why should I watch? If bikes doing big jumps isn’t enough for you, the racing is generally pretty close. No one bike or team dominates, so at the beginning of the season, it really is anyone’s championship. Plus the riders can be a bit more… aggressive than in sport bike series (  )Riders to watch  Cooper Webb: The reigning champion. He switched up his training regimen over the off season and is no longer working with Aldon Baker. Baker trained 15 out of the past 21 champions, so we’ll see how that turns out for Webb. Also, he sucks and I hate him.  Eli Tomac: The 2020 champion, and almost champion many other times. This year he switched from Kawasaki to Yamaha. Generally inconsistent in the beginning of the season, then suddenly blitzes everyone in the end.  Ken Roczen: A 250 champion, but has yet to win a 450 championship. He’s had some pretty gnarly crashes over the years, and last year blamed his performance on some mystery illness. Maybe this year he can get out of his own head and win. I won’t break down the 250 riders since it’s split into 250 East and West divisions. The Lawrence brothers have created a stir by being crazy Aussies whenever they’re interviewed. Anyone on Star Racing Yamaha is also a good bet to win. Here's a full team breakdown This includes all the factory teams plus some of the smaller teams. Not included are the privateers who show up in personal vans and try to qualify. The Schedule:
Round 2 Saturday, January 15 - Oakland, CA | RingCentral Coliseum Round 3 Saturday, January 22 - San Diego, CA | Petco Park Round 4 Saturday, January 29 - Anaheim, CA | Angel Stadium Round 5 Saturday, February 5 - Glendale, AZ | State Farm Stadium Round 6 Saturday, February 12 - Anaheim, CA | Angel Stadium Round 7 Saturday, February 19 - Minneapolis, MN US Bank Stadium Round 8 Saturday, February 26 - Arlington, TX | AT&T Stadium Round 9 Saturday, March 5 - Daytona Beach, FL | Daytona Intl. Speedway Round 10 Saturday, March 12 - Detroit, MI | Ford Field Round 11 Saturday, March 19 - Indianapolis, IN | Lucas Oil Stadium Round 12 Saturday, March 26 - Seattle, WA | Lumen Field Round 13 Saturday, April 9 - St. Louis, MO Dome at America’s Center Round 14 Saturday, April 16 - Atlanta, GA Atlanta Motor Speedway Round 15 Saturday, April 23 - Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium Round 16 Saturday, April 30 - Denver, CO | Empower Field at Mile High Round 17 Saturday, May 6 - Salt Lake City, UT | Rice-Eccles Stadium Where the hell do I watch it? If you’re not in the US, buy this handy streaming package. At least it’s cheaper than MotoGP. If you are in the US, the $4.99 Peacock streaming package has all the practice, qualifying, and races live. I particularly like it because the ad breaks are 
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Jan 7, 2022 20:37
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The old nbc gold used to be track footage but I feel like they stopped that last year with the peacock app and started showing them. Oh well, I'll find out soon anyways. Is there fantasy this year
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Jan 8, 2022 21:54
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Oh we are going to foxboro and the finals in salt lake this year to make up for missing out the last two years which I'm pumped for
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I thought Peacock was still ad free, but I could be wrong. Maybe I paid for a higher tier or something last year. And we still have a goon league on pulpmxfantasy.com, so sure, we can still play. VTnewb is the president, I think he's gotta approve any new players (which I assume there currently are none). I might make Foxboro this year, but I'm wait to see on some other family stuff before I buy tickets.
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I think they changed towards the end of last season because of an open mic and an extremely heated conversation between some riders over a track incident during a commercial break
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Picking semi random based off qualifying
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Jan 9, 2022 01:43
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 Ya basically lol The Barcia interview was really good, looking forward to seeing it again during the big show
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I think Colt Nichols is dead
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Haha, he looked dead and didn't even get a medic flag, but they red flagged the second moto
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Yeah I thought the same thing, swolls crash didn't seem as bad
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Lol Webb fell over
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Paging user Buildscharacter who I hope isn't too good for dirt bike racing these days!!!!
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im a simple man, i see eli tomac and i pick him
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You did v well!
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I think it was a solid start to the season (even if I fell asleep before the heats were done). Seeing Cooper Webb fall was a definite highlight. Also props to Carson Brown for the best injury report https://www.instagram.com/p/CYg9-wFFCda/ 910 posted:I was having an awesome time at A1. Unfortunately caught a lever through my mouth and rearranged it a little haha. The good news is one of the track crew found a tooth of mine on the track and got it back to me 😭😂 Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish the night because I had too many gashes in my mouth that required stitches. Planning on being back for Oakland. Thanks a ton for everyone’s messages, either way I’ve been having a blast on the bike with the @aeopowersportsktmracing team!
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500excf type r posted:Paging user Buildscharacter who I hope isn't too good for dirt bike racing these days!!!! I’m always here to boo cooper Webb. I’ll do sx fantasy starting next week. This week I will give myself 100 points. No questions tia.
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builds character posted:I’m always here to boo cooper Webb. I’ll do sx fantasy starting next week. This week I will give myself 100 points. No questions tia. HE FELL OVER OH MAH GAWD IT WAS SO loving FUNNY
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For those interested but not enough to buy a subscription, NBC Sports youtube has extended highlights on youtube.
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500excf type r posted:HE FELL OVER OH MAH GAWD IT WAS SO loving FUNNY Alright, I’m going to watch the race just for this tomorrow.
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Russian Bear posted:For those interested but not enough to buy a subscription, NBC Sports youtube has extended highlights on youtube. Good call. After builds character's good Dakar posting, I was inspired to do some effort posting on SX. So hopefully someone gets interested enough to stick around. The extended highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSKfQdgFwQ Shorter highlights for the 250 and 450 mains if you're not quite ready for a 20 minute recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2lEIbb7Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzXtCTykWA
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I did several pix and did not do well
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Oakland is tomorrow night. Doesn't seem like a particularly interesting track, but I think the sand section will get some people. https://youtu.be/dGTgAhSaV6I Injury report so far (at least some of the more important people): Justin Brayton - out with COVID Colt Nichols - Had surgery from his crash last weekend. Probably won't make it back for the season. Jalek Swoll - Concussion from his crash. Out for this race, but will be back eventually. you can read the rest. Don't pick any of those guys if you're doing fantasy.
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Deeters posted:Oakland is tomorrow night. Doesn't seem like a particularly interesting track, but I think the sand section will get some people. What the hell is Friese doing in 250s? He's going to fly into a rage and accidentally murder one of those tiny boys.
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Just being a 31 year old and losing to a bunch of teenagers
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 Barcia bought a shirt from Anderson, so I'm gonna assume this means Anderson won't retaliate for last weekend.
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Fuckin sexton ran over roczens head literally
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Jesus, if anyone ever figures out air bag suits for dirt bikes, Roczen needs to get the first one
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A* just introduced one, didn't they? I don't know if you'll see it in this format as they will make it harder to get back on the bike right away as often with more minor crashes.
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Deeters posted:Jesus, if anyone ever figures out air bag suits for dirt bikes, Roczen needs to get the first one They’ve been mandatory in Dakar the last two years.  
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Yeah, it'll definitely take some tweaking so someone can flop over without setting it off, but inflate for a big one. We'll see which of my picks gets completely wrecked this week: 
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 I forgot to post my picks earlier, I haven't watched the race yet no spoilers please
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Idk where breece thought he was gonna go at the finish of the lcq, if he didn't dump it he was absolutely going to torpedo the two riders ahead of him.
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Lol Jason Anderson's butt crack
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I don't know what Breece was doing either, but I was really hoping Enticknap was gonna ride by and roost him before he got back up. My wife kept pointing out Anderson's crack too
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McClellan Hile is such a boarding school lacrosse name lol
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Hile got a bad break and now I'm a fan of his
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In the meadow we can build a snowman And pretend that he is 
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