Learn it as it happens
No rulebook at 9am. Each mechanic is explained the moment the audience first meets it — lock-in at the first lock-in, the voting split after the session closes.
Zero-knowledge onboarding
BYND The Hill 2027 presents
Home GroundAn Erik Fedko Invitational.
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The idea
Slopestyle judging
nobody has to defend.
Every slopestyle contest ends the same way: three judges post a number and half the hill argues with it. We split the decision three ways — and show the full maths once the champion is crowned.
33% Judges
Three professionals score progression & difficulty, execution & control, and style, flow & amplitude. They score during the session, in silence — nothing goes on a screen.
33% Crowd
Verified on-site visitors only. Valid ticket, checked in on the day, BYND Pass active. Not Instagram, not the internet, not the sofa. You have to be here to have a voice.
34% Riders
The competitors vote last, on their rivals, without seeing a single result. The sport deliberately holds the biggest of the three voices.
15 characters,
not 15 helmets
Friday night every rider is revealed on the main stage with a signature edit before they take a hot seat. By Saturday the crowd already has favourites.
Friday · Rider RevealA format built to be filmed
Lock-ins create scheduled hero moments inside a free session — cameras, commentary and the LED all know exactly when the next official run drops.
Content by designWhy it works
Nobody can cheat
the eye of a crowd.
For the ridersStyle over spec-sheet
An opposite 360 and a regular 360 look nearly identical to someone who doesn't ride — same height, same spin, same landing. On a judges-only panel that difference is everything; on a panel that includes 1,200 people who have never touched a bike park, it's invisible.
Difficulty alone stops being enough
A harder trick the crowd can't visually tell apart from an easier one no longer guarantees their third of the score.
Style becomes the tiebreaker
Two riders can land the same trick with the same difficulty — and still finish differently, because one made it look effortless.
What separates riders is visible to everyone
Not just to the panel. Style, flow and amplitude read the same to an expert and to a first-time viewer.
Runs get cleaner, not just harder
Riders are pushed toward the whole package instead of stacking difficulty a crowd can't actually judge.
For the crowdA stake in the outcome
Watching slopestyle from the outside can feel like watching a language you don't speak — the judges react to things you can't quite name. Giving the crowd an actual vote turns that around: people start watching for the things they're about to rate, not waiting for a score to appear on a screen.
Every visitor becomes part of the result
Not just an audience for it. A rating that counts changes what watching a free session actually feels like.
Attention doesn't drop off
There's a reason to watch every single run across all 90 minutes, not just wait for the big names to drop.
Riders get watched more closely
Rating pulls people into learning who's riding, how they ride, and which one they're backing.
Better for riders, better for partners
That closer attention to the field is exactly the presence and reach a partner is paying to be part of.
Saturday · the contest
90 minutes. Open course.
No start list, no run 1 / run 2. Riders session freely for 90 minutes and decide themselves when a run counts. Drag the timeline to walk a partner through the whole window.
Drag the scrubber or tap a beat · 90 minutes
00:00
Session open
The gate opens
Fifteen riders, one course, no order. They learn features, test lines, find speed and ride together — building up to the runs that will actually count.
Calling a lock-in doesn't just flip a switch on the LED — it synchronises everything that has to happen in the next sixty seconds so the official run is captured, scored and broadcast cleanly.
Judges
Attention locked
The panel is notified the run is official and switches into scoring mode for that specific attempt.
Camera team
Cued to the line
Positions lock onto the rider's expected line instead of scanning the wider course.
Broadcast & regie
Feed switches
Live direction cuts to the dedicated lock-in camera angle for the drop.
Commentary & app
Countdown goes live
The sixty-second window appears on the LED and in the BYND app at the same moment, so the crowd is watching for the same run the judges are.
This is the venue's live dashboard behind the "Call a lock-in" button below — four roles, one synchronised trigger, zero manual coordination during the show.
The mechanics
The moving parts.
Each one a moment.
One championship and three side results run inside the same 90 minutes — so the session never stops for a format change.
Two lock-ins. The rider picks the moment.
A lock-in means: my next complete run counts. The rider tells the contest director, and the whole venue swings behind it — judges, cameras, direction, commentary, LED and app all know an official run is sixty seconds out.
- Two official runs per rider across the 90 minutes
- Timing is a tactical decision, not a schedule
- Late in the session the unused lock-ins build the pressure by themselves
- After the session each rider submits one of their two runs as the final run
Why it matters for a partner
Every lock-in is a scheduled, announced, filmable peak inside an otherwise free jam. That's roughly thirty guaranteed hero moments across the afternoon — each one with a full-venue attention spike your brand can own on screen, on air and in the app.
~30 official runs · one afternoonThe trick you'd never risk in a run.
Best Trick deliberately sits outside the lock-in. Any landed trick in the session is a candidate, so riders can throw the thing that would be too dangerous to put in a complete line.
- Overall rewards the best complete run
- Best Trick rewards the single most extraordinary moment
- After the session each rider nominates a maximum of one trick — 15 clean candidates, not hundreds
- Judged on the same 33 / 33 / 34 split, fully independent of the championship
Progression pressure
Two separate prizes means two separate risk calculations running at once. That's what pushes the level — and it's where the clips that travel come from.
15 nominated candidatesHighest Air.
The quarterpipe session — its own moment inside the weekend, separate from the main slopestyle line. No panel, no interpretation: whoever lands the highest valid air wins.
- Fully objective — the only mechanic in the format with no judging involved
- Measured technically against a procedure fixed before the event
- Runs alongside the main session, its own dedicated window
- Instantly understandable to a first-time viewer: highest number wins
Measurable
One number, technically measured, with zero room for interpretation. The counterweight to everything subjective in the format — and the easiest result of the day to explain to a partner or a first-time viewer.
Objective · no panelThe scoring architecture
Move the weights.
Watch the podium move.
All three groups score the exact same final run — that's what makes them comparable. Drag the sliders to see how much the answer depends on who you ask, and why 33 / 33 / 34 is the setting we land on. The crowd side is built from the same three categories fans rate in the app: style, height and trick.
Professional judges33%
Verified on-site crowd33%
Competing riders34%
Sample scorecards, illustrative only. Crowd score = the average of style, height and trick ratings, each 1–10, scaled to 100.
3 judges15 riders≈1,200 verified ratings
Style · Height · Trick · 1–10 each
Three categories
The crowd rates every final run 1–10 on style, height and trick difficulty. The three scores average into one crowd score per run.
Simple to use
No ranking, no ballot logic to learn — three sliders, three taps, done. Built for a phone in a crowd, not a spreadsheet.
Nobody sees anything
Judges lock first, crowd second, riders last — and none of them see a result before they submit. No block can anchor on another.
No self-vote
Riders vote on their rivals only. Fifteen riders, fifteen equal ballots, one aggregated athlete score.
The BYND app
Watch it.
Judge it.
The app carries the crowd's part of the judging — rate every final run on style, height and trick, then see the full scorecard once the champion is crowned.
Rate the run
Only verified on-site passes unlock rating. Style, height, trick — each 1–10, for every final run.
During the revealFull transparency
After the ceremony every scorecard opens: all three blocks, all three judging criteria, the overall maths. The question "why did he win?" has an answer.
After the reveal
Ticket verifiedChecked in on site
BYND Pass activeOne rating per visitor
Rate Erik Fedko
Style · Height · Trick
Style7
Height7
Trick7
Your score70
Averaged with every other verified rating for this run, then scaled to 100.
Run 07
Full scorecard
Professional judges92.7
Verified crowd89.4
Athletes96.2
Overall92.80
Progression 94 · Execution 90 ·
Style 94
1,247 verified ratings
Saturday night · the award show
Fifteen riders.
The same stage as Friday.
The riders return to the hot seats they were introduced from, and the awards climb one step at a time — objective first, peer vote last, champion after that. Step through it.
Best trick
Erik Fedko33 / 33 / 34 · independent
Judges' choice
Erik Fedko · 94.1Highest pure judge score
Crowd choice
Tobey Miley · 95.4Highest pure crowd score
Riders' choice
Nicholi Rogatkin · 96.9Voted by the field itself
The final five
5th · 4th · 3rd revealedNo scores shown yet
The BYND Session champion
Szymon Godziek · 92.80Scorecards open immediately after
Nobody can do the maths early: choice awards name the winners but never the gaps. Full scorecards only open after the trophy.
The circle closes
where it opened.
Friday: here are the fifteen. Saturday night: one of these fifteen wins. Same stage, same hot seats, one weekend of build-up paying off in a single reveal — with the crowd holding a third of the vote that decided it.
The riders
A world-class field,
curated by Erik Fedko.
Invitation only — the level is set by who is on course. Around fifteen men plus wildcards and a women's category: the same calibre that rides the biggest slopestyle events in the world.
Illustrative field based on the FMB World Tour — final invitations are curated with Erik Fedko.
Coverage & reach
The proof is
already on the board.
2025 in numbers — owned channels, paid campaigns and the community around them. The session format adds ~30 announced hero runs and a reveal show built to be cut.
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BYND × Green Hill views
0
Social impressions · owned
0
Reach · owned channels
0
Video views · owned
0
Paid campaign impressions
0
Reached accounts+242 %
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Interactions+240 %
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Engagement rate
Filmed and dropped fast
The full session filmed, the best lines cut and released while the weekend is still trending.
Vote results as story
Judges' Choice, Crowd Choice and Riders' Choice give the recap three built-in narrative beats — and three sponsor moments.
Measured, not estimated
Ratings and app sessions turn the crowd into a number you can actually report against.
Prize money
Benchmarked to
Slopestyle Events.
Open men and women — equal per-place amounts across both categories, matched to the best slopestyle events. Side events and named awards are funded on top.
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Overall championship purse. The figure below shows the per-place split; side events sit outside it.
FMB gold-level benchmarkEqual men & women
1st6.000 €
2nd4.400 €
3rd3.000 €
4th2.000 €
5th1.600 €
6th+Spread
Best trick
Proposal — e.g. 2.000 € on top.
Side eventHighest air
Proposal — e.g. 2.000 € on top.
Side eventChoice awards
Judges', Crowd and Riders' Choice — voucher or cash per award, sponsor-nameable.
Named categoriesSide event and award amounts are proposals — we set them together.
Branding & naming
Put your name
on a mechanic.
The format was built with sponsor slots inside it, not bolted on afterwards. Type a brand below to see where it lands.
Best Trick
presented by Your Brand
The clip most likely to travel. Naming across the award, the edit and the recap.
Highest Air
by Your Brand
Its own moment on the quarterpipe, attached to your name.
Your Brand Crowd Choice
The award decided by the people standing on the hill. Announced live from the stage.
The Your Brand Lock-In
The sixty-second countdown before every official run — LED, commentary and app in one beat.
Rider Reveal
presented by Your Brand
Friday's main-stage show where the audience meets all fifteen riders.
Also available across the festival: Whip-Off, pit bike course, e-bike test loop, Main Stage, BYND app, Spritz Carousel, camping and content. Exclusivity per asset.
Partner packages
Three levels — from
exhibitor to title partner.
The slopestyle assets sit inside the wider BYND The Hill partner structure. Hover a column to isolate it.
| Level | Level 1 ExhibitorArea & presence | Level 2 ActivationExhibitor + leads | Level 3 PresentingAsset partner | Level 3 Title partnerFestival naming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booth in BYND Land | Booth fee | −10 % discount | Free | Free |
| Slopestyle asset naming | — | — | 1 free asset | 1 free asset |
| Activations & app challenges | Optional | Core component | Mandatory | Mandatory |
| Lead tracking & live dashboard | — | Inclusive | Inclusive | Inclusive |
| Content & social | Logo visibility | Logo + social clips | Presenting partner | Title partner |
| Invest (example) | 80 € per m² | 72 € per m² + leads | from 15.000 € + leads | On request |
Placeholder terms — final prices, lead prices and quotas are defined together.
Structure & timetable
14–17 May 2027
Green Hill Bikepark.
The session sits inside the festival weekend. Training and the course build run ahead of it.
Training
DailyOfficial training sessions
PushAirbag on the last landing
PrepCourse dialled with the riders
Meet the riders
DayTraining session on course
EveningBYND Rider Reveal · Main Stage
EveningWhip-Off · the opener
NightAfterparty
Home Ground
Main90-minute session · 2 lock-ins each
AfterAthlete voting
EveningAward & Reveal Show
NightAftershow party
Quarter Pipe
MainHighest Air
All dayTest rides, side events, activations
ContentEdits drop while it's still trending
Day allocation inside the 14–17 May frame is locked together with the riders and Green Hill.
Next steps
What we lock next.
Assets are allocated in order of commitment — one partner per mechanic.
1
Now
Date & scope
Confirm 14–17 May 2027 and the purse benchmarked to FMB.
2
Q4 2026
Rider invitations
Curate and send the invited field, men and women, with Erik Fedko.
3
Q4 2026
Purse & categories
Finalise side-event prizes and the sponsor-named award categories.
4
Q1 2027
Course & airbag
Slopestyle course, quarterpipe and the airbag training setup.