Crankworx and the FMBA just rewrote slopestyle's rulebook. A full season, playoffs, and a centralized league are coming-raising real questions about progression, culture, and whether slope can stay slope inside a traditional sports framework.

"When Crankworx and the FMBA jointly announced the Slopestyle Super League (SSL) last week, it had me asking myself one simple question: " What the fu... I mean heck, does this even mean?" On paper, it looks simple: the SSL replaces the old Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship as slopestyle's top tier of competition. But the move isn't just a rename, upon closer inspection it's a complete restructure of how the sport organizes itself at the highest level."

"For years, the slopestyle calendar has been a constellation of standalone heavy-hitting events: Rotorua, Innsbruck, Whistler, et al. Now, for the first time, the discipline gets something closer to a that of a traditional sports schedule- instead of a scattered collection of big one-off events, the Super League means a complete season schedule with a high-stakes invite-only playoff series. Depending who you ask, that's either the best thing to ever happen to riders-or the moment freeride starts looking suspiciously like soccer."

The Slopestyle Super League (SSL) reconfigures slopestyle competition into a season-long, points-based structure replacing the Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship at the sport’s top tier. The 2026 SSL runs January through September across five major stops: Christchurch, Rotorua, two European Gold/Diamond events, and Crankworx Whistler, with all 2026 results counting. The regular season awards auto-berths to the top three men and top two women, while other competitors enter a playoff at Crankworx SilverStar. Seven men and three women advance from SilverStar to join auto-qualifiers at Mont-Sainte-Anne for a 10-man, five-woman final, creating a continuous season narrative and high-stakes postseason.

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