With close to 300 votes coming in this year for the 2nd annual Flatmatters Year end awards, over 3/4 of the Readers Choice Edit of the Year votes going to Bombarderos! Congratulations to Martti Kuoppa and Viki Gomez, two long time friends who gave us all a real treat on September 1st!
Runner up: Alexis Desolneux – You are your path.
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So far Brand of the Year was the tightest competition, with voting going right down to the wire on January 4th! Congratulations to Deco BMX, the 2014 Flatmatters Online Readers Choice Brand of the Year, closely followed by Quest BMX!
Congratulations to igi and Jean William Prevost and team for the Flatmatters 2014 award for Innovation of the Year for the igi peg design. Much like his riding, Dub keeps refining more and more to get the best product possible. Like the Breakthrough Rider of the Year and Most Progressive Rider awards, Innovation of the Year won by a landslide!
Runner Up: Martti Kuoppa Stem tricks.
Congratulations to Dominik Nekolny voted by you the readers of Flatmatters Online for 2014 Contest Run of the Year for his final run at BMX Cologne! Interesting to me that you voted not for a totally clean run, but perhaps a bit of emotion too with Dom narrowly missing out the previous year. Go watch his run one more time.
Dominik Nekolny at BMX Cologne 2014 Finals from Global Flat on Vimeo.
Runner Up:
Dub vs Ucchie Battle at Flatark, watch it again below:
https://www.flatmattersonline.com/flat-ark-2014-semifinal-yohei-uchino-vs-jean-william-provost
The Readers Choice award for the most progressive rider of the year is perhaps the award that means the most to the rider. Much like probably yourself, I forgot how many quality progressive edits Shintaro Misawa brought to the table in 2014, similar to the voting for Breakthrough Rider of the Year. Shintaro was the Readers obvious winner, clocking up a hundred or so more votes than runner up, Alex Jumelin!
Congratulations to Shintaro Misawa, voted Readers Choice for the 2014 Flamatters Most Progressive Rider.
Runner up: Alex Jumelin.
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Let’s kick this off! The first category for the 2014 Flatmatters Online Year End Awards is Readers Choice for Breakthrough Rider of the Year. This award is about recognising that rider that broke through to the elite of our sport, pushing himself and rising up to the cream of crop, and arriving on the big stage.
The 2014 Breakthrough Rider of the Year by a landslide vote goes to Far East / igi rider Benjamin Hudson from Santiego, Chile! The 18 year old prodigy literally won this award by a landslide of votes!!!
Dub gave us all a small taste of Benjamin’s talent on the “Against the Current” edit back in May, but really shot to fame in his Welcome to Far East Cycles that dropped on the 5th of September.
Dub really took Benjamin under his wing during the last year or so and showed him the way. Aside from those two amazing edits, Benjamin made his way onto the international contest scene taking second place at the IOXC Contest in Semarang with his mentor taking the win, and for many of us confirming he is the real deal with a strong 4th place finish at the Battle in the Rockies contest!
The future is bright, and we all cannot wait to see what this phonemeonal talent has in store for us all!
Congratulations Benjamin Hudson, you are the 2014 Flatmatters Readers Choice for Breakthrough Rider of the Year!
Runner up: Quentin Pelorson.
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It is an exciting day here at Flatmatters HQ! The 2nd annual Flatmatters Year end awards will be announced from 5PM GMT tonight. Each category will be a separate post this year to highlight the award more with 2nd place runner up announced as well. Stay tuned.
Flatmatters Online Reader Awards
Breakthrough rider of the year
Most Progressive rider
Contest Run of the year
Innovation of the year
Brand of the year
Edit of the year
Rider of the year
Flatmatters Editorial awards
Edit of the year
Rider of the year
Miguel Tardio is one of the emerging riders to come out of the growing flatland scene in Madrid, Spain! Miguel put the camera down and captured his latest combos at the Colon Square spot, super nice flow, and plenty of sick combos like the xft nose manual to crackpacker line at 2:37 and much more besides! Don’t sleep on this dude, I have a feeling we will hear much more from Miguel Tardio in 2015!
FVM #10 -2014MONTAGE- from Flatland BMX Mag on Vimeo.
Fast Video Magazine made a huge contribution towards the flatland scene in 2014! Check out this awesome 2014 montage edit and look out for that ender from Yohei Uchino around the 6:50 mark!
Chad Degroot catches an early bird street/park session at Candyland skatepark, plenty of flatland skill utilised in this Deco Street Frame promo! As you can see he went with Great Gatsby Yellow or Old Sport Yellow for the frame. Luc-e looking and as always looking good. Full video will be up on Vimeo and Facebook so keep your eyes peeled. More info on the frame at: www.decobmx.com.
