I watched Red take the slopestyle gold live (NBC sports app on FireTV actually works pretty well) but am torn about the best of three format as opposed to a combined score. I guess the idea is to encourage a go big or go home approach which fits snowboarding, but it does seem to make it more likely that an unknown will win with one great run when a veterant may have put down three solid runs but not medaled.
I was wondering how a "best run" format would affect ski racing. It might lead to more wild rides ending in DNF, but it could go the other way. In the snowboard slopestyle I noticed a lot of competitors give up on a run that wasn't working right, when in a combined score event they would have tried to keep going.