Maybe I'm alone, but is anyone else a tad annoyed/eye rolling at how Super League tried to play up certain things? In a span of 5 instagram posts yesterday they had 4 videos of injuries/crashes that happened in the men's race

Those are marketable moments, in terms of showing the action and unpredictability of the races... I agree I'm not a fan of the glorification of crashes (even though my own family gathers on the patio on the corner where all the carnage happens at one of our local crits...), but i'm less phased if nobody is injured... The video of Luis saving it, when he hit the staple and his tire slid out was pretty awesome... And how Hauser was able to come out pretty unscathed after his endo was also impressive (although given that he had a season ending accident early last year, we'll see if this affects his build into the season...).

In terms of the tubeless question, my understanding was that the staple stayed lodged in the tire, which was how he determined what it was that caused the flat... Not sure any tire (Tubeless, tubular or clincher) would be able to keep resealing itself around the staple without dropping most pressure (given that every revolution would cause it to shift and open up a bit again)...

Just caught up with it all, thought the whole thing was brilliant, I got a bit bored of the womens eliminator but the finish for the enduro made up for it.

Everyone was going nuts claiming sexism when they did the first Superleague without women, but there was a lot of top class women who for whatever reason have decided to give SL a miss again in this final round, if the standard goes down anymore I probably wouldn't bother watching.

I'm going to whisper it quietly but Jonny looks like he could be regaining some of his old form, he admit at the end what I thought had been a big problem at that's been Cozumel playing on his mind, maybe he can put all that behind him, it'll be doing it just at the right time with the Olympic cycle about to kick in.

The whole scoring system, eliminator champion, enduro champion, round winner series winner prize givings thing confuses me, I'd prefer them to just do points and three people stood there at the end of the whole thing.

On this, I think it's fair for them to tout the payout. As far as triathlon goes, not many more races left in short course that provide this level of money. It's cheesy but I'm glad they're putting the money into it.

Second, Hauser is missing Abu Dhabi and Mooloolaba World Cup due to his crash

I think its fair to say that overall the athlete level of the races was WTS level not grand final but at a better level than typicaly yokohama for instance.

most people would agree that the 3 people that have the most balanced swim bike run in the world luis schoeman and johnny were racing . ( i would say that mola even at best shape could not beat those 3 in this format)

beaugrand with 21 years most likely will become a superstar in tri .and zaferes is just a great all rounder.
apart from duffy and holland I think there was nobody missing that could have won this .
I dont understand why i read the name spirig so often- of course like murray she would be really interesting to have but she would struggle in this format especially if duffy was in the race , and besides how many WTS races has she done since London ( dont get me wrong i think she is an fantastic triathlete and what she does deserves a lot of respect but still I think she would get too exposed on the swim when the field thins out )

I agree Blummefeld is missed when not racing as he adds entertainment value ,but still the quality is there it is quite likely that we saw half the podium for tokyo last weekend.

I think they are doing an fantastic job to make triathlon an spectaor friendly sport and also an sport where it is a real triathlon as all 3 diciplines are more equally import ( yes the run is still the most important but it becomes much harder to be in the game if your swim and bike is not top level )

the only thing that i did not like too much in singapore was that they eliminated people on the 90 sec rule i think it was enough eliminate 2 after each dicipline.

Its my favorite format by far to watch ( and so was the australian grand prix series that often had fab choppy swims ) and yes i do enjoy watching kona roth frankfurt from start to finish as well.
I do hope that series will continue as it is realy good for the sport