A very strange season indeed. After Steve Smith's dominating end to last season with truly resounding wins in both Mt St Anne and Leogang, he was definitely on another level to the competition and would have to have been favourite to take it this season. But, as had been the case for Hill in '10, injury would see it that the man of the moment wouldn't be a fixture in this years proceedings and leave it open for others to vie for top spot. For the most part, all the races in '14 appeared to be won in the fashion of 'best on the day'. For mind, it wasn't until Bryceland's win in Windham that anyone really stood out as being truly 'on it'. His win there was probably the only win of any racer this season that had perhaps the dominating, on another level quality similar to Smith's wins at the back end of '13. Of course the greatest thing to come out of this season was to see Sam Hill win again. It just didn't seem right that guys like Gee or Greg could still win races and he couldn't given that, 4-5 years ago, it was as clear as daylight that when Hill was on it, these same guys couldn't touch him. Hill's wins in '14 seemed somewhat different to his wins in the past. Not really the characteristic dominating style wins he's famous for, of more of a calculated, doing enough to get the job done kind of vibe. In a sense this was all the more exciting as you got the feeling that we weren't too far off seeing one of those truly other worldly wins he's famous for. His run at Norway appeared to be another