What Is Red Bull Rapids? Details on the Wacky Sporting Event

What Is Red Bull Rapids? All About the Wacky Sporting Event

Sep. 1 2022, Published 3:09 p.m. ET

Middle America: The backdrop for one in all Red Bull's amusing and wacky sporting occasions — Red Bull Rapids — which demanding situations teams to "race non-motorized water crafts down a white water course that consists of rapids and water obstacles."

For the event in Oklahoma City, teams of as much as five other folks had been tasked with creating a theme for their raft, acting a brief skit, and racing their manmade boat down the rapids at Riversport OKC on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.

The 38 groups have been judged — by way of Mike Knopp (CEO of Riversport OKC), Jayda Coleman (two-time NCAA Champion and OU Softball Player), Darci Lynne Farmer (singer who gave the impression on Season 12 of America’s Got Talent), Dane Jackson (Red Bull Freestyle kayaker), and Tre Mann (NBA Point Guard for Oklahoma City Thunder) — on their creativity, skit, and the distance they made it down the rapids.

While some had been able to make all of it the approach down the course, many teams' boats quickly sunk after hitting the first rapid.

Who won the Red Bull Rapids OKC event?

For the first time in Red Bull history, the rapids event went stateside and happened simply 3 hours north of Dallas, Texas, in the great state of Oklahoma.

Hundreds of spectators arrived at the out of doors sports activities facility for a fun Saturday afternoon family-friendly event. Though most groups didn't make it down the direction (and even over the first fast), spectators gleefully cheered for the outlandish skits and costumes on show.

Nevertheless, only three teams had been topped the reliable winners of the Red Bull Rapids OKC event, collecting bragging rights, as well as Red Bull studies.

In third position: Flambuoyancy, a staff that created an attractive purple flamingo raft, whole with a ribbon twirling skit. They were one in all few teams to make it down the rapids of their raft, so it's no marvel this bird flew to the podium.

The second-place staff, Max Veraftin, drew inspiration from real-life Red Bull Formula One race car driver Max Verstappen. With barrels fashioned on the base of their craft to resemble tires, we're happy to have observed this workforce race to the end line.

The first-place staff — Rock 'em Rafting Robots — consisted of a gaggle of brothers who fought their method thru the rapids. Though they unquestionably were given bashed around in their boxing ring–impressed raft, the successful group definitely knocked out the remainder of the pageant.

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