The 2024 Mud Buster is a wrap…

Thanks for coming along for an awesome weekend. All the race results are now below!

Photos and footage to come over the next few days/ weeks. If you’re a grom who keeps emailing us to send you photos of yourself (and there’s been a lot of you!!) we won’t be doing that. Just wait your patience and you’ll see them soon enough!!

Race Results

Commencal Mud Buster

Mud Buster Mini - 2 Stage

Mud Buster Mini - 5 Stage

Photos

Dom Blissett

Anton McGeachen

Fiona Glennie

What REELy happened?!

New for 2024, we have a competition for the best reel uploaded to Instagram in the week after the event!

Just upload you reel any time between Monday 3rd and Sunday 9th June, tag @the.mud.buster and hashtag #whatreelyhappened and you’re in the draw!

Our judging panel will include our very own official hype man and media mogul MC Calamity! Make sure he is entertained.

Extra points scored for including:

A shot of a marine mammal
Will Keay in his red bands and stubbies (we all know that’s what he’ll be wearing!
A wild animal
A shot taken doing something fun in Kaikoura
Dancefloor moves
Appropriate choice of song/ sounds
The PRIZE! An epic winter weekend for two in Kaikoura
Two nights for two at a very cool AirBnB in Kaikoura with spa and epic views
Brunch at The Beach House Cafe
Zipline for two at EcoZip Adventures Kaikoura
Two seats on a Wings Over Whales flight
Dinner for two at the stunning Hapuku Lodge

Wanna see what you’re in for?

Check out the highlights from previous years… it’s been a dam good time! There’s also some good write-ups on Spoke and Pinkbike from the first year, have a read if you’re in need of any extra encouragement to join the festivities this year!