World Championship Skateboard Racing/Street Contest Coming to The Streets of Morro Bay!

What: Freshpark 2010 World Championships of SkaterCross
When: October 9th and 10th, 2010
Where: Morro Bay Boulevad (between Shasta and Monterey)

Sponsored by Freshpark, the company that manufactures the ramps we will be using.
Co-sponsored by The Skateboarder's Journal

$10,000 total purse
$5,000 for first place

What is SkaterCross?

This October, in Morro Bay, California where slalom was reborn in 2001, a brand new way of racing skateboards, combining street, vert and slalom skills in a head to head format will be introduced to the skateboarding world.

It's called SkaterCross.

Legendary downhill racer Roger Hickey, creator and owner of Freshpark, has partnered with World Slalom Skateboarding Championships producer Jack Smith to bring you this exciting new event. Never before has such an event been held anywhere in the world.

Skateboard competitions now are now filled with judging and confusing tricks for the crowd to figure out. This will be just an all out exciting fast showdown, showcasing the riders best all around skills of street, vert, park, and speed. It will be the first of its kind with many predicting the future of an all around skateboarder’s championship.

Racers will compete head to head on identical 500+ courses littered with ramps, banks, jumps and whoop-de-doos. Each racer will be given two qualifying runs with the top 32 skaters advancing to head to head round.

In the opening round the skaters will be paired off in the typical 1-32, 2-31 format, with the higher qualifier receiving lane choice in each round. In the first round it's do or die, that's right one run will determine if you live to race in the finals the following day.

In the following rounds we will use the double elimination format, meaning that a racer must lose twice before being eliminated. No clock will be used in the head to head racing, first skater across the finish line is the winner. A world-class photo finish system will be used to determine the winner of close finishes.

At the end of the day we will end up with the top four racers competing for the $10,000 in prize money, and the winner receiving half of that, $5,000. Don’t miss this, and be there for the first annual SkaterCross World Championships.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 9th – Practice: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm   Qualifying:  3:00 pm
Saturday, October 10th -  Head to head Finals: 10:00 am

MORE INFORMATION:
Visit the The Skateboarder’s Journal for further details at:

MEDIA CONTACT:
For coverage coordination, pre-race interviews or photos  -- please contact:
Jack Smith
805-772-7517– office
805-610-3565 - cell