Duffell was skating well in practice but did not pull it off in the final prelim jam
Maloof owns the Sacramento Kings Basketball team and Palms hotel in Vegas. Appearantly he wants to be involved in action sports so he threw the inaugural Maloof Money Cup which started tonight, July 11 at the Orange County Fair. The course was sick, designed by Rob Dyrdek and contained replicas of some of the worlds best skate objects; Carlsbad Gap, Barcelona Gap, Hollywood 13 and so on. The course was cement of the finest nature. Imagine the world’s greatest skaters on the worlds greatest obstacles made out of the smoothest cement. Ok, you get the idea. 12 skaters are pre qualified through to the semi finals. Surely you can guess names like Sheckler, Koston, Reynolds and so forth get a pass. Tonight though 24 skaters were narrowed down to 12 and they meet the pq’d 12 to compete for the 100,000 dollar first prize. Just seeing these guys skate hang out together was pretty amazing. Some of the Maloof friends were there too, like the prince of Saudi Arabia. For the first night of new comp, things looked good, let’s hope some future contests learn from this event.
To whittle it down took 3 heats of 8 competing in 2 10 minute jams. One on the left and one on the right with the Hollywood 13 being left out for the finals so people don’t break emselves off, although Peter Ramondetta did break himself off.
Here are the un-official qualifying results
1 Bryan Herman
2 Jake Duncombe
3 Tommy Sandoval
4 Nyjah Huston
5 Dennis Busenitz
6 Sierra Fellers
7 Kurtis Colamonico
8 Chris Mendes
9 Darrell Stanton
10 Mike Carroll
11 Peter Ramondetta
12 Sean Malto
13 Adam Dyet - Alternate
Terry Kennedy and Eric Koston are stoked to see each other. Koston was pq’d for the semis. Terry Kennedy did not make it past tonight but had a helluva lot of fun
back smith in practice
Marc Johnson, yes Marc Johnson
P-Rod practicing for the semi finals
Jereme Rogers does a switch back smith
Jake Duncombe was on fire, so much energy. Tricks like this kickflip to nose helped him get the 2nd qualifying position
Kurtis Colamonico Kickflips to back lip and into the 7th qualifying position
Jake Duncombe 270’s on to a back lip
Alex Mizuroz switch heel of the Carlsbad gap
Here you have the first place qualifier Bryan Herman with a kickflip to nose
Mike Carroll back flips into the semi finals
Darrell Stanton made the semis. The semis may be sicker than the finals, actually
270 back lip into the 4th place qualifying position for Nyjah Huston. Will we see someone take out Sheckler
Tre flip for Mr. Huston
Adam Dyet nollie back heel to lip, he is in the alternate spot, it seems like he should have gotten top 5 at least
Marc Johnson - 3
Bryan Herman after his great performance
Koston
Terry Kennedy – front krooks
Dennis Busenitz had some fast creative lines as always and he got the 5th spot-tailslide to fakie
Brandon Biebel sees a lot of Sacramento Kings games
Tommy Sandoval could win this whole thing, for sure. Half cab to smith
Nick Dompierre – back 3
Sierra Fellers and a nollie flip
There were quite a few broken boards
Sean Malto
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