returns to Hart Plaza on Detroit's waterfront for it's second season. Building on last years success, Hart lines has expanded the course a bit and has given 12 local skaters from six shops (People skateshop, Refuge, Launch, Plus, Pigeon, Modern) a chance to battle it out in the Motor City Grind shop contest on Saturday May 14th 2016 from 11-noon on the same course that will be skated by the pros.
(photo: Eddie Liddy)
I can't speak for the other shops, but we're sending Tony Christopher and Anthony Marcus and have a good shot at taking the title home!
Here is the full event schedule:
be warned, the Hartlines time schedule is subject to change. May showers are always a possibility in Detroit and will likely cause delays or changes. We will do our best to update if anything changes.
Saturday, May 14
- 9am - 11am: Motor City Grind Shop Battle Practice
- 11am: Venue opens to public
- 10:30am: Motor City Grind Shop Battle Riders’ Meeting
- 11am - 12pm: Motor City Grind Shop Battle Contest
- Six Shops, two skaters per Shop
- Scoring and rules are the same as the main event, except
- Each skater gets one run in each Lane
- Lowest score from each shop per lane gets dropped
- Shop’s final score is the best score from Lane 1 and Lane 2 averaged
- 12pm: Motor City Grind Shop Battle Awards
- 12:15pm – 1:45pm: Practice
- 2pm - 5pm: Qualifiers
- Skaters broken into two heats
- Two runs on each lane, best run from each counts
- Order of skating:
- Heat 1, Lane 1 - both runs
- Heat 2, Lane 1 - both runs
- Heat 1, Lane 2 - both runs
- Heat 2, Lane 2 - both runs
- Skate in forward direction, no stopping or redos
- Each obstacle in each Lane may only be hit once in each Run
- Best run from each lane averaged to determine final score
- Each run is timed
- Average time from highest scored Run in each lane will be used to calculate overall placing for time
- Placing in terms of time is subtracted from overall average to determine overall placing
- Maximum time penalty deduction is 10
- Example: If average of best scores from Lane 1 and Lane 2 is 79 and skater is the 3rd fastest clocked time based on those two runs, the final score for overall placing is 79 minus 3 = 76
- Ties will be broken by going to the second runs for each skater. If second run scores tie, it will be broken by the Head Judge
- Top seven qualify for Finals
- Skate against top five from 2015
Sunday, May 15 - LIVE BROADCAST AT RedBull.tv
- 10am - 1:45pm: Practice for Finalists only
- 11am: Venue opens to public
- 2pm - Live Broadcast starts
- 2:15pm: Opening Ceremony, National Anthem, and Finals
- Order of skaters
- Top five from 2015 will skate in reverse order
- Ryan Decenzo, Evan Smith, Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Curren Caples (based on skaters attending the event)
- Top five from 2015 will skate in reverse order
- Seven from Qualifiers will skate next in reverse order
- One heat
- Same format as above
- Order of skaters
- Best Trick Contest immediately following
- Cash for tricks
- Set of BFGoodrich tires to the best overall
- Awards
- 7pm: After-Party - details TBD
Anthony Marcus - Madonna Photo: Daniel Stelly
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