By Cablewakeboard Staff
June 11th, 2010
US National Points Chase
2010 Cablewakeboard.com National Points Chase
The CableWakeboard.com National Points Chase will challenge riders from all over the country. Riders will be competing and racking up points at all of the nine US cable parks to earn a spot to represent their home cable and compete in Points Championship in October at TSR. Riders can qualify for the championship by placing in the top three in their division overall at their local park. Those riders will be determined by their best 4 scores, dropping the lowest from the five tournaments. If the top three riders are not able to travel to TSR October 8-9, the fourth place rider will be the alternate and qualifying spots will be available in order on how they finished. This means if a good rider only competed in two events and finished 13th overall on the season, ten of the twelve riders that placed ahead of him or her would have to forfeit their spots in order for that rider to qualify for the championship. By dropping one score riders can miss a single stop and not be hurt in the overall placement.
Riders can compete at different parks across the country and their scores will count towards their overall score no matter what park they are at. They will represent whichever park they have the most qualifying scores from so if a rider rides two weeks at one park and three at another he or she would represent the park they rode three times at.
Riders can even compete at multiple parks the same week, but only their highest score will compete for that week.
Results - Just click the "points" link in the menu bar!
KCW - It's On
TSR - Showdowns
OWC - Cable Fever
Revolution - Summer Sessions
Wake Nation - Weekly Grind Series
McCormicks - Get Railed Summer Series
Ski Rixen Shred - A - Thon
Recent Questions????????
1. How are the overall points figured? The lowest overall points you could get for winning the division is 10 points, even if you are the only one in it. If you have more then ten people I made it worth more overall points for two reasons. One it is harder to beat 13 people than 9 or even 2 other people, also I wanted to be able to give points to everyone that rode even the last place finisher! This way we don't make it weighted heavily to or for against either situation (a lot or very few riders) because the individual can't control that but the rider in a monstrous heat is rewarded a little bit. Hopefully everyone agrees on the happy medium.
2. Can I Change Divisions? If you have to move down a division because of injury or whatever you can carry your points down with you. Example if I rode in Pro week 1 and got smoked but did earn 4 points I can carry those down to the advanced division since I was against harder competition. Now as far as moving up to a harder division, which will probably happen more often. Riders will receive 70% of the points they earned in the lesser division. So if I won beginner and realize I belong in Intermediate, I would be able to apply 7 pts to my overall interediate score for week1. You will only be able to move up one score so they must decide after week two to have a real shot. Meaning they could drop their score week 1 take 70% in week 2 and then have the remaining 3 scores come from weeks 3-5.
3. Can I ride at multiple places the same week and count the scores for other weeks? No only one score, your best score counts for that week.
4. If I ride at multiple parks which park will I ride for at the championships? The park with the most qualifying scores, in case of a tie (2 weeks at each park) you will ride for whichever park you have the highest points from.
5. How do you know what parks I ride at for my overall score? After week two we will be posting totals for traveling riders, please email if you do not see your name on that list and you have competed at multiple parks! (blake@cablewakeboard.com)
Basic Info
- 6 Divisions: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Wakeski, Pro and Wakeskate
- Beginning the week of 6/15 and ending 7/15
- $15/entry fee or $60 for all five up front
- Qualify for the Overall Points Championship in October at TSR by placing in the top three in your division overall
Score Breakdown
- Wakeskate, Advanced & Pro: Kickers 25%, Sliders 25%, Air Tricks 40%, Composition 10%
- Intermediate: Kickers 35%, Sliders 35%, Riding, Ollie & Air Tricks 20%, Composition 10%
- Beginner: Kickers 30%, Sliders 50%, Riding & Ollie Tricks 10%, Composition 10%
Trick Limitations by Division
- Pro Wakeboard & Wakeskate: No Limitations
- Advanced Wakeboard:
Spins: up to front side 540s or backside 360s
Air Tricks/Kickers: up to Blind Landing Tricks (Sbends & whirlys are allowed but no other full twisting inverts)
Rails: Judges Discrestion
WildCard Trick Only: No Restrictions
Intermediate Wakeboard:
Spins: up to front side 540s or backside 180s
Air Tricks/Kickers: Basic Inverts & Raileys, no blind or full twisting tricks
Rails: Judges Discrestion
WildCard Trick Only: Advanced run restrictions
Beginner Wakeboard:
Spins: up to front side 360's or HS backside 180s
Air Tricks/Kickers: No Air tricks, Ollie 180 and ollie 360's ok
Rails: Judges Discrestion
WildCard Trick Only: Intermediate run restrictions
Format
Each rider will get two turns and a wildcard. The riders run will begin when he or she leaves the dock and will continue until he or she falls or the carrier reaches tower one a second time. This means the rider gets a full lap and an extra pass on the first stretch. The rider must let go before tower one. We will go through the running order and then return to the first rider and go through the complete order a second time. If you do not fall on your second run you should hold on and do your wildcard trick, which is one trick anywhere in the course. Only do the single trick or the judges may score the wrong trick. If you fall on your second run return to the dock immediately and you will then get a third turn to preform your wildcard trick.
The same trick will not be scored twice in the same run but can be repeated in the second run since the judges will be taking the best turn not a combination of the two.
Format may change slightly between parks, check with your local park for exact details! This format and breakdown will be used for the Championship October 8-10, 2010 at TSR. For more information contact your local cable park or goto www.CableWakeboard.com to follow the chase to the points title.
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Riders can qualify for the Points Championship if they place in the top three in each division at their local series.
For information about participating in this series or sponsoring the chase please email blake@cablewakeboard.com For sponsoring the individual park events please contact the park managers.
Post A Comment 2 people already have
Feb 3rd, 2010
Jon Dickey
Awesome glad to see mccormicks is a part of this I cannot wait!!!!!
Mar 30th, 2010
Ryan Davis
advanced can only do bs360’s and fs540’s? ..
that’s wack..