Game Reports

  1. 2008

    1. éS Game of SKATE 2008 World Championships @ Maloof Money Cup!
    2. Valley Village, CA
    3. Brooklyn Heights, New York
    4. Lawrenceberg, Indiana
    5. Barcelona, Spain
    6. Stuttgart, Germany
    7. Chicago, Illinois
    8. Brooklyn, NY
    9. Omaha, Nebraska
    10. Grand Rapids, Michigan
    11. Las Vegas, Nevada
    12. Sayreville, NJ
    13. Frederick, Maryland
    14. Vancouver, BC
    15. Toronto, Canada
    16. Phoenix, Arizona
    17. Tokyo, Japan
    18. Athens, Greece
    19. éS Game of SKATE 2008 European Finals
    20. Peru
    21. Prague, Czech Republic
    22. Croatia
    23. Kristinehamn, Sweden
    24. Costa Rica
    25. Bulgaria
    26. Trollhättan, Sweden
    27. Lanzhou, China
    28. Guangzhou, China
    29. Siping, China
    30. Suzhou, China
    31. Lausanne, Switzerland
    32. Italy
    33. Taicang, China
    34. Chu-Zhou, China
    35. Nanjing, China
    36. ShijiaZhuang, China
    37. Tianjin, China
    38. Wuhan, China
    39. Bochum, Hamburg & Leipzig, Germany
    40. Zurich, Switzerland
    41. Norway
    42. San Jose, Costa Rica
    43. Lithuania
    44. Santiago, Chile
    45. Bratislava, Slovakia
    46. San Jose, Costa Rica
    47. Hawaii
    48. São Paulo, Brazil
    49. Panama City, Panama
    50. The Netherlands
    51. Woodland & Vacaville, California
    52. Cheng Du, China
    53. Tai Yuan, China
  2. 2007

    1. Pretoria, South Africa
    2. Milan, Italy
    3. Vancouver, BC, Canada
    4. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    5. Brighton, England
    6. Brussels, Belgium
    7. La Verne, California
    8. Riga, Latvia
    9. Las Vegas, Nevada
    10. San Antonio, Texas
    11. Cologne, Germany
    12. Fort Walton Beach, Florida
    13. Tampa, Florida
    14. Easley, South Carolina
    15. Raleigh, North Carolina
    16. Verviers, Belgium
    17. Virginia Beach, Virginia
    18. Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
    19. Frederick, Maryland
    20. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    21. New York, New York
    22. Rochester, New York
    23. Sao Paulo, Brazil
    24. Hannover, Germany
    25. 2007 Australian Finals
    26. Kettering, Ohio
    27. Nashville, Tennesee
    28. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    29. Minneapolis, Minnesota
    30. Nurnberg, Germany
    31. Santiago, Chile
    32. Durban, South Africa
    33. Omaha, Nebraska
    34. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    35. Broomfield, Colorado
    36. Albuquerque, New Mexico
    37. Camarillo, California
    38. Venice Beach, California
    39. Sydney, Australia
    40. Perth, Australia
    41. Melbourne, Australia
    42. Brisbane, Australia
    43. Adelaide, Australia
    44. Oslo, Norway
    45. Heilbronn, Germany
    46. Vilnius, Lithuania
    47. Shanghai, China
    48. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    49. Valley Village, California
    50. Orebro, Sweden
    51. Portland, Oregon
    52. Seattle, Washington
    53. Barrie, Ontario, Canada
    54. San Francicso, California
    55. San Jose, California
    56. Orange, California
    57. Phoenix, Arizona
    58. Zurich, Switzerland
    59. Athens, Greece
    60. Brossard, Quebec, Canada
    61. Honolulu, Hawaii
    62. London, Ontario, Canada
    63. San Jose, Costa Rica
    64. Lisbon, Portugal
  3. 2006

  4. 2005

Valley Village, California

Posted on Jun 21, 2007

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Holy crazy! Every year, the éS Game of SKATE at Val Surf gets bigger and bigger and more kids get hyped and more hyped. It was hot, it was crazy and it was a huge success! We handled it, though, and got through 400-plus skaters all battling for a chance to win a free trip to compete against the Big Leaguers at the ASR Amateur World Championships.

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Kids started showing up when I got to the shop at 7:30 a.m. It was insane. They practiced all day long in 90-plus degree heat all the way up until the event started at 2:00 p.m. These kids are the reason why we do these things. Grass-roots skate contests and events are so important to them. The great thing about the éS Game of SKATE is that any and all kids can enter…and they want to do it. Every kid has a chance to participate, have fun and do well.

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A big thank you goes out to Hime and Jason from éS for doing this for Val Surf year after year and always doing a great job. Also, thank you to Mark Waters for helping us promote the event and choosing us as a host every year. Thank you to Justin Eldridge for supporting the event and stoking the kids with autographs. Thank you to Casey and Heather for holding down the fort. Thank you to éS for allowing the winner of our game to go to the Amateur World Championships and for allowing us to host such a great event.

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Thank you to Daniel Abadi, Valentino, Richie and Steven for judging. Thank you to the kids who threw their trash in the trash cans strategically placed around the course and not on the ground or in the planters. A huge thank you to Victor Vasquez for shooting these photos and being the only person who ever sticks with me from beginning to end for set-up and clean-up. You rock, Vic. Until next year, thanks to the kids!--Brandon Richards

View the brackets from this game. Click on 'em to enlarge.