Mens Prelims at NOC Pigeon World Cup stop #2

The next stop on the World Cup Championship series is the Pigeon River in Tennessee, 3 hours towards the east of Rock Island just out of the way of the approaching hurricane!  Hosted at the incredible NOC camp, this venue is awesome in its convenience.  The feature is a very retentive hole that allows for the entire list of advanced moves, combinations and HUGE air lending this event to be very different from Rock Island in its challenges.  The NOC team had their scoring system set up and manned with even more bells and whistles, and just in time too… this event will be very difficult to score as the judges and scribes have to be on it to record the numbers.  They guys added a new score viewer so that we can see standings etc. adding yet another element to freestyle audience experience.  Awesome!

On to the event!  The names were all the same but the feel was very different.  11 heats went off without a hitch like clockwork and after Rock Island, the competition was hot and heavy.  The early heats had some of the bigger names, EJ starting out, Dane soon after, last events winner Peter Csonka in the first half all set the bar high.  Dane and Joaquim led the way with EJ in third through the first few rounds as the flurries of technically perfect godzillas, phonics monkey’s, splits, loops and more fed the computer system with individual scores well over 1000!  Dane set the combined bar with 2476 points and Fontane of Spain (Catalonia) held second with some incredibly fast moves and a combined 1942.  EJ was in third for a good bit of time with 1200 points… but was soon pushed well down at the arrival of Peter, World Champ James Bebbington, Tomasz of poland and Troutman from Canada to name a few.  Csonka of Slovakia stole the show again with an outstanding combined score of 2588!

Good go team JK!

Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Final Score
1 Peter Csonka #161 SVK 1430 1158 2588
2 Dane Jackson #172 USA 1340 1136 2476
3 Joaquim Fontane #194 ESP 1006 936 1942
4 James Bebbington #74 GBR 940 870 1810
5 Nick Troutman #45 CAN 776 983 1759
6 Tomasz Czaplicki #191 POL 1023 653 1676
7 Martin Koll #7 DEU 803 870 1673
8 Bartosz Czauderna #190 POL 846 720 1566
9 Stephan Wright #157 USA 846 708 1554
10 Tomas Andrassy #167 SVK 790 686 1476
11 Michael Patterson #160 USA 703 713 1416
12 Clay Wright #169 USA 525 866 1391
13 Bryan Kirk #63 USA 560 686 1246
14 Abel Thevenet #2 FRA 766 451 1217
15 Eric Jackson #80 USA 670 536 1206
16 David Wild #189 GBR 640 560 1200
17 Kazuya Matsungaga #94 JPN 501 598 1099
18 Adam Chappell #193 CAN 363 716 1079
19 Marcel Bloder #33 AUT 505 526 1031
20 Craig Kleckner #187 USA 580 430 1010
21 Matt Anger #105 USA 521 486 1007
22 Thim Bernard #91 FRA 426 506 932
23 Thomas Dunphy #8 IRL 351 376 727
24 Andrey Pesterev #14 RUS 390 316 706

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