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Other challenges & rules.


THE BASIC RULES

You must go to all of the cities on your route, anywhere else is up to you.

* All decisions by Jake Phelps are fair and binding.

* All City Challenges are to be opened only after entering the city limits of said city.

* Only one person from the team is required to complete a trick or challenge to earn the points (unless the challenge specifically says "everyone.")

* Only one person can earn the points on any specific trick--ie, just because two people can do it doesn't mean you get the points twice.

* Meet the challenges to the best of your abilities and understanding. Any ambiguities in the wording of the challenges are unintentional. The most obvious answer is usually the correct one. Looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 loopholes and point-grubbing are considered poor form.

* All tricks must be filmed to get points.

* The validity of imperfect landings will be at Jake Phelps discretion.

* In the event of a tie on Highest, Longest, Most challenges (for example, if two teams have a 20-stair ollie) both teams get the 50 points.

* In the event of a tie for the entire event (ie, two teams have the same point total,) the winner will be decided by a game of SKATE with each of the tying teams nominating one team member to compete.

* Ins and Outs--team members may leave from and return to the tour at any time, however, they cannot earn points while away, nor can their team earn points where "everyone" is required to do a challenge.

* There are to be no substitutions even in the case of injury.

* The team with the most points will be the King of the Road. They will receive the title, the trophy and $20,000

* One member of the winning team will be featured on the cover of the Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush.
thrasher

Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs.
 King of the Road issue. They will also have the fight to defend the title in the next KOTR KOTR King of the Road (skateboarding)
KOTR King of the Ring (pro wrestling)
KOTR Knights of the Round
KOTR Korea on the rocks (website) 
 event.

HIGHEST, LONGEST, MOSTEST (judged against the other teams--worth 50 points each)

* Biggest rail

* Biggest transfer (tranny)

* Most stairs firecrackered

* Most stairs frontside flipped

* Most stairs backside 180'd up

* Biggest double set ollied

* Best trick on a kinked rail

* Best trick on a hubba ledge

* Biggest rail backside tailslid

* Most stairs hardflipped

* Most stairs ollied up to manual

* Gnarliest blunt to fakie Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the  

* Phelper's Delight--Most Gnar

* Lee Ralph's Challenge--Gnarliest trick barefooted

* Sherm's Revenge--Best trick naked

* Longest noseblunt slide on a quarter pipe

* Most points earned by a photographer

* Most points earned by a videographer A person involved in the production of video material. Videographers shoot the images with a video camera (analog or digital) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage.  

* Most points earned by a team manager

* Most points earned by a Mystery Guest

* Duffel's 'Do--Worst haircut on a team rider

* Hall of Meat--Worst injury

* Most full-pipes skated

* Biggest water gap

* Most over-40 make outs

* Most stairs ollied

MISC MISC Miscellaneous
MISC Miscellany
MISC Miscarriage
MISC Malaysia International Shipping Corporation
MISC Maui Invasive Species Committee
MISC Minimum Instruction Set Computing
MiSC Microsoft Software Center (Indonesia) 
. CHALLENGES

HARD (20 POINTS)

* Just Friends--Five team riders all perform a kickflip while holding hands

* Skate a boulder

* Skate a BMX BMX
abbr.
bicycle motocross


BMX
Noun

1. bicycle motocross: stunt riding over an obstacle course on a bicycle

2.
 track

* Make out with a woman wearing a Korn, Slipknot (web) SlipKnot - A graphical World-Wide Web browser specifically designed for Microsoft Windows users who have Unix shell accounts with their service providers. Its primary feature is that it does not require SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP services. , or Eminem T-shirt

* Find a tombstone Tombstone, city (1990 pop. 1,220), Cochise co., SE Ariz.; inc. 1881. With its pleasant climate and legendary past, Tombstone is a well-known tourist attraction. The city became a national historic landmark in 1962.  with a team member's name on it

HARDER (30 POINTS)

* Just Friends--Five team riders all perform a rock to fakie on a quarter pipe (5 feet or taller) while holding hands

* Ollie a pyramid while skipping rope

* Skate a rail in the rain

* Kickflip a set of train tracks

* Make out with a woman with a cast on her arm, leg, or neck

* Focus the board of a mongo Mongo

Any of several peoples living in the African equatorial forest. They speak a dialect of a common language, Mongo or Nkundo, which belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.
 pusher pusher Drug slang 1. A person who sells drugs, especially the 'heavies'–eg, heroin 2. A metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue in crack stems  you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 

HARDEST (50 POINTS)

* JT's Fade--Shave off your hair and eyebrows

* Just Friends--Five team riders all kickflip down three stairs while holding hands

* Eisenberg's Dream--Perform a kickflip on skateboard while rollerblades

* Swayze's Work Week--One team member goes shirtless for five days straight (absolutely no shirt day or night)

* Down for Life--Get a Thrasher tattoo

* Get your sticker on the inside rearview mirror of another team's van (mirror-stickered team loses 50 points)

* Make out with a woman over 40 (must show ID)

* Skate naked

* Learn the McTwist for the first time

FUCKED UP (100 POINTS)

* Get a Bam heart-a-gram tattoo (must be at least as big as a quarter)

NO DOCUMENTATION = NO POINTS ONLY ONE SKATER FROM EACH OTHER TEAM CAN COLLECT POINTS FOR EACH TRICK
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