Am Getting Paid in Association with The Boardr Am Series
September 11 - 13, 2015
Canada's top amateur skateboarding contest returned last year where Jon Cos shut it down and took home $7,500. In 2015, it's back and going down in September.
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Location
Le Taz, 8931 Avenue Papineau, Montreal, QC H2M 2G2, Canada
Schedule
Thursday, September 10- 3pm - 7pm: Open Practice and Registration
- 9am - 1pm: Open Practice and Registration
- 1pm - 6pm: Open Qualifiers
- Jams format
- Three skaters per jam, three minute jams
- Jam scored on overall impression
- Top 30 make the cut to Semi-Finals on Sunday
- 10pm: Kick Off Party and "Duluth" Video Premiere
- 6524 Rue St-Hubert, Montréal, QC H2S 2M3
- Free entry with contestant wristband - 18 and up
- 1pm - sunset: P45 Chill Day
- BBQ and a $2,000 Vans Best Trick Contest at 4pm
- Best Trick is open to any skaters that want to participate
- 9am - 1pm: Open Practice
- 2pm - 4pm: Semi-Finals
- Top 30 from Friday Qualifiers join the pre-selected list of invited ams
- Preselected: Bobby De Keyzer, Enzo Cautela, Jon Cosentino, Mason Silva, JS Lapierre, Antoine Asselin, Tyson Bowerbank, Dashawn Jordan, Jack Olson, Yoshi Tanenbaum, Jayden Bono, Cody Cormier
- Jams format
- Three skaters per jam, three minute jams
- Jam scored on overall impression
- Top 10 make the cut to the Finals
- Top 30 from Friday Qualifiers join the pre-selected list of invited ams
- 4:30pm - 6pm: Finals
- Runs format
- Three runs, 1 minute each, best run counts
- Each run scored on overall impression
- 6pm: Awards
- 10pm: After-Party
- Blue Dog, 3958 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2W 1Y3 Canada
Hotel
Le Gouverneur Hotel Montreal , 1415 Rue St-Hubert, Montréal, QC H2L 3Y9, 514-842-4881, Use reservation code EMPIRE to get the $127.00 per night rate for a double bed room.
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$20,000 Prize Purse
- 1st: 10,000
- Trip to The Boardr Am Finals at X Games
- Trip to Kimberley Diamond Cup Skateboarding World Championships at South Africa
- 2nd: 4,000
- 3rd: 2,500
- 4th - 10th: 500
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