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Head to head breakdown
Skating hard and never letting up is Mike Siegfried's style, he ripped to third
Neil Blender, table-top backside air during Friday nite qualifying
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Olson, Ruft, Desota. Back luck and
unfortunate falls kept last year's
Colton Pro winner out of the finals.
nevertheless Steve Caballero
shredded and was definitely the
man in Out
When I awoke Saturday morning
I opened the motel room door
and was greeted by heavy rain
clouds. A half hour later it started
to rain and didn't let up all morning.
Back at the park Gil had decided
to postpone the competition until
Sunday, a heavy hail storm at
noon made the
hade the outlook grim for
the rest of the weekend
On Sunday things looked
hopeless, the sky v
y was heavily
overcast and a
and a light rain was
falling. By the time I arrived at the
park the rain had let up and I
dit was
relatively dry (no pun intended).
Reports from LA,
A Pasadena and
Upland were that it was pouring
Gill Losi (by this time praying to the
gods and performing curious
ancient rituals) gathered the Pro
riders together and announced
that they would skate first and if it
rained the results from Friday's
qualifying would be final and
Mike Siegfried
most important that HE WOULD
PAY THE WHOLE PURSE. After a
quick warm up session the Pros
were ready to do battle. Head to
head competition is still fairly t
ty new
to bowl riding, yet it already seems
to be the best method for
determining the best skater on a
given day. A simple explanation of
this system is as follows: each
skater competes in a two-run
confrontation against another
skater, the winner of the match is
the skater with the highest scored
run, he then moves into a winner's
bracket. The loser moves into a
loser's bracket. To be eliminated a
skater must lose twice, thus a
competitor may lose once, remain
in the competition, and come
back to win it all. It makes for a
very interesting format, with heavy
strategy sessions as to how to
skate against a particular rider. To
iF:
y knowledge the first person to
conceive of this format was Curtis
Hesselgrave; he also promoted
the Lakewood Contest that first
utilized this system
With menacing clouds overhead
the Pro round robin got under
way. The winners of the first four
match-ups were M. Alba. M. Smith,
Zegfried and Peters, the losers
were Grisham, Lamar Ruff and
Blender. It was evident in this first
round that the big threats were
Mike Smith and Peters, DP. working
the pool for all its worth and Mike
executing with flawless perfection
all his tricks and working all angles
Although beaten by DP. Nell
Blender showed heavy moves and
let it be known that he could
come out of the loser's bracket
and win it. The loser pairings were
evenly matched. Lamor
eliminating Grisham, Blender
doing it to Ruff. In the winner's
round Mike couldn't handle Smith's
attack and Zegfried bowed to
Peters. Micke then faced off
against Lamar in a battle of tried
and true veterans, Micke edging
Bert for the win-bye, bye Bert
Ziggy tumed the trick on Blender.
later Neil. Back to the winner's
bracket, D.P. went in against Smith
Nell Blender
SHER
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DUANE
PETERS
D.P. flashed his usual brilliance to nail down second.
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