YouTryOut’s Shred Fest

YouTryOut is hosting its first ever live competition this Saturday (June 11) when Shred Fest 2011 takes place at the Mattapoisett Skatepark (64 County Road, Mattapoisett, MA 02739).

The event begins at noon and is made up of four competitions: Game of Skate, Best Trick Jam, High Ollie, and the YouTryOut Spot Challenge.

All proceeds from the event will go toward maintaining the Mattapoisett Skate Park.  Everyone is invited to compete and watch the events.

Here’s how the YouTryOut Spot Challenge works:

The goal is to advance to the video competition at YouTryOut.com by winning Best Trick in the Spot Challenge.  Here are the details:

1. The YouTryOut crew has chosen four spots throughout the skatepark where boarders compete to win best trick. Those four spots are rail, spine, fun box, and Manny board.

2. Each spot is open for 10 minutes at a time.

3. After 10 minutes the judges pick the two skateboarders that landed the best trick at that spot.

4. Two winners are chosen at each spot, resulting in eight boarders who will move on to the Spot Challenge Video Competition!

5. The event will be filmed so we will put together edits of the eight boarders highlighting their best tricks in the Spot Challenge.

6. The eight boarders will be randomly matched up head-to-head against one other.  Boarders with the most votes move on to the next round so make sure to get all your friends to vote for you.

Round 1= 8 boarders
Round 2= 4 boarders
Round 3= 2 boarders. The championship is winner takes all!

7. Winner will have their video featured on YouTryOUt.com with a chance to get a sponsorship, as well as receiving YouTryOut merchandise and a gift certificate to Solstice Skateboarding.

YouTryOut.com is where athletes compete in online video tournaments. We take the best, most entertaining sports highlight videos and enter them into bracket-style tournaments! The top 8 highlight videos in each tournament go head-to-head against each other and the viewers decide who wins! Get more votes than the opponent and move on to the next round. Tournament champion takes home the prize!

Founder, Troy Ferguson heads the day-to-day duties and is running the YouTryOut Spot Challenge at Shred Fest on Saturday. All competitions take place on the blog right now with a new website and better features to come soon. Ferguson says, “The goal for YouTryOut is to create video tournaments for all sporting events. Whether it’s a skateboard, snowboard, or surf competition or a baseball, football, and basketball game; video tournaments are going to be everywhere.

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