Chosen Few 2011 Finals (Los Angeles): Edit by Max Manning
The Chosen Few Street Comp Series was crazy this year. We organized 9 competitions with local organizers throughout the world and added another 3 events to the series. This all built up to the Chosen Few Finals.
The ACF finals are now known as one of the most difficult competitions around and they are only going to get harder in the coming up years. Because of the difficulty at our competitions you can always expect to see the craziest and most intense skating around.
Creating an amazing event for all to enjoy is what we love to do.
Organized by Quinn Feldman. Filmed & edited by Max Manning.
Format
- Round 1: Anyone who didn’t place top 3 at an earlier event must skate this round. No Exceptions. Elimination round.
- Round 2: All skaters are judged on a 1-5 point scale for each trick they do. Highest scores move on to the finals. Basic tricks do not earn points.
- Final round spot 1: Non elimination round. All skaters are judged on a 1-5 point scale on every trick they do. The points skaters earn here are carried over to the final spot. Basic tricks do not earn points.
- Final round final spot: The point system is doubled. All skaters are judged on a 2-10 point scale. All skaters must do lines. Skaters can not just skate a single obstacle, they must at least link two tricks together to earn points. If your jumping the 19 stair set a straight gap over the first set is acceptable to be counted as a line.
Skaters are judged on Difficulty, Creativity and Style in that order. The combined scores of both the final round spots determine the top 10.
ACF Finals Top 10 and points earned
- Iain Mcleod: 140 $500
- Tyler Hester: 116 $120
- Russell Day: 82 $45
- Anthony Luna: 76.5
- Andrew Dipaolo: 54.5
- David Jones: 47
- Daniel Rosado 33.5
- Winston Wardwell 25.5
- Chad Tannehill 21
- Mike Sanchez/Chris Calkins 11.5
CHOSEN FEW Series Top 12
- Tyler Hester 730 points
- Russell Day 470 Points
- Anthony Luna 460 Points
- Iain Mcleod 375 Points
- Cyril Daniel 250 Points
- Winston Wardwell 210 Points
- Daniel Henderson 200 Points
- Lucas Lanthaler 180 points ; Arsenio Patterson 180 Points
- Mark Wojda 160 Points ; 9th Shane Thompson 160 Points ; Eugen Enin 160 Points
- David Jones 150 Points
- Adrian Deck 130 Points
- Beat Schillmeier 125 Points
Tags: chosen few, los angeles, max manning
October 1st, 2011 at 7:06 am
iain mcleod. please for the love of god learn to rollerblade
October 1st, 2011 at 7:58 am
ridiculous skating! was watching haffey’s 540 kindgrind from an old imyta the other day and that won it for him. can’t believe it was such an early trick for hester. come a long way since then. shame there didn’t seem to be the same sort of crowd but the skating was top level fruitbootery!
October 1st, 2011 at 8:19 am
Hey the conference, razors, valo, SSM etc. all the comunity of rollerblading thinks, IAN MCLEOD deserver to be PRO!!!! What are we waiting??? he is unique
October 1st, 2011 at 8:23 am
wow. that looked like an amazing time. cant believe i missed it.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:41 am
that blading was ridiculous…. but the songs ruined it just enough to make it kind of hard to watch.
October 1st, 2011 at 2:20 pm
mcleod is beaaaast!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
October 1st, 2011 at 2:39 pm
i like the shoot out format, you guys are really good.
i feel so bad at skating handrails now..
:D
October 1st, 2011 at 3:32 pm
It was the war!!
October 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for the edit. Looks to me that people are having fun out there.
Just realized I haven’t skated in 6 months.
Going out to do a soul grind.
October 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm
What an edit!!! Bravo! The skating was top notch. I enjoyed it a lot.
October 1st, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Respect to Quin Feldman and everybody else behind the Chosen Few Comps. You keep blading more than alive. Thanks for making this edit available online and for free, great quality behind and in front of the lenses. Wishing a successful 2012 series since now!!!
October 1st, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for making your edits really consistant….by that i mean consistantly shitty. You never fail to use the absolute worst garbage for music, too. Great job! Thanks again for making nothing but shitty edits.
October 1st, 2011 at 4:37 pm
best thing in this is the mcleod promo at the end
October 1st, 2011 at 5:20 pm
carbon2 guy is sick as fuck
October 1st, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Anonymous Says:
October 1st, 2011 at 7:06 am
iain mcleod. please for the love of god learn to rollerblade
That iain mcload skate 1000 times better then u`ll ever skate u f*ckin’ idiot !!!
The edit is fuckin’ dope , great job !!!
October 1st, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Iain is PRO
http://www.undercover-wheels.com/team/pro-team
and i hear he’s gettin a skate soon… so dont worry =)
October 1st, 2011 at 6:32 pm
i havent watched the edit but im gonna take a few guesses here.
tyler hester: hurricane top acid and pencil 5 kind grinds
mcleod: murdering
winston: hard but hideous tricks
russel day: squating everything out
luna: negative acids
random kids ive never heard: doing hard semi sketchy shit
was i right?
October 1st, 2011 at 6:55 pm
ha red-x calling someone stupid haha. ever heard of irony
October 1st, 2011 at 8:15 pm
this was weak. the comp didnt have a comp feel at all.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:52 pm
@Anonymous Says:
@October 1st, 2011 at 6:32 pm
lulz, that was hilarious, i often try tu guess just as you did, prehpas that’s why im laughing that hard :D, so true m8
furthermore, iain killed the shit, you don’t have to like his style, but he really killed THE shit, when i think he is 28 i am shocked 2 times more (and that gives some relief, i’m same age, so my rollerblading ain’t over for few more years, yay :D )
October 1st, 2011 at 9:49 pm
that music was fucking gay
October 1st, 2011 at 9:49 pm
McLeod for a pro boot!
October 1st, 2011 at 9:52 pm
ok guys i have to ask this… i see all this pics about tournaments and videos and stuff… but i never found a Chanel that shows them… do you guys have any Chanel or any web site where i can watch them???
October 1st, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Ian for razor pro. i can’t see why jeph howard is a pro and not ian.
October 1st, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Holy shit, the spots were so big… Can’t believe I missed this comp, Looking forward to ACF 2012!
October 1st, 2011 at 10:22 pm
That was a good comp, lain looks like a skeleton! LOL he’s good as fuck though!
October 1st, 2011 at 11:25 pm
red-X Says:
That iain mcload skate 1000 times better then u`ll ever skate u f*ckin’ idiot !!!
i may not be able to do a step up soul grind 720 to undone skate double handed 360 cess slide but atleast i can roll without looking like a retarded E.T aids victim
October 1st, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Iain is a blading god! He just keeps getting better. Whats wrong with rollerblading today? Anonymous sounds like the biggest douche please put a gun in your mouth and kill yourself!
October 2nd, 2011 at 12:51 am
put ur money where ur mouth is cunt!
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:48 am
SO good. Thanks for the long, quality edit.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:00 am
Anonymous, put up your real name and an edit of yourself which backs up your talk. I am convinced that anonymous is a skateboarder because he claims he can out skate ian. like most skateboarders you are criticizing one of the best rollerbladers of all time. If you are not a skateboarder then you should back up your talk. Be a man. Put up your first and last nam, your address town and state so we can come watch you do this soul 720 out so smooth and technical. I have a THOUSAND BUCKS in my account right now and I promise you that is you give me your information I will come watch you skate and if you can do this infamous trick i will give you my money.
In reality though I know you dont rollerblado so I want your address so I can beat your ass for talking shit you little pussy.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:01 am
Seriously, put an edit up of yourself. I want to see it.
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:15 am
Iain looks like a retarded baby t-rex with down syndrome, nigga skinnier than Wiz Khalifa. No Swag.
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:33 am
Since when did this sport become about weight watching dun? Im personally ashamed to see anyone bad mouth Iain. Get real! Thats big boy shit bud! Lets see you step to the plate!
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:04 am
whats up with the music?? and try not to make the intro to every spot so epic, other than that, sick ass contest!
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:46 am
Alex Burston should have been there he would have murked the fuck out of it on style alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 2nd, 2011 at 12:59 pm
chosen few provides the goods again, good effort all ’round!
iain mcleod is up there with the best. what a machine, he’s got tricks that no one else has… and all the tricks anyone else has too!
October 2nd, 2011 at 2:47 pm
It horrifies me that Iain got from true top acid to a full cab true mizou.
Means that his true acid to full cab true top acid switch-up could soon be true acid to full cab true top acid to full cab true mizou soon.
Yikes….
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Anybody knows what’s going on with Dem, Oneill and the rest of the crew these days? What are these guys up to? Haven’t heard of them in a while.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:45 pm
DarthRoller that is quite frightening. It’s strange how he does it on ledges rather than rails tho i bet he can do it on both still
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:32 pm
1 Ian has been pro since before deshi came out, i mean like the Zamora pro skate, Ian has his pro skate which was all black. I bought them. His style is sick. plus more than that he gets the job done with super ease and stupid steeze. Anonymous must be one of those vester bladers. Good Job Ian. I still will never buy Razor again unless they stop malking Razor flat, Murda skates, and give Ian either the SL or a newer model then I’d be really tempted to buy them. I’ve always supported his skating. Even got his second pair of Deshi still hanging up. He’s the Haffey before there was a Haffey.
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:39 pm
@ Anonymous: first off it’s not step up dumb fuck , you meant Step on firstly. it’s launch secondly, Ian’s style definitely made people Like Aragon So fucking popular. How many bladers are pro long after Ian was doing videos of his park and street skating that started doing bigger spins out after watching Ian skate in the early 90′s?
you wouldn’t know cause you don’t know the tricks that were performed. or the very basic definition of step on. so step off.
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
that was insane… Some of the tricks that went down are terrifying and sooo damn hard
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:34 am
You guys are such fags on here. Fuck your comments, and anybody who is talking shit. None of you are real in the world of blading.
October 3rd, 2011 at 2:07 am
Again, anonymous, put up your real information. I want to see your so-called smooth style. I want to smash. AT LEAST TELL ME YOUR REAL NAME AND WHAT STATE YOU LIVE IN. PLEASE I REALLY WILL GIVE YOU HARD CASH IF YOU CAN SHOW YOUR SKILLS.
in reality, my plea is a lesson in futility. People like anonymous will always be out there and everyone else who has criticized ian and others are definitely kids who suck at rollerblading and they are jealous. I have never met a good rollerblader that is so disrespectful. WHEN I STARTED SKATING OVER A DOZEN YEARS AGO, ROLLERBLADING WAS HUGE AND AT THAT POINT I REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF SHIT TALKING; AND IT WAS ALWAYS THE INSECURE, PISS POOR BITCHES WITH NO SKILLS THAT TALKED SHIT EVERY ROLLERBLADER IN THE WORLD THAT TRULY LOVES ROLLERBLADING WOULD AGREE ALSO, I WANT TO KILL ANONYMOUS.
October 3rd, 2011 at 4:35 am
editting and music selection was unbearable. fucking lame ass Roll Up beat? really? get the fuck out of here.
October 3rd, 2011 at 5:38 am
why again does ian mcleod skate in these events? its pretty obvious he’s going to murk everybody there.
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:41 am
iain mcleod = pro skate now. fuckin do it and everyone will buy them. fuck it iain mcleod for president!
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:25 am
music would you have preferred….just sayin….
October 4th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Hi! Anybody knows the name of the last song?
October 5th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Sub Focus – Rock It