The event took place on Lake Ivanhoe which is located right near downtown Orlando. The site hosted a ProTour stop back in 1989, but has not hosted an event until now. Throughout the day on Saturday there was a wakeboard tournament, bare footing, wake slake and FlyBoard demonstrations to keep activity going on the water. There were venders on site as well as a few of the local DJs sponsored by CBS radio spinning all day.
Qualifying for the slalom and jump events took place on Lake Grew during the Holy Cow Cup tournament on Friday. The top 10 of the 11 jumpers and 17 slalom skiers went to the Semi-Finals on Lake Ivanhoe on Saturday.
Mens Slalom Semi-Finals & Finals
The mens slalom event started off with a Semi-Final round to take the top 10 down to 6 with a starting line of 32off. Brian Detrick (USA), Terry Winter (USA), Adam Sedlmajer (CZE) and Pietari Ronkko (FIN) were eliminated with Nate Smith (USA) being the top seed going into the Finals. In the Finals the top 6 skiers went out at 35off to try and secure their spot in the Head 2 Head Super Final. In the Finals Thomas Degasperi (ITA), Chris Parrish (USA) & Will Asher (GBR) scored 1.5 @ 41. Jon Travers (USA), Aaron Larkin (NZL) & Nate Smith (USA) scored 2 @ 41.
Mens Slalom Run-off
Only the top 2 skiers were advancing to the Head 2 Head Super Final. With 3 skiers tied at 2 @ 41 there was a runoff needed. Larkin went back out first in the 3 way runoff at 39off cold and scored 2 @ 41. Travers followed with a 1.5 @ 39. Last off the dock was Smith who needed to beat Larkin's score of 2 @ 41 to be the highest seed going into the Super Final. Smith scored 2 @ 39 to beat out Travers, but not Larkin.
Head 2 Head Finals
The schedule of events was made to have slalom ending just as the sun was setting but, because of the runoff the slalom finals started to run into the night under the lights. The lights were more configured for jump rather than slalom. This made the night conditions a little more difficult than normal during a night event. Larkin was the highest seed going into the finals and chose to ski first. The starting line for the Finals was 38off. Larkin scored 2.5 @ 39 and Smith ran 4 @ 39 for the win of the Super Final.
Mens Jump Semi-Final
The Men's Jump Semi-Final was full of spills and thrills. Tom Asher (GBR) stuck a solid 214 and set the bar high as the first jumper off the dock. Up and coming jumper Daniel Efverström (SWE) was pushing hard to make the finals with a solid 198' going into his final jump he lost it in the air and took a big OTF. Alex Paradis (CAN) passed hist first jump, crashed on his second then landed a 145' jump. Bojan Schipner (GER) jumped 212'. Steven Collins (CAN) jumped 196'. Damien Sharman (GBR) jumped 212' which would secure himself a spot in the finals. Zack Worden (USA) who is just coming back from injury secured himself a spot in the finals with a jump of 207'. Igor Morozov (RUS) just missed the finals with a jump of 204'. Freddy Krueger (USA) went 217' to secure the 2nd seed spot in the finals. Ryand Dodd (CAN) made himself the highest seed going into the finals with a jump of 224'.
Mens Jump Finals
Ryan Dodd was the highest seed through all the rounds during the weekend. Dodd won the mens jump event with a distance of 206' under the lights. Freddy Krueger, who is still recovering from injury, took 2nd place with a jump of 205'. Damien Sharman took 3rd with a solid jump of 202'. 4th place was Tom Asher with 200'. 5th went to Bojan Schipner with 199' and 6th place to Zack Worden with 190'. This is the third win for Dodd this season. His previous being the LA Night Jam and the MasterCraft Pro Shootout.