Battle Of Hastings 2016. Bring on the fight! 44 Pros battle in England this weekend.

Sep 10, 2016

Written by Bart de Jong

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Tomorrow we're leaving for the Battle Of Hastings. A BMX battle this time, 950 years after 6000 people died in the fight in 1066. We're hoping for a few less casualties this weekend but you never know when the BMX crew gets to town. Eleven 4-men teams of heavy hitters have made it to Hastings so riding at The Source will be off the hook. It's time something happened again in Hastings that gets the international BMX community together. If you haven't planned anything for the

weekend, start that car up and type Hastings in that navigation system. Please find below the format and the schedule. Looking forward to see everyone.

SCHEDULE

Friday September 9th
11.00 Doors open for practice in Main park (not ticketed)
22.00 Practice ends and doors close

The Source BMX shop and Merchandise stand is open from 10.00 - 22.00
The Courtyard Bar and The Helm pub is open 12.00-22.00

Saturday September 10th
14.30   Doors Open / Practice
15.00-15.30 Etnies Pro Rider Poster Signing
16.00   Contest Starts
19.00   Contest Ends
22.00 - 03.00   Monster Energy After Party @ The Brass Monkey

The Source BMX shop and Merchandise stand is open from 10.00 - 20.00
The Courtyard Bar and The Helm pub is open 12.00-19.0

Sunday September 10th
13.30   Doors Open / Practice
14.00-14.30 Etnies Pro Rider Poster Signing
15.00   Etnies Best Trick contest
15.50   Finals Start
17.10   Contest Ends and Results Announced

The Source BMX shop and Merchandise stand is open from 10.00 - 18.00
The Courtyard Bar and The Helm pub is open 12.00-18.00

FORMAT
The Battle of Hastings is using an innovative format that combines street and park riding in both of our skateparks whilst utilising both competition format and video edits.

10 of our favourite riders were chosen to be captains and they each picked 3 riders each to make up their team. An 11th team is made up of 4 riders that qualified from our qualifier event held at the Source Park back in June.

Each team is competing over 3 days to win the Battle of Hastings; 950 years exactly since the original battle.

There are 4 Sessions taking place that decide the winner :

1. Plaza Session (Friday). Each team captain picks 2 of their riders to film a video edit in our Plaza skatepark. This street plaza replicates rails, ledges and banks that are found on the streets. Each pair of riders has 1 hour of privacy to film an edit with our two filmers, Rich Forne and Cal Earnshaw which are then edited by Peter Adam and scored by our judges. The edits will be shown to the riders on Saturday night and released online in the run up to Christmas.

2. Park Session (Saturday). Each team gets 12 and a half minutes to ride the main park where all 4 riders are scored for their riding and the score totalled.

3. Etnies Best Trick Session (Sunday). Each team captain picks 1 rider to ride the best trick contest. The riders get 25 minutes to pull their best trick on the street section.

4. Finals (Sunday). This is where each team wants to be!!    Scores from the first 3 teams decide the 4 top teams that ride in the finals. This is where the 4th place rider from each team riders in a group for 15 minutes and then the 3rd place riders in a group and so on. Scores are added up for each team and the highest scoring team declared as the winner of the inaugural Battle of Hastings. The 4 captains in the final will also be invited back next year.