By the Numbers: Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals
With close to 50 contests going on over the course of four months, the Gatorade Free Flow Tour has a lot going on each weekend. Holding stops from Rye, NH to San Diego, CA, the Gatorade Free Flow Tour has criss-crossed the country this summer, hosting a minimum of two contests every weekend in the hopes of finding the next am that can make the jump from “Flow to Pro.”
Along the way, the Gatorade Free Flow Tour has racked up some pretty impressive numbers. And 17 repeat winners, 30 skateparks and more than 2,000 competitors later, the 2010 Finals are (finally!) just over a week away.
If you’ve been keeping score at home, you’ll probably recognize some of these facts. But if not, enjoy learning more about the 2010 Gatorade Free Flow Tour than you’ve ever known before.
Gatorade Free Flow Tour – By the Numbers in 2010
The history…
9,106 ......... Participants in the five-year history of the GFFT
187............ Different winners in the history of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour
16.............. Overall champions that have been crowned on the Gatorade Free Flow Tour
The season…
47.............. Competitions on the Gatorade Free Flow Tour
30.............. Skateparks that hosted a GFFT contest this summer
38,760........ Number of bottles of Gatorade consumed this summer
465,120...... Ounces of G doled out during the Gatorade Free Flow Tour
10.............. Events with 75 or more competitors
101............ Number of skate park and vert ams at Black Diamond on 8.28
2,013......... Total number of participants on the Gatorade Free Flow Tour this season
5................ Former Gatorade Free Flow Tour champions on the 2010 Dew Tour (pictured below l-r, Chaz Ortiz, skate park; Mykel Larrin, BMX vert; Mike Spinner, BMX park; Timmy Knuth, skate park and Jonathan Chin, BMX vert)
The finals…
4 ............... Finals that will take place in Salt Lake City (skate park and vert; BMX park and dirt)
70.............. Number of amateurs who will be competing at the Finals
22.............. States represented
2................ Countries represented
10.............. Age of skate vert wildcard selection Tom Schaar, the youngest finalist this year
12.............. Age of the youngest winners on this year’s GFFT – Max Jenson, Juan Pineiro and Tyler Brown, all vert skaters
4................ Number of BMX dirt finalists who will also be competing in the BMX park finals
1................ Vert finalist from last year that will be competing again this year (Jimmy Wilkins)
3................ Four-time finalists (Chase Webb, Tyson Bowerbank and Ryan Thompson) at the 2010 Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals
5................ Three-time finalists (Alex Longcamp, Anthony Estrada, Fletcher Renegar, Mike Groff and Spencer Bass)
16.............. Two-time finalists (Alec Majerus, Brendon Villanueva, Broc Raiford, Bryan Lacombe, Chris Colbourn, Gage Smith, Giorgio Villone, Houston Harmsen, Jason Lopez, Jimmy Wilkins, Larry Edgar, Miles Canavello, Phil Hansen, Vinny Mannino, Wyatt Milhollan) who will be in Salt Lake City
13.1........... Average age of a 2010 skate vert finalist
18.7........... Average age of a 2010 BMX park finalist
3................ Times both Anthony Estrada and Bradley Elias competed in a skate park contest this year (each won in his third comp)
4................ Different skate park contests Gage Smith competed in over the course of the 2009 season without winning (was awarded a wildcard to the Finals)
1................ Contest Gage competed in this year, earning a spot in the Finals by winning at Flow
