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October 23, 2007
Maloof Money Cup being billed as Superbowl of Skating
What will you be doing next July? I can tell you what we'll be doing... basking in the sun at the Orange County Fairgrounds and its 40,000 square feet of skating goodness...
Scheduled for July 11-13, 2008, The Maloof Money Cup will include three professional United States Championship competitions, a United States amateur event, a youth skateboarding camp, and an interactive festival featuring action sport retailers and skateboarding activities.
Highlighting the weekend's events will be the US Pro Street Championship, which will feature a $100,000 first prize and what promises to be the most innovative and intense street course in professional skateboarding today. Always a fan-favorite, the US Pro Vert Championship will award $75,000 and a tricked-out SUV to the winner who exhibits the best 'big air' and 'off-the-wall tricks' possible. The US Women's Pro Street Championship will include the largest first prize in women's professional skateboarding history with $25,000 going to the winner.
"World Cup Skateboarding is thrilled to be involved with the Maloof Money Cup. With a history of organizing professional skateboarding competitions around the world for the past 15 years, we are truly excited to finally see skateboarding come of age with a premier skateboarding-only event in the United States. Bringing the event to the Orange County Fairgrounds in Southern California, the energy center of the skateboarding industry and the birthplace of skateboarding, is like bringing it all home. We look forward to the future of this event," states Don Bostick, founder of World Cup Skateboarding.
Link: Maloof Money Cup [Official Site]
Maloof Money Cup [MySpace Page]
Official Press Release [pdf link]
What others are saying...
"This is the sort of news flash I have been waiting to come as the skateboard industry continues to grow and attract bigger and financially stronger sponsors. The Maloof Money Cup will be the largest purse ever to be up for winning in the history of skateboarding!..." Europeskate.com
"Pro skaters, listen up. It seems there is some serious money about to be thrown your way. The bar has been raised considerably for what has previously been considered the largest purse in skateboarding competition..." Extreme365.com
"Hmmmm $400,000 in payouts for a skate competition? Jeebus that's like a rapper's first record contract type money. Well apparently the Maloof Brothers (the ones that brought you the Palms Casino and the Sacramento Kings) are planning to pay out that much in their Maloof Money Cup..." lat34.com
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