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Yuto Horigome, Rayssa Leal Win SLS Seattle
Yuto Horigome and Rayssa Leal made their second straight win in the Street League Skateboarding. The SLS second stop was held on August 13-14 at the Angel of the Winds Arena, Seattle, WA.
Horigome is a Tokyo Olympics gold medalist, and a two-time X Games Men’s Street gold medalist (Chiba and Minneapolis). He also won the World Skate title in 2021.
Leal placed second in the Street League Super Crown Women’s Finals in 2021. She also won the silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics Women’s Street making her the youngest Brazilian Olympic medalist.
Vincent Milou and Chris Joslin came in at second and third in Men’s Street.
Former Street League Super Crown Winner Pamela Rosa placed second in the Women’s Street. Olympic gold medalist Momiji Nishiya finished third in the event.
The third stop of the 2022 SLS Tour will be in Las Vegas, NV on October 8-9. This event will be invite-only, but you can get a chance to win a trip and watch it in person by registering here.
Based on the cumulative tour points of the three stops, the top four skaters will automatically qualify for the SLS Super Crown Championship. The rest of the competitors will battle it out for the other four slots in the Championship Finals.
The Super Crown Championship will be held on November 5-6 at the Arena Carioca 1, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tickets will be available starting on September 5.
If you are in the United States, you can watch the SLS events live via ESPN+ and ESPN 2. MCS Extreme will have exclusive live coverage in France, Belgium, and Luxemburg. You can watch the events live via YouTube if you live outside the countries mentioned. Go here for more information on how to watch the SLS series.
Watch the full coverage of the 2022 SLS Seattle Women’s and Men’s Finals below.
CONTESTS
Giovanni Vianna’s Top 5 SLS Scores of 2023
Giovanni Vianna earned his first Street League Skateboarding Super Crown title last year. Will he be able to defend his crown in the 2024 SLS Tour?
Let’s rewind to how Giovanni was able to push his way up to get the Super Crown.
In the Chicago and Sydney stops, he managed to land in the nine club in the knockout rounds, but they weren’t enough to get him to the finals.
But come the Super Crown Championships, he was able to land three nine-club scores, with 9.4 being the highest, enough to snatch the crown from his closest rival, Vincent Milou.
Watch how it all went down in the video above.
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The 2024 SLS Tour: Bigger and Better
The SLS Tour will return bigger and better in 2024. Up to $1.8 million prize purse is at stake, with $100,000 to go to the Super Crown Champions.
The tour is also adding more stops for a total of eight, including three SLS “Apex” spot-based events. Regular stops include Paris, San Diego, Australia (TBA), and Tokyo.
The SLS Super Crown Championships 2024 will be again held in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 14-15.
The SLS Tour 2024 will kick off at Adidas Arena, Paris, France, on February 24. Tickets are now available on the SLS website.
CONTESTS
Rayssa Leal’s Top 5 Scores of SLS 2023
Before the first stop of Street League Skateboarding this February, let’s look back to how Rayssa Leal managed to land her top 5 scores of 2023.
Rayssa kicked off the 2023 season with a win at the Chicago stop and finished with a Super Crown in São Paulo. It was her second Super Crown win.
She is surely someone to watch out for in the 2024 SLS Tour, which will commence on February 24 at the Adidas Arena in Paris.