{"id":31360,"date":"2012-07-14T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:45:23","slug":"huston-on-top-at-street-league-3-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31360","title":{"rendered":"Huston On Top At Street League 3 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nyjah<\/a><\/p>\n

No one should be surprised to learn that Nyjah Huston<\/strong> was once again on top of the qualifying rounds of Street League 3<\/a><\/strong> from Glendale, Arizona tonight. What was sup rising was how close the top four skaters were. Only .5 of a point separated the top three.<\/p>\n

Qualifying in second was Luan Oliveira<\/strong>, with some incredibly technical tricks like a Switch Frontside Flip and a Nollie Backside Flip in the Big section. Third place qualifier was Paul Rodriguez<\/strong> with an overall score of 33.1. Rounding out the qualifying spots were Chris Cole<\/strong>, Torey Pudwill<\/strong> and Ryan Sheckler<\/strong>, who all had solid days of skating<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Competition continues tomorrow with the finals live on ESPN2<\/strong> at 4 PM PST. For the complete official results, follow the jump.STREET LEAGUE DC PRO TOUR FUELED BY MONSTER ENERGY
\nFIRES UP WITH PRELIMINARY QUALIFYING ROUNDS IN GLENDALE<\/p>\n

Nyjah Huston, Luan Oliveira, Paul Rodriguez, Chris Cole, Torey Pudwill and Ryan Sheckler
\nHave Qualified in the Top Six Spots for Stop Three Finals<\/p>\n

Finals set to air LIVE on ESPN2 Sunday, July 15th 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Glendale, Arizona (July 14, 2012) \u2013 The results are in from an exhilarating qualifying day for the third stop of the 2012 Street League DC Pro Tour Fueled by Monster Energy (SLS) in Glendale. Some of the world\u2019s best skateboarders were on hand at the Jobing.com Arena and six of the twenty-four Street League pros secured a spot in Sunday\u2019s finals with two spots left open for the top scorers of tomorrow\u2019s semifinal round. It was a tight top tier, with the one, two and three spots all within one point of each other. But it was Nyjah Huston who came out on top by less than two tenths of a point, clenching first place in the qualifying round with the night\u2019s highest score, a 33.6 overall with tricks like a Kick Flip Backside Tail Slide on the Big Section out-ledge for 8.7.<\/p>\n

Qualifying in second was Luan Oliveira, with some incredibly technical tricks like a Switch Frontside Flip and a Nollie Backside Flip in the Big section. Third place qualifier was Paul Rodriguez with an overall score of 33.1. Rounding out the qualifying spots were Chris Cole, Torey Pudwill and Ryan Sheckler, who all had solid days of skating.<\/p>\n

Street League DC Pro Tour Fueled by Monster Energy Qualifying Results \u2013 Stop 3<\/p>\n

1 Nyjah Huston 33.6
\n2 Luan Oliveira 33.4
\n3 Paul Rodriguez 33.1
\n4 Chris Cole 32.9
\n5 Torey Pudwill 32.6
\n6 Ryan Sheckler 31.3
\n7 Chaz Ortiz 30.8
\n8 Mikey Taylor 30.1
\n9 David Gonzalez 29.7
\n10 Sean Malto 29.6
\n11 Bastien Salabanzi 29.1
\n12 Shane O\u2019Neill 28.5
\n13 Ishod Wair 26.5
\n14 Tommy Sandoval 25.6
\n15 Billy Marks 24.5
\n16 Tom Asta 22.4
\n17 Peter Ramondetta 15.7
\n18 Jimmy Carlin 11.6
\n19 Mark Appleyard 9.4
\n20 Austyn Gillette 8.7
\n21 Mike Mo Capaldi 6.5
\n22 Dylan Rieder 4.9
\n23 Matt Miller 4.4
\n24 Eric Koston DNP<\/p>\n

The Street League pros that finished from 7th to 12th will have one last shot to qualify in the semifinals on Sunday. This year\u2019s semifinal winners round out the 7th and 8th spots for the finals. Tomorrow\u2019s live
\nbroadcast could potentially feature an unlikely contender making a run at the podium.<\/p>\n

Fans have the opportunity to view a live webcast of Sunday\u2019s semifinal on Street League\u2019s website at www.streetleague.com at 6:15PM ET. Stop Three Finals in Glendale will broadcast LIVE on ESPN2, ESPN3, and distributed to over 198 countries via the ESPN family of channels on Sunday, July 15th at 7PM ET. For more information please visit www.streetleague.com.<\/p>\n

Street League Skateboarding is presented by DC Shoes and Monster Energy, with additional sponsorship by Chevrolet, Air Force Reserve, Superheat, X-Out, mophie, Zumiez, Nixon, Bill My Parents and California Skateparks.<\/p>\n

Street League Skateboarding\u2122
\nStreet League Skateboarding (SLS) is the premier professional skateboarding contest series worldwide. Founded by 20-year professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, Rob Dyrdek, Street League features 24 of the world\u2019s top street skateboarders competing exclusively for a groundbreaking $1.6 million prize purse in a nationwide tour. The series will be available live on ESPN2, ESPN3, Street League\u2019s official website, and distributed to over 198 countries via the ESPN family of channels. Driven by the need to enhance the experience of live professional street skateboarding, Street League utilizes the ISX\u2122 instant-scoring format that makes every single trick count. More information is available at www.streetleague.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one should be surprised to learn that Nyjah Huston was once again on top of the qualifying rounds of Street League 3 from Glendale, Arizona tonight. What was sup rising was how close the top four skaters were. Only .5 of a point separated the top three. Qualifying in second was Luan Oliveira, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31362,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}