• 1 Milton Martinez, ARG
  • 2 Tyler Hendley, USA
  • 3 Maxim Habanec, CZ
  • 1. Sandro Dias, BRA
  • 2. Ronaldo Gomes, BRA
  • 3. Marcelo Bastos, BRA
  • 1. Milton Martines, ARG
  • 2. Ivan Rivaldo, SPA
  • 3. Rodolfo Ramos, BRA
  • 1 Leticia Bufoni, BRA
  • 2 Helena Long, UK
  • 3 Lois Pendlebury, UK
  • 1. Leticia Bufoni, BRA
  • 2. Lois Pendlebury, UK
  • 3. Helena Long, UK

Daily Highlights

Event

For the third consecutive year, world cup skateboarding arrives in Rome, hitting the ancient area of Ostia from 16th to 18th of July 2010

Sinners will come from everywhere to challenge in the hellish rounds of bowl, street and vert trying to win the damned 30.000 euro money prize offered by Luciver himself.

As event opening, on Thursday 15th the skate legend Tony Hawk will visit the Ostia harbor by night for his Quiksilver Tony Hawk Tour together with other Vert riders.

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Schedule

Giovedì 15 Luglio
10:00 - Doors Opening
10:00/18:00 - Street/Bowl practice Session
18:00/19:00 - Birdhouse Demo street @ THE SPOT skatepark
21:00 - 22:00 – DJ Set
22:00/23:00 - Tony Hawk Show
23:00/24:00 – DJ Set
Venerdì 16
Luglio
10:00/17:00 - Check in & Registration
10:00/20:00 - Practice Session
18:30/19:30 - Vert Quals
20:30/23:30 - Bowl Quals
Sabato 17
Luglio
10:00 - Doors Opening
12:00/16:00 - Practice Session
16:00/21:00 - Men's Street qualification
21:00/21:30 - Intro to vert finals with DAMOVE
22:00/22:30 - Vert Finals / Sound Gengis Khan
22:30/22:45 - DAMOVE
22:45/23:00 - While MC with Ostia Street Rockerz
23:00/23:45 - CORVELENO
23:45 - GENGIS KHAN DJSET
Domenica 18
Luglio
10:00 - Doors Opening
10:00/12:00 - Practice Session
15:00/18:00 - Men's Street semi-finals
18:00/18:15 - Ladies bowl finals
18:15/18:45 - Bowl finals
19:00/19:30 - Ladies street finals
19:45 - 20:45 - Street finals
20:45 - 21:00 - Best trick street
21:00/21:00 - Award Ceremony an then the PARTY!!

Entrance is Free for all. All skateboarders who want to sign up for the contest can fill in the registration form online, and save 20 euro on signup fee or wait to register at the event, on Friday without any reduction. Tho shoot photo and video you can get accreditation by filling this other form.

Riders

As of today, these are some of confirmed rider at the event, check back soon for updates:


Diego Fiorese, BRA
Wolnie Dos Santos, BRA
Stanly Ignacio, BRA
Marco Lambertucci, ITA
Tomas Vintr, CZ
Germán Pontiga, SPA
David Castells, SPA
Sandro Dias, BRA
Jessie Fritsch, USA
Juergen Horwart, GER
Peter Molec, SLO
Guido Stazi, ITA
Fabio Montagner, ITA
Martin Andre Cabarcos, BRA
Thaynan Costa, POR
Bastien Salabanzi, FRA
Rodolfo Ramos, BRA
Tulio de Oliviera, BRA
Cristian Serika, CZ
Ivan Federico, ITA
Patrik Pittl, AT
Claude Levy, FRA
Joan Calceran, SPA
Kevin Staab, USA
Paul-Luc Ronchetti, USA
Agonkouin Georges, FRA
Marcos Gabriel, BRA
Angelo Netto, ITA
Dan Cezar Pardinho, BRA
Ivan Rivaldo, SPA
Daniel Cardone, ITA
Lukas Danek, CZ
Ondrej Leskovianski, CZ
Luca Crestani, ITA
Norbert Weitenbacher, AT
Roope Tonteri, FI
Andrea Casasanta, ITA
Jean Postec, FRA
Massimiliano Baratono, ITA
Tomas Vintr, CZR
Cristian Sirica Boccia, ITA
Abaroudi Hassan, FRA
Nikolai Danov, ITA


If you're a skateborder searching informations about accomodations, or how to reach the event, scroll down this page. Instead, if you're searching how to signup the contest, full fill this form

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Ramps

SKATEPARK Street course is located just inside The spot skatepark facility and is about 1200 square meters large.

Ramps, made by Iou-Ramps in 2006 will be refreshed for this 2010 WcS edition.
BOWL Located inside the spot skatepark facility too, this bowl have been the first indoor bowl of Rome.

Built in 2005 by IgnoRamps and moved to ostia in 2007, it has a 2.5mt radius, 1.6mt tall.
VERT Usual Guest of Roman WcS, the ver ramp built by vertical will be located inside Harbor of Rome, few hudreds meters from the skatepark.

Theatre of main vertical events in Europe, the ramp is 18 mt wide and 3.5 high, with a radius of 3.2 mt and 50cm of vert.

Info

Prize Money

Total Prize money is 30.000 euro (about 36900 $) divided as follows:

Men Street: 13.350,00 €
Mens Vert: 9.650 €
Mens Bowl: 3.750 €

Ladies Street: 2.000 €
Ladies Bowl: 750,00 €

Best trick: 500 €

Subscription Fee

€ 70 Any Single Competition
€ 100 Any two competitions
€ 120 all three competitions
FREE all competitions for ladies

You can signup on friday at contest desk or subscribe online by full fill this form and save 20 euros on subscription fee.




Street course and bowl location

Info point, skatepark, chill out area and bowl are located inside the spot skatepark facility, 50 meters far from the seaside.
Full address is: Via D. Baffigo n. 143 Ostia lido (ROME) GPS Coords: 41.738048, 12.255490

Vert Location

Halfpipe for both vert contest and tony hawk tour is located inside Rome Harbor in ostia, 500 meters far from the spot skatepark.
Gps Coords: 41.738051, 12.251514
The map above will redirect you to google maps, if you want a printable version of these directions download the survivor guide in pdf format.

Come raggiungere the spot coi mezzi pubblici

By Plane: Leonardo da vinci Airport, located in fiumicino id 8km far from the skatepark. You can Reach Ostia Lido with a bus (line fiumicino-lido di ostia) that starts every 40 minutes from 7am to 11.30pm in front of the airport.

BY train: From "Roma Termini", Rome main station, take the Metro line "B" untill "Piramide" stop. From here take the "Roma-lido" overground line until "Lido Centro Stop".

BY CAR: Once you're in rome, you can reach Ostia by "Via Del Mare (exit n.28 of "Grande Rraccordo anulare" highway) or by "Via Cristoforo Colombo" (exit n.27 of "Grande Raccordo anulare" Highway). By using Google Maps direction you'll be able to get better direction than this to reach the skatepark.

Rider signup

If you're planning to attend to the contest and you want to save both time and money (20 euro on total subscription fee), you can subscribe online by filling this form. You don't need to print anything, you'll find the form directly at signnup desk

Media accreditation

If your're a jourtnalist, photographer or videomaker please fill this form to get accreditation and full access to all facilities.

Accomodation

Hotels

Belvedere Century ***(event official Hotel)
Tel. +39 06.5672502 Web.: hotelbelvedereostia.net
“Hotel Kursaal” (***)
Website: http://www.venere.com/it/hotel/roma-ostia/hotel-kursaal
Distance & position: 10kms (5.5 miles), seafront
“Hotel Club Isola Sacra” (***)
Website: http://www.hotelclubisolasacra.it/
Distance & position: 4 kms (2,5 miles)
“Aran Blue Hotel” (****)
Website: http://www.aranhotels.com/AranBlu/index.html
Distance & position: eventside, seafront
“Airport Palace Hotel” (****)
Website: http://www.airportpalacehotel.com
Distance & position: 5 kms (3 miles), center of Ostia
“Country Club Castelfusano” (camping, country houses and bungalows)
Website: http://www.countryclubcastelfusano.it/
Distance & position: 9 kms (6 miles)
“Hotel Ping Pong” (***)
Website: http://www.hotelpingpongostia.com/eng/index.html
Distance & position: 5kms (3 miles), seafront
“Hotel la Scaletta” (***)
Website: http://www.lascaletta.it
Distance & position: 3kms (1,8 miles), seafront
“Hotel La Riva” (***)
Website: http://www.hotellariva.it
Distance & position: 10kms (6miles), seafront
“Hotel Sirenetta” (***)
Website: http://www.hotelsirenettaostia.com/
Distance & position: 5kms (3 miles), seafront
“Hotel Bellavista” (***)
Website: http://www.hotelostia.it/index.php
Distance: 6kms (4 miles), seafront


Hostels

“Litus” (youth hostel)
Website: http://www.litusroma.com
Distance & position: 3 kms (1.5 miles), seafront


Camping

“Camping Internazionale Castelfusano” (camping and bungalows)
Website: http://www.romacampingcastelfusano.it
Distance & position: 9 kms (6 miles), seafront
“B&B Le due stelle”
Website: http://www.leduestelle.it/english/
Distance & position: 3kms (1.8 miles)
“B&B Girasole reale”
Website: http://www.girasolereale.com/
Distance & position: depending on apartment (from 3kms to 15kms)

Contatti

The Spot Skatepark
Via Domenico Baffigo 143
00121 Ostia Lido (RM)
Tel. (+39) 06 563 402 62
Mobile (+39) 349 49 10 944
Mobile (+39 ) 339 11 88 007
Web: www.thespotskate.it
Email: info@thespotskate.it

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