Its still work in progress, we ran it first time in Pitland and now working on the most important updates for the next race in Pardubice so the realtime TV view for the racers and admin control has a priority. But any feedback welcome ;o)
Reporting back on Polish championship race, hope we motivated some new riders, track was better than expected. xErace provided timing but the race was a quali + elimination format, with interesting head-to-head escalation finals. Tilo secured first Europe tour win and Milos had a great Finals run eliminating 4-2 rider and ending up on the silver spot.
Waldshut race is complete. Great battles in all categories, OPEN 2WD worked great as expected, I think it has a nice future for regular riders. It was quick and intensive race, everybody was so exhausted that the track stayed free in the extra freeride time after the race It was cool to watch riders keep improving with more sessions and more motivation as the fights escalated.
Lars with Pjotr used to organize Lemiers kart track on the border, i was there twice myself. We were thinking that might be good place also if they wanted to do it again.
Really enjoyed our biggest outdoor xErace yet in France last weekend. Amazing weather conditions and a hugely international lineup. Had basically most of top 10 xErace ranking riders there which made for great competition.
Looking at the results, the top riders start to be really really close to each other and we expect to see even more of that in the future as people understand how they need to set up their raceboards. The race is always a great test for the boards and see where everyone is and I feel we are getting to the point where the top boards really start to challenge the riders.
We tested an extra head-to-head challenge race as a separe race for top xErace finishers and partnered with other brands to patron that specific race, making for two separate podium and possible shared promotion opportunity. Was so much fun on this track. If conditions allow we will definitelly try to include next time aswell. Top riders had a constant close up race with similar pace for the whole 5 laps which really felt like karting, just waiting for mistakes of anyone.
EUC racing community in Europe is pretty strong and we had the pleasure to have a really super strong lineup for this race, making it a real highlight. You can see in the results that top EUC finishers were extremely fast and leaving our top Eskates in dust for this one. Crazy.
2WD category again allowed more racers the opportunity for podium and worked well, hopefully we can see more racers in this category for next race.
We can see that usually around 15-20% of riders from startlist are not able to show up, injure themselves or have technical problems and dont finish the race. That happens. I would love to see @davidbonde in the final results as he was very strong but he was one of those unhappy riders.
Updated the map for two more events we will have in Czechia before end of the year. This is a really record breaking year in terms of number of events. Yet, @TZDKB will really make probably ALL of these except one, making him a no.1 traveller of the year for sure (fair to say I was a witness on each one aswell, but lot of them were basically near my home) That said up until now he has a European podium (when including esk8con Worlds) from each one of these races.
This is the xErace ranking after Montrevel, including only standard xErace format. As we had so many races this year I am thinking later I will try to compose at least for fun some season final European ranking including esk8con representation, Poland race, challenge races etc.
Seeing as you’re only 25 points behind and I will be missing Pardubice, we might have a tie going into Pitland in November . The inaugural title battle of xErace for the European crown??
We should definitely start calling it the European Championships just to make it sound cooler, seeing as it’s already the largest-spanning competition we have here (that has esk8 as a category).
edit: Nevertheless has been such a pleasure being able to race against you and hopefully inspire or helped others get more into this sport, as well as watch others become better and faster racers @Dinnye@Xcs just to name two. Thank you soo much for your constant hard work into hosting these events and hope we can continue growing this sport!
Indeed, though different categories have their own points etc. Plus with single-day events that incl Free Practice 1 and 2, Quali, then 4 or 6 rounds of 3 lap races, your legs will suffer racing in different categories. Many still do though with crazy guys like @Xcs and Vasek doing well in both Street and Open categories. @davidpilny and I have both been flirting with racing both Open and EUC as well.
edit: you can’t race in 2WD open and open as they run simultaneously on track.
Ah the last one was the one I was curious about, interesting they run at the same time.
Yeah I raced two categories for the first time at electrify SF, and it’s a different game for sure. Especially since I only had one board, I had to be particularly cautious with battery usage and charging.
Well, technically you are racing in both in this case, 2WD Open is a sub-category of Open made to reduce the barrier of entry (no bindings, 2wd only) all 2WD Open riders still technically compete in the open category too. Just if you want to race in 2WD open you can’t race in open with a different board, as you wouldn’t have the time to swap between the boards, or even have the chance if you’re seeded into the same heat as yourself.
It has been an amazing event, thanks for being such an great ambassador for our sport and all the organisation 
It was cool to watch riders keep improving with more sessions and more motivation as the fights escalated.
. The inaugural title battle of xErace for the European crown??