King of the Road (title)

King of the Road
Sport Skateboarding
Founded 2003
Founder Michael Burnett
Country United States, China
Official website Thrasher Magazine

The title of King of the Road is given out once a year by Thrasher magazine. The tradition was started in 2003 and has been one of the premier skateboarding contests in the USA.

In the King of the Road (KOTR) contest, a group of pre-invited teams of professional skaters are each given a book[1] containing a series of challenges. Points are awarded at the completion of each challenge. The teams compete at the same time over a two-week period, in which they travel across the U.S. to complete as many challenges as possible.

KOTR has been held annually since its inception, with the exceptions of 2008 and 2009. In 2011, Thrasher and Converse hosted an addition KOTR competition in China, with the participation of the four biggest Chinese skateboard deck companies.[2]

King of the Road 2003

Teams

Team Deluxe

Team Tum Yeto

Team Volcom

Team eS

Final Standings

1st Place: Deluxe
2nd Place: Tum Yeto
3rd Place: Volcom
4th Place: eS

King of the Road 2004

Teams

Team Almost
Team Girl
Team Real
Team Zero

Final Standings

1st Place: Zero
2nd Place: Girl
3rd Place: Almost
4th Place: Real

King of the Road 2005

Teams

Team Zero

Team Habitat

Team Flip

Team Element

Final Standings

First Place : Zero 4,180 points
Second Place : Habitat 3,470
Third Place : Flip 3,460
Fourth Place : Element 2,680

King of the Road 2006

Teams

Team Zero

Team Darkstar

Team Baker

Team Toy Machine

Final Standings

1st Place: Zero - 5,530 points
2nd Place: Darkstar - 4,610 points
3rd Place: Baker - 4,540 points
4th Place: Toy Machine - 3,690 points

King of the Road 2007

Teams

Team Blind

Team Foundation

Team Black Label

Team Zoo York

Final Standings

1st Place: Blind
2nd Place: Foundation
3rd Place: Black Label
4th Place: Zoo York

King of the Road 2013

Teams

Team were announced[3] August 27, 2013. People were able to follow each team via blogs on the Thrasher site.

Enjoi Birdhouse Chocolate Real
Cairo Foster Aaron Homoki Elijah Berle Robbie Brockel
Wieger van Wageningen Ben Raybourn Vincent Alvarez Ishod Wair
Zack Wallin Clint Walker Raven Tershy Justin Brock
Jimmy Carlin Clive Dixon Stevie Perez Jake Ruiz
Louie Barletta Mike Davis Justin Eldridge Kyle Walker
Matt Mullen (Videographer) Adam Mills (Videographer) Daniel Wheatley (Videographer) Jeremy McNamara (Videographer)
Ewan Bowman (Videographer) Preston Maigetter (Videographer)
Joe Brooke (Photographer) Dan Zaslavsky (Photographer) Michael Burnett (Photographer) Rhino (Photographer)
Jerome Case (Team Manager) Sam Smyth (Team Manager) John Alden (Team Manager)
Taylor Smith (Mystery Guest) David Gravette (Mystery Guest) Auby Taylor (Mystery Guest) TJ Rogers (Mystery Guest)

Final Standings

Winners were announced[4] on September 19, 2013.

Web Episodes

The 2013 edition of KoTR was shown in a series of videos on the Thrasher site and on YouTube.

King of the Road 2014

Teams

Team were announced[5] September 3, 2014. Mystery guests were announced[6] September 12, 2014 and were all featured in the Osiris video, "The Storm".

Birdhouse Flip Element
Aaron Homoki Curren Caples Nyjah Huston
Clive Dixon Louie Lopez Evan Smith
Clint Walker Alec Majerus Julian Davidson
Mike Davis Ben Nordberg Nick Garcia
Ben Raybourn Matt Berger Dominick Walker
Adam Mills (Videographer) Layne Stratton (Videographer) Dave Hoang (Videographer)
Jake (Videographer) Dan Stolling (Videographer) Mark Stewart (Videographer)
Dan Zaslavsky (Photographer) Rhino (Photographer) Michael Burnett (Photographer)
Jerome Case (Team Manager) John Nicholson (Team Manager) Cole Mathews (Team Manager)
Peter Smolik Chad Knight Tyrone Olson

Final Standings

Winning team was announced[7] on December 13 in the final Web episode.

  1. Birdhouse
  2. Element
  3. Flip

Web Episode

The 2014 edition of KoTR was shown in a series of web episodes on the Thrasher site and on YouTube.

King of the Road 2015

Teams

The 2015 teams were announced[8] August 25, 2015. The Mystery guests were announced[9] September 2, 2015. Team Birdhouse was the winner

Birdhouse Toy Machine Chocolate
Aaron Homoki Blake Carpenter Raven Tershy
Clive Dixon Billy Marks Justin Eldridge
Clint Walker Daniel Lutheran Johnny Jones
Mike Davis Axel Cruysberghs Elijah Berle
Ben Raybourn Collin Provost Stevie Perez
Adam Mills (Videographer) Ryan Lee (Videographer) Daniel Wheatley (Videographer)
Ryan Lovell (Videographer) Jon Holland (Videographer Federico Vitetta (Videographer)
Rhino (Photographer) Joe Hammeke (Photographer) Sam Muller (Photographer)
Jerome Case (Team Manager) Mike Sinclair (Team Manager) Sam Smyth (Team Manager)
Heath Kirchart (Mystery Guest) Forrest Edwards (Mystery Guest) Jereme Rogers (Mystery Guest)

Web Episodes

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/king-of-the-road-2014-book/
  2. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/king-of-the-road-china/
  3. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/king-of-the-road-2013-team-announced/
  4. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/king-of-the-road-2013-birdhouse-wins/
  5. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/king-of-the-road-2014-team-profiles/
  6. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/king-of-the-road-2014-meet-the-mystery-guest/
  7. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/king-of-the-road-2014-episode-11/
  8. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/kotr-2015-team-profiles-2/
  9. ↑ http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/king-of-the-road-2015-meet-the-mystery-guests/

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