Date: 09/22/00
Author: Mike McLin

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The newest tournament to hit the water is now half over. The America's Cup is a completely new, completely different style of tournament. The setting for this new breed of tournamnets is in West Palm Beach, Florida on Lake Okaheelee. This four day tournamnet uses a new boating and scoring system. The riders get to name the boat of their choice from the sponsoring boat companies (Malibu, Nautique, MasterCraft and Supra). Plus the new scoring system is now cumulative instead of all or nothing. So they add up your placings from all four rounds and whoever has the highest overall score wins. So if someone has a bad day, they can still make up for it with the other three days.

Currently Dallas Friday (Malibu) is on top for the girls. Dallas has already won the first two rounds which gives her 200 points (1st place 100 + 1st place 100) and a commanding lead. Dallas is going bigger than ever and has also put a toeside 540 and a huge Tantrum to fakie in her first two runs. Tara Hamilton (Mastercraft) is riding clean and currently holds the second place spot.

Darin Shapiro (Malibu) and Erik Ruck (Mastercraft) are tied for first on the Men's side. They both have 180 points (1st place 100 + 2nd place 80). They both got 80 points yesterday for getting 2nd place in their heats and they got 100 points each today for winning their heats. Darin is riding big, as usual, and Erik is definetly on with his Corkscrew 720.

Now that the competition is half over (two of the four days are complete). They have put the current top 10 into a single heat and have eliminated everyone else that was in the tournament. Brett Eisenhauer, Shawn Watson, Danny Harf, Shaun Murray and Rob Struharik have all been eliminated from the competition. Each one of them threw unbelievably hard tricks and just had some bad luck. Danny even landed back to back 720's (Corkscrew and Rodeo) but falls killed him.

It should be interesting who comes out on top in this new style tournament.

Results with point totals after two of four rounds

Women's Wakeboard
1. Malibu - Dallas Friday - 200
2. MasterCraft - Tara Hamilton - 145
3. Nautique - Buster Lutgert - 125
4. MasterCraft - Maeghan Major - 120
5. Malibu - Marie Botved-Studd - 90
6. Supra - Emily Copeland - 75
7. Nautique - Cheryl Newton - 65
8. Supra - Sara Cline - 45
9. Malibu - Leslie Kent - 25

Men's Wakeboarding
1. MasterCraft - Erik Ruck - 180
2. Malibu - Darin Shapiro - 180
3. MasterCraft - Zane Schwenk - 165
4. Supra - Greg Falzon - 145
5. MasterCraft - Shane Bonifay - 135
6. Malibu - Trevor Hanson - 120
7. Malibu - Gerry Nunn - 100
8. Supra - Josh Sanders - 100
9. Malibu - Daniel Watkins - 100
10. Nautique - Dean Lavelle - 91
11. Malibu - Brett Eisenhauer - 75
12. Nautique - Shawn Watson - 70
13. Nautique - Danny Harf - 65
14. Nautique - Shaun Murray - 60
15. Supra - Shannon Best - 55
16. MasterCraft - Ryan Wynne - 50
17. Supra - Rob Struharik - 46
18. Malibu - Mike McLin - 44
19. MasterCraft - Jeremy Kovak - 44
20. Nautique - Bill McKee - 39
21. MasterCraft - Evan Kennedy - 37
22. Supra - Thomas Horrell - 34
23. MasterCraft - Brian Kennedy - 31
24. Malibu - Mike Weddington - 22

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