Media
Media | The Official Windy City Riot Documentary Edit by tillikillit
A big big thanks goes out to Ryan Deahl and Kyle Guzman of tillikillit for leading the Windy City Riot media effort. They put together this three part piece that documented the contest more professionally and more thoroughly than any other street contest has ever been documented.
The Windy City Riot planning this year was more troublesome than ever. We needed to quickcrete a variety of spots. The planned last spot was found to be completely unskateable just a few days before the contest so we were hard pressed to find a replacement. We decided to use Crete (blue mellow downrail) as the last spot (spot 4) but when spot 3 was unexpectedly also unskateable and we got busted at spot 4 (which is usually bust free), we had an interesting situation on our hands. The police officer that kicked us out of Crete told us about a skatepark that was literally next door. Unfortunately, it was just about the smallest skatepark one could imagine. We all put our heads together and ended up creating a launch to soccer goal to use as the last spot. That was when the contest really went off. Kruise Sapstein ended up prevailing by popular vote through a live text poll. The awards ceremony was held at a campground at which we all camped after the contest.
Congratulations to Kruise Sapstein, Michael Froemling, Jeph Howard, Logan Clark, PJ Piencak, Sean Darst, Brian Bruno, Peter Curi and Steve Matiasec for killing it at the Riot this year. I want to thank Ryan Deahl, Ryan McDermott and Kyle Guzman first and foremost. The Riot wouldn’t have been a success this year without their help. Thank you guys! Grind Gear was the greatest sponsor a contest could ask for this year. All of us in Chicago and everyone who came to the Riot would like to thank Ray from Grind Gear for being our presenting sponsor and the primary reason we were able to give $1,000 to Kruise. Other sponsors include: Valo/Them Goods, Aggressive Mall, Inline Warehouse, Sixwonsix, Be-Mag, Create Originals, Denial, Eulogy, ONE Magazine, Orgyn CIothing and Roller Warehouse. I also want to thank all of our donors: Ryan McDermott, Invisible Spaceship, Daniel Mo, Jay Patch and Cal Martin and everyone that paid the spectator fee. This year’s purse ended up being almost exactly $2,000 because of everyone being collectively supportive. We hope to see everyone at what will be the 10th annual Riot in 2011.
Media | Windy City Riot on Shock! TV
Michael Garlinghouse from Minnesota put together a little coverage piece for Shock! TV. Take a look at it here.
Windy City Riot 2010 Bumper by Anthony Esquivel
WCR Bumper from Anthony Esquivel on Vimeo.
Anthony Esquivel put together this bumper for WCR edits.
