The 2008 Midwest Regional event was held on June 21st, 2008 at the Mall of America. We had 43 total players in all of the divisions, and as always some amazing freestyles.
The 1 minute freestyles were needed to bring the pool of players down from 27 to only 15. We had 3 players seeded from the following state contests. (Minnesota, Illinois, Mossuri) In the end we used 18 players to freestyle. We have followed the NYYL guidelines, and have used 2 minutes for the finals freestyle.
We had a huge drop off in registration for the 4A and 5A division this year. Normally a hotly contested divisions, this year not as much.
Sport Ladder: This year we tried a new method to give players a bit more opportinuty to show what they could do. They were given TWO tries at each trick, scoring either 5 or 3 points. they were retired from the ladder if they had two zeros.
2008 Midwest Regional Results
| Division | Place | Name | 1 Min | 2 Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | Tyler Severance | 30 | 27.92 |
| A | 2 | Kevin Eulalia | MO Seed | 27.64 |
| A | 3 | John Narum | MN Seed | 27.08 |
| A | 4 | Alex Berenguel | 26.13 | 25.68 |
| A | 5 | El Jake' (Jake Maloney) | 23.28 | 23.89 |
| A | 6 | Joey Fleshman | 25.28 | 23.57 |
| A | 7 | Brandon Cormier | 25.85 | 20.36 |
| A | 8 | Daniel Dietz | 21.07 | 20.21 |
| A | 9 | Matthew Eastwood | 18.74 | 19.22 |
| A | 10 | Kevin Gretch | 19.33 | 19.20 |
| A | 11 | Randy Jansen | 15.40 | 18.36 |
| A | 12 | Boyd Seth | 17.01 | 18.04 |
| A | 13 | Dylan Kowalski | IL Seed | 15.61 |
| A | 14 | Jesse Drake | 14.45 | 14.86 |
| A | 15 | Aron Bendet | 15.46 | 11.16 |
| A | 16 | John Russeth | 14.26 | 10.61 |
| A | 17 | Kennan LeJeune | 14.10 | 9.44 |
| A | 18 | Robert Westbrook | 16.71 | 6.92 |
| A | 19 | Abraham Ziaimehr | 13.80 | |
| A | 20 | Adam DeMarchi | 13.25 | |
| A | 21 | Christopher Murray | 11.81 | |
| A | 22 | Brent Dziondziak | 11.72 | |
| A | 23 | Ray Godefroid | 11.07 | |
| A | 24 | John Neitge | 10.90 | |
| A | 25 | John Domanski | 10.77 | |
| A | 26 | Preston Huft | 8.88 | |
| A | 27 | Noah Curman | 6.16 | |
| Division | Place | Name | 2 Min | |
| 2A | 1 | John Narum | 30.00 | |
| Division | Place | Name | 2 Min | |
| 4A | 1 | John Narum | 30.00 | |
| 4A | 2 | Brandon Cormier | 17.52 | |
| 4A | 3 | Daniel Dietz | 6.84 | |
| Division | Place | Name | 2 Min | |
| 5A | 1 | Tyler Severance | 30.00 | |
| 5A | 2 | Joey Fleshman | 16.74 | |
| 5A | 3 | Ray Godefroid | 15.38 | |
| 5A | 4 | El Jake' (Jake Maloney) | 12.04 | |
| 5A | 5 | Micah Jessen | 10.25 | |
| Division | Place | Name | Score | |
| Ladder 0-11 | 1 | George Stiffman | 96 | |
| Ladder 0-11 | 2 | Kevin Yetter | 63 | |
| Ladder 0-11 | 3 | Manny Bier | 61 | |
| Ladder 12 | 1 | Charlie Rich | 94 | |
| Ladder 12 | 2 | Jack Lange | 61 | |
| Ladder 12 | 3 | Nathan Walton | 60 | |
| Ladder 12 | 4 | Dallas Hudek | 49 | |
| Ladder 13-24 | 1 | Ryne Hanson | 101 | |
| Ladder 13-24 | 2 | Liz Spain | 55 | |
| Ladder 13-24 | 3 | Melisa Giuffre | 53 | |
| Ladder 25-up | 1 | James Buffington | 159 | |
| Ladder 25-up | 2 | Brian Hanson | 152 | |
| Ladder 25-up | 3 | Matt Rose | 90 | |
| Ladder 25-up | 4 | Chris Larson | 69 | |
| Ladder 25-up | 5 | Dan Domanski | 63 | |