World Cup #2, Pigeon River

Pigeon River, Hartford, TN. The hole which was said to not be known before. Was being hidden by locals to world. Like El Dorado for Freestyle. And it definetly deserved this name! The hole is wonderful! Made of Stones collected from all the river. Created nice, friendly weak and easy hole to play which is perfect to learn! When i get back home i will do my best to make a hole like this!

The competition started at Tuesday! So you we had only one day of rest after Rock Island! What was even more untypical, the water there was running only 6 hours, Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday so competition time was pretty long! We started with our prelims on Tuesday and all of our Vajda team made it through, placing Peter 1st, Me 8th, Tomo 10th and Marcel 19th. Afterwards there were Womens and Nina made it on 3rd place to the next round! Insane thing there were scores! To make top 20 you had to go over 1000 pts! Wednesday was our day of after party and beer pong classes, in this day all other categories were having there qualifications. I did also squirt boating this time and made it to 3rd place behind Clay W. and Dane J. and next to Tomasz Cz. and Joaquim F.!

Thursday was quarterfinal. And again scores went just insane! To make through you had to score in two of three rides  atleast 1900! The show was awesome, competition even better.  I made it with Tomasz Cz. in second five and to top five was Tomo A. and Peter Csonka who killed it getting first place again! We had only 2.5 hour of break before semifinals, but before it Nina made it in her semifinal to next round getting 4th! After Womens was our time. Scores went huge and for top five you had to score over 1000 ! Unfortunetly only Peter made it, Tomo placed 10th and me 9th.  Top 5 was James B.,Steven W.,  Joaquim F,Peter Csonka and Dane Jackson!

Saturday, after one day of break was last clash. First we started with squirts, after womens where Claire O’hara dominated it as always came our turn. After really tight runs i got 3rd again scoring 545 points in last ride just next Tomasz and Joaquim, this time Dane won winning with Clay who had his arm damaged but still did a great job! After 2 more categories we had our finishing ceremony with flags and introduction which was really nice. I got really nice medal and great memories. But there was no time for celebrations as there was women class up! After great rides Nina came 3rd, after Emily J. and Claire O.

But the biggest show was about to come. We were expecting huge rides and we got them! Awesome performance of top guys gave us great show especially until last rounds when Dane was on the lead with sick score 1373 and Peter went for his last one scoring insane 1416 ! Emotions werent down until Danes last ride where he correct his score to 1380 but still Peter took the Gold! We were really happy for him but also for other guys, Joaquim who took 3rd, Steven 4th and James 5th! Great Job guys!

After Ceremony we had small party as most of people left already to NOC to train and in the morning after nice breakfeast with hosts we left to NOC for last event. Now we are here at Nanthala, having national trainings and looking forward for Fridays competition start of last world cup event!