Ortiz, who just recently had his own skatepark built, had a flawless second run with 17 tricks total. He looked calm and comfortable throughout the entire weekend, but his downfall was that he played it too safe. During his best run he switched up the frontside hurricane pop out on the flatrail into the bank that he had fallen on in the previous run and did a backside smith grind pop out instead. By taking the trick difficulty down a notch his score dropped and he ended up in second place.

Malto was riding great until he missed his last trick in his best run. When he fell twice in a row on the fakie ollie to switch nosegrind fakie flip out on the flatrail, his third place fate was sealed.

Leo Romero, who took fourth, took some serious risks, like crooked grinding up the hubba to start his run and doing an ollie over the handrail into frontside nosegrind down.

Other highlights of the contest include Mike Vallely, who ended up in 32nd place, and took both his runs to do an insane foot plant out of the quarterpipe on the wall and then back in. Ryan Sheckler made semi-finals and showed his ultimate support by getting a Skatepark of Tampa tattoo.

David Gonzalez narrowly missed the top 10 by landing 11th place. His lines were fast and aggressive and the airs he was doing over the channel in the quarterpipe were massive.