Step 1: Discipline count
1. Your 6 best discipline point results per year will count.
2. You can only count your 2 best disciplines per competition.
3. The 6 best results will give you your yearly World Ranking point total.
Conclusion 1:
The World Ranking expects that you travel to a minimum of 3 competitions per year.
And enter at least 2 disciplines in each of these competitions.
Ranking points are given for each discipline class and depending on the event status.
See rank points below under the section "Tables & Listings".
Step 2: Boosting your points
Entering more than 3 competitions will normally not affect your total point as much as your first three ones.
But, if you can get more and better result points than what you previous have,
then you will be able to increase your total point by exchanging your lower points with higher ones.
But remember that even if you have 12 counted discipline results, only your 6 best will count for the ranking.
Conclusion 2:
The world ranking is not only showing who are the fastest. It also weighs in travel and attendance.
The more you travel around on high level competitions the more you increase the likeliness of getting good points.
By travelling and competing in more than 3 competitions you increase the chance of boosting your total world ranking point.
Step 3: Event status
More event status background info
The existing statuses in order of importance are: Major, Main, Prime, Basic and Plain.
To be able to have a 100% fair ranking we would have liked all the racers in the world competing in the same competitions all the time.
This is not possible for the moment.
For most that are competing this is not super important maybe, but the better racer you are, the more important it becomes.
To try and solve this problem the World Ranking system will filter out some competitions each year with higher statuses.
For now, each year there are very few "Major status" competitions. Often there are two such events. One selected on each side of the Atlantic as the highest ranked event of the year.
For the moment they have been placed in the most active slalom regions. North America and Europe. These competitions should attract most of the top racers.
Now we have also every second year a World Championship at the World Skate Games. This can be organized in any part of the world.
Worth noting though is that you can only count 1 Major status event per year. If you attend more only the one with the highest points will be counted with Major points. The other ones will be treated as a Main status when it comes to World Ranking points.
Some competitions will have higher points to give out and should attract those who want to compete for the highest placements in the World Ranking.
For the top skaters this is important but for many others it will not necessarily give you more points. High status competitions will have many top racers.
Going to a lower status competition with less top racers attending may give you the same point in the end.
Conclusion 3:
The better slalom racer you are the more important it becomes that you enter the high status competitions.
Especially if you want to be among the top racers in the world ranking. Then you need to attend one of the "Major status" events each year.
Step 4: Pro and Am class
More Pro and Am class background info
Pro does not mean you are a professional racer. See Pro and Am class more like an A and B class.
The idea is being able to set more demanding courses for Pro class than for an Am class.
Pro is partly a class you select yourself. And partly can be forced if you do well in bigger events.
If you start to beat pro racers it´s time to move up to Pro class.
There are two race classes that a Pro racer can enter. Pro and Open.
There are three ranking classes that a Pro can be counted for. Pro, Open and Pro-Open.
A Pro class can turn into an Pro-Open class. An Open class can turn into a Pro-Open class.
Pro-Open means that Pro and Am racers will be counted as running together in the same Open class.
But Pro racers get Pro points and Am racers get Am points.
Pro and Am class only exists in the "Open" class. Not for the women class.
Pro/Am Definition
PRO racer does not mean that you are a professional in the normal sense of the word.
For us in the slalom skateboard world it only means...
Pro class
1. No longer a beginner
2. Have a high enough slalom skill
3. Want to compete and compare with the best racers.
Am class
1. Beginner
2. Not yet enough skill
3. Not as serious with competitions.
Women Pro and Am class info
It's easy to be a bit confused concerning Men and Women classes for the rankings.
Especially after WSG (World Skate Games) where we run Men and Women classes. Actually Men and Women classes doesn't exist in the international slalom skateboard rankings.
There is a difference in how the "ranking classes" are handled and how the "World Skate (Games)" classes are handled.
WSG have for the moment two classes.
Men and Women.
The ranking does not have a strict Men class actually. It's a neutral class.
Open and Women.
So, it's easy to be confused when we say that Women has no Pro class. And still women can be in the Pro class.
It's true that a woman can run in the Pro class in the ranking. The same as you can see women in all ranking classes.
To be more clear we have to be more detailed in our exlanation.
Women does not have Pro and Am classes.
But they can enter "OPEN Pro" and "OPEN Am" classes since there is no gender separation in those classes.
WSG
For WSG (World Skate Games) qualifications from the international rankings Men are counted from the PRO rankings. And Women from the Woman ranking.
But even if a woman is registered as a Pro racer and by that can race in the Pro class she can't qualify for the Men class.
But, she can still run the Woman class because it's technically a Woman Open class.
And if registered as a Pro racer she can't no longer be in the ranking Am class.
We have not yet created a Pro and Am class for Women. There are not yet enough women racers to want to separate them in two classes.
It’s important due to ranking points to be aware of Pro and Am classes.
An Open class will count less than a Pro Class but more than an Amateur class.
If there are enough Pro racers in an Open class it will be counted as a Pro-Open in the world ranking,
where Pros will get Pro points and Ams will get Am points.
Conclusion 4:
For Pro racers it’s important to race in a full Pro Class at competitions.
A full pro class giving pro points must have enough pro racers attending the race.
For Pro’s it may be important to judge if it´s likely that enough pro racers will be attending the event.
Step 5: Ranking types
There are two types of rankings for the moment.
One Year ranking.
4-year ranking.
The year ranking
Shows who was best for a given season. 6 best results counts.
The 4-year ranking
Shows who have been best over the last 4 years. Including the current year.
2 best seasons count.
Conclusion 5:
World Ranking for Women and Open Pro class are the 4-year ranking. It´s not just a one-year saga. It´s hard work over a longer period of time.
This demands other talents than just skating fast and getting good points for a specific year.
Since two of the last four years are not counted, it will handle situations of season injuries, or other private situations,
that may result in less competing in a specific season. With this system your ranking will not be totally destroyed in these cases.
Step 6: World Regions
| Region | Level |
|---|
| South America | Medium |
| North America | High |
| Europe | High |
| Asia | Medium |
| Oceania | Medium |
| Africa | Low |
Some settings are according to geographical world regions to give some sort of skateboard World balance. For example Event status and Pro racer limits.
All regions are independant and have their own level.
But even if lower level for a high status event in some world regions there are also less high status events. So it keeps the balance in order anyway.
Conclusion 6:
Each World region filter out events that will have a higher status and extra points to fight about.
That way all skaters can make a better judgement of their travel plans.
In some regions going to a lower status competition may very well have just as high a level of field as a higher status competition.
It´s just that the World Ranking points to earn are lower.
Have a look at the calender listing statuses for all world regions.
Settings may change and updated each year depending on the development of the slalom skateboard scene.
Note! See current World region settings in the section "Tables & Listings" below.
Step 7: Registered results
It’s important that your points get registered.
It’s the responsibility of the event organizer to publish competition results and make the World Ranking aware of them.
Also you as a competitor is responsible to help out and making sure your results are not missing.
If in doubt contact the event organizer and remind them to register their results for the World Ranking.
Tell them to have a look at their organizer settings page for their event, where it is explained.
You can also contact the World Ranking administration or slalom coordinator for your country or world region.
Conclusion 7:
If the competition results are not published or unknown to the World Ranking system, they will obviously not be counted into the rankings.
Help out with making sure that results are getting registered correctly.
There is normally a deadline in February, after the ranking year has ended, for correcting year ranking results.
Organizers:
You can add your results to your event yourselves. Make sure to select and set up a person for this work in good time before the event starts.
Points for first place according to discipline class and status
Overview of the logarithmic ranking points.
Ranking points for Pro class and event status
Ranking points for Open/Women class and event status
Ranking points for Am/Master/Pro-Open class and event status
Ranking points for Junior (-17) class and event status
Ranking points for Boy/Girl (-14) class and event status
Ranking points for Kids (-11) class and event status