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.
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: Competition 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.
Worth noting though is that you can only count 1 Major per year. If you attend both of them the one with the lower points 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 and Am class only exists in the "Open" class. Not for the women class.
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.
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 8 or more Pros 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 8 pro racers attending the race.
For Pro’s it may be important to judge if it´s likely that 8 or more pros will be attending the event.
Step 5: Ranking types
There are two types of ranking for the moment
- One Year ranking
- 4-year ranking.
The year ranking counts only results from a specific season and shows who was the best a given season.
The 4-year ranking is running over 4 years.
The 2 best years are counting full points. The third best year gives 50%. And the worst year of the last 4 years are not counted at all.
No competing during four years and you are out of the 4-year Ranking.
Conclusion 5:
To be the top World Ranking skater it is not just a one-year saga. It´s hard work over a long period of time.
This adds other talents than just skating fast, and getting good points for a specific year.
Also, since one 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
The World Ranking Statuses are limited in number.
They are also fixed each year into geographical world regions to give some sort of skateboard World balance.
Some regions with a high level slalom scene may very well set up 10 competitions with a high level field of skaters.
For those in the local region this is not a problem attending them all. But for out of region skaters it is.
This is why each region have to filter out those few 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.
Conclusion 6:
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 yearly listing of statuses for all world regions.
They may change and be updated each year depending on the development of the slalom skateboard scene.
Note! See number of statuses per region in the section "Tables & Listings" below.
Step 7: Registered results
It’s important that your points get registered.
It is the responsibility of the event organizer to publish competition results and make the World Ranking aware of them.
It is also you as a competitor that is responsible to help out and make 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 when calculating the rankings.
Help out with making sure that results are getting registered correctly.
There is a deadline in February, after the ranking year has ended, for correcting year ranking results.
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