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25-cone World Series - 2022/2023

Pro - Session #6

1 Thiago Gardenal BRA 8.880
2 Bruno Oliveira 9.029
3 Stas Myronenko 9.118
4 Frederik Lieberath SWE 9.179
5 Peter Klang SWE 9.216
6 Ryusei Nishitani JAP 9.424
7 Fabio Luiz Sprovieri BRA 9.615
8 Shota Sakai JAP 9.634
9 Olle Bauer SWE 9.707
10 Tatsuya Takahashi 9.805

Woman - Session #6

1 Yoshiko Matsuda JAP 10.940
2 Lynn Kramer 11.027
3 Sarah Byrd USA 12.932
4 Kumi Nakagawa JAP 14.252
5 Heloisa Akemi BRA 14.388
6 Ana Beatriz Carvalho BRA 14.530
7 Noriko Samata JAP 14.800
8 Eri Okuyama JAP 16.015
9 Sachiyo Shibuya JAP 19.356
10 Akemi Kaneda JAP 19.966
Master - Session #6
1 Stas Myronenko 9.118
2 Frederik Lieberath SWE 9.179
3 Peter Klang SWE 9.216
Am - Session #6
1 Clement Perdrix FRA 9.582
2 Howard Weiss BRA 9.583
3 Pedro Frangulis BRA 9.804
Junior - Session #6
1 Takeki Yokono JAP 10.880
2 Shinya Takagi JAP 11.447
3 Riku Sagara JAP 11.504
Woman Master - #6
1 Lynn Kramer 11.027
2 Kumi Nakagawa JAP 14.252
3 Noriko Samata JAP 14.800
Junior Girl - #6
1 Maggie Harrison USA 13.167
2 Nanaka Samata JAP 17.187
World ranking - May 2023

Pro Season 2023

1 Janis Kuzmins 3065
2 George Pappas 2832
3 Joe McLaren 2811
4 Collin Kruse 2637
5 Petr Matous 2583
6 Orion Lehrmann 2564
7 Jakub Jirman 2540
8 Gustavs Gailitis 2478
9 Toms Dreiblats 2466
10 Christoph Baumann 2436
11 Arturs Liskovs 2422
12 Joseph Kyle Smith 2376
13 Jonathan Harms 2313
14 Bruno Oliveira 2271
15 Lou Statman USA 2222
16 Stas Myronenko 2172
17 Lynn Kramer 2168
18 Richy Carrasco 2080
19 Christopher Dupont 1994
20 Ryusei Nishitani JAP 1898

Pro World Ranking

1 Janis Kuzmins 2000
2 Joe McLaren 1980
3 George Pappas 1834
4 Petr Matous 1774
5 Collin Kruse 1759
6 Gustavs Gailitis 1679
7 Toms Dreiblats 1651
8 Arturs Liskovs 1640
9 Christopher Dupont 1635
10 Jakub Jirman 1634
11 Christoph Baumann 1615
12 Viking Hadestrand 1599
13 Viktor Hadestrand 1580
13 Orion Lehrmann 1580
15 Paul Price 1577
16 Joseph Kyle Smith 1576
17 Jonathan Harms 1553
18 Richy Carrasco 1520
19 Bruno Oliveira 1517
20 Lou Statman USA 1510

AM World Ranking

1 Paul Chestnut USA 1786
2 Jeff Minx USA 1708
3 Michael Peck USA 1650
4 Clement Perdrix FRA 1608
5 Marcos Soulsby-Monroy 1525
6 Martins Bardulis LAT 1503
7 Howard Weiss BRA 1498
Master
1 George Pappas 2080
2 Jonathan Harms 2014
3 Michal Subrt 1820
4 Lars Tuexen GER 1779
5 Lou Statman USA 1777
6 Lynn Kramer 1762
7 Richy Carrasco 1703
Junior
1 Maggie Harrison USA 920
2 Tereza Dvorakova CZE 708
3 Elija Lebedeva LAT 496
4 Benjamin Andros USA 419
Woman World Ranking - May 2023

Woman Season 2023

1 Lynn Kramer 2530
2 Judi Oyama 2211
3 Kathrin Sehl 2152
4 Endija Ruja 2149
5 Isa Ruiz 2020
6 Mare Erika Belta 1800
7 Ayesha Pang AUS 1757
8 Anna Gailite 1756
9 Irene Di Giorgio ITA 1684
10 Joyce Wheldrake 1680
11 Imi McMillan AUS 1631
12 Therese Redman 1612
13 Eliza Gailite 1594
14 Karolina Vojtova 1563
15 Maïté Fournier-Parent CAN 1514

Woman World Ranking

1 Lynn Kramer 2000
2 Mare Erika Belta 1950
3 Kathrin Sehl 1728
3 Judi Oyama 1728
5 Endija Ruja 1697
6 Therese Redman 1651
7 Isa Ruiz 1610
8 Anna Gailite 1609
9 Joyce Wheldrake 1577
10 Karolina Vojtova 1547
11 Eliza Gailite 1460
12 Hana Vojtova CZE 1351
13 Megija Valtere LAT 1336
14 Mia Sudkova 1319
15 Imi McMillan AUS 1272

Woman Master

1 Lynn Kramer 2080
2 Judi Oyama 1872
3 Therese Redman 1547
4 Joyce Wheldrake 1440
5 Kathrin Sehl 878
6 Mia Sudkova 867
7 Sussi Eriksson SWE 798
Junior girl
1 Maggie Harrison USA 932
2 Tereza Dvorakova CZE 733
3 Elija Lebedeva LAT 674
4 Alba Fullana Clemente ESP 436
5 Pauline Celdoma LAT 414
6 Marie Maderova CZE 381
7 Emily Martinu CZE 372

Woman Masters

1 Lynn Kramer 2080
2 Judi Oyama 1872
3 Therese Redman 1547
4 Joyce Wheldrake 1440
5 Kathrin Sehl 878
6 Mia Sudkova 867
7 Sussi Eriksson SWE 798
Junior girls
1 Maggie Harrison USA 932
2 Tereza Dvorakova CZE 733
3 Elija Lebedeva LAT 674
4 Alba Fullana Clemente ESP 436
5 Pauline Celdoma LAT 414
6 Marie Maderova CZE 381
7 Emily Martinu CZE 372

AM World Ranking

1 Paul Chestnut USA 1786
2 Jeff Minx USA 1708
3 Michael Peck USA 1650
4 Clement Perdrix FRA 1608
5 Marcos Soulsby-Monroy 1525
6 Martins Bardulis LAT 1503
7 Howard Weiss BRA 1498
Masters
1 George Pappas 2080
2 Jonathan Harms 2014
3 Michal Subrt 1820
4 Lars Tuexen GER 1779
5 Lou Statman USA 1777
6 Lynn Kramer 1762
7 Richy Carrasco 1703
Juniors
1 Maggie Harrison USA 920
2 Tereza Dvorakova CZE 708
3 Elija Lebedeva LAT 496
4 Benjamin Andros USA 419
5 Kelley Apanowicz USA 414
6 Rudolfs Dreiblathens LAT 398
7 Devon McMahan 391
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ISSA governs the racing activity within the international slalom skateboarding community and has been doing so since the late 1980's.
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ISSA Board of Directors 2023
PresidentJani SöderhÀll (SWE/FRA)
Vice PresidentMaria Carrasco (USA)
SecretaryJoe McLaren (USA)
Board memberHans Koraeus (SWE)
Board memberJanis Kuzmins (LAT)
Board memberMichal Subrt (CZE)
Board memberBruno Silva de Oliveira (BRA)
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Ranking SupervisorHans Koraeus (SWE)
Calendar SupervisorMichal Subrt (CZE)
Calendar SupervisorMaria Carrasco (USA)
Marshal SupervisorMichal Subrt (CZE)
TreasurerJonathan Harms (USA)
Head marshal - S. AmericaBruno Silva de Oliveira (BRA)
Head marshal - N. AmericaMaria Carrasco (USA)
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Calendar
The race calendar is where you find historical and upcoming events.
And where you can open up the event homepages.
The race calendar is found under the events menu on

www.slalomranking.com

You can link to it directly with: Open calendar

Navigate the calendar by selecting "Views" and clicking on "Event groups". Then click the small "Event info panels" shown to open up the event homepages. See more detailed explanation below.

Month view (Default view)

Select yellow Sort radio button: Month (Default selection)
Click on Month box to show all mini info panels for events that month.
Click on Colored status boxes to show all mini info panels for events with that status.
Open event homepage: Click the mini info panels for an event.

Year view

Click yellow Filter button: Year
Click on Decade box to show the decade year overview.
Click on Year box to show all mini info panels for events that year.
Open event homepage: Click the mini info panels for an event.

Status view

Select yellow Sort radio button: Status
Select yellow radio button: Major Main Prime (Default) High status
Select yellow radio button: Basic Lower status events
Will show all event mini info panels grouped by status.
Open event homepage: Click the mini info panels for an event.


On top of this you can filter on World Regions and countries.

Open calendar


The race calendar is a bit particular. See the tutorial of how it all works with filters, calendar options and event pages.

See video tutorial below.

Events
Event pages can be opened through the calendar. Here you can get more detailed info about the event. Pre-registration, race schedules and results.

You can link directly to an event page with: Open homepage for event id 1181

There are 5 different event statuses:

Major (Most important international events).
Main (Important international events).
Prime (International or most important national event).
Basic (Lower status events).
Plain (Other events).

For Major, Main and Prime status you need to fill in a sanction form and pay an event fee.

Adding events
You can yourself add events to the race calendar. This is done through your personal homepage. You need to be logged in to register a slalom event to the calendar.

Log in to add event

On your homepage settings panel you have an "Add event" button.

Actually there are 4 different steps:

Login (Opens your personal homepage).
Register event (Personal settings: "Add event").
Finish homepage (Event organizer settings).
High status? (Fill in sanction form).

There are video tutorials for each of these points. See below.

Aministration of events
Once you have registered your event, and it has been cleared for use, then you as organizer will have a special organizer settings page.

On that settings page you will get more information about how to set up your event page, register racers and add your final race results in the end.

Adding historical events
If you have results, pictures or other information from past slalom events in history please let us know. The calendar is also a historical slalom event archive.

Adding historical event information for the calendar is done through our slalom forum: Calendar archive

Calendar info
Here on this page you can get some extra information about all the things and links shown at the calendar page.

You can link directly to this calendar info page with:

Open this calendar info page

Any questions?
If you have any questions or problems with the calendar, adding events or other things around the ranking use the Forum. Here you will also find contact info for the current status marshals.

Visit our Calendar forum

Calendar tutorial
Adding events
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Rules

World Skate Slalom Skateboarding rules (2022)
World Record rules (25, 50 and 100 cones)

ISSA 25-cone World Series rules (2023 season)
ISSA 25-cone World Series rules (2021+2022 season)

ISSA by laws (2007)


Event sanction

To get your event included into the ISSA World Ranking first go to the Event Calendar and have a look.

When you find a suitable date then register your event. For info on this see link below the Calendar "Add events & other info" or select "Calendar" in the ISSA information sections dropdown above. There you have information of how to add your event and even a video tutorial to have a look at.

Try to register your event as early as You can.

ISSA Event Status Guidelines
For lower status (Plain and Basic) You only need to register your event as explained above.
For higher status (Prime, Main and Major) you will first get a temporary Candidate Status until status marshals has granted your sanction request. See below.

For MAJOR or MAIN or PRIME Status Sanction request
ISSA Contest Sanction Application Form (2023)


Logo and artwork

If you need artwork for an event poster, article or for any other reason.
ISSA logo 2017 (pdf)
ISSA classic logo package (zip)


Notice to Race Organizers:

- Login on www.slalomranking.com to register new events under "Settings" on your personal ISSA homepage.
See the calender info page about how to add events here.

- By creating your event with ISSA it will automatically get a basic home page and be included in the official race calendar.

- Go to the ISSA calendar and click on your event to come to the ISSA event page.
Here you will find Event info, Race results, Overall results and more.

Event organisers will have a special admin page for their event. Found under "Settings" on their personal homepage. Here they can...
- Add event poster
- Add a Welcome text for the event
- Set up links to external websites
- Make sure information about the event is complete and accurate.
- Handle registrations.
- Add registration info: Fee?, Deadline? Payment? Racer limitations?.
- Add your own articles with information about your event.
- Add pictures for your event page.

- Set up a result administrator...
+ Set up discipline classes.
+ Register final results

- And more...

For any questions or suggestions around the event page or ranking website contact responsible persons for Rank support.

Cone Judging Booklets
For Cone Judges: single pages or as spreads (updated 2015)
For Main Judge: single pages or as spreads
Cone Judge instructions: overview (image)
Main Judge instructions: overview (image)

Helpful Promoter Checklist (from Pencil to Timing System)

To ensure your results will be included into the ISSA World Ranking send them to Ranking Head Supervisor (hans.koraeus@slalomskateboarder.com) and/or National Coordinator.


Event applications and timing sheets

- Seismic's Excel timing sheets
For manual registration of slalom event results.
Standard version Excel sheets 2010

The same Excel sheets are used together with the ExcelMate application below.
Install of ExcelMate will also include standard version of the excel sheets.

- Other Excel timing sheets
For manual registration of slalom event results.
Download 25-cone race sheets. Video tutorial .

These sheets can also be used together with the ExcelMate application below.

- ExcelMate
The application will help you transfer times directly from a Trackmate timer into Seismic's Excel timing sheets.

Latest version download ExcelMate
Instructions download instructions

Note! Application made by EttSexEtt, Marcus Seyffarth. Support: Contact ISSA.

- For additional information
Visit the Original ExcelMate Forum topic

General membership info

Just register and join!
All slalom fans are welcome
to join the ISSA forum and
the ISSA facebook group.
Personal membership
You automatically becomes a Basic ISSA member for a year when you pay entry fee or enter an ISSA supported slalom event.
Never entered an event before
If wanting to register for your first slalom event on the ISSA World Ranking website you may contact the organizer by email and they will be able to register you to their ISSA event home page.
Your own ranking homepage
As a member you will get your own personal ranking racer homepage where you in the future can register yourself for other events.
Here you can see all your event results and ranking points.
Three member levels

- ISSA Basic member
Entered an ISSA supported slalom event
- ISSA Silver member
Entered an event with higher status: Prime, Main or Major
- ISSA Gold member

You become a Gold member when you sign up and pay the yearly member fee for ISSA.
You can pay the yearly Gold Member Fee on your personal ranking racer homepage.

Search for your personal ranking racer home page here.
As a Gold member you...
- Can vote on issues concerning ISSA. For example elections for the Board of Directors.
- Get special functionality on the ISSA World Ranking pages.
World Ranking intro

How does it work?
Enter slalom events
Get race results
and you get rank points.
Often people ask how the World Ranking works. The short answer is above.

It's not always easy to explain in one or two phrases. We understand that everybody may not have the courage or time to sit down and read through all the details around the World Ranking Rules.
So let's start to give an easy overview of how the World Ranking works.

- Step by step introduction
- Dictionary
- Tables and Listings

Note! These are the 2022 ranking rules.
Every year looking back may have variations.
Step by step introduction
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 itÂŽs 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. ItÂŽs not just a one-year saga. ItÂŽs 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
RegionLevel
South AmericaMedium
North AmericaHigh
EuropeHigh
AsiaMedium
OceaniaMedium
AfricaLow

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. ItÂŽs 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.
Dictionary
Here are some important explanations of terms used for the World Ranking.
World Ranking Disciplines
The standard slalom disciplines.
- Super Tight
- Tight
- Slalom
- Giant
- Super Giant

Courses can be set straight or irregular (special).

Example of other slalom disciplines.
- Banked Slalom
- 25, 50 and 100 cone
- Park slalom
Note!
For other disciplines than the mentioned. Make sure that disicplines are accepted.

Contact ISSA if not sure.

The same if you want to try out a new odd competition format. Both ISSA and racers should be prepared before the race.
World Ranking Points
Points are depending on the event status and class you are competing in. There are algorithmic point tables for each event status class.

See ranking point tables in the "Tables & Listings" section below.

There are actually two kind of results.
- Race results
- Ranking results

And both of them have overalls.
- Race results
Placements for each discipline/class as how they were run.
Overall (according to the overall point table in the slalom rules).

Overall counting all disciplines. Unless organizer have excluded disciplines from the overall.

- Rank results
Calculating rank points for all classes (as much as this is possible). Disciplines running only one OPEN class for all racers will have all classes calculated automatically.

Only 3 disciplines are calculated towards the ranking. And these you select when you register the events.

You can add up to 6 disciplines in total. 3 ranking disicplines and also 3 extra disciplines.

Ranking overall counts the two best discipline results from the three ranking disciplines.
World Ranking Calculations
The ranking point calculations may have some twists and turns. It may not be easy to understand in some special cases. Luckily there is help for better understanding your ranking points.

Event results
This sections shows all your event results for a selected year. Ranking points given depending on event status, class and placement.

Click event to open up all discpline and class results. And you can see the ranking point given for each discipline result.
At your personal ranking homepage there are two sections of interest.
Event results.
Ranking results.


Ranking results
Shows all year classes you have for a ranking. Click a ranking class to open up information behind the ranking point.

And you can read about how the ranking point has been calculated.
World Ranking Competition Status
Primary events

- Major Announcement limit: 6 months
The most important international events of the year. There are very few each year. One of these is the World Championships.

- Main Announcement limit: 4 months

Other important international events.

- Prime Announcement limit: 2 months
Other international events or important national events.

There is a limit of these statuses for each world region. They are spread out in the different world regions.
See number of statuses per region in the section "Tables & Listings" below.
Secondary events

- Basic Announcement limit: 1 month
Other competitions.

- Plain No announcement limit
Other competitions.

World Ranking Discipline Classes
Age classes

55+ Grand Master Men/Women
45+ Master Men/Women
-17 Junior boys/Girls
-14 Boys/Girls
-11 Kids Boys/Girls
Open classes All ages

- Open
- Women
- Pro Experienced racers
- Am Upcoming/hobby racers

Virtual class
- Pro-Open
See more info on the "ranking point table sections" below for each class.
Tables and listings
Region event statuses New 2022
RegionStatuses
South America2 Main 3 Prime
North America3 Main 5 Prime
Europe3 Main 5 Prime
Asia2 Main 3 Prime
Oceania2 Main 3 Prime
Africa1 Main 2 Prime

InternationalStatus
Every year2 Major
Every 2nd year1 WSG
2 Major events events each year. For the moment one in North America and one in Europe.

1 World Skate Games (WSG) event every second year.

One of the above is always the World Championships.

Basic and Plain status events are unlimited.

This status table are updated yearly according to the slalom development in the World Region.
Region pro-limits New 2022
For pro class to be counted with full points for the ranking there needs to be a certain number of racers attending.

This depends on the world regions.
RegionPro-limit
South America3 pro racers
North America8 pro racers
Europe8 pro racers
Asia3 pro racers
Oceania3 pro racers
Africa2 pro racers
This status table is updated yearly according to the slalom development in the World Region.
If a pro class does not have enough pro racers then the Pro and Am class will be merged into an Open class.

If they raced separate courses or H2H finals then all Pro racers are listed before the Am racers in the ranking result list.

If an Open class has enough pro racers it will turn into a Pro-Open. Where Pro racers will get Pro points and Am racers will get Am points.
Ranking points overview
Points for first place according to discipline class and status

Above is a good table to get an overview of the importance of the different classes.

Then from the first place point there is an algorithmic scale of points going down. You can see an overview if this in the picture below.

Overview of the logarithmic ranking points.

World Skate events  New 2022 

- Major+ 10% point increase.
- Main+ 10% point increase.

For events with full World Skate backing they are on another top level. But also mean full responsabilties inlcuding WADA rules and testing.
Ranking points: Pro/Pro-Open
Ranking points for Pro class and event status

New 2022
For pro class to be counted with full points for the ranking there needs to be a certain number of racers attending. This depends on the world regions.

See section Region pro-limits" above.

If a pro class does not have enough pro racers then the Pro and Am class will be merged into an Open class.
If they raced separate courses or H2H finals then all Pro racers are listed before the Am racers in the ranking result list.

If an Open class has enough pro racers it will turn into a Pro-Open. Where Pro racers will get Pro points and Am racers will get Am points.
Ranking points: Open/Women
Ranking points for Open/Women class and event status

If an Open class has enough* pro racers it will turn into a Pro-Open. Where Pro racers will get Pro points and Am racers will get Am points.

If a pro class does not have enough* pro racers then the Pro and Am class will be merged into an Open class.
If they raced separate courses or H2H finals then all Pro racers are listed before the Am racers in the ranking result list.

* See "Ranking points: Pro/Pro-Open" section above.
Ranking points: Am/Master
Ranking points for Am/Master/Pro-Open class and event status

If an Open class has enough* pro racers it will turn into a Pro-Open. Where Pro racers will get Pro points and Am racers will get Am points.

* See "Ranking points: Pro/Pro-Open" section above.
Ranking points: Junior (-17)
Ranking points for Junior (-17) class and event status
Ranking points: Boy/Girl (-14)
Ranking points for Boy/Girl (-14) class and event status
Ranking points: Kids (-11)
Ranking points for Kids (-11) class and event status
Memberships 

Just register and join!
All slalomers and slalom fans are welcome to join the ISSA forum and ISSA facebook group.
Member categories

Three ways you may support ISSA:

- As a personal member
- As an organisation
- As a sponsor
You may register yourself as a Basic Member or Basic Organisation for free.

But if you want to make a greater impact with your support for slalom skateboarding sign up as ISSA Gold Member, ISSA Supporting Organisation or ISSA Sponsor. Your support is worth a lot for the development of ISSA and the international slalom scene.
ISSA Forum info
Background
Our forum was created in the early 2000 and became an active meeting place for the revival of slalom skateboarding at that time.

The forum has a lot of structured information to find and contribute to. And even though Facebook nowadays have taken over the common meeting place function, the forum is still an important part of the ISSA world.
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