Dear skaters,

We wanted to inform you that after several attempts to put together the 2022 Online Showdown, unfortunately, we have decided to forgo holding an online contest this year. The concept of the online contest was to provide the freestyle community with a platform where they could showcase their skills during the COVID pandemic. Thanks to your participation, the Online Showdown was a huge success, with 110 skaters participating in 2020 and 178 from 27 countries submitting videos in 2021. Together we made history by staging the world’s first online video freestyle contest, something we can all be proud of.

We know that hearing about this year’s Online Showdown being canceled is disappointing, but we hope you can appreciate how massive an undertaking it has been for our small staff base to produce the Online Showdown these past two years. Knowing that the number of participants could grow substantially, we are considering holding separate online contests for each division sometime in the future, which would be a more manageable format.

With COVID restrictions now being lifted, we can again devote our time and energy towards holding the World Freestyle Round-Up at next year’s 75th Annual Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair. The contest dates will be May 19 to 22, 2023, so start planning to be here. Watch for full details in early January on our Website and Social Media pages.