King of the Road (title)

King of the Road
Sport	Skateboarding
Founded	2003
Founder	Michael Burnett
Country	United States, China
Official website	Thrasher Magazine

The title of King of the Road is given out once a year by Thrasher magazine. The tradition was started in 2003 and has been one of the premier skateboarding contests in the USA.

In the King of the Road (KOTR) contest, a group of pre-invited teams of professional skaters are each given a book^[1] containing a series of challenges. Points are awarded at the completion of each challenge. The teams compete at the same time over a two-week period, in which they travel across the U.S. to complete as many challenges as possible.

KOTR has been held annually since its inception, with the exceptions of 2008 and 2009. In 2011, Thrasher and Converse hosted an addition KOTR competition in China, with the participation of the four biggest Chinese skateboard deck companies.^[2]

King of the Road 2003

Teams

Team Deluxe

Dan Drehobl
Darrell Stanton
JT Aultz
Ernie Torres
Tony Trujillo

Team Tum Yeto

Ethan Fowler
Gareth Stehr
Diego Bucchieri
Johnny Layton
Adrian Mallory

Team Volcom

Rune Glifberg
Caswell Berry
Dustin Dollin
Dennis Busenitz
Javier Sarmiento

Team eS

Final Standings

1st Place: Deluxe

2nd Place: Tum Yeto

3rd Place: Volcom

4th Place: eS

King of the Road 2004

Teams

Team Almost

Daewon Song
Greg Lutzka
Chris Haslam
Ryan Sheckler
Cooper Wilt

Team Girl

Eric Koston
Mike Carroll
Rick Howard
Brian Anderson
Jereme Rogers

Team Real

Peter Ramondetta
Dennis Busenitz
Tony Trujillo
Darrell Stanton
Ernie Torres
Isaac Alvidrez

Team Zero

Jamie Thomas
Jon Allie
Tommy Sandoval
Chris Cole
James Brockman
Jared Green

Final Standings

1st Place: Zero

2nd Place: Girl

3rd Place: Almost

4th Place: Real

King of the Road 2005

Teams

Team Zero

Jamie Thomas
Chris Cole
Garrett Hill
John Rattray
Tommy Sandoval

Team Habitat

Fred Gall
Silas Baxter-Neal
Stefan Janoski
Kerry Getz
Danny Garcia

Team Flip

Geoff Rowley
Bastien Salabanzi
Shane Cross
Arto Saari
Alex Chalmers

Team Element

Jeremy Wray
Mike Vallely
Brent Atchley
Tosh Townend
Colt Cannon

Final Standings

First Place : Zero 4,180 points

Second Place : Habitat 3,470

Third Place : Flip 3,460

Fourth Place : Element 2,680

King of the Road 2006

Teams

Team Zero

Jamie Thomas
Chris Cole
Tommy Sandoval
John Rattray
James Brockman

Team Darkstar

Chet Thomas
Paul Machnau
Gailea Momolu
Paul Trep
Adam Dyet

Team Baker

Andrew Reynolds
Erik Ellington
Jim Greco
Bryan Herman
Leo Romero

Team Toy Machine

Ed Templeton
Billy Marks
Josh Harmony
Johnny Layton
Matt Bennett

Final Standings

1st Place: Zero - 5,530 points

2nd Place: Darkstar - 4,610 points

3rd Place: Baker - 4,540 points

4th Place: Toy Machine - 3,690 points

King of the Road 2007

Teams

Team Blind

Ronnie Creager
Jake Duncombe
James Craig
Danilo Cerezini
Morgan Smith

Team Foundation

Don Nguyen
Sierra Fellers
David Reyes
Angel Ramirez
Abdias Rivera

Team Black Label

Chet Childress
Adam Alfaro
Brian "Slash" Hansen
Shuriken Shannon
Chris Troy

Team Zoo York

Zered Bassett
Aaron Suski
Anthony Shetler
Lamare Hemmings
Brandon Westgate

Final Standings

1st Place: Blind

2nd Place: Foundation

3rd Place: Black Label

4th Place: Zoo York

King of the Road 2013

Teams

Team were announced^[3] August 27, 2013. People were able to follow each team via blogs on the Thrasher site.

Enjoi	Birdhouse	Chocolate	Real
Cairo Foster	Aaron Homoki	Elijah Berle	Robbie Brockel
Wieger van Wageningen	Ben Raybourn	Vincent Alvarez	Ishod Wair
Zack Wallin	Clint Walker	Raven Tershy	Justin Brock
Jimmy Carlin	Clive Dixon	Stevie Perez	Jake Ruiz
Louie Barletta	Mike Davis	Justin Eldridge	Kyle Walker
Matt Mullen (Videographer)	Adam Mills (Videographer)	Daniel Wheatley (Videographer)	Jeremy McNamara (Videographer)
		Ewan Bowman (Videographer)	Preston Maigetter (Videographer)
Joe Brooke (Photographer)	Dan Zaslavsky (Photographer)	Michael Burnett (Photographer)	Rhino (Photographer)
	Jerome Case (Team Manager)	Sam Smyth (Team Manager)	John Alden (Team Manager)
Taylor Smith (Mystery Guest)	David Gravette (Mystery Guest)	Auby Taylor (Mystery Guest)	TJ Rogers (Mystery Guest)

Final Standings

Winners were announced^[4] on September 19, 2013.

Winning Team: Birdhouse
Phelper's Choice: Raven Tershy
MVP: Justin Brock

Web Episodes

The 2013 edition of KoTR was shown in a series of videos on the Thrasher site and on YouTube.

King of the Road 2014

Teams

Team were announced^[5] September 3, 2014. Mystery guests were announced^[6] September 12, 2014 and were all featured in the Osiris video, "The Storm".

Birdhouse	Flip	Element
Aaron Homoki	Curren Caples	Nyjah Huston
Clive Dixon	Louie Lopez	Evan Smith
Clint Walker	Alec Majerus	Julian Davidson
Mike Davis	Ben Nordberg	Nick Garcia
Ben Raybourn	Matt Berger	Dominick Walker
Adam Mills (Videographer)	Layne Stratton (Videographer)	Dave Hoang (Videographer)
Jake (Videographer)	Dan Stolling (Videographer)	Mark Stewart (Videographer)
Dan Zaslavsky (Photographer)	Rhino (Photographer)	Michael Burnett (Photographer)
Jerome Case (Team Manager)	John Nicholson (Team Manager)	Cole Mathews (Team Manager)
Peter Smolik	Chad Knight	Tyrone Olson

Final Standings

Winning team was announced^[7] on December 13 in the final Web episode.

Web Episode

The 2014 edition of KoTR was shown in a series of web episodes on the Thrasher site and on YouTube.

King of the Road 2015

Teams

The 2015 teams were announced^[8] August 25, 2015. The Mystery guests were announced^[9] September 2, 2015. Team Birdhouse was the winner

Birdhouse	Toy Machine	Chocolate
Aaron Homoki	Blake Carpenter	Raven Tershy
Clive Dixon	Billy Marks	Justin Eldridge
Clint Walker	Daniel Lutheran	Johnny Jones
Mike Davis	Axel Cruysberghs	Elijah Berle
Ben Raybourn	Collin Provost	Stevie Perez
Adam Mills (Videographer)	Ryan Lee (Videographer)	Daniel Wheatley (Videographer)
Ryan Lovell (Videographer)	Jon Holland (Videographer	Federico Vitetta (Videographer)
Rhino (Photographer)	Joe Hammeke (Photographer)	Sam Muller (Photographer)
Jerome Case (Team Manager)	Mike Sinclair (Team Manager)	Sam Smyth (Team Manager)
Heath Kirchart (Mystery Guest)	Forrest Edwards (Mystery Guest)	Jereme Rogers (Mystery Guest)

Web Episodes

Meet the Mystery Guests YT

References

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