An exciting inline skating video competition featuring the best skaters, nominated by you!

Last time was a huge success. We got 5 incredible videos, overwhelming positive feedback from the skaters' and audience, reaching over 1.9 millions views across social media.

The skaters and filmers directly benefited from the fund as the culture did from the videos - the core of inline skating.

The Community Cup directly impacted the whole year beyond the competition itself, givings us Edit of the Year finalists, Trick of the Year finalist and feeding into Skate of the Year.

As a community we made it happen - Let's do it again.

The Concept

Our community voted best skaters submit a new, exclusive video parts, with one dropping daily for up to 12 days! The edits will be judged by both the public and a panel of industry experts. Every skater who submits a video receives a base rate, and there will be additional prizes for:

Prize Fund

The skaters’ fund (base rate + prizes) will be raised through community donations. Meaning every contribution directly increases what the skaters receive.

These percentages are fixed — but the total amount isn’t.

There’s no cap on what can be raised, which means there’s no limit to the skaters and filmers base rate or what they can win.

The more we come together as a community, the bigger the fund becomes and potentially the more the skater are motivated. This is something we’re building collectively — and its value is entirely in our hands.

We want these videos to be free so the whole community and beyond can enjoy them. Making the content accessible to everyone increases exposure, pushing the culture forward and bringing people in, not just for this project, but for everyone involved and skating on the whole.

The reality is, there isn’t much money in skating and we want to reward the skater and filmers so grassroots support is a great way make this happen.

Donations are completely optional, with a minimum of £5, which I believe it's an accessible way to be part of something bigger. Any size contribution helps build the prize fund, directly supports the skaters, and adds real value to what they’re doing and your vote.

Voting

Community Winners (1st / 2nd / 3rd)

Determined by public voting on LocoSkates

Expert Winner

A panel of judges will independently rank each skater based on overall impression using the following considerations:

Difficulty: can be applied to a stunt, line or a single technical trick. Clips will also be judged on the overall situation including; size, run-up, landing, weather, traffic, etc.

Style: Competitors will be judged on style, confidence, control & speed.

Creativity: This can be applied to switch-ups, clever use of spots, new ideas etc.

Spot selection: Submissions will be judged on the variety, type, difficulty and visual appearance of obstacles.

Production value: Production value includes the filming, audio, music, lighting and editing of the video.

Character / overall entertainment: Character combines all of the above elements and evaluates the submission on overall entertainment.

These aren’t strict categories to score individually, but elements that help guide the judges’ rankings.

There will also be consideration for self-progression — whether a skater is pushing their skating and presenting something new compared to previous output.

The Lineup

Competitors are finalists from the Community Skate Awards categories (Skater of the Year, Section of the Year, and Trick of the Year):

Confirmed

Carlos Bernal

Stuart Brattey

Julien Cudot

Colin Kelso

Sean Kelso

Levi Van Rijn

Brian Weis

Michael Witzemann

Seba Seufferheld

The following skaters have been invited and are enthusiastic. However, due to various reasons can't confirm 100% they will be able to enter a video. There is a hope things will align and they will all take part. Their positions therefore will remain open.

Josiah Blee

Alex Broskow

Yuto Goto

Competition Format

Edit Length:

1 minute minimum – 2 minutes maximum.

Exclusivity:

Edits must consist entirely of new, unreleased footage and will premiere on my YouTube channel & LocoSkates.

Scheduling

One video will be released daily, staying live for 7 days before being temporarily unlisted.

Once the final video completes its 7-day window, all edits will be made public again and community voting will open for one week.

A random generator will determine the order in which the edits go live.

Deadline

Working submission deadline: 23:59 – Sunday 2nd August 2026

The Community Cup Invitational is in association with Loco Skates https://www.locoskates.com/

Tier One Homies:

Tier Two Homies: