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The premier North American gravity festival is back for 2009. This year’s event will go on, without participation or support from the City of Goldendale where you all paid for skatepark renovations after the Mayor’s scandal, but the races are on, the hill is open and the owners of the road are stoked to have you come race, camp, freeride & party at the Festival of Speed!
2009 Maryhill Festival of Speed
REGISTRATION OPENS IN JUNE
If you were anywhere near your television, a computer or a decent skateboarding magazine in 2008, you know all about what went down at the Maryhill Festival of Speed. The endless freeriding on 28 banked curves over a nearly 3-mile course, hundreds of gravity racers, eating, camping, partying and enjoying live bands, killer local hospitality and perfect weather… captured well by NBC’s Jeep World of Adventure Sports and the crew at Orangefiist (see vids, below). If you know what the Maryhill Festival of Speed is all about, then your only two questions are whether it’s going down again and how you’re going to make it there. Well, the town with an overwrought, imaginative Mayor isn’t any part of it (officially) but the locals are supportive and the Festival of Speed is coming to Maryhill on September 2nd to 6th. Registration is as last year: “Priority Reg” opens June 21st, and “Open Reg” opens the First of July. Details and more, below…
2008 MFOS and IGSA Champion, Scott Smith. Will he own it, times three?
This year, the Maryhill Festival of Speed is an IGSA World Cup (but not the World Championships, which are in Australia this year) and will use the same rules and general registration procedure as last year. First off, the top-ranked, 2008 IGSA racers and Maryhill champs get access to reserved registration for a limited number racers, and then it’s open season in July for another hundred and some spots (plus any unsold “priority” registrations.
Squint! Here's how the registration slots are allocated.
Here’s all the details from John “Volcanic” Ozman:
2009 IGSA World Cup Historic Maryhill Loops Road Goldendale, WA September 2 – 6, 2009
Registration Information
For 2009, Event Registration is $255.00, US Dollars for the first class entered. An additional class is $50 and then each additional class is $20. Payment for registration can be made by using Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
The 2009 Maryhill Festival of Speed” will include the following:
· 5 days of racing against the world’s best Gravity Sports Athletes in the 2008 IGSA World Cup.
· Total Purse to be announced
· Trophies for all podium athletes
· 8 – 12 runs per day down the Maryhill Loops Road during practice.
· Free Athlete Camping w/showers @ Klickitat County Fairgrounds (Campground Sign Up will be done when registering for the event)
- RV’s and Trailers with hook ups will be a charge of $16 a day.
· Free breakfast each morning at the Athlete Campground
· Free water each day
· 1 night of live Music (Klickitat County Fairgrounds)
· Awards Ceremonies (Immediately Following the Finals, Maryhill Loops Road)
· Event Shirt
· Lots of Swag to be randomly passed out (See sponsors on event website)
Swag Corner is always a great place to score stuff between heats.
Check out 2008's MFOS on Jeep World of Adventure Sports
We’re excited to report an overwhelming interest from athletes wanting to register for the Maryhill “Festival of Speed” 2009 IGSA World Cup and we’re taking steps to ensure we’re able to repeat the levels of service to racers we had at last year’s event. We have increased the number of class entries to 228, across 6 different classes.
The iconic Spaghetti into Never-ender Left.
It’s also important that we guarantee the top-ranked IGSA athletes an opportunity to race in the IGSA World Cup, so we’re going to use the “priority registration” system as we did in 2008. With this system, we will reserve “priority registration” for a designated number of IGSA athletes in each racing class, based on 2008 IGSA point standings and/or Top Finisher standings from the 2008 Maryhill “Festival of Speed”. During the priority registration period, only Priority athletes may register. The total number of registrations “reserved” is roughly 121. After Priority Registration expires, every unsold registration will be available to anyone, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Those lines are 'thane...
Full listings of all IGSA Priority Registration Athletes
IGSA Coverage 
