Stephen Hopkins

^ Good to know Directions for a glass of water. 1. Get a glass. 2. Put water in glass. Resulting product: Points after week 3! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TETfhOpZDyi4-3NA1oKmvHwPaYlND1XXT9OK9imikBM/edit?usp=sharing Interesting notes Jimmy Creten ended randy browns reign on the speed and skill segment Dan Evans scored more points in Mark McDonalds truck than Mark has to this point. (dan evans was killing it this weekend as a fill in) Pablo though having only completed 4 events is in the top ten in points. Jon Zimmer and Gary Porter are also in the top 10 with only 5 events completed. Scooby Doo driven by Linsey still has more freestyle points then Randy Brown in Grave Digger, though I expect that to change after this coming weekend. The West cost MMJ series has a much tighter points run than the East coast counterpart. The two trucks who continuously race well in the east series have pulled away thus far. This will likely change as the season progress. Kayla Blood won her first event(donuts) and continues to put in a very solid effort in racing, she has yet to make a finals but of the 9 events, shes made the second round 8 times, second only to Coty. Tacoma had several instances where only 4/8 trucks completed a FS run. Captains Curse Dominated the donuts competition this weekend. Stadium Tour started this weekend and to no surprise both Max-D and Grave Digger can be found at the top. The rest of the top 10 is interesting to say the least. (all aboard the Hooligan Hype train!) MMJD had a rough weekend and relinquished the FS1 points lead to Digger and in my opinion may be the last lead change for that series though time will tell. See you all next week! Edit If anyone can confirm which drivers drove Obsession and Obsessed this weekend I'd appreciate it as I believe the Monster Jam truck list was incorrect.

So it what ways will this be any different from the already established monster truck groups that do exactly what you say and already have a huge fan base?

After the first two weeks. There is several sheets to look through, one explaining points payouts the rest with points. I have both the MMJ and FS1 series broken down so you can see where and how points are being awarded. This is extremely time consuming so I cant promise that any series other than the MMJ and FS1 tours will be completed till the end of the season. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TETfhOpZDyi4-3NA1oKmvHwPaYlND1XXT9OK9imikBM/edit?usp=sharing

Fun Fact of the day: Scooby Doo driven by Linsey has more area FS points than anybody in either the generic arena series or the MMJ tours (waiting on west coast results so this may change). She has actually scored more freestyle points than her travel partner, Randy Brown, Driving grave digger. (scooby doo and Briana and Brown's Digger are tied for second most freestyle points thus far with all three competing in the same amount of shows). Guess Grave Digger doesn't always win fan judging eh? Points were caclulated like this 1st= 5 2nd =4 3rd=3 4th=2 5th =1 Another note is Randy Brown to this point hasnt lost a Speed and Skill event yet. (yes im working on an excel sheet for all kinds of points stuff with my own points series, Ill post it once Monster Jam gets all the results in from this weekend)

One side looked filled in better than the other on the pictures I saw. Looks like you were facing the good side. Either that or people left the show in swarms before some of the heavy hitters ran. I cant find the best example I saw but I did find this to backup my thoughts. Obviously you'd know better than I when in the show this was but it seemed to be after qualifying maybe in between some racing rounds? But you can clearly see huge splotches in the upper bowl and some pretty hefty holes in the bottom bowel (can be seen in your panorama to). Just a shame as it used to be that the place was packed or at least had the bottom bowl sold out. Obviously I understand you cant really say much either way and I probably shouldn't either but its just disappointing compared to the not so long ago past.

I cant help but laugh at how empty the stands are in Atlanta. Bottom bowl not even close to full, top bowl less than 50%.

Just imagine how the trade for credit photographers feel.

I totally agree especially with that last line. Dont shoot me though, im just the messenger quoting statements from MJ tech officials. On a side note I was never a fan of the drivers doing the ATV stuff...... wonder how long it is until somebody gets really hurt......

Im sure that the ukraines on the basl's trucks is going real well with feld. I want to say somewhere in the Feld/USHRA truck guidelines/rule book that Monster trucks in their events couldn't have drive shaft blankets, thus were effectively banned making them a useless investment for most teams. From an old mayhem post by a tech official ( want to say it was Jim Ursini) in 2009

Hes talking about the car/bus/trailer stack that is sorta in la la land

Assassin Monster Truck View File Standalone pack! (Though if you want to be a rebel and drop it into your v4 folder you can do that as well, cant guarantee it wont overwrite something though) V1 of this truck has a ton a little work done on it. This is NOT a race legal truck in any fashion, dont even try it. Beta testers- Mark/Johan Models- Sheets/Johan/Kozak/Crazy/grabcad/DanDon/Myself Textures- Myself/Fern/v4 pack There are errors with this truck, I'm not perfect and no amount of beta testers will ever find all the issues. Post or contact me with issues so I can correct them as I move forward. Suggestions for changes can also be made. However keep in mind this truck is supposed to be more like a real truck's handling, it was also developed for wheel/pedal drivers, mainly pedal drivers with load cells so brakes may or may not be to your liking. Either way let me know so I can gauge what I should do for the next update! Submitter Stephen Hopkins Submitted 01/01/2016 Category V4 Customs

Some of what I've read here I agree with. However to just nonchalantly come in and say we should switch now is a bit silly dont you think? You've likely never made a Truck or Track yet you're telling everybody to switch. You said all it takes is one track and one truck, I challenge you to be the change you wish to see. Be the person who makes the one truck and one track to get everything started.