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Whoa. What the hell happened that caused so much smoke?

And Charlie, you call that solid? That lineup is arguably the best of 2015 PERIOD! Put Epidendio, the Groths, Christensen, Montgomery, the Swansons, and Swim, and you got an event that's going to be SO DAMN AWESOME!

If they want to send Mark List into competition, then why can't he compete in Perth and maybe even Melbourne? If there's any ETL driver that I really think should compete in "the big ones" (Brisbane and Sydney even though FS in Brisbane sucked last year), it's McDonald. He's been gone for god knows how many months, and I'm predicting at least a few fans miss him.

I forgot to edit and say it was two words. And even though it's true that Big Bash did very well last year, I highly doubt it's coming back, Charlie.

Also, what happened to Dennis Anderson? I know he recently had a surgery and all, but why is he out of commission for this long?

Wow. If the Marc McDonald hype train just crashed, I'm really disappointed. Don't get me wrong, that Mark List guy is good, but DO YOU KNOW HOW WELL MARC MCDONALD DID LAST YEAR, ESPECIALLY IN BRISBANE? One word: UNBELIEVEABLY WELL. That was where he got his ONLY Double Down in 2014, and to do that, he had to beat the Defending World Racing Champion in the Finals, and get a run that was better than Liddycoat's in Freestyle. I hope to god he's competing again this year, cause seeing him trying to defend his Double Down from last year would definitely be something to watch.

DAMN! That's one big wreck. He could've saved it! However, Nicole's wreck from Miami had to be the worst.

Also, Sunday Afternoon results are up. Black Stallion, Mohawk Warrior, El Toro Loco, and Scooby-Doo all struggled with mechanical issues. Other than that, winners are:

Wheelies: El Diablo (Scooby-Doo almost got him, but lost by ONE POINT!)

Obstacle Course: Grave Digger

Racing: Max-D

Donuts: Grave Digger (El Toro Loco and Scooby-Doo out due to issues)

Freestyle: Grave Digger (Black Stallion and Mohawk Warrior out due to issues; Pablo won in a tie breaker with the 2015 World Freestyle Champion, Overkill Evolution)

Oh, ok. For a moment I got confused thinking, "Wait a minute, that's not the correct body! Unless if it's a different driver, that is".

Also, Saturday Night winners are:

Wheelies: Scooby-Doo

Obstacle Course: Mohawk Warrior

Racing: Max-D

Donuts: Monster Mutt Rottweiler

Freestyle: Grave Digger

Basically a majority of the field won a competition tonight.

A few questions about the videos:

1. What happened that made El Toro Loco lose it's horns and hood?
2. Why did El Toro Loco and Scooby-Doo stay out of racing?

3. Is Mike Vaters seriously back to running Black Stallion on it's old body? If yes, then the 2014 body looked WAY better.

I agree completely. My reaction if fan judging continues in 2016?

Even Homer Simpson hated the fan judging, especially from the World Finals this year!

Wait a minute -- do my eyes deceive me? WHY WOULD FELD DO THIS!?

looks at Knoxville Monster Jam results:

Look at that. LOOK AT THAT. LOOK AT THAT!!!!

I KNEW IT! I CALLED IT PEOPLE, I CALLED IT!!!!! Neil was basically the Overall Event Champion for the Saturday night show.

Sunday results aren't up yet, but if Neil won EVERYTHING on Sunday, I'll go nuts.

Also, Jamey did decent, but didn't win anything.

You know that scene in Shrek 2 when Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona are in a carriage on their way to Far Far Away? Well, Donkey keeps on asking "Are we there yet? Are we THERE yet? Are we there YET?". Then, Shrek gets real ticked off, and has enough of it.

GAH! WHEN WILL THIS FRANCHISE MAKE A RETURN!

I loved that dinner fight part;

Shrek!
Fiona!

Fiona!

Mom!
Harold!
DONKEY!

Fun Fact: Something very similar to this was used in the Nickelodeon animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants", as well as the Nintendo 3DS game, "Kid Icarus: Uprising".

STRANGE, ISN'T IT!?

(I felt like doing this just for randomness)

Are we there yet?

The only time I've ever seen a crowd cheer off was in a YouTube video. I forgot the title, but it's floating around somewhere.

Bob Robbins won in Aftershock and this is what I guessed they would've been like if it was in the video:

Announcer: "WHO SAYS THE WINNER SHOULD BE BOB ROBBINS IN AFTERSHOCK!?"

Crowd: WOOOOOOO!!!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!

Bob probably won the cheer-off by a LONGSHOT. Guess he had a run that was pretty damn good.

Also, my reaction to the one-time Storm Damage body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw

Don't know how to unlink with this stupid new makeover, so click on that link to see what I think.

What is a crowd cheer off, anyway? Does the crowd just chant the truck's name or something?

EXACTLY!!!! If someone other than Neil wins freestyle AT ALL, I'll be shocked. None of them were in the Championship Series, which makes it easy for Neil to take them out. Randy and Sean could have the smallest bulls eyes out of all of them. Cynthia is one of the sport's darkest horses, and Andy.....well, we haven't seen him in the Monster Jam circuit in a while, so I don't know how well he'll run.

Hmm... looking at the lineup for Knoxville, it looks like Jamey is in for some tough competition:

Grave Digger® driven by Randy Brown, Max-D℠ driven by Neil Elliott, Zombie driven by Sean Duhon, Monster Mutt® Dalmatian driven by Cynthia Gauthier, War Wagon driven by Andy Hoffman and Over Bored driven by Jamey Garner!

Bold = The driver that will make sure that he's the only one who will get wins.

My Thoughts and Opinions on Monster Jam in Calgary (Sunday Show)

WHAT A SHOW! A fantastic way to end an incredible weekend at the Stampede Grandstand for the final event of the 2015 Maple Leaf Tour!

Wheelies:
The afternoon started off nicely with the Wheelie Competition! Trent Montgomery of Bounty Hunter would grab the biggest win of his career this afternoon by winning it! His score of 30 would be too tough for any of the other 7 drivers to beat, but Time Flys, Wild Flower, and Monster Mutt Dalmatian all deserve recognition. Kelvin Ramer would JUST MISS the wheelie competition win by only two points, scoring a 28. Rosalee Ramer and Cynthia Gauthier tied for 3rd with 26 points each. Other scores would be Northern Nightmare 24, Grave Digger 21, Zombie 20, and Iron Outlaw 13. That would wrap up the afternoon's wheelie competition.

Obstacle Course:

It was a great Obstacle Course this afternoon, I have to say. Northern Nightmare won with a time of 11.48. Zombie would come in a close second with a 11.62. Other times include Bounty Hunter 11.93, Monster Mutt Dalmatian 12.35, Wild Flower 12.44, Time Flys 13.22, Iron Outlaw 14.94, and Grave Digger DQ for missing an obstacle.

Racing:

Round 1 would see Grave Digger take out Bounty Hunter in a pretty close race, Zombie defeat Wild Flower, Iron Outlaw take out Monster Mutt Dalmatian in a VERY close match, and Northern Nightmare end the racing afternoon for Time Flys. Semi's would be Zombie over Grave Digger and Northern Nightmare over Iron Outlaw. Championship Race would see Cam McQueen grab his second win of the afternoon in a close race! What a bracket it was.

Donuts:

Team USA wanted SERIOUS revenge after the score would be 3-0, and that was what they got. Kelvin Ramer would be your Donut Competition winner with a score of 32. Zombie's Linsey Weenk tied with a 32, but Ramer had the higher dropped score. Other scores include Northern Nightmare and Bounty Hunter tied with a 29, Wild Flower 28, Monster Mutt Dalmatian 26, Grave Digger 24, and Iron Outlaw 20.

Freestyle:

After a brief intermission, it was time for my favorite competition, FREESTYLE! Two of the best newcomers in the Monster Jam circuit, Trent Montgomery of Bounty Hunter and Rosalee Ramer of Wild Flower wowed the crowd with incredible performances, but it would be Linsey Weenk who had the crowd screaming at the end of his performance!

Scores would be as follows:

ZOMBIE - 32

Bounty Hunter - 31

Wild Flower - 29

Grave Digger - 28

Northern Nightmare - 27

Time Flys - 22

Monster Mutt Dalmatian - 12

Iron Outlaw - 9

It was a great weekend, and like I said before, it was a great weekend, and I can't wait to see the turnout for the rest of the events that will happen this year!

And I'm telling you guys this right now... if neither Trent nor Rosalee makes it into Young Guns...  then we RIOT!!!

My Thoughts and Opinions on Calgary for 2015:

To be honest, Calgary was great. It's sad that it's over, because MAN, what a great weekend it was!

Saturday, 7PM:
Wheelies were fantastic. Zombie would take the win with a score of 32, and he tied with Bounty Hunter (Now you know why I think Trent deserves to be in the YGS more than anybody). However, since Bounty Hunter had a higher dropped score, Linsey Weenk would be the night's Wheelie winner. Northern Nightmare got a 30, Wild Flower 25, Time Flys 24, Iron Outlaw 23, Grave Digger 20, and Monster Mutt Dalmatian 5 after a WILD crash that could've possibly nominated Cynthia Gauthier for Crash Madness! The truck was immediately sent into repairs, and almost didn't make the call for Round 1 Racing.

Big win for Randy Brown and Grave Digger tonight! Knocking off Cam McQueen and Northern Nightmare in the racing finals, it would be a race that had everyone on the edge of their seat!

Round 1 saw Northern Nightmare take out Bounty Hunter, but Trent almost got Cam. Time Flys got an easy victory over Iron Outlaw, and Wild Flower's Rosalee Ramer took out the third toughest rookie in the sport, in my opinion (Sorry, but Colton Eichelberger and Brianna Mahon are WAY too good), and it was a close race! Finally, Grave Digger took out Zombie for the last Round 1 victory. Semi's would see Northern Nightmare and Grave Digger take out Time Flys and Wild Flower. Championship Race started out good, but was hectic at the end because Northern Nightmare spun out. Therefore, Grave Digger would be the night's racing victor!

Donuts had to be the best of the night. Northern Nightmare would beat Time Flys by only ONE POINT! Cam scored 32, Kelvin scored 31. Zombie got a 29, Wild Flower 27, Bounty Hunter 25, Monster Mutt Dalmatian 25, Grave Digger 24, and Iron Outlaw 19.

Then it was time for the final competition of the night -- FREESTYLE!

The crowd was on their feet with Northern Nightmare's INCREDIBLE performance! Scoring a 32, Cam McQueen would be your freestyle winner tonight. Other scores would be Grave Digger 28, Time Flys 28, Zombie 27, Monster Mutt Dalmatian 27, Bounty Hunter 23, Iron Outlaw 20, and Wild Flower 14 (rolled early).

My Thoughts and Opinions on Sunday's show are coming soon, but all I can say was it was an incredible show, and I can't want to see the turnout for the rest of the shows for this year!

Most of the "newer" trucks, like Stinger 2013, El Toro Loco (Yellow), and Scooby-Doo can be found in the Edy Beltran V4 Updates pack. I would recommend downloading that.

However, since you're using 0.38, you'll have to find a few parts for the pack to work. When you get Error 5, it will tell you what part is missing. Locate that part and put it in the pack. If more than 1 part is missing, then you'll have to go back and forth finding the parts needed. When all parts are found, BOOM! The pack should work.

I know this because I first started out on 0.38, but then moved to 0.37 because I didn't like finding a lot of parts for trucks.

Other than her, there are 3 drivers that TRULY deserve to be in the YGS because they do so awesome; Kevin, Zane, and Roy. Sure, all 3 are just rookies in the Monster Jam circuit, but THEY DESERVE TO BE IN THE YGS BASED ON WHAT WE'VE ALL SEEN FROM THEM IN OTHER MONSTER TRUCK TOURS!

Oh, and Trent? -laughs hysterically- alright, KILL ME IF YOU'D LIKE! There's no driver that deserves to be in the YGS more than that guy.

It's indeed time that this train begins...

 Oh, it's victory all right. Sweet, sweet victory.

Next stop, Kevin King and Zane Rettew!

The football. #DeflateGate

Whoa. I thought Lenny was gone! Haven't seen him in events for a while. Oh, and also...

I KNEW IT! There was no way they were going to have the toys at McDonald's without Northern Nightmare in Canada.

It's Bigfoot's 40th anniversary, and they move into a new shop (Sure, it's big and all and has a test track), that has no showroom or exhibit (as Charlie mentioned) at all? DAMN IT! I'm with Charlie for this one.