Monster Jam World Finals

The Monster Jam World Finals is an annual monster truck event held in late March at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the championship event of the Monster Jam series, consisting of racing and freestyle competitions, with the winner of each considered the World champion in that competition for the past year. It is the highest profile monster truck event and draws tremendous media attention.

Contents

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• Racing
• Encore
• Encores
• Young Guns Shootout
• World Finals XVIII March 2325 2017
• Field of Trucks
• References

Originally 16 trucks were invited to compete in the event, but 20 trucks were selected in 2005, 24 selected from 2006-2012, 28 in 2013, and 32 trucks from 2014-present. For the first 14 years at the Monster Jam World Finals, the Racing Championship and Freestyle Championship were held on the same night. However, beginning in 2014 at Monster Jam World Finals XV with the expanded 32 monster truck field, the event expanded to an all-new 3 day format with Double Down on Thursday, the Racing Championship on Friday, and the Freestyle Championship on Saturday. Trucks and drivers are selected based on their performances over the winter season on the FS1 Championship Series, Triple Threat Series or regular events from January into early March. When multiple drivers of the same team or truck are selected, they are typically placed in other trucks that travel with their primary vehicle, e.g. Pablo Huffaker won the 2007 Freestyle Championship driving Captain's Curse and Charlie Pauken won the 2010 Freestyle Championship in Monster Mutt, but since 2015 the drivers were put into their trucks but with a different paint scheme. Many more trucks are invited for display at the "Pit Party" festivities during the event.

The stature of the event leads to extreme performances in both competitions. The racing track, being about 884 feet in length, starts in the parking lot behind the locker rooms of the stadium and features a long straight-away offering speeds over 70 mph before a hair-pin turn. The freestyle track layout is typically the most extreme all season, with several large and unique obstacles, often producing spectacular crashes. The event features 7 judges (6 regulation, who score from 1-10 for 90 seconds, and 1 bonus judge, who scores from 1-5 for the next 30 seconds) with the lowest and highest scores discarded in regulation, for a maximum possible score of 45 (excluding tiebreakers), plus the judges can give half points as opposed to only giving whole points during the first quarter.

No truck has ever got the maximum score of 45 (40 in regulation and 5 in bonus). The high score is 40 and was set by Dennis Anderson and Grave Digger in 2000. In the History of the Monster Jam World Finals Freestyle Championship Only Once as the Driver Successful Defending his title. Tom Meents Driving Goldberg in 2001 and Team Meents in 2002.

In 2004, if a driver flipped over within the first 30 seconds of their run, they would be allowed to roll back over and continue depending on if the truck was still able to go. This rule was only active that year.

Some fans consider the Monster Jam World Finals unfair, because its invitation-only participants are not officially selected based on performance scores earned during the prior season. Another controversy is that the event's parent company, FELD Motorsports, owns a majority of the trucks that are invited to participate. Additionally, most of the participant drivers are based in the United States. However, this selection bias is often countered by the fact that Monster Jam organizes a world tour.

Until 2011, the teams qualified for racing with no body on the chassis so they would not be damaged if an accident was to occur, although some drivers kept the front hood on in order to give them a point of view as if they were racing with the body on. However, from 2012, all teams had to qualify with full bodies on. Each driver got 2 practice runs, one in the left lane and one in the right lane in order to give them a feel of racing in both lanes. Also starting in 2012, FELD Motorsports added a new competition to the World Finals as part of the Double Down experience where 8 competitors with no prior World Finals experience compete in racing for the title of Young Guns Shootout Champion. In 2013, the Young Guns Shootout field was expanded to 12 trucks (and the winner competed in the World Finals since), and 16 trucks were invited from 2014–present. Whoever is crowned The Young Guns Shootout Champion receives the final spot in the field of 32 trucks to compete for the World Racing Championship and World Freestyle Championship. An unofficial World Finals took place in 1999 in St. Louis. This is classed as World Finals "0". There was no Freestyle competition held, only a Racing competition. This is the only World Finals in history not to take place in Las Vegas.dunrf