BATB 8

BATB8 stands for battle at the berrics. Battle at the berrics is a skateboarding competition that tests peoples skills with flat ground skateboarding. It is a flat ground skate contest. It has professionals go head to head against other professionals. It is organized as a tournament with each name on the board showing who goes against who, and gets names added to the board of the winner between two people. Everybody gets eliminated when they lose. It goes until all but two are eliminated. Afterwards the two left go head to head for the winner to win prize money and a trophy. This is held every year and started about 8 years ago. It is held at the berrics which is a private indoor skate park owned by Eric Koston and Steve Berra. And has many professionals use it and requires to be allowed in. This contest allows people who are not very known to also get a chance to show what they can do and had a pros vs joes where the professionals had gone against non professionals. It is a great way for someone to start their skate career and could get them started with the money and getting known as a skateboarder.