Men's
-Top 4 1999 X Games
-Top 3 previously unqualified from the 1999 ASA World Championship
-Top 2 previously unqualified from 1999 ASA World Rankings
-Winner 1999 European Amateur Championships
-Top 2 1999 Asian X Trials
-Top previously unqualified from each of the following, ASA Pro Tour events: Rome, St. Petersburg, Ontario, Hermosa Beach, Nashville, and Milwaukee
-Top previously unqualified rookie based on the 2000 ASA rankings after Milwaukee
-One Wildcard
-Remaining spots filled by previously unqualified skaters based on ASA rankings after Milwaukee

Women's
-Gold 1999 X Games
-Top previously unqualified from 1999 ASA World Championship
-Top previously unqualified unqualified skater based on ASA rankings after Milwaukee contest
-Three wildcards

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ASA Biography

The Aggressive Skaters Association (ASA) is the international Governing Body of the fast-growing sport of aggressive inline skating. Besides administering the development of inline skating on a global basis, the ASA owns and manages the worldwide competitive professional circuit, called the ASA Pro Tour. More than 150 professional skaters from 22 countries compete throughout the year on the ASA Pro Tour for over $700,000 in prize money and points on the ASA's World Rankings.

The ASA sanctions and oversees all of the premier professional events in the sport, including the ASA Pro Tour, the World Inline Championships, the ESPN X Games, the MTV Sports & Music Festival, NBC's Gravity Games, the Asian X Games, the Brazilian X Games, the Goodwill Games and the Ultimate Inline Challenge. The ASA is also building a solid grassroots structure for the sport through the highly-successful ASA Amateur Circuit, which culminates in the ASA Amateur Championships and determines the next generation of ASA pros.

All of the ASA's professional events and many of its amateur contests are televised via one of the ASA's four network partners (ESPN, espn2, MTV, NBC) in the US. The entire ASA Pro Tour is broadcast by ESPN and espn2 in the form of more than 100 half-hour shows per year. In addition, ASA programming can be seen in 180 countries around the world, including throughout all of Europe on Eurosport (79 million hh) and throughout Asia on Star Sports.

The grassroots ASA Amateur Circuit includes Seventy-Five (75) local, regional and national events in twenty-one (21) countries. The top performers at local and regional events advance to National Finals based on their aggregate and single event results. From there, the best skaters at the National Finals move on to either the ASA North American Amateur Championships, the ASA European Amateur Championships or the ASA Austral-Asian Amateur Championships to determine who qualifies to skate on the ASA Pro Tour as a professional in 2001. ASA Amateur Circuits currently exist in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. In 1999, the ASA Amateur Circuit featured more than seven thousand (7,000) athletes from around the world competing for just thirty spots on the ASA Pro Tour.

The ASA also produces more than One Hundred (100) live vert skating demo events each year for corporate events, fairs, festivals, retail appearances, sports venues, sales functions, trade shows, new product launches, publicity tours, high schools, colleges, etc.

Inline skating is the fastest growing sport in the world and the most popular sport in the US amongst young males. As a result of the ASA, inline skating is the only "extreme" sport with one organized Governing Body, one cohesive professional tour and one global amateur circuit. It also has by far the largest audience base of any of the lifestyle sports.

Today, the ASA's membership base in the US alone is in the thousands, and the rate of inquiries for skating demos, sanctions, events, merchandise, licenses and participation is increasing exponentially as more and more businesses and individuals discover the ASA.

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