Red Bull Street Style 2020
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Final
Sat, 14 November 2020
After more than a decade of World Finals in front of crowds on five continents, Red Bull Street Style 2020 takes the official World Championship of freestyle football entirely online.
Freestyle football is the mind-blowing art of performing tricks with a football, and Red Bull Street Style is the sport’s premier event. The current global situation has seen freestyle soar even higher in popularity, because it can be done individually anywhere, anytime. All you need is a ball.
The format has five stages. The first started when the entry window opened at on May 18 2020. At www.redbullstreetstyle.com, everybody from across the globe was invited to submit a video with a 30-second set showing their all-round skills. Of the hundreds that entered, talents came from 93 nations, including several countries that had never taken part previously – like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Madagascar, Sudan and more. And of course icons were in the mix. Like Japan’s Yosuke Yokota, whose showdown with winner Séan Garnier of France in the inaugural 2008 final is the stuff of legend. Speaking of winners, no fewer than five former Red Bull Street Style World Champions – including Séan – submitted videos, hungry for battle. That doesn’t even include Ricardo 'Ricardinho' Chahini de Araújo (Brazil) and Mélody Donchet (France), the reigning titleholders who have an automatic berth in a later stage of the tournament.
Only the best advanced. 201 men and 64 women will feature in the next round, starting on July 20. Because Red Bull Street Style looks for the world’s best freestyle football player overall, each stage of the tournament has a different focus. (Musicality is a big factor for Stage 2.) Subsequent stages will serve up specific challenges related to trick execution, and creativity. With each, the field is whittled further, while the global exposure, including live performances, grows higher.
Finally, 16 men and 8 women will face off in Stage 5, the battle of the online World Final, streamed live worldwide. Among them are anticipated to be the defending World Champions, who get an automatic berth in Stage 4: Reigning freestyle queen Mélody Donchet of France is the only person, woman or man, to have captured three Red Bull Street Style titles. Ricardo 'Ricardinho' Fabiano Chahini de Araújo is the first Brazilian to hold the men’s crown.