We’ll be posting up the daily results of the X Games skateboarding events here at this one news page:

Via press Release: June 30, 2012

X Games Los Angeles 2012: Skateboard Vert Final Results
Final standings from the Skateboard Vert competition held at The Nokia Theater L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 30, 2012.
 

 
*In the event of a tie, the tie breaker averages the five judge’s scores from the best run breaks the tie.           
 
The Skateboard Vert Heats were held immediately before Final competition. The winner from each heat and the next four highest scores from either heat not already qualified advance to the Final.
 
Heat 1

 
Heat 2

 
Heat 3

 
Heat 4

June 30, 2012  X Games Los Angeles 2012: Skateboard Park Final Results
Final results from the Skateboard Park competition held at The Event Deck at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 30, 2012.
 

 
The Skateboard Park Heats were held immediately before Final competition. The winner from each heat and the next two highest scores from either heat not already qualified advance to the Final.
 
Heat 1

 
Heat 2

 
Heat 3

 
Heat 4

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ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will televise 21 hours of LIVE high-definition programming, while ESPN3 will provide three additional hours of content. ESPN 3D will televise all 21 hours of X Games over the four-day event.

Via press Release: June 29, 2012 

X Games Los Angeles 2012: Skateboard Big Air Final Results
Final standings from the Skateboard Big Air competition held on Chick Hearn Court in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 29, 2012.
 

Skateboard Big Air Final Results

RANK     NAME         BEST 1         BEST 2         BEST 3         BEST 4     BEST 5     BEST SCORE
1     Bob Burnquist     94.33          20.00          20.00          11.66     11.66     94.33
2     Mitchie Brusco     93.00          92.33         86.66          11.66     10.00     93.00
3     Nolan Munroe     91.00          20.00         20.00         20.00     20.00     91.00
4     Jake Brown     90.00          90.00         20.00         20.00     18.33     90.00
5     Rony Gomes     90.00          86.66          10.00         8.33     8.33     90.00
6     Tom Schaar     89.33          89.33          88.33         8.33     8.33     89.33

 Skateboard Street – Women

RANK     NAME             BEST 1         BEST 2         BEST 3         BEST 4         BEST SCORE
1     Alexis Sablone         85.66      72.66      49.00      22.00         85.7
2     Leticia Bufoni           81.00      77.33      66.66      60.66         81.0
3     Rachel Reinhard     80.33     67.33      34.33      24.00      80.3
4     Marisa Dal Santo     76.66      64.66      60.33      40.66      76.7
5     Lacey Baker               68.33         59.00      55.66      21.00      68.3
6     Elissa Steamer         62.00         60.33     46.66      13.33      62.0

All Times are PST
Thursday, June 28th:
12:00 p.m.     Park and Street Practice (BMX and Skate)     Event Deck at L.A. Live
1:00 p.m.     Big Air Practice (BMX and Skate)     Chick Hearn
6:00 p.m.     Skateboard Big Air Elimination     Chick Hearn

Friday, June 29th:
10:00 a.m.     Skateboard Hometown Heroes Final     Event Deck at L.A. LIVE
1:00 p.m.     Women’s Skateboard Street Final     Event Deck at L.A. LIVE
6:00 p.m.     Skateboard Big Air Final     Chick Hearn

Saturday, June 30:
12:30 p.m.     Game of SK8     Event Deck at L.A. Live
2:00 p.m.     Skateboard Park Final     Event Deck at L.A. Live
7:30 p.m.     Skateboard Vert Final     Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE

Sunday, July 1:
12:15 p.m.     Skateboard Street Heats     Event Deck at L.A. Live
3:00 p.m.     Skateboard Street Final     Event Deck at L.A. Live

X Games Expands to Brazil, Germany and Spain

Three New Cities Join L.A., Aspen and Tignes to Host X Games Beginning in 2013

 ESPN, the leading action sports content provider, and creator of the X Games, will bring the X Games to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil; Munich, Germany and Barcelona, Spain beginning in 2013. Those cities will join Aspen, Colo.; Los Angeles, Calif. and Tignes, France to host the X Games in an effort to expand globally. With relevance to contemporary youth around the world, this expansion is a transformation from an action sports competition brand into an action sports lifestyle brand that will highlight new locations and enhanced cultural and digital elements around the world.
 
ESPN conducted a formal bid process starting last May which resulted in significant interest from locations around the world that bid to host one of three new events (which join Los Angeles, Aspen and Tignes).  Beginning today, local organizing committees for Foz do Iguaçu (pronounced Fawz Day Ig wah soo), Munich and Barcelona will collaborate with ESPN for the next three years to bring the premier action sports event to their cities, launching an annual, six-event X Games calendar  – four of which will be summer events and two winter.
 “ESPN has been committed to the X Games franchise for nearly two decades and is incredibly excited for the future and this new endeavor,” said John Skipper, president, ESPN and Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks. “We are bringing significant focus to this expansion because we believe in the universal appeal of these sports and competitors and want to share the X Games experience with fans around the world.”
 Motorsports icon Travis Pastrana, who has 17 X Games medals to his name, supports ESPN’s decision to expand the X Games globally. "ESPN is giving athletes the opportunity to really chase their dreams, and the X Games are the most important and biggest events ever created for our sports,” said Pastrana. “The concept of bringing them to different places around the world is awesome, and I’m excited to see what it will do for action sports.”  
 Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
Action sports is an integral part to the lifestyle in Foz do Iguaçu, especially those linked to nature and water, and action sports participation is growing every year. As one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the city of Foz do Iguaçu, a UNESCO world heritage site since 1986 and center for environmental thought and dialogue, uniquely offers the integration of the event with nature and the concept of environmental sustainability as a true pillar. Located on the borders of Argentina and Paraguay, X Games events will be held at the Iguaçu Falls, the Itaipu Dam and the Foz Do Iguacu Convention Center.

Munich, Germany
The cosmopolitan city of Munich offers a perfect backdrop as numerous sports festivals and top-quality, major international competitions in both professional and recreational sports have been staged within and around the Bavarian capital. The sporting infrastructure already exists and will be used sustainably: The Munich Olympic Park will provide a unique area in the middle of the city with all sports venues for the X Games contained within the park.
 
Barcelona, Spain
The resounding success of organizing the 1992 Olympic Games contributed decisively to projecting Barcelona’s sports image abroad. The organization of the Olympics improved and endowed the city with a whole series of first-class infrastructures that have since been used to host major sporting events. All X Games activities will be consolidated in Montjuïc Park’s Olympic Ring area, a unique space that combines different top-level sporting facilities with spectacular views over the city.
 

Log on to www.xgames.com to view or download video in the following languages: English, Spanish, Catalan Spanish, German and French.
 
X Games 2013 Schedule:
 
Aspen, Colo., USA:                   January 24-27
Tignes, France:                         March 20-22
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil:                April 18-21
Barcelona, Spain:                      May 9-12
Munich, Germany:                     June 27-30
Los Angeles, Calif., USA:          August 1-4 
 
X Games Global Expansion
The X Games events will spotlight the world’s best action sports athletes in BMX, Skateboard, Moto X, and Rally Car Racing at the X Games; and Skiing, Snowboard and Snowmobile at the winter version of the X Games against the backdrop of the host city and country.  Each X Games event will take on its own distinguishing character that will set it apart from the others, including the introduction of new sports and cultural elements that are drawn from the host cities themselves.  In the past the X Games has successfully organized smaller action sports events, qualifiers and demonstrations in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Philippines and UAE. 
 

 
For cities interested in hosting future X Games or Winter X Games, log on to www.bidxgames.com.
 
For media information, including press releases, logos and additional images from past events, log on to www.espneventmedia.com.
 
For general information, log on to www.xgames.com. Follow the X Games on Twitter at twitter.com/xgames.  
 
Contact:          
 
Katie Moses Swope, ESPN Communications, 303-290-7888; Katie.moses-swope@espn.com
 
Rob Tobias, ESPN Communications, 860-766-2240; rob.tobias@espn.com 
 

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According to ESPN, and they should know, Womens Vert has been cancelled.

"We look for sports that have a solid year-round infrastructure, a growing participant base, an established annual competition schedule, rising youth talent pools, ample access to courses, low barriers of entry into the sport and myriad other factors," a statement from ESPN X Games read. "After thoughtful discussions and evaluation of many of those factors, we have decided to discontinue the women’s skateboard vert competition from X Games 17."

Read the full story here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/action/skateboarding/news/story?id=6595750

The X Games will expand to six action sports competitions annually beginning in 2013.

Called Global X, the initiative will combine three new international events with the X Games in Los Angeles and Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., and Tignes, France. The sites of the three new events will be determined by a competitive bidding process beginning in 2012.

Although the X Games has experimented with global events before, the new plan calls for competitions equal in size and scope to the current flagships in Aspen and L.A., according to Scott Guglielmino, senior vice president of programming and Global X for ESPN.

"The six events we’re talking about, it won’t deviate from the core in terms of progression, top athletes, and pulling out the biggest tricks," Guglielmino said. "What we are going to do specifically is build around and embellish the cultural elements." Each event may feature subtle differences, from scoring to sports. And the festival environment surrounding the competition will be tailored to reflect the culture and fashion of that particular region.

"Action sports as a category of sport travels very well around the world," Guglielmino said. "There aren’t many sports that travel well. Soccer certainly travels well. Baseball certainly travels well in certain areas around the world. Action sports travels very well."

All six events will be treated equally from a competition, content, programming and marketing standpoint, he said. In fact, ESPN has committed to distribute 130 hours of live programming internationally around the six events.

"The idea here is to make sure each of these events lives up to the X Games brand from all of those aspects," Guglielmino said.

Unlike the Dew Tour, a competitive winter and summer action sports series operated by NBC, the new Global X events will stand alone.

"What we’re going for here is a series of majors," Guglielmino said, likening the structure to those found in tennis and golf, "events that are under the X Games brand that are from a competitive perspective the most significant action sports events on the planet."

A press conference to announce the plan is scheduled for Tuesday, but a few athletes were aware of the news last week. Pro skateboarder and X Games legend Tony Hawk has been an integral part of the X Games since its inception.

"It has been incredible to see the X Games grow from its relatively underground inception in 1995 to a thriving global competition circuit today," Hawk said. "Our sports have benefited greatly from the positive exposure over the years, and I am proud to have watched it all evolve since the beginning."

Sandro Dias, 36, a vert skater from Brazil who has won six X Games medals, said the number of skateboarding competitions worldwide has been cut by half in the past few years as a result of the worldwide economic downturn. Meanwhile, he said he’s watched action sports surging in popularity. "I’ve been doing this for 25 years and everything is growing so fast," he said.

Sarah Burke, who has won four gold medals in Ski SuperPipe at Winter X, noted how the competition schedule for free-skiing had already grown increasingly crowded now that Halfpipe will be added to the Olympics at the 2014 Games in Sochi. "I didn’t compete in Dew Tour last year and it felt like a lot," she said. "In 2013, when this comes into play, it will be a hard year with a lot of events."

Still, Burke said that in the event of scheduling conflicts, Winter X Games would prevail. "It’s the prestige of X Games," she said. "It’s every kid’s dream and goal. It’s my dream and goal."

First held in 1995 in Rhode Island, the X Games is now in its 17th year (X Games 17 returns to Los Angeles from July 28-31). This year two events were held outside the United States — Winter X Games Europe in Tignes, France, and X Games Asia in Shanghai, China. In past years, competitions have been held in 14 countries including Brazil, Mexico and Malaysia.

Beginning in January 2012, ESPN will conduct a formal bid process to determine the X Games host cities. Final cities will be selected next year for a three-year agreement and will work with ESPN to stage the event.

"Back in 1995 when we got started it was more of a fringe element to action sports when it came to the sporting and cultural landscape," Guglielmino said. "Clearly action sports has moved far more mainstream as a category of sport. For us this is the next logical step."