Gorge Games Freestyle
The Gorge Games Freestyle is on call for all 4 days of the Gorge Games and is open to any freestyle artist. This event will be held at the Event Site in Hood River. There will be classes for Jr., Men, Women and Men Masters. There will be an announcement on the radio, web site and a phone number to call with information on the start, and day of the contest. There will be a mandatory Skippers Meeting; the time will be announced with the aforementioned information. Pre-registration is required so we can pre-seed our starting brackets. There will be a maximum 32 spots for each class, so please sign up early!

Gorge Games Super Cross
The Super Cross is on call for all 4 days of the Gorge Games and is open to all racers. This event will be held at the Event Site in Hood River. There will be 3 Divisions: Open Slalom, Sport, limited to recreation equipment and Wave, limited to wave equipment. Each Division will be broken down in the following Classes:

- Jr. 18 and under
- Men’s and Women’s 19 to 34
- Masters 35 to 44
- Grand Masters 45 and over

Prize money and or prizes will be awarded in each Division There will be an announcement on the radio, web site and a phone number to call with information on the start, and day of the race. There will be a mandatory Skippers Meeting where the sailors will learn which class they will race in and at what time the race will start and how many laps each class will have to do.

Race Course
The race course will be the “Gorge Slalom“. On the first leg and second leg sailors will jibe the first and second buoys and on the third leg all sailors will be required to jump the tube and perform a duck jibe while rounding the third buoy. The forth leg of this race consists of a clearing buoy you must keep to port and then becomes a “free leg” (meaning you will not have to go around a buoy) but you must be able to go back up wind, make a determination on a lay line, a point at which you will be able to make the mandatory tack and make it back through the starting line to either finish (for the younger kids) or go around again for lap 2.

Equipment Tip
Because there is an upwind leg fin choice will be very important. A small fin may be faster on the downwind legs of this race but a bigger fin will power you upwind better and the upwind “free leg” is crucial to winning this event.

Contestants will be scored by a 3 judge panel on overall impression and the 2 top scores from each bracket will move on. We will start with 6 minute heats then move it to 8 minute heats for the semi-final and final.

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All participants will receive a Gorge Games technical tee shirt, athlete’s appreciation bag, athlete’s pass to Adventure Village , Athletes Village , all Gorge Games sporting venues and all Community events. Not to mention an experience you’ll always remember!