The Judging Criteria

RBSS 2012 Lecce, Italy

Developed with the community and pioneering athletes at every stage, the official judging criteria for Freestyle Football battles has been developed over the past 6 years, to give a more measured decision making process to competitions. There is (and always will be with any street sport) an element of subjectivity which creeps in to judging panels. This is what keeps every event fresh and unique — the caliber and experience of the judging panel.

The current rules of competition have evolved thanks to a LOT of tireless work from many leading figures in the Freestyle Football community including Lucaso, Erlend and Brynjar Fagerli, PWG, Tobias Becs, Pekko Piirto and many more.

There are five factors that are analysed in competitions as described below:

1. Originality (Performing with individual style, creativity and variety) — Original style — original composition of tricks, unique execution of moves — Original moves — new, unusual, unexpected tricks — Variety in general — ability to not repeat tricks or always tricks of the same kind in competition and over competitions — Variety within battle — ability to not repeat tricks within the battle
2. Difficulty (Technical difficulty of the tricks and combinations, as well as response) — Overall performance — how difficult his full performance generally is — Response in moves– a clear response to your opponent’s tricks, style or concepts
3. All-round (general ability to perform all parts of sport the best way possible) — The sum of the general level in Uppers, Lowers, Sitdowns, Transitions, Acrobatics and Ground moves
4. Control (the way the whole performance with ball is controlled) — Control — general control of the ball on stage — Mistakes — dropping the ball or creating mistake
5. Execution (the style with which tricks are executed) — Cleanness — clean execution of tricks — Flow — ability to move the ball around body without hesitation — Style — how good looking the tricks are being performed — Dynamics — strength and speed of movements — Musicality — hitting the beat or clearly following the music — Battle attitude — showing your confidence and/or attitude. Attitude is about creating battle vibe and adding value to performance, done with respect

All aspects are constantly reviewed within the community and updates can be made at any time in the future if necessary.