The third stop of the 2013 Trans Jam BMX Contest Series was held in Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend. On Saturday, the contest debuted their first dirt competition, featuring 29 competitors at Lake Crabtree County Park dirt jumps. Then, on Sunday, the series produced a park, flatland, and street contest inside the JS Dorton Arena at the highly attended Got To Be NC Festival.

Trans Jam: Stop 3 saw 109 competitors, featured vendors, the

Monster Energy’s Vince Byron has taken the silver medal in a closely fought final in BMX Big Air at X Games Barcelona 2013. It’s the second medal of the weekend for the Australian, who earned the bronze on Friday night in BMX Vert. BMX Big Air, the last event of X Games Barcelona 2013, sees the top eight riders hitting the big air ramp’s massive gap and 27-foot quarter pipe. Each rider gets four runs with the top single runs determining the podium finishers.

The competition was thick tonight, with all the riders throwing down and earning solid scores to prove it—by the end of the night, the top six riders were all within four points of each other. After slamming on his first run, success came for Byron on his second run. After a crazy 360 double downside tailwhip over the gap, Byron pulled a no handed 540 on the quarter pipe—he was the only rider to pull a big 540 this evening. His score, a 90.00, proved enough for the silver.

"Two medals in one weekend—I’m stoked,” said Byron immediately

Zack Warden pulls it together in Big Air and wins gold in Barcelona. 92 points, a 2 point lead over Australian Vince Byron and Colton Satterfield.

Here are the full Big Air BMX results:

1 Zack Warden
2 Vince Byron
3 Colton Satterfield
4 Chad Kagy
5 Steve McCann
6 Morgan Wade
7 Andy Buckworth
8 Sebastian Keep

Results X-Games Street finals. BCN 2013.
1    Garrett Reynolds    83.00 R
2    Bruno Hoffmann    79.00 R
3    Stevie Churchill    78.00 R
4    Chad Kerley    67.00
5    Simone Barraco    55.00

The third day of action continued at X Games Barcelona, airing live on ESPN with the Women’s Skateboard Park, BMX Freestyle Park and Street League Skateboarding competitions. X Games Barcelona 2013 continues through Sunday, May 19 on ESPN and ESPN2.
BMX Freestyle Park Final
Gary Young became only the seventh person to ever take home a gold medal in X Games BMX Freestyle Park history after a stellar run that included a smooth 360 whip over the volcano feature to score 75.00 and propel him into first place.

“I’ve been so close a few times and it feels unreal, I’m pumped,”

Monster Energy congratulates team rider Scotty Cranmer on his bronze today in BMX Freestyle Park at X Games Barcelona 2013. It’s the seventh career X Games medal for the 26 year old from New Jersey. Today’s BMX Park final event saw the top riders battling through their heats with the top six riders advancing to the final, which was set up as an 18-minute jam-style format. The top two runs for each rider counted towards their final score.

“I had to battle not only other competitors, but also the elements – it started to rain just as I started one of my runs and huge gusts of wind kept me from doing my big tricks,” said Cranmer. “It was an honor to share the podium with those guys who I’ve looked up to, and I’m happy to bring a medal home for Monster Energy.”

After he progressed strong through his heat, Cranmer went to work in the final. After sketching out on his first run he improved consistently from there, needing strong runs near the end to lock down a podium spot. His top runs were full of smooth and

BMX Park was on the program today in Barcelona at the X-Games. It was all about Gary Young. The Dirtbrother finally grabbed the gold that he'd been hunting for so long. Ryan Nyquist once again grabbed a medal (silver) with last year's LA X-Games gold medalist Scotty Cranmer in third.

BMX PARK X-Games BCN results:
1     Gary Young     R38.00    37.00    37.00    13.00    -   75.00
2     Ryan Nyquist     R37.00    36.00    35.00    34.00    -   73.00

X Games Barcelona continued for its second day of competition live on ESPN with the BMX Freestyle Vert, Moto X Speed & Style, and Skateboard Big Air competitions. The sun was in full force throughout the day, increasing the attendance count to 22,800 fans. X Games Barcelona 2013 continues through Sunday, May 19 on ESPN and ESPN2. BMX Freestyle Vert Final It was a battle of a mere points in the BMX Freestyle Vert final that allowed Jamie Bestwick to edge Simon Tabron out and defend his spot as eight-time X Games BMX Vert

Today the vert finals took place in Barcelona at the X-Games. On top, as usual, was Jamie Bestwick, but the other Brit in second was on his heels. Aussie Vince Byron grabbed the bronze medal (or better, the third place check).

Vert Results Barcelona 2013.

1. Jamie Bestwick - Gold  91.00
2. Simon Tabron - Silver 91.00
3. Vince Byron - Bronze 90.33
4. Chad Kagy 90.33
5. Coco Zurita 88.66
6. Steve McCann 88.66
7. Dennis McCoy 88.00
8. Austin Coleman 85.00
9. Mykel Larrin 83.66
10. Zack Warden 82.33

The Monster Army Recon Tour presented by Replay XD made its fourth stop at The Incline Club in Lakewood, NJ. Scotty Cranmer's home park is amazing and definitely lived up to the hype! The event went off with 90 competitors and some of the best riding so far on the tour. Team Hyper stepped up to the plate with multiple riders gaining podium spots in various divisions. The battle for the top spot and the all expense paid trip to the Play AM finals at Mike Spinner's house in the Play Open division was intense to say the least. 

Results - BMX - PARK : Pro : Final
1.    MARTIN Logan    19    Brisbane    93.33 pts
2.    SANDOVAL Daniel    18     .    92.33 pts
3.    PERAZA Kevin    18   Tucson, Arizona    91.33 pts
4.    CHARVERON Maxime    22   Brignais    89.67 pts
5.    MEYN Todd    21  Perth    88.00 pts
6.    TAYLOR Ryan    20    Walsall    87.67 pts
7.    BROOKS Declan    16    Portsmouth    87.33 pts
8.    COURTENAY Chris    22    Gold Coast    87.00 pts
9.    BARBERO Allessandro    30   Ceva    86.33 pts
10.    CUESON Dean    21   Birmingham    85.00 pts
11.    WALLWORK Jake    18   Melbourne    84.00 pts
12.    PEYTAVIT Jean-Baptiste    26   Nice    83.33 pts
13.    PERKINS Leon    25    Liverpool    82.33 pts
14.    JUSTICE Tom    24    Grantham    80.33 pts
15.    ANAYA Aj    24    Santa Ana Ca    79.67 pts
16.    SELSJORD Ola    19   Oslo    79.33 pts
17.    MCGUIRK Anthony    21    Liverpool    79.00 pts
18.    PERRY Josh    24    Greenville    78.00 pts

The RedBull Circle Of Balance system was used for the pro flatland finals at the FISE. The crowd was huge and after a couple of elimination rounds, Alex Jumelin, Matthias Dandois and Viki Gomez made it to the last group of three riders in the finals. Viki Gomez was consistent and brought hard new moves. Lots of them on the backwheel. The judges gave it to him. Crowd favourite Matthias Dandois got 2nd and homie Alex Jumelin got third place.

Pro flatland results FISE 2013. Finals.
1.    GOMEZ Viki    32    Madrid    95.00 pts
2.    DANDOIS Matthias    24    Paris    90.00 pts
3.    JUMELIN Alexandre    35   Paris    87.00 pts
4.    BOULIANNE Jean François    28    Montreal    70.00 pts
-    PHILLIPS Keelan        Leicester    70.00 pts
-    PRÉVOST Jean William    26  Kirkland    70.00 pts
7.    DESCHENAUX Thomas    26   Annecy    50.00 pts
-    DODELIER Romain    27  Lyon    50.00 pts

The Park qualifications were going off at the FISE. Here are the results. Do yourself a favour and watch the finals live here later today on FATBMX.

Results - BMX - PARK : Pro : Qualification. Finals tonight Sunday 12 May. Live on FATBMX at 18:00hr CET. Flat at 14:00hr CET.

1.    PERAZA Kevin    18 ans    Tucson, Arizona    94.00 pts   
2.    SANDOVAL Daniel    18 ans    .    92.00 pts   
3.    MARTIN Logan    19 ans    Brisbane    90.33 pts  
4.    BARBERO Allessandro    30 ans    Ceva    89.00 pts  
5.    PEYTAVIT Jean-Baptiste    26 ans    Nice    84.67 pts  
-    BROOKS Declan    16 ans    Portsmouth    84.67 pts  
7.    CHARVERON Maxime    22 ans    Brignais    83.67 pts  
8.    WALLWORK Jake    18 ans    Melbourne    83.33 pts  
9.    PERKINS Leon    25 ans    Liverpool    83.00 pts    Qualifié
-    CUESON Dean    21 ans    Birmingham    83.00 pts   
11.    COURTENAY Chris    22 ans    Gold Coast    81.67 pts  
12.    CAILLET Istvan    20 ans    Saint Fay De Peyrolieres    81.00 pts  
13.    ANAYA Aj    24 ans    Santa Ana Ca    80.33 pts

The FISE has got the best crowds. Also the bank filled up during Pro Flatland qualifiers. With a clear view on the erased platform, the people got to see the riders do their thing. Especially the last group of riders layed down a show that had people stand up and give them a standing ovation. Of course this fired up the riders as well to try their hardest tricks. A strong field of flatland pros made it to Montpellier. This is how they ended up in the Pro qualifiers on Friday. Watch the finals live on FATBMX.com.

On Thursday evening the Spine Mini contest at the FISE was called off after a few riders rode because the ramp became too slippery to continue. It was decided that on Friday evening, a straight final would be held, hoping the ramp wouldn't get as moist. 25 riders lined up for a battle in front of what must have been a record crowd for a miniramp contest ever. Each rider got two runs each to show their miniramp skills plus three attempts to pull the "last trick" that they had in mind. It was fair and the same for everyone on the ramp. From the start the riders didn't hold back. The crowd was alive and kicking and the riders got pumped. Dean Cueson (UK) and Chris Courtenay (AUS) went super high where others added extra barspins to their tricks (quadruple barspin over the spine for instance) or stuck a leg over the toptube to do a cancan 720 over the spine (Todd Meyn). But the winner in the end was Daniel Sandoval (USA), followed by Logan Martin (AUS) and Kevin Peraza (USA). Each of them was ripping in their own ways. Can't wait what the Park contest is going to bring.