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The final contest at the Bay 198 Skatepark in Lincoln, Nebraska was the 2012 Cornhusker State Games comp.

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By Alyssa Roenigk | XGames.com
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Mike Smith woke up Tuesday morning and told his friends he was going to win $10,000 in a couple of hours. “I said, ‘I’m only going to make two puts today,’” Smith says. “But they’re going to be the two that count.”

Smith had flown into Los Angeles from his home in Lincoln, Neb., to play in the Fifth Annual Ryan Sheckler Celebrity Golf Tournament at Trump National Golf Club, the first tournament he’d ever been invited to play in, and he woke up feeling confident. “He’d only played golf one time before today,” says Sheckler, who invited Smith to play in his tournament after visiting him in Lincoln in March to lend his support, and his name, to Skate for Change, an organization Smith founded last summer to encourage skateboarders to “give back to the low-income and homeless in our community.”

When Smith heard about the $10,000 putting contest preceding the afternoon scramble, he knew that money could go a long way toward feeding the homeless of Lincoln.

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The official Skate for Change launch happened March 3rd. Hundreds of people showed up to get Ryan Sheckler and Joey Brezinski’s autographs and watch them hit up Bay 198.

Mike Smith and the Skate for Change locals also hit the streets with the pros to show them what SfC is all about.

Brezinski put this vid together of his experience:

Photos courtesy Steve Andel

A Skate for Change contest was held at Bay 198 Skatepark on December 31, 2011 to raise money for a family in need. Over $200 was raised and some sick skating went down in the process.

Intermediate Results
1st – Espen Avenson
2nd – Justin Wahl
3rd – Dillon Lemere

Advanced Results
1st – Mason Elsasser
2nd – Cyle
3rd – Gus Tanaka

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