{"id":35990,"date":"2025-05-13T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/?p=35990"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:49:26","slug":"weekend-recap-blake-granger-clinches-arena-championship-series-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/weekend-recap-blake-granger-clinches-arena-championship-series-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap: Blake Granger Clinches Arena Championship Series East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section \n  id=\"main-custom-content-block\"\n  style=\"padding-top:px;padding-bottom:px;background-color:;color:;\"\n>\n  <div class=\"container container-c\">\n    <div class=\"split\" style=\"gap:px;\">\n                        <div class=\"side \">\n\n                                          <p>All three Arena Championship Series have now declared their season champion, with Blake Granger joining the list last weekend after a strong performance in Nampa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arena Championship Series East \u2013 Nampa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stars of Arena Championship Series East rolled into the Ford Idaho Center last weekend knowing that Blake Granger (Monster Mutt Dalmatian) was looking likely to clinch the title and, indeed, he did so following the first Freestyle event of the weekend on Friday night. However, there was still a lot of parity throughout the weekend, with MJ Solorio (El Toro Loco) and Brandan Tulachka (Just Get-Er-Done II) also picking up overall event championships, while Krysten Anderson (Grave Digger) and Tony Ochs (ThunderROARus) also picked up competition wins throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arena Series East Champion!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEQJ4sgFPGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/nampa-id-ford-idaho-center-may-9-11-2025\/\">Full event results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arena Championship Series West \u2013 Manchester <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weston Anderson (Grave Digger) has already been crowned champion of Arena Championship West, but he\u2019s not slowing down anytime soon. He won four of the nine competitions throughout the weekend and swept the three Overall Event Championships. Devin Winfield (Velociraptor), Brianna Mahon (Scooby-Doo), Ashley Sanford (Megalodon) and Coty Saucier (Dragon) also picked up competition wins, with just 21 points separating Devin, Coty and Brianna in the battle for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the season points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/manchester-nh-snhu-arena-may-10-11-2025\/\">Full event results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arena Championship Series Central \u2013 Moline <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a non-points event for six of the stars of Arena Championship Series Central, but series champion Jon Zimmer Jr. (Terminal Velocity) wasn\u2019t letting that slow him down, as he swept the two Overall Event Championships despite just winning JCB Racing on Saturday and Skills on Sunday. Matt Cody (Grave Digger) won Saturday skills and Sunday Freestyle, Jamie Sullivan (Sparkle Smash) won Saturday Freestyle and rookie Triton Robbins (Krazy Train) continues to impress with a JCB Racing win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/moline-il-vibrant-arena-may-10-11-2025\/\">Full event results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n                          \n          <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-weekend-recap"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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