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Fingerboard World Championship

Fast Fingers 2018: Research Stub

No champion for 2018 appears in the official Fast Fingers winner list — a draft entry pending verification.

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Research status

Champion details are held until official, trophy, or primary sources agree.

As with 2017, the official winner list does not surface a 2018 champion. This is a research stub pending confirmation of whether a main edition was held.

Part of the Fast Fingers Archive

This is one year in the Fast Fingers Archive — fingerboarding’s longest-running world championship, year by year.
Year
2018
Edition
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Format
Live event
Location
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The contest

What happened

No 2018 champion is visible in the official Fast Fingers winner list, and the trophy plaque is blank for this year (per a community history retrospective). The status and format of any 2018 edition is not established here.1, 2, 3

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Setup-era context

For the wider gear story of this period, read The Pro-Setup Era: Precision Hardware Becomes the Standard from the “Through the Years” series.

Still being verified

  • No 2018 champion is listed officially and the trophy plaque is blank for this year. Research targets: official archives, Blackriver news posts, Flickr albums, YouTube uploads, local press, flyers, and community recaps.

References

Numbered references to the brand, retailer, and community pages that back this article. The label notes how firmly each source is established.

  1. 1.Fast Fingers — History & World Champions— Fast FingersOfficial↩

    Official event history with the year-by-year world-champion list (2008 onward). Frames the contest as becoming the official Fingerboard World Championship in 2008.

  2. 2.Fast Fingers — Media archive— Fast FingersOfficial↩

    Official media archive linking photo/video sets for older editions (reference-only imagery).

  3. 3.History of the Fast Fingers Fingerboarding Championship (YouTube)— YouTube (cdplaya)Community↩

    2022 community retrospective walking the full edition history. Used cross-checked against the engraved event trophy plaques as a secondary source for the early-year (pre-2008) champion names and the online-edition winners; treated as community evidence, not an official results page.

Independence & sources

Kingpin is an independent fingerboard marketplace and is not affiliated with Fast Fingers, Blackriver, ASI Berlin, or the brands, riders, shops, events, or publishers referenced.