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the park has changed locations and it's bigger with each incarnation. This was inevitable considering that the park is the heart of the website's content. To keep content new while just still being in a single park, they had to open it up to a larger number of skaters. People who hang out at the park are still producing most of the content, it's just a different crew than the earlier days. That's to be expected.
Is it though? Mikey Taylor has always been there all the time. I feel like it's expanded as new skaters show up but they all have the same feel so it's felt basically the same. But I've also stopped going to the Berrics except for BATB and if someone posts a video for someone I care about that was there.
Seems most of the earlier years a lot of the guys hanging out there were Crailtap dudes, the early BATB mostly had Girl and Chocolate guys. Seems almost all those guys have been chilling at Biebel's park for the last while. Some other guys who you used to always see there haven't done anything there in ages, such as Cory Kennedy (has he been there since he showed up drunk to the Billy Marks game?).
As for the battles. The Malto thing was way overproduced and cheesy. I doubt either them actually went on that long a run without a bail, just by watching Malto's other games. Louie Lopez is sick. Moose skates way too slow compared to most of the others.
As for the Crowds, I actually think its a bit stupid for the finals, and actually fucks with the guys who skate fast as it limits their space.