How Is Street Skateboarding Scored?
Street skateboarding takes place on a flatter course, with ramps, stairs, rails, and curved sides along two boundaries of the arena. According to the official skateboarding Olympic page, the street event will consist of two rounds: preliminaries and finals.
In the preliminaries, 20 skaters will compete in four heats of five skaters each. For each round, each skater will perform two runs (lasting 45 seconds each), featuring five tricks. A panel of five judges will score each run or trick on a 10-point scale, ranging from 0 to 10 with one decimal point. The highest and lowest scores for each element are discarded, and the other three are averaged. From there, the four highest of these averaged scores are added together to make up a final score.
The top eight skaters overall will move on to the finals, where they'll be scored the same way in order to determine the gold, silver, and bronze medalists.