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Monster Jam World Finals VI (also written as Monster Jam World Finals 6) was the sixth annual Monster Jam World Finals, held on March 19th, 2005 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. Contrary to the previous World Finals, this event featured a twenty-truck lineup, and was broadcasted on the Speed Channel sometime after the day of the event. Defending freestyle champion Madusa would earn her second world championship in racing, defeating defending racing champion Dennis Anderson in Grave Digger. Similar to the previous World Finals, the freestyle competition featured another tie, this time between Tony Farrell in Blue Thunder and Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter. However, the championship was ultimately decided via a tiebreaker, with Creten ultimately winning his first world championship.

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Lineup[]

(Note: * indicates a truck/driver's first World Finals appearance).

(Note: ** indicates a truck/driver's only World Finals appearance).

(Note: *** indicates a truck/driver's last World Finals appearance).

  1. Brutus* - Chris Bergeron*
  2. Scarlet Bandit* - Dawn Creten*
  3. Black Stallion - Michael Vaters
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    An Escalade flipping in Thunder Alley during practice.

  4. Pastrana 199* - Paul Cohen
  5. Destroyer - Dan Evans
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    Blue Thunder flipping during qualifying.

  6. King Krunch - David Smith
  7. Avenger - Jim Koehler
  8. An Escalade* - George Balhan*
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    Maximum Destruction flipping in practice.

  9. Monster Mutt - Bobby Zee***
  10. Power Forward*** - Frank Krmel*
  11. Gunslinger - Scott Hartsock
  12. Hot Wheels - Phil Foster**
  13. El Toro Loco - Lupe Soza
  14. Superman* - Chad Fortune
  15. Blacksmith - Pablo Huffaker
  16. Blue Thunder - Tony Farrell
  17. Madusa - Debra 'Madusa' Miceli
  18. Bounty Hunter - Jimmy Creten
  19. Maximum Destruction - Tom Meents
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    Avenger nose-diving during qualifying.

  20. Grave Digger - Dennis Anderson

Track layout[]

The track included a box van jump in the center on top of a dirt pad, a bus stack and 30 foot trailer on the left, and a garbage truck stack and fountain jump on the right.

Special Paint Schemes[]

For the second year in a row, Avenger featured a special paint scheme for the World Finals. The scheme this year featured a dual-sided design, with the right side featuring the previous orange paint scheme from the World Finals the previous year, and the left side featuring the standard forest green scheme.

Black Stallion utilized special yellow tires for the event. During the pit party, fans could sign their autographs inside handprints that were traced on both the body and tires. Meanwhile, Destroyer would feature a special yellow paint scheme.

Two out of four defending champions from the previous World Finals featured special decals commemorating their championships, being Grave Digger (Racing), and El Toro Loco (Freestyle). Another defending champion, Maximum Destruction, featured a special decal on the name panel section of the truck, bearing "Derik Trenholm" instead of "Tom Meents" on the right side of the truck, as well as the phrase "In memory of" next to his name.

World Finals VI marked the first event in which Monster Mutt would utilize its trademark tail, which has remained on the truck ever since.

Meanwhile, special designs featured exclusively in the pit party included a second Gunslinger, which featured a Chevrolet Silverado body style, as well as a new paint scheme for The Patriot.

Results[]

Qualifying times[]

  1. Bounty Hunter - 16.58
  2. Madusa - 17.22
  3. Gunslinger - 17.49
  4. An Escalade - 17.78
  5. Grave Digger - 17.79
  6. Superman - 17.90
  7. Blacksmith - 18.06
  8. Avenger - 18.18
  9. Monster Mutt - 18.18
  10. Power Forward - 18.19
  11. Blue Thunder - 18.28
  12. King Krunch - 18.50
  13. Scarlet Bandit - 18.97
  14. The Destroyer - 19.56
  15. El Toro Loco - 23.47
  16. Black Stallion - 27.60
  17. Maximum Destruction - 29.22
  18. Hot Wheels- 29.66
  19. Pastrana 199 - DNF
  20. Brutus - DNQ

Racing[]

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Round one[]

Brutus vs. Pastrana 199 (wins, but loses a wheel and cannot return)

An Escalade vs. Avenger

Scarlet Bandit vs. King Krunch

The Destroyer vs. Black Stallion

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Round two[]

Bounty Hunter vs. Brutus

Power Forward vs. Blue Thunder

Grave Digger vs. An Escalade

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Black Smith vs. Maximum Destruction

Gunslinger (blown engine) vs. King Krunch

Superman vs. Hot Wheels (wins, but breaks and cannot return)

Monster Mutt vs. El Toro Loco

Madusa vs. The Destroyer

Round three[]

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Bounty Hunter vs. Blue Thunder

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Grave Digger vs. Black Smith

King Krunch vs. Hot Wheels (bye-run)

El Toro Loco vs. Madusa

Semi-finals[]

Bounty Hunter (wins, but got a 5 second penalty for hitting a turning pole) vs. Grave Digger

King Krunch vs. Madusa

Championship race[]

Grave Digger vs. Madusa

Freestyle order[]

  1. Brutus
  2. Pastrana 199
  3. King Krunch
  4. Power Forward
  5. Scarlet Bandit
  6. Black Stallion
  7. The Destroyer
  8. Superman
  9. An Escalade
  10. Bounty Hunter
  11. Blacksmith
  12. Monster Mutt
  13. Blue Thunder
  14. Hot Wheels
  15. Grave Digger
  16. Avenger
  17. El Toro Loco
  18. Madusa
  19. Maximum Destruction

Freestyle scores[]

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  1. Bounty Hunter- 31 [Tiebreaker score: 46]
  2. Blue Thunder- 31 [Tiebreaker score: 45]
  3. King Krunch- 27
  4. Black Stallion- 27
  5. The Destroyer- 26
  6. Scarlet Bandit- 25
  7. An Escalade- 25
  8. Avenger- 25
  9. Superman- 24
  10. Monster Mutt- 24
  11. Power Forward- 23
  12. Grave Digger- 23
  13. Maximum Destruction- 22
  14. Brutus- 20
  15. Pastrana 199- 20
  16. Hot Wheels- 20
  17. Black Smith- 18
  18. Madusa- 13
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  19. El Toro Loco- 8
  20. Gunslinger- DNF
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Encore[]

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This encore would feature Dennis Anderson and Tom Meents performing a tandem freestyle performance. Anderson drove Grave Digger XVI and Meents drove both Maximum Destruction trucks. Partway into the encore, Meents rolled while performing a donut and he kept driving the truck while it was upside down until he collided with Grave Digger XIX, which was stuck in the semi-trailer jump. Anderson continued on while Meents went to drive the other Maximum Destruction and returned to the floor. Both drivers ended their runs by driving into the backside of the semi-trailer, rolling their trucks right next to each other.

Awards[]

  • Rookie - Dan Rodoni - The Patriot
  • Best Wheelie - Dan Evans - The Destroyer - Atlanta
  • Extreme air - Tom Meents - Maximum Destruction - West Lebanon
  • Save - Phil Foster - Maximum Destruction/Pablo Huffaker - Grave Digger - Houston
  • Crash Madness- Chris Bergeron- Brutus/Scott Hartsock- Gunslinger- New Orleans, Allen Pezo- Predator- Indianapolis
  • Most Improved - Chad Fortune - Superman/Daron Basl - El Matador
  • Best Freestyle - Tom Meents - Maximum Destruction - St. Louis
  • Sportsman - Dan Evans

Trivia[]

  • This event marked the first of the following occurrences:
    • The first World Finals to feature a concrete fountain obstacle.
    • The first World Finals to feature Jim Koehler jumping into the fountain obstacle.
    • The first World Finals to feature the dice containing balloons inside as obstacles.
    • The first World Finals to feature rain during the event.
  • The event marked the last of the following occurrences:
    • The last World Finals to feature crush cars on the right side of Thunder Alley to make drivers do their first hit in the beginning of their freestyle performances.
    • The last World Finals to feature Hot Wheels compete in freestyle.
  • With this event being the first world finals to have 20 competitors, the top twelve trucks in qualifying automatically advanced into the second round.
    • Interestingly enough, the 12 trucks that ended up advancing were the first 12 times listed, which is why An Escalade, Avenger, and King Krunch (all three of which would have been in the top 12 after qualifying was completed) were placed in the first round and why El Toro Loco, Maximum Destruction, and Hot Wheels were placed in the second round (since they were part of the first 12).
  • The 12 trucks that ended up being advanced were the first 12 times that were listed so trucks like An Escalade, Avenger, and King Krunch, which after qualifying was completed would have been in the top 12, were bumped back to the 13th spot onwards which is why trucks like El Toro Loco, despite being outside of the top 12, were bumped to round 2.
  • With its third absence from freestyle, Gun Slinger became the holder for missing out on the most freestyle competitions in World Finals history having previously missed freestyle at World Finals 2 (despite experiencing slight damage from hitting the wall protection) and World Finals 4 (engine blown), despite the Chevrolet body not being used as a backup truck for freestyle. It is unknown why it was never used as a replacement in freestyle.
  • This marks the second World Finals to have a monster truck make an official bye-run, despite the second Hot Wheels not being used as a backup truck for round 3.
  • Dan Evans completed the first combo move in reverse.
  • This was the only World Finals appearance of Phil Foster as a competitor.
  • Pastrana 199's wheel that broke off during racing broke during freestyle as well, making this World Finals event the first time a monster truck would lose a wheel in racing, but lose the same one in freestyle even after having it put back in place in time for freestyle.
  • El Toro Loco suffered a similar fate to Avenger the previous year in that Lupe was (one of) the defending freestyle champions, but broke early into his freestyle run resulting in a low single digit score. This similarity was acknowledged by Scott Douglass in the SPEED broadcast of the event.

Non competing trucks[]

Monster Jam World Finals by Year
I (2000)II (2001)III (2002)IV (2003)V (2004)VI (2005)VII (2006)VIII (2007)IX (2008)X (2009)XI (2010)XII (2011)XIII (2012)XIV (2013)XV (2014)XVI (2015)XVII (2016)XVIII (2017)XIX (2018)XX (2019)XXI (2020/2022)XXII (2023)XXIII (2024)
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