The Brazilian skate dudes are taking over the whole damned world, so DC Shoes took its King Of... contest series down to Sao Paulo to go straight to the source for the final stop on the series.

Check it out: A whole rack of southern hemisphere skaters you've only half heard of but are sure to be hearing more from soon, ledd by their new king, JP Dantas Anjinho.

Overall results, DC King Of Sao Paulo:

1. JP Dantas Anjinho

2. Gustavo Malagoli

3. Thiago Lemos

4. Jose Martins Zezinho

5. Carlos Iqui

6. Luiz Apel o

7. Denis Silva

8. Jhony Melhado

9. Gauber Marques

10. Murilo Rom o

11. Dhiego Corr ia

12. Douglas Molocope

13. Heverton De Freitas

14. Mailton dos Santos

15. Alber Leandro

Here's the press release from DC:

December 8, 2009 - Vista, CA - DC would like to congratulate JP Dantas Anjinho for winning the DC King Of Sao Paulo, the latest installment of DC s amateur skateboarding contest, this past weekend. Fifty of the best regional amateur skateboarders from South America came out and competed at two of S o Paulo s most famous skate spots, the Pra a Roosevelt and Pra a Azul. When all was said and done JP Dantas took the crown and R$ 4.000,00.

Day one started out a bit rainy at Pra a Azul but it quickly cleared up allowing for some great jam sessions. To create an even better skate spot for the competition adjustments were made to existing handrails, and one of the set of handrails was transformed into a Big Four. Bangers from the day were a nollie fs feeble Thiago Lemos casually threw in one of his lines; a switch heelflip blunt down the rail by Denis Silva; and a clean switch heel flip down the big four by JP Dantas blowing everyone s mind.

Sunday proved to be an even better day of skating with a huge crowd of skateboarders, kids and local media coming out to the Pra a Roosevelt. The hubba, embellished with a new marble top, hosted the best tricks of the day including a nollie backside noseblunt by Glauber Marques; hardflip fs crooks by Carlos Iqui; a clean 360 flip noseslide by JP Dantas; nollie heelflip blunt transfer by Jos Martins; a kickflip fs crooks by Thiago Lemos, and lastly a 270 nollie kickflip fs tailslide by Gustavo Malagoli.

This was the final stop for the 2009 DC King Of Series. Other DC Kings were crowned in cities worldwide including, Dublin, Ireland, Vancouver, Canada, and Chicago, Illinois.

For more information on the DC King Of Series and the Global Skate Team check out www.dcshoes.com/king.

Yeah, yeah, I know: I link to Skate And Annoy's eBay Watch column just about every month. i continue to be fascinated by it, even though I don't actively collect much in the way of old skateboard decks. This month there were some biggies, with a handful of decks going over $1,000, and if we're using House of Neil's monthly reports as an indicator, I think it's fair to say the recession is over. Case in point: Somebody paid $5,100 for a hot pink mid-80s Alva-era Hosoi deck.

As House of Neil notes:

The thing is effing glorious, and is everything that a Hosoi deck should be: loud, stylish and with an interesting shape. Let's face it, this thing is amazing, and it went for an amazing price.

Elsewhere, he's a bit more incredulous:

What do some of our big spenders do for a living I wonder? And are they even skaters? Or do we have art collectors out there who are starting to expand into old skateboards? Or do we have famous/rich folk who used to skate and who know want to recapture a piece of their youth and they don t care what it costs to reclaim it? And just who the fuck has $5,000 discretionary income burning a hole in their pocket these days anyway? Just some interesting thoughts to ponder.

If I were rich and dropping money on decks this month, I would have spaced out and gone for the rocket-shaped 60s era Titan ($112) and the Natas Kaupas "Oops!" deck with the Lichtenstein-style Space Shuttle Challenger explosion graphic ($850).

Chris Cole won $10,000 at Battle at the Berrics 2, beating out Paul Rodriguez in the Finals bracket. God damn: Cole won just about EVERYTHING in 2009. Hell of a year.

The championships clip is in such demand that it crashed The Berrics' servers for part of the day, but all seems to be well in the world now. Check out the championship battle here: http://theberrics.com/dailyopspost.php?postid=1519

Sick video from The Tony Hawk Show this weekend at the Gran Palais in Paris: Watch through to the 1:50 mark for Lyn-Z Adams-Hawkins' McTwist. According the clip, and to the best of my knowledge, that's the first ever female McT. Props, Lyn-Z!

Apparently Tony Hawk, Sal Masakela, and Kelly Slater owe her some money now: They'd each put up a cash incentive for the first documented female McTwist.

More photos and video from the event are at QuiksilverLive.com

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Here's a quick note from the editor, Kilwag:

After a really rocky month and many false starts, Skate and Annoy has been back up for over a week now. It seems like we ve lost about 40 -50% of our traffic, but the trend is creeping upward. Do me a favor and spread the word that we re here, (we re queer- or mongo? goofy?) get used to it.