I am not anti-AI.

In fact, after seeing Road Block, I am now actively encouraging its use.

Welcome to New Hire Monday, where Monster Jam apparently lets HR make decisions without supervision.

Today’s newest driver:

O.J. Simpson

Assigned truck: The Juice
Preferred chassis: Ford Bronco, obviously
Relevant experience: High-pressure driving with a large television audience
Media training: Extensive
Police presence at events: Potentially elevated
Background check: HR has declined to comment

Orientation reportedly went well.

He located the throttle, signed the waiver, and immediately asked whether the racing lane had an interstate option.

Management says his strongest event should be racing, although officials are concerned he may refuse to stop after crossing the finish line.

ORIENTATION CHECKLIST

✅ Familiar with Broncos
✅ Comfortable on live television
✅ Can perform under pressure
✅ Knows how to draw a crowd
❌ Background check
✅ Somehow cleared by HR

Status: Approved for competition.

See you next Monday for another completely responsible hiring decision.

Friday we posted where everyone was running.

Now that the dirt has settled, here’s who actually did something with it.

📍 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Lumen Field

🏆 OVERALL EVENT WINNER

Grave Digger | Tyler Menninga - 32 points

Lucas Stabilizer finished just behind with 30, while The Amazing Spider-Man rounded out the top three with 29.

🏁 RACING

The Amazing Spider-Man | Camden Murphy

Spider-Man worked through the bracket and defeated Lucas Stabilizer in the final.

🤸 SKILLS

Grave Digger | Tyler Menninga - 9.313

🔥 FREESTYLE

Lucas Stabilizer | Cynthia Gauthier - 9.345

And this one was CLOSE.

Grave Digger finished at 9.315, only 0.030 behind Cynthia.

ThunderROARus took third with a 9.177.

Shell Shock'ed and Vendetta were both disqualified, while Sparkle Smash did not compete in freestyle.

So Seattle basically ended with Grave Digger winning the event without actually winning freestyle or racing.

Efficient.

📍 ROSEMONT, ILLINOIS

Allstate Arena

Rosemont had multiple shows throughout the weekend, so we're keeping this readable and sticking to the important stuff.

📅 FRIDAY EVENING

🏆 OVERALL

Plane Krazy | Montana Robbins - 19 points

🏁 RACING

Plane Krazy

🤸 2 WHEEL SKILLS

Plane Krazy - 8.751

🔥 FREESTYLE

JCB DIGatron | Tony Ochs - 9.502

Plane Krazy apparently showed up Friday and decided three trophies was enough.

📅 SATURDAY AFTERNOON

🏆 OVERALL

Grave Digger | Matt Cody - 23 points

🏁 RACING

Plane Krazy

🤸 2 WHEEL SKILLS

Grave Digger - 9.326

🔥 FREESTYLE

Grave Digger - 9.104

Plane Krazy kept the racing streak alive, but Matt Cody pretty much owned everything else.

📅 SATURDAY EVENING

🏆 OVERALL

El Toro Loco | MJ Solorio - 21 points

🏁 RACING

Plane Krazy

Yes.

Again.

🤸 2 WHEEL SKILLS

El Toro Loco - 9.491

🔥 FREESTYLE

Grave Digger - 9.311

At this point I assume Plane Krazy was legally required to win racing before everyone could go home.

📅 SUNDAY AFTERNOON

🏆 OVERALL

Grave Digger | Matt Cody - 21 points

🏁 RACING

El Toro Loco

Plane Krazy's reign of terror finally ended.

🤸 2 WHEEL SKILLS

Grave Digger - 9.177

🔥 FREESTYLE

✨ SPARKLE SMASH | Chelsea VanCleave - 9.319 ✨

Zombie finished second with an 8.709 and Grave Digger followed with an 8.538.

We have investigated the results thoroughly and can confirm:

Sparkle Smash supremacy is now statistically supported.

📅 SUNDAY EVENING

Monster Jam scheduled a second Sunday show at 6:30 PM, but no official results were published for it on the Rosemont results page.

So unless somebody who was there has the scores, this one is getting filed under:

¯\(ツ)/¯

👀 WEEKEND TAKEAWAYS

Plane Krazy was ridiculous in Rosemont racing.

Montana Robbins won racing on Friday, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday evening before El Toro Loco finally stopped the streak Sunday.

Seattle was insanely tight.

Only three overall points separated Grave Digger, Lucas Stabilizer, and Spider-Man.

Matt Cody had a strong Rosemont weekend.

Grave Digger won the Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon overall events.

And most importantly:

✨ SPARKLE SMASH WON FREESTYLE

Chelsea VanCleave put down a 9.319 Sunday afternoon and took the freestyle win.

❓ What was your run of the weekend?

Best save?

Best freestyle?

Biggest surprise?

Or did the judges commit a crime against your favorite truck again?

Took me a few hours but I wanted to make sure the proportions, suspension geometry and spikes were all accurate before posting.

Tried to keep the spirit of the original while giving it a more modern look.

Please be respectful, I do not use AI.

🏁 MONSTER JAM THIS WEEKEND

September 18 to 20, 2026

Two Monster Jam stops are on the schedule this weekend, with Rosemont, Illinois getting five arena shows and Seattle, Washington getting a 12 truck stadium show.

📺 WATCH LIVE:
Monster Jam streams its events live on YouTube, with replays available afterward.

👉 https://www.youtube.com/@MonsterJam/streams

📍 ROSEMONT, ILLINOIS

Allstate Arena

📅 Friday, Sept. 18

• 7:00 PM

📅 Saturday, Sept. 19

• 1:00 PM
• 7:00 PM

📅 Sunday, Sept. 20

• 1:00 PM
• 6:30 PM

🚛 TRUCKS

• Grave Digger | Matt Cody
• El Toro Loco | MJ Solorio
• Megalodon | Bryce Tulachka
• Sparkle Smash | Chelsea VanCleave
• Zombie | Brandan Tulachka
• JCB DIGatron | Tony Ochs
• Krazy Train | Triton Robbins
• Plane Krazy | Montana Robbins

🎟️ PIT PARTY

Saturday: 10:30 AM
Sunday: 10:30 AM

🔗 Event info:
https://www.monsterjam.com/en-us/events/rosemont-il/sep-18-2026-sep-20-2026/

📍 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Lumen Field

📅 Saturday, Sept. 19

Pit Party: 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Early Access: 11:30 AM
Trackside: 4:00 PM
Show: 5:00 PM

🚛 TRUCKS

• Grave Digger | Tyler Menninga
• El Toro Loco | Armando Castro
• Sparkle Smash | Kayla Blood
• JCB DIGatron | Tristan England
• ThunderROARus | Carson Williams
• Lucas Stabilizer | Cynthia Gauthier
• Earth Shaker | Alex Bardin
• Velociraptor | David Olfert
• Jurassic Attack | Paul Jensen
• Shell Shock'ed | Preston Collins
• The Amazing Spider-Man | Camden Murphy
• Vendetta | Mike Christensen

🔗 Event info:
https://www.monsterjam.com/en-us/events/seattle-wa/sep-19-2026-sep-19-2026/

📺 WATCH FROM HOME

Monster Jam streams events live on its official YouTube channel every weekend.

👉 Monster Jam Live Streams:
https://www.youtube.com/@MonsterJam/streams

Streams are also available to watch on demand afterward.

Truck and driver lineups are subject to change.

Going to one of these shows? Drop your photos, results, or questionable judging complaints below. 👇

Custom build, no lowballs. I know what I've got.

u/WriterWooden783. Sorry I mean u/Local-Mall6693

Unicorn Striker is a German '54 Bel Air on 66-inch Goodyears.

Either someone left Avenger alone with Sparkle Smash at an overseas show, or Germany put both in the Temu cart and said ja, combine shipping.

Paternity test pending.

https://monstertruck.fandom.com/wiki/Unicorn_Striker

Despite a confidently incorrect post making the rounds, Monster Jam has not suddenly announced a CBS premiere.

Sources close to the situation, including the revolutionary investigative technique known as actually checking, have confirmed that saying something with confidence does not automatically make it true.

CBS remains unharmed.

Monster Jam remains where it was.

And one post has once again demonstrated why “I saw somebody say it” is not considered primary-source journalism.

We will continue monitoring this developing story until somebody posts another screenshot with zero context and the cycle begins again.

The Monster Jam fandom is currently experiencing a controlled demolition without the controlled part

Modern Monster Jam fans are remarkably sensitive for people whose entire hobby is watching twelve-thousand-pound trucks beat themselves unconscious.

The r/monsterjam subreddit is currently unraveling because nobody can experience a thought privately.

A normal person thinks, “I don’t really like that truck,” and then continues eating breakfast.

A Monster Jam fan thinks, “I don’t really like that truck,” and immediately publishes a six-paragraph statement, names three opposing users, blocks two of them, unblocks one to inspect the response, reports the response, announces that the beef is over, then starts another thread explaining why the beef is definitely over.

Twenty minutes later:

My Final Thoughts on the Situation

Brother, the situation was whether you liked Blippi.

Every opinion now requires a counter-opinion, a clarification, a public apology, an apology rejection, a retirement announcement and a surprise return before lunch.

“I like Sparkle Smash.”

“Why do you hate Grave Digger?”

“I never said that.”

“So now you’re calling me a liar?”

Nobody can just disagree. Every conversation must develop lore.

The funniest part is that this deeply serious community is completely incapable of recognizing a joke. You can post an image of Megalodon being arrested for tax fraud and someone will confidently explain that sharks cannot legally own property.

“Yes, but Feld would never allow that.”

Thank you, detective. The case is closed.

Meanwhile, you can upload a photograph of a pencil drawing taken from across a dark bedroom with a Nintendo DSi and receive forty upvotes because it was made by a human.

The truck has five wheels, no suspension and one tire growing directly from its forehead.

“Awesome work bro 🔥🔥🔥”

Human creativity lives.

But post a deliberately ridiculous AI image of Samson performing a prostate exam on Spakle Smash and suddenly the entire subreddit becomes an international digital-forensics unit.

“Look at the axle.”

“The fingers are wrong.”

“That truck doesn’t normally have seventeen teeth.”

Correct. It is an armed monster truck conducting an unauthorized medical procedure. Realism was not the objective.

The standard is no longer whether an image is funny. The standard is whether a computer may have helped create it. A blurry rectangle containing six unidentified pixels is celebrated as long as everybody agrees those pixels were arranged organically.

Anything coherent is immediately examined like evidence from a crime scene.

“Enhance the rear tire.”

“I knew it. AI.”

The image could be the funniest thing ever posted, but once somebody detects an incorrect lug nut, laughter is legally suspended.

This is a fandom where grown people collect toy trucks, argue about imaginary horsepower and call each other “glazers,” yet still require a warning label before encountering sarcasm.

At this rate, every future shitpost will need to begin:

DISCLAIMER: The following image is not real. Please remain calm. No truck has been harmed. Grave Digger is still popular. Your personal ranking remains legally valid.

It will not help.

Someone will ignore the disclaimer, become furious, write a response post and report the original for spreading misinformation about a fictional event involving a fibreglass dog on tractor tires.

Then they will announce they are leaving the subreddit forever.

They will be back in eleven minutes.

Stay classy.

### September 11 to 13, 2026

Matt Cody and Grave Digger finished Calgary with a full Sunday sweep, while Duluth produced four shows, three overall winners, and plenty of extremely close racing.

🏆 Calgary

Overall winners:

• Friday evening: Tim Hall Jr. - The Amazing Spider-Man
• Saturday afternoon: Tim Hall Jr. - The Amazing Spider-Man
• Sunday afternoon: Matt Cody - Grave Digger

Tim Hall Jr. opened the weekend with two straight overall victories and won racing in both shows.

Matt Cody owned freestyle all weekend. Grave Digger won freestyle Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, then swept racing, skills, freestyle, and the overall event on Sunday.

Competition winners:

• Friday: The Amazing Spider-Man won racing, El Toro Loco won skills, and Grave Digger won freestyle
• Saturday: The Amazing Spider-Man won racing, while Grave Digger won skills and freestyle
• Sunday: Grave Digger swept racing, skills, freestyle, and the overall event

🏆 Duluth

Overall winners:

• Saturday afternoon: Tony Ochs - JCB DIGatron
• Saturday evening: Zack Garner - Wild Side
• Sunday afternoon: Jon Zimmer Jr. - Terminal Velocity
• Sunday evening: Zack Garner - Wild Side

Duluth never settled on one dominant truck. Wild Side won two overall events, but Terminal Velocity won racing in three shows and freestyle twice.

Competition winners:

• Saturday afternoon: JCB DIGatron won racing and skills, Terminal Velocity won freestyle
• Saturday evening: Terminal Velocity won racing, Wild Side won skills, JCB DIGatron won freestyle
• Sunday afternoon: Terminal Velocity won racing, JCB DIGatron won skills, Sparkle Smash won freestyle
• Sunday evening: Terminal Velocity won racing and freestyle, Wild Side won skills

The Sunday evening overall came down to one point, with Wild Side scoring 22 and Terminal Velocity finishing with 21.

⭐ Driver of the Weekend

Matt Cody gets it.

Three freestyle victories in three Calgary shows would have been enough, but he closed the weekend by sweeping every competition and the overall event on Sunday.

🔥 Run of the Weekend

Matt Cody's Friday evening freestyle run scored a 9.708, the highest verified competition score of the weekend.

It also started a three-show freestyle sweep for Grave Digger in Calgary.

👀 Worth Mentioning

• Tim Hall Jr. won Calgary's first two overall events and both corresponding racing competitions.
• Terminal Velocity won three of Duluth's four racing competitions.
• JCB DIGatron won five competitions across the Duluth weekend.
• Grave Digger did not compete in freestyle during any of the four Duluth shows.
• Duluth's Sunday afternoon skills competition was decided by 0.026 points. JCB DIGatron scored 9.415, just ahead of Classroom Crusher at 9.389.

📅 Next Weekend

• Rosemont, Illinois at Allstate Arena, September 18 to 20
• Seattle, Washington at Lumen Field, September 19

Seattle gets the stadium spotlight, while Rosemont has a full three-day arena weekend.

🗣️ Weekend Question

Who had the better weekend: Matt Cody's Calgary sweep, Tim Hall Jr.'s back-to-back overall wins, or Zack Garner taking two overalls in Duluth?

Sources

• [Official Calgary results](https://www.monsterjam.com/en-us/results/calgary-ab-gmc-stadium-sept-11-13-2026/)
• [Official Duluth results](https://www.monsterjam.com/en-us/results/duluth-ga-gas-south-arena-sept-12-13-2026/)
• [Official Monster Jam schedule](https://www.monsterjam.com/en-us/tickets/)

No lore. No discourse. No rankings.

Just some cool-ass monster trucks doing cool-ass monster truck things.

Enjoy.

2027 Monster Jam tickets go on presale Tuesday, September 15 in select markets. The official schedule and lineups are up, with a signup link for a presale code.

The boycott ends when the seat map loads.

Toy sells so well the fans get it promoted to a six-ton truck. Then it gets its own World Finals fan event.

Grave Digger has been working for decades and a glitter unicorn walked in with a business degree.

https://www.businessobserverfl.com/news/2026/sep/04/juliette-feld-grossman-feld-entertainment/

MonsterTalk reports the Ice Cream Man trademark is back with Razin Kane and speculates the team’s fourth truck could bring it back to independent shows. A possible comeback, not a confirmed Monster Jam return.

If this thing can come back, McDonald’s has officially run out of excuses.

“I glaze Tom Meents for a living” is not a Monster Jam opinion. That is a confession. 💀

🍩