Monster Jam World Finals XV (Also written as Monster Jam World Finals 15) was the fifteenth Monster Jam World Finals, held on March 20-22nd, 2014 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. Contrary to the previous World Finals, this event featured a thirty-two truck lineup, as well as a fourteen-truck lineup for the Young Guns Shootout. The event was broadcast on Fox Sports 1 after it took place. Mike Vaters II in Overkill Evolution won the Young Guns Shootout competition, defeating Coty Saucier in Monster Energy and earning the thirty-second and final slot in the main field. For the main event, Adam Anderson in Grave Digger the Legend defended his title as world racing champion, defeating Tom Meents in Max-D. Meanwhile, Todd LeDuc in Metal Mulisha won the freestyle competition with a score of 37.5.
The track for the freestyle competition featured a main dirt section, which consisted of a series of dirt hill ramps, followed by a line which served as the two traditional backflip trailers, with a laced car pad placed in the center of the section. Meanwhile, a shipping container backflip ramp was placed on the near end of the truck, and on the far end was a backflip wall, with a box van and monorail placed in front of it.
Special paint schemes[]
Avenger ran a special purple paint scheme for the World Finals Finals.
Titan ran a special black with yellow flames paint scheme for the event.
Wild Flower debuts. *Non competing.
Wild Thang re-debuts. *Non competing.
Results[]
Young Guns Shootout[]
Round one[]
Crushstation vs. Wrecking Crew
Dragon's Breath vs. Captain USA
Monster Mutt Dalmatian vs. Mohawk Warrior
Heavy Hitter vs. Nitro Hornet (wins, but breaks and cannot return)
Hooked vs. El Diablo
El Toro Loco (Yellow) vs. Xtermigator
Round two[]
Heavy Hitter, crashed in Thunder Alley.
Crushstation vs. Monster Energy
Captain USA vs. Mohawk Warrior
Xtermigator vs. Overkill Evolution
Hooked vs. Heavy Hitter (crashes in Thunder Alley)
Semi-finals[]
Monster Energy vs. Mohawk Warrior
Overkill Evolution vs. Hooked
Championship race[]
Monster Energy vs. Overkill Evolution
Young Guns Shootout encore[]
The Young Guns Shootout encore featured all fourteen competitors, with the exception of Nitro Hornet, performing donuts. Afterward, Monster Mutt and El Toro Loco performed simultaneous backflips.
Qualifying times[]
Captain America after crashing during qualifying.
Grave Digger - 16.229
Monster Energy - 16.279
Max-D - 16.457
Monster Mutt - 16.484
Grave Digger the Legend - 16.516
Son-Uva Digger - 16.577
Iron Man - 16.594
Spider-Man - 16.652
Lucas Oil Crusader - 16.796
Metal Mulisha - 16.808
Bounty Hunter - 16.833
Captain's Curse - 16.841
Overkill Evolution - 16.897
Mohawk Warrior - 16.949
El Toro Loco - 17.008
Northern Nightmare - 17.011
Man of Steel - 17.252
Monster Mutt Dalmatian - 17.310
Captain America - 17.313
Wolverine - 17.347
Monster Mutt Rottweiler - 17.366
Team Hot Wheels Firestorm - 17.488
Bad Habit - 17.503
Fox Sports 1 Cleatus - 17.583
The Patriot - 17.603
Scooby-Doo - 17.727
Stone Crusher - 17.924
Madusa - 18.137
Zombie - 18.256
Avenger - 20.846
Barbarian - 21.143
Titan - dnq
World Finals racing[]
Round one[]
Grave Digger vs. Titan
Northern Nightmare vs. Man of Steel (crashed after finishing)
Lucas Oil Crusader vs. Fox Sports 1 Cleatus
Spider-Man vs. The Patriot
Zombie vs. Monster Mutt
Wolverine vs. Overkill Evolution
Avenger after crashing and landing on the wall protection.
Monster Mutt Rottweiler vs. Captain's Curse
Madusa vs. Grave Digger the Legend
Max D vs. Avenger (crash)
Mohawk Warrior vs. Captain America
Bounty Hunter vs. Team Hot Wheels Firestorm
Son Uva Digger vs. Stone Crusher
Barbarian vs. Monster Energy
Monster Mutt Dalmatian vs. El Toro Loco (Black)
Bad Habit vs. Metal Mulisha
Scooby Doo vs. Iron Man
Round two[]
Wolverine's crash.
Grave Digger vs. Northern Nightmare
Lucas Oil Crusader vs. Spider Man
Monster Mutt vs. Wolverine (crash)
Captain's Curse vs. Grave Digger the Legend
Max D vs. Mohawk Warrior
Bounty Hunter vs. Son Uva Digger
Monster Energy vs. El Toro Loco (Black)
Metal Mulisha vs. Iron Man
Round three[]
Grave Digger vs. Lucas Oil Crusader
Grave Digger the Legend vs. Wolverine
Max D vs. Bounty Hunter
Monster Energy vs. Iron Man
Semi-finals[]
Grave Digger vs. Grave Digger the Legend
Max D vs. Iron Man (note: this race was re-run on a very controversial call, where O'Donnell lost to Meents the second race.)
The championship race (Note Max-D, still recovering from losing control, by driving on the freestyle ramp.)
Finals[]
Grave Digger the Legend vs. Max-D
Racing encore[]
Three of the six Marvel monster trucks - Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor - came out together, along with a majority of the Young Guns Shootout competitors and several other trucks. Most of the trucks would proceed to perform donuts. The three Marvel trucks would then proceed to perform simultaneous backflips.
Iron Man: Lee O'Donnell
Hulk: Carl Van Horn
Thor: Chuck Werner
Freestyle order[]
Bad Habit
Man of Steel
Scooby-Doo!
Overkill Evolution
Captain America
Barbarian
Stone Crusher
Monster Mutt Rottweiler
Mohawk Warrior
Fox Sports 1 Cleatus
Bounty Hunter
Zombie
The Patriot
Madusa
Wolverine
Titan
Monster Mutt Dalmatian
Monster Mutt
Team Hot Wheels Firestorm
Grave Digger the Legend
Spider-Man
Iron Man
Captain's Curse
Avenger
Son-uva Digger
Metal Mulisha
El Toro Loco (Black)
Grave Digger
Northern Nightmare
Lucas Oil Crusader
Monster Energy
Max-D
Freestyle scores[]
Metal Mulisha- 37.5
Team Hot Wheels Firestorm- 34.5
Max D- 34
El Toro Loco (Black)- 32.5
Lucas Oil Crusader- 30.5
Captain America- 30.5
The Patriot- 29.5
Barbarian- 28.5
Monster Mutt Dalmatian- 28.5
Avenger - 26.5
Overkill Evolution- 26.5
Wolverine- 26.5
Grave Digger the Legend- 25
Northern Nightmare- 25
Fox Sports 1 Cleatus- 24
Iron Man- 22.5
Captain's Curse- 22.5
Son Uva Digger- 22.5
Scooby Doo- 22.5
Monster Energy- 21.5
Stone Crusher- 20
Man of Steel- 15.5
Bad Habit- 14.5
Monster Mutt Rottweiler- 12.5
Mohawk Warrior- 12
Bounty Hunter- 10.5
Monster Mutt- 10.5
Titan- 9
Grave Digger- 8.5
Madusa- 8.5
Zombie- 7
Spider Man- 6
Freestyle encore[]
The freestyle encore for World Finals XV featured six Doom's Day trucks coming out and simultaneously performing backflips.
This event marked the first of the following occurrences:
The first World Finals to have both racing and freestyle competitions held on two separate nights.
The first World Finals to feature a thirty-two truck lineup.
The first World Finals to feature all three Monster Mutt trucks competing together.
Although part of the original thirty-two truck lineup, Titan did not compete on its original chassis, due to a major crash during qualifying that would call for a temporary new chassis, being BJ Johnson's Mohawk Warrior.
Man of Steel rolled after the finish in its round one race. Randy Brown turned the truck hard while heading out of the stadium and ended up rolling.
After Wolverine defeated Overkill Evolution in the first round, the truck's transmission blew up. Luckily, they were able to change the transmission in time for round 2.
During the semifinal round race of Iron Man and Max-D, the latter truck got shut off using the Remote Ignition Interrupter (reasons still remain unknown). Iron Man then took advantage and won the race. However, during the drivers meeting before the show, it was stated by the officials that if a truck would get shut down during a race without crashing or breaking down, the race would be repeated. The race was then re-done with Max-D defeating Iron Man. This occurrence spawned controversy not only by Iron Man driver Lee O'Donnell, but also by a lot of fans in general. After the race, the disappointed Iron Man driver was interviewed ending with "It's how it is. I know it, they know it, everybody knows it. That's what probably stings the most." accompanied by boo's from the crowd.
The decision to re-run races was supported by the previous year's World Finals, Monster Jam World Finals XIV, which also caused controversy as multiple trucks such as Spider-Man and Grave Digger were shut off mid-race resulting in a loss.
El Toro Loco (Soza) and El Diablo performed a South of the Border Contests in-between racing rounds. El Toro won the race pass and El Diablo won the donut contest.
Even though this was the first event to have 32 competitors, and individual competition days, the idea for such an event was announced by Monster Jam as early as 2004, with the plan for the event to first take place in 2007, 7 years earlier than it actually debuted.
An imitation of the track appears in the mobile game Monster Truck Destruction as level 22. Some jump heights vary, but the track is basically the same.
One of the obstacles used for the freestyle track was formerly a Mark IV monorail used at DisneyLand in California.
The pad at the turn end of the track was nicknamed "Fortune's Island" after Captain American rolled on top of it during qualifying.
