Kolton Schmidt and Jonathan Torres not only won Round 8 of the2025 NFR, they officially lead the pack.

Schmidt and Torres turned in a 3.8-second run for the round win to give them the lead in the average with a 28.7 on seven headandthe lead in the world standings with$279,074.24and$270,808.14, respectively. They’ve raked in $159,136.03 a man to skyrocket from 14th and 15th in the world to No. 1.

They joinThe Short Scorefor the third time this week to talk through their run and their world-championship chances.

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