to be confused with the band White Zombie). World Finals XVII — March 17–19, 2016 Racing Bracket Freestyle Young Guns Shootout Racing Bracket World Finals XVIII — March 23–25, 2017 Racing Freestyle Randy Brown replaced Cole Venard for Cole leaving Team Grave Digger, and moving with his family. Alex Blackwell replaced Justin Sipes for undisclosed reasons. Double Down Showdown Encore Double Down Showdown: All of the Showdown competitors came out for a donut performance. Racing: Neil Elliott came out in the Monster Jam 25th Anniversary truck and did a forward momentum backflip over Son-uva Digger. All competing and non-competing trucks came out on the track to salute the fans for being a part of Monster Jam for 25 years. Freestyle: Adam Anderson, Ryan Anderson, Krysten Anderson and the rest of the Grave Digger team came out and freestyled for Grave Digger's 35th Anniversary. Dennis Anderson announced his retirement from monster truck racing. World Finals XIX — March 23–24, 2018 The 2018 Monster Jam World Finals took place at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 23–24, 2018. World Finals XIX moved back to a 2-day format. However, the Racing Championship and Freestyle Championship were still separated between Friday and Saturday respectively, with the Double Down Showdown taking place on Friday night before Racing. This was the last World Finals to take place in Las Vegas. Racing Bracket Freestyle Double Down Showdown Double Down Racing Bracket Bracket Encore Racing: Tom Meents, Neil Elliott, Colton Eichelberger, Chuck Werner, and Jared Eichelberger each came out in their own separate Max-D trucks to help celebrate Max-D's 15th anniversary. A new black Max-D paint scheme was unveiled during the encore as well. Chuck drove the original Maximum Destruction, Neil drove the Candy Apple Red Max-D, Colton drove the Gold Max-D, Jared drove the normal Max-D, and Tom debuted the new Black Max-D. Each truck did different tricks throughout the encore as well. Freestyle: The three new Rampage trucks (George - Tom Meents, Ralph, and Lizzie) came out and hit a series of buildings set up for the trucks. Two Soldier Fortune trucks came out to reprimand Ralph and Lizzie. The three Rampage trucks then did their own backflips, with George (driven by Meents) almost completing a double backflip. Afterwards, all the Racing competitors, Freestyle competitors, Double Down competitors, and display trucks came out and flooded the track. World Finals XX — May 10–11,