09-10 Winter Amateur Dew Tour to feature skiing ?

Mulletor

Mulletor

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Not sure if this has been on here yet but I was wondering what everyone thought about it.

From a transworld.com interview with Alli Sports marketing director BJ Carretta

Are you going to be doing a Free Flow Tour for snowboarding?

Yeah, this year we launched the Gatorade Free Flow Tour for summer and winter.

You’re starting that this winter?



Yeah, we’re kicking that off January 2010. It will be all the same

disciplines as the Dew Tour. We’re going to have some East Coast

events, one or two Midwest, Rockies, and then West Coast. Then the

finals will happen at the Toyota Challenge at Northstar-at-Tahoe. The

overall winner gets placement into the next year’s Winter Dew tour.

Do you have those locations lined up?

We’re still working on confirming all the resorts other than the finals.

Have you nailed down locations for the Winter Dew Tour?

We have not.

By same "disciplines as the Dew Tour" does he mean pipe and slope for just snowboarding or skiing too? Nevertheless, its good for the industry/community to have these am comps.

 
Umm, obviously if it's on TW, which is a snowboarding website, they would generally only mean snowboarding...
 
Apologies, it was not transworld.com but the transworld business site. Here's the link to the whole articlehttp://business.transworld.net/2009/06/03/mareketing-mid-recession-mega-contests/ . While transworld does have a bias towards board sports they featured Armada and other ski brands in their outerwear preview so they are not totally ignorant of skiing. I was just interested in how the marketing director said "same disciplines as the dew tour." At face value that would mean skiing but the previous question specified snowboarding so Im unsure. Pure speculation but I was wondering if anybody else had heard anything similar. A reliable am circuit would help people who don't necessarily have the money to spring for a trip to the Open or other mid level contests.
 
Mount snow said something about this on their website or in some newsletter and it sounds like both skiing and snowboarding.

 
you are too stupid to insult.

But I don't like amateur contests. How do you say who can't do it? Everyone who isn't sponsored can't do it? Or just people that make under x amount of dollars a year from skiing can't do it? The lines between am and pro are just too blurred.
 
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