Winter dew tour athletes

[PhilboydStudge]

for pipe: tanner, simon, pete o, colby, and jossislope: andreas, jossi, matt walker, charles gagnier, and jon
it says more athletes announced later, but do you think they're gonna stick to all the big name pros or get some less well known guys? it'd be sick to see some guys who don't have all the big sponsors but throw down, but i doubt that will happen.
http://freeskier.com/articles/article.php?article_id=2879

 

[Ben.]

im wondering if wallisch is doing it, he was in that railjam thing for it

 

[PhilboydStudge]

the one in portland? but i thought that didn't have any connection to the winter dew tour

 

[Ben.]

wasnt it part of the dew tour though? idk i thought it was

 

[meltonsnow]

I dont think it was an actual tour event, just something to showcase the winter tour. ya, hopefully we see some of the smaller names getting up in there. we'll c how the qualifiers go in breck.

 

[eheath]

He's pre-qualified.

Seems like an intense comp, you have to be chosen just to QUALIFY for the event.

 

[Ben.]

wait to you have to qualify for the qualifiers? thats retarded

 

[BASS_PRO_SHOP]

not really... its the fuckin dew tour. massive exposure.

 

[PhilboydStudge]

wow that is crazy. you have to qualify for the qualifiers? how do all the other people qualify for the qualifiers then?

 

[PhilboydStudge]

wait no i just read it again. they're announcing all of the athletes on nov. 24. so how do they choose the rest of them?
maybe wallisch will get in because he won the rail jam

 

[cool.]

i though andreas was hurt, huh

if these dudes come to VT its goin be crazzy!

 

[whitewater413]

i thought it was invite only

 

[djikstra]

you don't have to qualify to for the qualifiers you have to be INVITED to qualify. There's a list of pre-qualed guys (all your big name pros), then there's a qualifier that the non-super-pro's have to earn there spot into the tour through, and then i guess there's a wild card where they just randomly choose a couple of people they want in. So regardless of whether or not you have to qualify, everyone has to get invited in one way or another.

 

[Kevski]

Sounds like an intense system. This should mean that there'll be some insane action in these comps.
And there wasn't any slope last year was there?

 

[TWoods]

I could see the dew tour taking over the xgames.

 

[mattwalker]

that article is just about the wildcards...

Simon Dumont

Matt Walker

Sammy Carlson

Peter Olenick

Tom Wallisch

the OG invited list is...

Andreas Hatveit

Jossi Wells

Jon Olsson

Colby West

Charles Gagnier

JF Houle

Russell Henshaw

Phillipe Casabon

Jacob Wester

Tanner Rainville

Bobby Brown

Mike Clarke

Kalle Leinonen

Anders Backe

AJ Kemppainen

Then the top (i dunno how many) qualifiers from the Breck qualifier, get into the Breck Dew tour too....

 

[PhilboydStudge]

^ are those the only athletes? so no wallisch?

 

[Ben.]

can you read?

 

[estaked]

Anders!

 

[PhilboydStudge]

don't be rude. there's a chance they'd throw him in cause he won the rail jam. i guess not though.....

 

[Kevski]

He was indicating that if you looked more closely you'd see that Tom Wallisch is on the list. The top list.

 

[sick-as-aids]

jossi will kill this comp, il put money on it

 

[Polar_Beer]

Bummer, Decker's not on the list. I remember hearing something about him wanting to do the one in vermont if he could but I guess if he's not on the list.

 

[Pwn.Mode]

5th name down dog.

 

[schlopy]

Yeah and it sucks when you even fail to be accepted into the qualifier. Seriously. Big sad feelings.

 

[jared_mocha]

the format is tested with giving up and comers a shot but there is still the "i'm in the tour b/c i'm a big name but suck" factor

 

[nellyyy]

I have been led to believe that anyone who podiumed at any of the three Opens Freeski Events (North American Open, Big Bear Open, and Mount Snow Open) had an invite. Can anyone verify this?

 

[Petergunit11]

Not true.

MT. SNow: 1. Kolby Ward, 2. Chris Logan, 3. Giray Dadali. None of them are in. Its just based on all comps from last year.

Kolby should be in though

 

[beau]

deck and esp sean logan should be involved i heard ryan sheckler is gunna be on the list as well

 

[alpineplease]

Extended List from Symms Blog on expn:http://expn.go.com/expn/blog/ski
Im gonna place my bet on a W

 

[Phatt]

cant wait watch out for russ henshaw he's seriously good hopefullly he throws down as usual for the aussies

 

[ski_ENDUB]

So sick, good to see skiing progress into a legit comp tour with a stacked lineup.

 

[Matty_C]

super stoked on AJ, Kalle and Xavier being in for pipe- those guys will be serious contenders for sure- the finns will be up there for slopestyle too BUT...

- if kevin rolland is fit (i don't know if he has recovered from his mcl injury) it is RIDICULOUS that he is not there.

- where's PK? where's Andreas? how could they not have the 2 best park skiers in the world there? (again, maybe andreas will still be injured but no pk? No henrik? No scherlin? wtf is going on here?

 

[Ben.]

henrik films a ton, so that may be why hes not in that, it would make his schedule insane. scherlin idk. andreas from what i understand is gonna be out for a while, and even when hes back, its gonna take him a while to get back to 100%

 

[AptosFreeskier]

I think that these will help you out quite a bit.

Andreas is at the top of the "og list".

 

[PartyHon]

Wallisch

 

[Matty_C]

oops, my bad. he wasn't on symms' list though, or maybe he was. n/m.

still, no pk? i bet oscar will actually be in it if jon competes because those 2 are like a double team. still need info on rolland. he was top 5, maybe top 3 pipe skiers in the world until he got injured at x last year.

 

[PopsicleStand]

this shit will be so sick if they come to mt snow...