BUCKY LASEK, PIERRE-LUC GAGNON AND JAMIE BESTWICK SET TO COMPETE AT DEW TOUR PANTECH BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS AUG. 16-19

Confirmed Athletes Include the Top Names in Skate and BMX

 

Burr Ridge, Ill. – July 30, 2012 – The Dew Tour today announced the first round of confirmed athletes for the Pantech Beach Championships in Ocean City, Md., August 16-19.  The new Dew Tour – featuring three large-scale events – will debut with skateboard and BMX competitions, a surf event and multiple music performances.  Top confirmed athletes include Baltimore native Bucky Lasek, skate vert dominator Pierre-Luc Gagnon and BMX legend Jamie Bestwick. 

 

“I’m really looking forward to coming back to my hometown to compete in the Pantech Beach Championships,” said Lasek.  “The Dew Tour’s concrete bowl is second to none, and with all the great events for fans and beach atmosphere, it’s sure to be a fun time for everyone.”

 

There will be no shortage of skateboarding’s big names in Ocean City for the Pantech Beach Championships.  In addition to Lasek and Gagnon, the vert ramp will host Pedro Barros, Mitchie Brusco, Bob Burnquist, Sandro Dias, Tom Schaar and Elliott Sloan.  At the Mega 2.0™ ramp, spectators will have a chance to see skate prodigy Schaar, the first person to land a 1080, as well as fellow young gun Brusco.  Confirmed Mega 2.0™ skaters also include Burnquist, Gagnon and Jagger Eaton.  The Dew Tour’s signature concrete skate bowl will be brought to the beach, with two competitions.  Barros, Dias, Lasek, Andy Macdonald, Ben Hatchell and Nolan Munroe are among those confirmed to compete in the pro contest, while Steve Caballero and Chris Miller head up the list of skate pioneers showing off their timeless skills in the Legends contest.  Additional Legends will include Steve Alba, Christian Hosoi and Lance Mountain.

 

BMX will bring the heat in Ocean City, as Steve McCann and Chad Kagy hit the vert and Mega 2.0™ramps, while Jamie Bestwick will attempt to hold his standing as the indomitable vert competitor.  The best in BMX park will tear apart a course just feet from the ocean, with Kyle Baldock, Brett Banasiewicz, Drew Bezanson, Garrett Reynolds, Ben Wallace, 2011 Dew Cup winner Scotty Cranmer and more battling it out on the beach.

 

Confirmed skateboard and BMX athletes include:

 

SKATE VERT	SKATE BOWL	SKATE LEGENDS BOWL	SKATE MEGA 2.0TM
Pedro Barros	Pedro Barros	Steve Alba	Jake Brown
Marcelos Bastos	Sam Beckett	Steve Caballero	Bob Burnquist
Sam Beckett	Charlie Blair	Eddie Elguerra	Mitchie Brusco
Mitchie Brusco	Bob Burnquist	Jeff Grosso	Jagger Eaton
Bob Burnquist	Kalani David	Christian Hosoi	Pierre-Luc Gagnon
Sandro Dias	Dalton Dern	Tony Magnusson	Ronaldo Gomes
Pierre-Luc Gagnon	Sandro Dias	Chris Miller	Andy Macdonald
Ronaldo Gomes	Benji Galloway	Lance Mountain	Edgar Pereira
Juergen Horrwarth	Omar Hassan	Pat Ngho	Tom Schaar
Bucky Lasek	Ben Hatchell	Duane Peters	Elliott Sloan
Andy Macdonald	Willis Kimbel		Adam Taylor
Danny Mayer	Andrew Langi
Alex Perelson	Bucky Lasek
Paul-Luc Ronchetti	Andy Macdonald
Tom Schaar	Zach Miller
Jono Schwan	Nolan Munroe
Elliott Sloan	Michael O’Friel
Adam Taylor	Michael Owen
Lincoln Ueda	Alex Perelson
	Steven Pineiro
	Austin Poynter
	Ben Raybourn
	Tom Remillard
	Josh Rodriguez
	Tom Schaar
	Sky Siljeg
	Alex Sorgente
	Josh Stafford

 

BMX PARK	BMX VERT	BMX MEGA 2.0TM
Kyle Baldock	Jamie Bestwick	Vince Byron
Brett Banasiewicz	Vince Byron	Austin Coleman
Drew Bezanson	Austin Coleman	James Foster
Andy Buckworth	Chad Kagy	Chad Kagy
Vince Byron	Mykel Larrin	Steve McCann
Diogo Canina	Steve McCann	Anthony Napolitan
Pat Casey	Dennis McCoy	Kevin Robinson
Austin Coleman	Kevin Robinson	Colton Satterfield
Scotty Cranmer	Simon Tabron	Morgan Wade
Rob Darden	Jimmy Walker	Zack Warden
Daniel Dhers	Zack Warden
Brandon Dosch	Coco Zurita
Dennis Enarson
Ryan Guettler
Ben Hennon
Josh Harrington
Chase Hawk
Chad Kerley
Harry Main
Ryan Nyquist
Kevin Peraza
Garrett Reynolds
Daniel Sandoval
Jeremiah Smith
Mike Spinner
Morgan Wade
Ben Wallace
Zack Warden
Mark Webb
Gary Young

 

*Athlete appearances are subject to change.

 

The Dew Tour Pantech Beach Championships will be showcased across 11 broadcast hours on NBC and NBC Sports Network and an all-new digital platform with live streaming, plus exclusive behind the scenes and in-depth content on dewtour.com.  The new broadcast platform will offer coverage from every day of the four day events more live Dew Tour coverage over NBC and NBC Sports Network than any previous year. 

 

The complete 2012 Dew Tour schedule is as follows:

 

Event                                                   Date                             Location

Pantech Beach Championships              August 16-19                 Ocean City, Md.

Toyota City Championships                   October 18-21               San Francisco, Cali.

Mountain Championships                       December 13-16            Breckenridge, Colo.

 

The Dew Tour Pantech Beach Championships will air live on NBC Sports Network on Friday, August 17 at 7:30pm ET, on Saturday, August 18 on NBC at 1:00pm ET, and on Sunday, August 19 on NBC at 2:00pm ET.  Additional broadcasts on NBC Sports Network will be August 16 at 11:00pm ET, August 18 at 11:00pm ET, August 19 at 11:00pm ET and August 25 at 12:00am ET.

 

For additional Dew Tour event information, visit www.DewTour.com and the Dew Tour Facebook page.

           

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The Dew Tour consists of three marquee events in distinct beach, city and mountain locales, featuring summer sports of skateboarding and BMX, with additional competitions of surf and freestyle motocross; snowboard (superpipe and slopestyle) and freeskiing (superpipe and slopestyle) will be featured at the winter event. The Dew Tour events are premium action sports and lifestyle festivals combining the best in action sports competitions along with the Dew Tour Experience and live music performances. The Dew Tour is broadcast live on NBC and NBC Sports Network and streamed live on dewtour.com. The Dew Tour is also distributed on Universal HD, and internationally on Eurosport, Fox Australia, Extreme Channel and Allarco Superchannel. The Dew Tour partners include Mountain Dew (tour title sponsor), Toyota, Pantech, GoDaddy, Mongoose, National Guard, Paul Mitchell and Stride. More information can be found at www.DewTour.com.

 

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