Dew Tour Returns to Ocean City, MD For the Pantech Beach Championships Aug. 16-19
Action Sports and Lifestyle Festival to Include Skate, BMX and Surf Competitions
Burr Ridge, Ill. – July 11, 2012 – The Dew Tour today announced the competitions and the invited athletes for the Pantech Beach Championships in Ocean City, Md., August 16-19. The new Dew Tour – featuring three large-scale, premium events – will debut with a mix of returning and new Skateboard and BMX disciplines, Surf and multiple music performances. The Dew Tour Pantech Beach Championships will be free to attend.
While developing the new Dew Tour, Alli Sports and Mountain Dew – reinforcing their long-standing commitment to the action sports community – have garnered feedback from athletes, agents and industry veterans. Open communication led to the new model of the Dew Tour, with athletes expressing their opinions on ideal courses, disciplines, formats and overall event authenticity.
The Dew Tour Pantech Beach Championships will capture the unique beach lifestyle in the competitions, music and character of the transition-focused disciplines with a backdrop of Atlantic Ocean. New to the Dew Tour is the Mega 2.0 event for both Skate and BMX, and this year’s Beach event will feature the Skate Bowl Legends competition. The Dew Tour Pantech Beach Championships will feature the top names in action sports competing in the following disciplines:
Skate Vert
BMX Vert
Skate Bowl
BMX Park
Skate Legends Bowl
BMX Mega 2.0
Skate Mega 2.0
Surf
The Dew Tour is working with a committee of industry experts and course designers to ensure the most progressive competitions possible are featured at the new Dew Tour. Selection Committees for each discipline have been created to invite the top action sports athletes to compete in the four-day action sports and lifestyle festival.
Invited skateboard and BMX athletes include:
SKATE VERT
SKATE BOWL
SKATE LEGENDS BOWL
SKATE MEGA 2.0
Pedro Barros
Pedro Barros
Steve Alba
Jake Brown
Marcelos Bastos
Sam Beckett
Steve Caballero
Bob Burnquist
Sam Beckett
Julien Benoliel
Eddie Elguerra
Mitchie Brusco
Mitchie Brusco
Kyle Berard
Jeff Grosso
Jagger Eaton
Bob Burnquist
Taylor Bingaman
Christian Hosoi
Pierre-Luc Gagnon
Sandro Dias
Charlie Blair
Tony Magnusson
Ronaldo Gomes
Pierre-Luc Gagnon
Joshua Bordon
Chris Miller
Andy Macdonald
Ronaldo Gomes
Curren Caples
Lance Mountain
Edgar Pereira
Juergen Horrwarth
Kalani David
Pat Ngho
Tom Schaar
Bucky Lasek
Dalton Dern
Duane Peters
Elliott Sloan
Andy Macdonald
Sandro Dias
Danny Mayer
Greyson Fletcher
Alex Perelson
Omar Hassan
Paul-Luc Ronchetti
Aaron Hamoki
Tom Schaar
Ben Hatchell
Elliott Sloan
Willis Kimbel
Adam Taylor
Andrew Langi
Lincoln Ueda
Bucky Lasek
Shaun White
Andy Macdonald
Zach Miller
Guillaume Mocquin
Nolan Munroe
Michael Owen
Alex Perelson
Austin Poynter
Ben Raybourn
Tom Remillard
Josh Rodriguez
Sky Siljeg
BMX PARK
BMX VERT
BMX MEGA 2.0
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
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 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. For additional Dew Tour event information, visit www.DewTour.com and the Dew Tour Facebook page.
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Dew Tour
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.
Alli Sports
Alli Sports, is an action sports lifestyle brand whose mission is to connect fans with athletes and brands through best in class events, media, and authentic branded products. Alli Sports includes: the Dew Tour, Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship and the Red Bull Signature Series; Alli Media, which creates, produces, and distributes original content; and Alli Enterprises which includes a partnership with action sports retailer Dogfunk.com. Alli Sports is a division of the NBC Sports Group. More information can be found at www.allisports.com.
NBC Sports Group
When the Comcast-NBCUniversal transaction was completed in January of 2011, the broad reach and storied history of NBC Sports united with Comcast’s 24/7 ability to super-serve fans to create the NBC Sports Group. The new sports media company consists of an array of broadcast television, cable television and digital sports assets, including NBC Sports & Olympics, Golf Channel, Versus, 11 SportNets (regional sports networks) and their respective websites. Together, the new combined assets of the NBC Sports Group possess an unparalleled collection of television rights agreements, partnering with some of the most prestigious sports properties in the world: the Olympics, NFL, NHL, PGA TOUR, PGA of America, USGA, IndyCar, French Open, Tour de France and The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
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