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.