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Winter dew tour athletes

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PhilboydStudge
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for pipe: tanner, simon, pete o, colby, and jossi
slope: 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.

Nov 12 2008 6:53PM
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Ben.
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im wondering if wallisch is doing it, he was in that railjam thing for it
Nov 12 2008 6:58PM
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PhilboydStudge
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the one in portland? but i thought that didn't have any connection to the winter dew tour
Nov 12 2008 6:59PM
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Ben.
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wasnt it part of the dew tour though? idk i thought it was
Nov 12 2008 8:14PM
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meltonsnow
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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.
Nov 12 2008 8:18PM
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eheath
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He's pre-qualified.


Seems like an intense comp, you have to be chosen just to QUALIFY for the event.
Nov 12 2008 8:29PM
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Ben.
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wait to you have to qualify for the qualifiers? thats retarded
Nov 12 2008 8:31PM
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BASS_PRO_SHOP
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not really... its the fuckin dew tour. massive exposure.
Nov 12 2008 8:38PM
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PhilboydStudge
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wow that is crazy. you have to qualify for the qualifiers? how do all the other people qualify for the qualifiers then?
Nov 12 2008 8:39PM
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PhilboydStudge
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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
Nov 12 2008 8:42PM
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cool.
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i though andreas was hurt, huh


if these dudes come to VT its goin be crazzy!
Nov 12 2008 8:44PM
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whitewater413
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i thought it was invite only
Nov 12 2008 8:57PM
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djikstra
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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.
Nov 12 2008 8:59PM
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Kevski
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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?
Nov 12 2008 9:22PM
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TWoods
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I could see the dew tour taking over the xgames.
Nov 12 2008 9:24PM
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mattwalker
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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....

 Simon
Nov 12 2008 10:40PM
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PhilboydStudge
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^ are those the only athletes? so no wallisch?
Nov 12 2008 11:42PM
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Ben.
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can you read?
Nov 12 2008 11:46PM
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estaked
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Anders!
Nov 12 2008 11:58PM
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PhilboydStudge
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don't be rude. there's a chance they'd throw him in cause he won the rail jam. i guess not though.....
Nov 13 2008 12:01AM
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Kevski
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He was indicating that if you looked more closely you'd see that Tom Wallisch is on the list. The top list.
Nov 13 2008 12:16AM
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sick-as-aids
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jossi will kill this comp, il put money on it
Nov 13 2008 12:32AM
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Polar_Beer
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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.
Nov 13 2008 12:47AM
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Pwn.Mode
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5th name down dog.

Nov 13 2008 1:57AM
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schlopy
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Yeah and it sucks when you even fail to be accepted into the qualifier. Seriously. Big sad feelings.
Nov 18 2008 1:24AM
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jared_mocha
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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
Nov 18 2008 12:31PM
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nellyyy
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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?
Nov 18 2008 12:45PM
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Petergunit11
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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
Nov 18 2008 1:32PM
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beau
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deck and esp sean logan should be involved i heard ryan sheckler is gunna be on the list as well
Nov 18 2008 4:23PM
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alpineplease
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Extended List from Symms Blog on expn:

http://expn.go.com/expn/blog/ski

Im gonna place my bet on a W



Dec 8 2008 5:12PM
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Phatt
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cant wait watch out for russ henshaw he's seriously good hopefullly he throws down as usual for the aussies
Dec 8 2008 5:31PM
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ski_ENDUB
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So sick, good to see skiing progress into a legit comp tour with a stacked lineup.
Dec 8 2008 8:03PM
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Matty_C
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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?
Dec 8 2008 8:29PM
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Ben.
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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%
Dec 8 2008 9:40PM
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AptosFreeskier
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I think that these will help you out quite a bit.
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Andreas is at the top of the "og list".
Dec 8 2008 10:13PM
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PartyHon
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Wallisch
Dec 8 2008 10:27PM
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Matty_C
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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.

Dec 9 2008 1:18PM
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PopsicleStand
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this shit will be so sick if they come to mt snow...
Dec 10 2008 11:00AM
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