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Skiing Needs KOTR

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KingGeedorah
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I'm sure that there's a decent amount of you who are familiar with Thrasher Magazine. Of those people there have to be at least a few who are familiar with the King of the Road or KOTR competition. For those who aren't, it's an annual event where teams for skateboarding companies each have a van that they take to several locations, and they receive a book of challenges [URL]http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/king-of-the-road-2013-the-book/[/URL] which they need to complete for points. The team who accumulates the most points by the end of it wins. Anyways, I think that it would be awesome if skiing had something similar to this. The teams could be companies, or better yet film crews. The only problems I see with it would be teams not being able to fund a van or take time out of their schedules to do it. Newschoolers should sponsor this shit, or at least compile the footage. What does NS think?
Oct 3 2013 10:39PM
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-WZ-
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yea
Oct 3 2013 10:42PM
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FigNewton
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Sounds like WCS...
Oct 3 2013 10:55PM
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cheener12
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this would be sick! the trick book would be made by us obviously

last years full video

Oct 3 2013 10:59PM
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KingGeedorah
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Maybe a little bit, but not quite, due to the traveling around part. And a few other things.
Oct 3 2013 11:00PM
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jwv
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Here's what I posted in a previous skiing KOTR thread:

Not exactly like KOTR, but they could set up a bunch of random jibs, bonks, and kickers all over hood for a week in the summer, and do a trick book for those. They could do teams by brand, film company, or just pick captains. It seems like it would work because a lot of pros are at Hood in the summer and they wouldn't be taking time out of comp/filming.

Another way to do it would be to do a shorter time limit, say a day or two, and have the challenges be like "everyone on the team has to get a disaster 2 on the dfd in the windells lane", or "everyone on the team has to get a cork 5 on the hip set up at point X". Then it would really rely on speed and how long it would take for everyone on the team to nail the trick. Just a thought though.
Oct 3 2013 11:08PM
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Saga.
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Not the same but we do this every summer for every session at Windells.
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SUMMER SCAVENGER HUNT 2012

Complete all the tasks to receive a special prize pack from Saga Outerwear. Each task must be signed off for by a Windells Camp employee once it is completed. When all the tasks are complete return this sheet to SAIGL no later than 5pm on day 6. The FIRST GROUP to turn in a completed sheet will have a prize pack delivered to you before the end of the session. You may complete this list on your own or with a group. NO MORE THAN 4 PEOPLE TO A GROUP!

TASKS:

ON Hill:

Backflip __________________

Frontflip __________________

360 grab __________________

Switch straight air __________________

Successfully slide the Saga feature __________________

OFF HILL:

Flip trick up the euro gap (indoor or outdoor) __________________

5 backflips in a row on the trampoline __________________

Boardslide a snowskate on a dry slope box __________________

Pack a lunch for any one of the Saga team riders one day __________________

YOUR NAME(S): CABIN #

______________________________ __________________

______________________________ __________________

______________________________ __________________

______________________________ __________________


We got the idea from KOTR. It would be awesome to do a full fledged thing. The hard part is Winter is such a short season and so un predictable and expensive. You can't do a lot of the street stuff because people would have to be traveling all over the country chasing snow. And the park stuff would require lift tickets. It can be done. But it will take someone to really get involved.

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Oct 3 2013 11:46PM
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Saga.
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^ It got cut off but you can get the idea I think.
Oct 3 2013 11:47PM
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telecolo_
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First off, I whole heartedly agree a king of the road for skiing would be awesome. Similar to Thrasher where there are a few target cities there could be a few target resorts, along with normal road trip shenanigan challenges to be productive (and get entertaining footage) while traveling.

However, I think we could even think smaller than this and potentially raise the eye brows of freeskier or something like that on how awesome this could be.. NS KOTR.

Skateperception does a forum wide KOTR every year where you can form teams (whether its your crew or whoever else available to you) and participate. Usually the team has to submit an "entry fee" before a particular date. The entry fee is used for prizes later. Then a couple days later a list is posted on the official thread consisting of random tasks, fun jams, grinds, flip tricks.. whatever, along with their point values. For skiing it could be broken down into "Shenanigans", "Urban", Resort "Small, Medium, and Large".. and maybe even some "Backcountry" stuff!

Usually everyone has about a few weeks to a month to film and edit a part to submit for their team by the due date. Once everything is submitted, everyone gets to vote on the winners based on their edit. We could distribute the entry fees to a "best edit" and a "most points earned". This is typically awesome as different teams will pursue a different goal. However there is usually a minimum point requirement you must hit to be considered for a win.

I honestly think this would work really well here and it is a really fun thing to indulge in even if you aren't participating. Also, it usually results in a crap ton of really great edits to watch! Guessing totallytrevor. would be real special.

Here is a link to the past years skateperception KOTR thread:

http://forums.skateperception.com/index.php?/topic/306973-skate-perception-king-of-the-road-2013-rules-and-task-list/?hl=kotr#entry4155534

If this had some interest I would be entirely down to help organize. I always had fun with this on SkatePerception.


Oct 5 2013 1:26PM
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telecolo_
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Also in reply to a comment Saga had. This could be open to any general "resort". Most people on this forum have season passes I would assume so their will be no pressure to move to another resort unless it is something they are really wanting to invest in.
Oct 5 2013 1:28PM
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will_powder
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This exists. Remember that dude who overshot the JOI jump in 2011? That was part of it. Called Kungen af Skutan, which I think means King of the Hill

http://www.spatziba.com/ski/g_n_a_r_and_king_of_the_hill_kungen_af_skutan_1781

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Oct 5 2013 1:55PM
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Xanderpe
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Haha that was so funny :D.
Oct 5 2013 3:04PM
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Miomo
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What the hell's an E-spin?
Oct 5 2013 3:26PM
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DrZoidberg
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Didn't freeskier do something like this a while ago? I remember one of the challenges was to go into a 7/ 11 or something with your skis on. And somebody did it and kissed the girl working there or something like that? Only a few episodes ever came out though, I don't think it ever finished.
Oct 5 2013 3:30PM
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-emile-
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they did it before it was the road trip challenge
Oct 5 2013 4:19PM
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VT_scratch
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yup. I think I was most stoked on this series of all skiing edits- even better than TC
Oct 5 2013 5:07PM
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jibbpeter
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Brb, calling Jon Olsson.
Oct 5 2013 5:13PM
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will_powder
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Yeah but they didn't finish the road trip challenge
Oct 5 2013 6:10PM
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-emile-
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for sure ! it was super sick but they never finished it , wich sucks
Oct 5 2013 7:12PM
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.squirrely.
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bring back road trip challenge
Oct 5 2013 7:36PM
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jca
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Road Trip Challenge was fucking awesome, i'd love to see it back.

NS's paid contributor system seems like it's perfectly set up for someone to do a project like this. Paging Bishop and Moose!
Oct 5 2013 7:37PM
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KingGeedorah
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They (being whatever entity willing to sponsor this project) could probably have open apps and select from a few crews kind of like the wild card spot in WCS but all wildcard spots.
Oct 5 2013 9:50PM
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Saga.
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If there is enough popular support for this idea you don't need a sponsor to put it on. As a community you can just create it and enough people will be hyped on it that competing in it will create enough hype to where the stand out crews and the winner gains enough exposure and recognition that it's worth it.

Think about it this way. Why are certain people who make edits more popular and revered than others? Because there is a large group of people who are talking about and promoting them. You (the NS community) could turn this into a true crowd sourced event. And without a sponsor it would be very underground and could for that reason get more credibility. These forums are an incredibly powerful tool that hasn't really been used to their full potential by skiers yet.

As a community you can create the parameters for the competition and then run it all yourselves. It would show the real power of this community.
Oct 5 2013 10:04PM
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telecolo_
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as i said .. we could make/create something incredible-fun-motivating.. seems like a great opportunity!
Oct 6 2013 2:44AM
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seanahue.
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god those edits were fucking insane

GUNRACK PACK TO THA WORLD


didn't they stop doing it because they thought someone might die or something if they took it any further...? i thought there was more booze-related challenges, but maybe these dudes just planned on being hammered the whole time anyway
Oct 6 2013 3:13AM
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Turkelton
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this is dumb
Oct 6 2013 3:58AM
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