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WHY THE FUCK DEW TOUR

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skiierman
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WHY THE FUCK DO YOU ALLOW PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SKIING, ANNOUNCE FUCKING SKIING? THANKS FOR POINTING OUT THAT HE LANDED SWITCH BUT NOTHING ELSE YOU DUMB BASTARD. THANKS FOR NAMING TRICKS SOMETIMES BUT GETTING IT WRONG 100% OF THE TIME. THANKS FOR BEING SOME HIPSTER FUCK WHOSE ONLY PURPOSE IS TO HAVE EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO HIM! HE THOUGHT VICE WAS "MONUMENTAL" TO SKIING!!! WHAT THE FUCK DEW TOUR!?






I'm not really that mad about it but fucking shit this shit sucks.
Dec 15 2013 1:13PM
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skiierman
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1. It's not hard. If skiing is so complex that you cannot tell what a feature is or which trick is thrown by LOOKING at it, then you shouldn't have a job announcing it.

2. The announcer's job is to give a move-by-move account of what's going on. His job is not to hold the hands of the fucking gapers who happen to stumble on watching this event, his job is to entertain the FANS of the sport... you know a majority of those watching it.


Why is it now OK for people to do a horrible job? If you suck at it then you shouldn't be doing it. It's not like these idiots will read "constructive" criticism and then magically gain all the knowledge needed to not suck at announcing an event. Just fucking replace them.

Rogge did a decent job for what he had to work with. Bring him back.
Dec 15 2013 3:04PM
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t-the-east
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The announcing can be tuned out to a point, but what's with the coverage? I don't get nbcsn, I like to ski on the weekends, so yesterday I caught the last half hour of snowboard half pipe which was pretty boring, and today I caught the last half hour of ski slope style. Why put it on at noon and why show only a small portion of the whole contest.
Dec 15 2013 3:08PM
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sherms
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honestly could not agree more. "oh wow great switch to switch 10 there" meanwhile the trick was switch cork 9. fucking dumbass
Dec 15 2013 3:09PM
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Titus69
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OP you realize Mike Rogge is from Freeskier Mag. Im not saying I agree I didnt like them but shut the fuck up
Dec 15 2013 3:13PM
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RipeTomato
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But is it worse than listening to Phil Simms?
Dec 15 2013 3:18PM
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skiierman
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You haven't been watching, have you? At one point the announcer felt compelled to describe what amplitude meant and it went something like this... "amplitude is what allows the skiers to fly through the air and to make it to the landing"...

Yes, it is worse.
Dec 15 2013 3:30PM
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powerbong2000
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love that NFL announcer shit like "what they, NEED, to ,DO, is get the ,BALL, down the FIELD!"
Dec 15 2013 3:33PM
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Dlud
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could not agree more
Dec 15 2013 3:34PM
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TomDavies
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Gus kenworthy comin in with a PERFECT DOUBLE BACKFLIP RODEO AND A PERFECT LANDING
Dec 15 2013 3:56PM
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milk_man
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THIS IS A GREAT IDEA RIGHT HERE.
Dec 15 2013 4:04PM
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J_Christoph
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My 8 year old sister knows more about skiing than these guys..
Dec 15 2013 4:07PM
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J_Christoph
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My 8 year old sister knows more about skiing than these guys..
Dec 15 2013 4:07PM
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Andrew_M
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Anyone else hear the announcers commentating for Vinni cashes' two up back-foot slide?...I didn't either. Disappointing honestly, there is such little air time on national tv, one would think the commentators would be prepared...You had one job...One job.
Dec 15 2013 4:12PM
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t-the-east
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Isn't Rogge from powder mag?
Dec 15 2013 4:12PM
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Titus69
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Oh fuck me yes he is
Dec 15 2013 4:22PM
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appa
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i mean, this happens during every televised skiing event (x games, dew tour, etc.) so it's pretty much expected now. let's not get all hot and bothered by it; it's not like we are relying on them to know what happened. if it were a radio broadcast it'd be a different story.

i felt really uncomfortable watching that skateboarder guy with rogge filling quiet time by just saying stupid bullshit and pretty much being an anxious douche on a live feed. rogge killed bitches though.
Dec 15 2013 4:23PM
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kevinegan
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if you talk shit to him on instagram he gets hella defensive. please help yourself @Andrew cannon
Dec 15 2013 4:24PM
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Bogs
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Anyone who is bitching in this thread needs to get off their computer immediately and reattach their testicles
Dec 15 2013 4:30PM
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Gypsy_Skier
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The faunt looks pretty big man
Dec 15 2013 4:45PM
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*TURBONERD*
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Nope, he no longer works at Powder.
Dec 15 2013 4:48PM
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GritznGravy
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This. Yeah it was pretty bad at times, but why should I get that fired up over them not knowing tricks? Is it because all the gapers watching will end up messing up trick names the next time they go to the hill. They do that anyway, and still, I really don't fucking care, at all.
Dec 15 2013 4:50PM
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PearTree-Prod
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Get Ron Burgundy and Morgan Freeman as the announcers
Dec 15 2013 4:52PM
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SamMcChesney
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they sounded like my dad when he talks about skiing...

I had to mute it because it was so annoying.


Dec 15 2013 4:52PM
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Dick*Bandit
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street league does it…. and tony hawk announces. we need o.g dudes to do it. x-games also does it with people after they are eliminated….
Dec 15 2013 4:52PM
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Swaggermager
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The next NS contest should be a quest for the next great skiing announcer
Dec 15 2013 5:25PM
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TheBayArea
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lol
Dec 15 2013 5:31PM
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Toaster-Tony
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Yes, it happens every year, but is that any reason to just accept shitty broadcasting? It gives freestyle skiing a pretty bad image in my opinion. When you have announcers that aren't even capable of pronouncing the athletes names or calling the correct tricks, it just makes the whole event seem unorganized. The fact that it happens every year doesn't make it better, if anything, it makes it worse.

I almost felt bad for the skateboarding/snowboarding guy though, it seems like he was thrown into an awkward situation. They would flash the camera on him and Rogge and expect them to kill a bunch of downtime with little to no material. Even at the end he felt compelled to apologize for not knowing his facts on skiing, I know if I was supposed to commentate a snowboard competition, I'd be just as lost as he was.
Dec 15 2013 5:35PM
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hank.ski
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BEST ANNOUNCER EVER
Dec 15 2013 5:44PM
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Bogs
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If the announcers can't do it, what makes you think 99% of the people watching can? The only people who know they are calling tricks wrong are kids on ns. The general public has no idea. You really think some guy who knows nothing about freeskiing is sitting on his couch at him like "yo they called that a 1080 but it was totally a flatspin, this sport clearly sucks balls"

The announcers being bad doesn't give the sport a bad image since the people watching don't know any better themselves
Dec 15 2013 5:45PM
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Afterbang.no
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this.
Dec 15 2013 5:50PM
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skiierman
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Oh yes, that's why every other professional sports program has complete morons announcing every game/race.... oh wait, that's just skiing. The best and worst part about it is that idiots like you think it's completely fine. "Oh I don't care if my sport is represented by gapers. No one needs to know how difficult or insane certain aspects of the sport are. That's not important at all." FUCK OFF.
Dec 15 2013 5:51PM
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Rogge
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1. I always wanted to be the subject of one of Scott's threads. This is a big day for me, you guys.

2. Andrew is a skateboarder. They wanted him to host to show consistency amongst the three Dew Tour stops. He's a nice guy and did his best. As for me, I would not want to ever host a skateboarding event because I know nothing about it.

3. I was asked consistently to "grab" skiers as they skied through. I wasn't going to do that because if it were me competing, I would think that behavior would be annoying as fuck.

4. Dave Euler is a coach now. That makes me really happy.

5. Thanks for watching. I haven't announced an event since the Winter Park Open way back when. I always appreciate the criticism.
Dec 15 2013 6:13PM
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gotti
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just wanted to say your commentary with tom wallisch was hilarious except when that dumb skater fuck kept interrupting you
Dec 15 2013 6:16PM
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JuliusJ
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Mike Douglas doesn't look so bad after all now, does he? Announcers are bound to fuck up some trick names but this year's Dew Tour is pretty atrocious... And no, Tanner or Henrik would be awful announcers, regardless of how stoked they are. We need someone who can actually speak English. LVV or Colby West would be my pick, charismatic and know what they're talking about.
Dec 15 2013 6:22PM
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j.var
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The best is when the announcers say they love to go skiing with their pro friends... Big fuckin deal you know 2 pros, you don't need to tell us about every trip you've ever taken with your pro friends
Dec 15 2013 6:24PM
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Bogs
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That's not even close to what i said, but i'm not surprised you're responding to what you wanted me to say instead of what I actually said.
Dec 15 2013 6:29PM
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Merrrick
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I pressed the downvote button and it went up. It was meant as a downvote, because henrik should be skiings representative.
Dec 15 2013 6:36PM
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Mrworm10
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All you'd hear is "X-Sliiiidddeee to switchhh"
Dec 15 2013 6:41PM
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UncleGerry
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Well thanks for clarifying that, your down voting is very important and everyone cares a lot about it.


On another note, you're an idiot for thinking that.
Dec 15 2013 6:45PM
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JAHBRADOR
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Thats why you follow me around downvoting all my posts.

#NSinsider
Dec 15 2013 6:50PM
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steezynips
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did you guys not notice all the amplitude though?
Dec 15 2013 6:51PM
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Mr.Bishop
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At this event Rogge was from newschoolers. He was the one announcer that we got to choose.
Dec 15 2013 6:53PM
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pelle_munch
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Luke was the one announcing when i watched.. I don't know what this is about. I watched it on TV
Dec 15 2013 7:04PM
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Kevin_Bang
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i heard one announce ask another if a switch 9 was a 10 and he replies "I'm not watching"
Dec 15 2013 7:13PM
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dweezileast
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I assume this is what you're referring to?
Dec 15 2013 7:14PM
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nstubler
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I thought LVV killed it
Dec 15 2013 7:15PM
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cory.ramsden
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When they called ABM's dud cork 7 a double flat 7
Dec 15 2013 7:28PM
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PKNeison
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I've got an even better idea.

Get Edollo and B-Dog to commentate, but instead of speaking they rap to the tricks in the style of "XSlide to Switch".

It would spice up the commentary and educate us aswell.

Educational but inspirational.
Dec 15 2013 7:31PM
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