drjeff
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God how they ruined it! What a party! I am a boarder and I can honestly say that the Dew Tour will have nothing on that. The Dew Tour will have a large hip hop influence, with a bunch of g'd out white kids who can't even pull off ebonics correctly. I hate rap and love music that probably has me dated! The world is passing me by and I am only 31.
Heres to long T's, Short Ski's and Crappy Music!
If they pulled in a WC race, that would be a worthy event. These park events are like getting a crack high.
My take on the Dew Tour and the good 'ol BMMC as a late 30's skier who witnessed the Dew Tour 1st hand at Mount Snow the last 2 years and hit the BMMC from 2001-2005.
From a non new schooler/park rat/pipe rider perspective, the athletes competign at The Dew Tour and at teh BMMC are pretty amazing - since there aren't any "walk up" amateurs in The Dew Tour vs. at the BMMC top to bottom the Dew Tour has a stronger field also with athletes that you will see in the Winter X-games a few weeks later, whereas in the BMMC these days, you're basically not seeing any current national team members.
Course wise, OL with a mogul course looks pretty sweet IMHO, but interms of the sheer size, the features they build for the slopestyle course for The Dew Tour are MASSIVE, the kind of size where you really can't appreciate how big they are until you see them in person and then likely in the weeks immediately after the competition get to ski/ride over and around them. Plus the lighting + sound system that they bring for the 1/2 pipe for the Dew Tour is very impressive. Additionally while the BMMC has gotten some TV coverage on/off over the last few years courtesy of Glenn Plake and his RSN ""Reel Thrills" TV show, seeing your home mountain LIVE on national TV in a prime sports time slot on a Saturday afternoon far surpasses "Reel Thrills"
Party wise - The "village" that they build for The Dew Tour is/was fun to check out for me for 15 minutes or so. Pick up a few stickers/shirts/free schwagg, but then for me it became not more more than something to look at and get a bit annoyed by all the folks walking around it with their ski pants hanging down around their knees pretending to be way cooler than they actually were. The on-hill party scene at the BMMC, for the standpoint of someone who really enjoys tailgate style BBQ's/parties etc far supassed The Dew Tour. The off hill party scene - there in all likelyhood will be some national acts brought in for The Dew Tour who will be performing if not in the immediate Bear Base area, on the Killington Road that weekend. Much of the party scene though Dew Tour wise tended to be smaller private parties at various places that the atletes were staying.
It's more like tryign to compare apples + oranges - they both have their strong points, but if your a strong fan of one and not the other, you're likely to find it more of a novelty to check out for an hour or so before you're interest is lost.