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The Dew Action Sports Tour, commonly known as the Dew Tour, is a four-event action sports tour that has been held across the United States since its inception in 2005. Sports on the tour include BMX cycling, skateboarding and freestyle motorcross, and surfing. <!-- that consists of four major, multi-sport events spanning the United States, with a cumulative points system, a $2 million competitive purse – the largest in action sports – and an additional $1 million bonus pool.

History
The Dew Tour was established in 2005 as the world's premier season-long action sports tour. With four stops from July through October, the Dew Tour is owned and operated by Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports. NBC Universal and MTV, along with USA Network, are the broadcast homes of the Dew Tour. The Dew Tour is also distributed on Fuel TV, Universal HD, and internationally on Eurosport, Fox Australia, Extreme Channel and Allarco Superchannel. They combine for 52 hours of Dew Tour coverage, the largest in all of action sports. In its fourth year, the Dew Tour was the most watched and attended action sports property in the world, reaching 100 countries and 280 million homes worldwide.

The Dew Tour features skateboarding (park, vert, and bowl), BMX (park, vert, and dirt) and freestyle motocross. With cumulative points earned at each of the four stops based on performance, the overall points leader in each of the seven disciplines is crowned year-end champion and awarded the prestigious Dew Cup. The winner with the most overall points is also awarded the title of Athlete of the Year. Past Dew Cup winners include Bucky Lasek, Ryan Sheckler, Jamie Bestwick, Shaun White and Nate Adams.

Key lifestyle elements at each Tour event include the Festival Village, specialty competitions, and live cutting-edge music. The Dew Tour's title sponsor is Mountain Dew. Pantech, Toyota, and Nike 6.0 are event title sponsors. Associate partners include Ball Park, JC Penny, MyPlash, National Guard, Paul Mitchell, PlayStation, Power Bar, and Sony.

Host sites
The four host sites are selected from more than twenty prospective sites throughout the U.S. through a competitive bidding process. All four sites share a commitment with the Dew Tour to develop and offer fans a first-class, community-based event.

Event types
The Dew Tour features three sports, with each sport consisting of several different disciplines:


 * BMX
 * Dirt: Riders will take runs on an all-dirt course made up of jumps of varying heights and distances. Judges will look for consistency, difficulty of tricks, and overall flow of each run.
 * Park: Riders try to put together the best possible run on a park-style course made up of spines, ramps, mini-ramps, wall rides and box jumps. Judges will look for overall flow, use of the course, linking tricks as well as difficulty of tricks when scoring a run.
 * Vert: Each rider will have a limited amount of time to put together their best run on this 80' wide half-pipe (BMX and skate share the same ramp). Riders will be judged on flow, height and difficulty of tricks.
 * Freestyle Motocross: The only motorized competition on the Dew Tour, FMX features a course composed of metal takeoff ramps and dirt landings. Riders will be judged on their tricks over jumps that allow riders to reach distances of up to 90'.
 * Skateboard
 * Park: The park-style course will allow skaters to showcase their technical skills as well as their ability to "go big". The combination of ledges and rails with larger park obstacles will bring out a myriad of different lines and tricks, which is what judges will look for.
 * Vert: Each rider will have a limited amount of time to put together their best run on this 80' wide half-pipe (BMX and skate share the same ramp). Riders will be judged on flow, height and difficulty of tricks.
 * Bowl

Festival Village
Festival Village is a free, highly interactive complex that fans can explore, giving them a chance to experience the lifestyle aspects of the Dew Tour. Samples, giveaways, contests, and games are offered by sponsors to give the fans a more thorough experience between competitions. Fans get a chance to interact with their favorite athletes at autograph signings and as the athletes themselves discover all there is to see and do in Festival Village.

Concerts
Another main feature of the Dew Tour is the headlining concerts they put on at every stop. Big names come out to give the fans a musical party- typically either for free or for a minimal ticket cost. The lineup in 2009 was incredible, with hometown rapper Lupe Fiasco in Chicago, Taking Back Sunday at the Skate Open in Boston, rockstar celebs LMFAO in Portland, and rising star Asher Roth in Salt Lake City. The season was closed out with an outdoor show by local phenom Flo Rida in conjunction with the Dew Cup Awards Ceremony in Orlando.

Rapper Kid Cudi will perform a free concert at the 2011 tour's first stop in Ocean City for the Pantech Open. The groups "Dean's List" and "The Cool Kids" will open the concert.

2005

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2005

The 2005 Dew Tour Athlete of the Year honor was awarded to Ryan Sheckler (skateboard park) for having the most accumulated points across all six disciplines. Dew Cup winners included Sheckler, Bucky Lasek (skate vert), Ryan Guettler (BMX park and dirt), Jamie Bestwick (BMX vert) and Kenny Bartram (FMX).

2006

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2006

The 2006 Dew Tour Athlete of the Year accolade was awarded to Bestwick (BMX vert) for having the most accumulated points across all six disciplines. Sheckler, Lasek and Bestwick all repeated as Dew Cup champions, while Daniel Dhers (BMX park), Anthony Napolitan (BMX dirt) and Nate Adams (FMX) earned the year-end title in their disciplines.

2007

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2007

The 2007 Dew Tour Athlete of the Year honor was garnered by Adams (FMX) for having the most accumulated points across all six disciplines. Sheckler and Bestwick each won their third consecutive Dew Cups, with Adams and Dhers earning back-to-back titles and Shaun White (skate vert) and Ryan Nyquist (BMX dirt) earning their first Dew Cup honors.

2008

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2008

The 2008 Dew Tour Athlete of the Year honor was a first in Dew Tour history. Bestwick and Dhers split the honor for having the most accumulated points across all six disciplines. With four straight titles for Bestwick and three for Dhers, all other Dew Cup winners were first-time Dew Tour champions -- Pierre-Luc Gagnon (skate vert), Cameron White (BMX dirt) and Adam Jones (FMX). In a year of firsts, the Dew Tour crowned its youngest Dew Cup champion, 2007 Free Flow Tour winner Chaz Ortiz, the 14-year-old skate park phenom.

2009

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2009

The 2009 Athlete of the Year went to Ryan Nyquist for having the most accumulated points across all six disciplines after he won the BMX dirt Dew Cup and finishing fifth overall in BMX park. Garrett Reynolds and Chris Cole were the only new Dew Cup Champions, for BMX park and skate park respectively. Jamie Bestwick swept the 2009 season and took home his fifth BMX vert Dew Cup, while Bucky Lasek won his third skate vert Dew Cup.

For the first time in its five-year history, the Dew Tour featured a BMX-only event in Chicago and a skateboard-only event in Boston. In conjunction with the Skate Open in Boston, TD Gardens also hosted the first ISF World Skateboarding Championships. By winning this particular Dew Tour stop, Ryan Sheckler and Bucky Lasek were also titled the first ISF World Skateboarding Champions.

2010

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2010

The 2010 Dew Cup champions include Chaz Ortiz (skateboard park), Pierre-Luc Gagnon (skate vert), Daniel Dhers (BMX park), Jamie Bestwick (BMX vert) and Brandon Dosch (BMX dirt).

2011

 * See main article: Dew Tour 2011

Entering it's 7th year, the host sites for the 2011 Dew Tour include: Ocean City, Maryland (Pantech Open); Portland, Oregon (Portland Invitational); Salt Lake City, Utah (Toyota Challenge); and Las Vegas, Nevada (Dew Tour Championships).

New for 2011 is a surfing competition at the tour's first stop in Ocean City, Maryland along with the new discipline of skate bowl.