The Dew Tour is a sports tour that consists of five major, multi-sport events spanning the United States, with a cumulative points system, a $2.5 million competitive purse – the largest in action sports – and an additional $1 million bonus pool.

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History

The Dew Tour was established in 2005 as the world's premier season-long action sports tour. With five stops from June 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. They combine for 52 hours of Dew Tour coverage, the largest in all of action sports. In its fourth year, the Dew Tour is the most watched and attended action sports property in the world, reaching 100 countries and 280 million homes worldwide.

Each event features skateboarding (park and vert), BMX (park, vert, and dirt) and freestyle motocross. With cumulative points earned at each of the five stops based on performance, the overall points leader in each of the six 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 partners include Mountain Dew (tour title sponsor) and Wendy's (whose seat was previously occupied by Vans), Toyota and PlayStation (all event title sponsors). Associate partners include Ball Park, Mongoose, and Verizon Wireless.

Host sites

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

Host sites for the 2009 Dew Tour include Chicago, Ill.; Boston, Mass.; Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City, Utah and Orlando, Fla.

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.

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

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

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

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

For the first time in its five-year history, the Dew Tour will feature a BMX-only event in Chicago and a skateboard-only event in Boston. The Dew Tour will be returning to Portland, Ore. and Orlando for the fifth straight year as well as to Salt Lake City for the third year in a row.

Also, a new event dubbed the Dart Tag world Championship is scheduled, utilizing several foam-dart launching blasters from the iconic brand of NERF.

See also

• X Games
• Extremity Games
• Gravity Games
• Velocity Games
• Winter Dew Tour