The returns to Breckenridge in December, marking the ninth year the skiing and snowboarding contest has taken over the Summit County ski area’s halfpipe and slopestyle course.
Mountain Dew and TEN: The Enthusiast Network — the media outfit that took over production of the Dew Tour this year — are promising a “reimagined” Dew Tour with a new format that will include the traditional ski and snowboard pipe and slopestyle contests, as well as team competition, which will pit athletes divided by their equipment sponsors, like Atomic vs. Salomon or Burton vs. Volcom.
The revamped Dew Tour drew record attendance at the Long Beach, Calif., stop in July. Top athletes such as snowboarder Danny Davis and back-to-back are booked for this year’s show, scheduled Dec. 8-11. On Tuesday, a photo of himself in a slopestyle park, saying he was “Ready to get back out there.”
With Snow Park Technologies designing new slopestyle features and the superpipe for Breckenridge, this year’s Dew Tour stop will probably bring out the biggest names in freeskiing and snowboarding as the 2016-17 season sets the stage for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
This year’s Dew Tour also will include live music and, for the first time, the popular Transworld Snowboarding Riders Poll Awards and the Powder Awards.
“On the heels of the most recent successes coming out of the new summer skate event in Long Beach, we are really looking forward to carrying on the vigor into the winter sports, and returning back to Breckenridge,” Mountain Dew marketing chief Greg Lyons said in a statement.