Overall Free Flow Tour Champions Will Receive Wildcard Entry
Into Final Dew Tour Stop
NEW YORK — May 6, 2008 — The AST, the umbrella brand and organization of the world’s most
prestigious action sports events, today announced the complete 2008 Free Flow Tour schedule. The Free
Flow Tour is the official amateur series of the AST Dew Tour and provides amateur athletes with the
opportunity to qualify into the final event of the AST Dew Tour, the PlayStation Pro®, as well as the
prospect for professional sponsorship. The Free Flow Tour kicks off May 17 in Rye, N.H.
The Free Flow Tour will include a total of 29 skate competitions (five skate vert and 24 skate park) and 20
BMX competitions (four BMX vert and 16 BMX park) at 28 parks across the U.S. The top skate and BMX
finishers at each of the 49 competitions will be flown to the AST Dew Tour’s Toyota Challenge, in Salt
Lake City, Utah for the Free Flow Tour Finals, where one champion will be crowned in each discipline.
Encompassing the ‘Flow to Pro’ theme, the two overall skate and BMX park champions and the two
overall skate and BMX vert champions win a wild card spot to compete against the pros at that final stop
of the AST Dew Tour, the PlayStation Pro®, in Orlando, Fla.
“Free Flow Tour gives young amateurs the opportunity to be propelled to the next level of competition,”
said Wade Martin, AST president. “The Free Flow Tour will be crisscrossing the country this summer
discovering the new pool of talent that is the future of skateboarding and BMX.”
The AST has also teamed with BNQT, a leading digital action sports company, to launch
www.FreeFlowTour.com. FreeFlowTour.com will be the exclusive home to all competition video, photos,
contest information, on-line registration, as well as host a social community for participants and fans.
2008 REGISTRATION
Each competition is open to both male and female amateur competitors age 18-and-under for skate and
21-and-under for BMX. Contest registration forms are available at Free Flow Tour host parks and at
www.freeflowtour.com. There is an entry fee that varies park to park, and all participants under the age
of 18 must bring a parent or guardian to the event to sign a liability waiver.
AST
The Action Sports Tour (AST) is the recently created umbrella brand and organization of the world’s most
prestigious action sports events. Currently the AST consists of two national tours, one international event
and an amateur series: AST Dew Tour (debuted in 2005), AST Winter Dew Tour (debuting in 2008), AST
China (debuting in 2008), and Free Flow Tour (debuted in 2005). The AST properties are home to over
300,000 spectators each year and broadcast in 100 countries and 280 million homes worldwide. The Free
Flow Tour, the AST Dew Tour’s official amateur series, provides amateur athletes the opportunity to
showcase their skills and earn a chance to compete against the pros on the AST Dew Tour. The 2008
Tour consists of 49 regional events across 26 cities in the U.S., featuring skateboarding (vert and park)
and BMX (vert and park). The winners of each regional event earn a trip to compete in the Free Flow
Tour finals held at the 4th stop of the AST Dew Tour, the Toyota Challenge in Salt Lake City, UT. The
overall champions in the four disciplines of the Free Flow Tour Finals automatically earn a trip and wild
card spot to compete against the pros at the AST Dew Tour's PlayStation Pro in Orlando, Fla. More
information can be found at www.freeflowtour.com.
BNQT
BNQT is a leading digital media company focused on meaningfully connecting
consumers, producers and advertisers in the growing sector of action sports. BNQT operates an action
sports video community destination (BNQT.com) which combines best-in-breed professional action sports
video from leading industry producers with innovative social networking tools to create a highly engaged
consumer platform covering more than ten different sports categories. Through its affiliated advertising
network of more than 20 affiliated action sports sites, communities, video sites and blogs (Cold War
Collective), BNQT has created a platform of more than a million highly engaged action sports enthusiasts
per month, and offers the premium solution for advertisers and brands to reach this audience in a relevant
context. BNQT has significant distribution relationships for action sports video across more than a dozen
leading video portals, works with more than fifty leading action sports producers, and is the exclusive
digital partner of the Free Flow Tour.
For further information:
AST
Nicole Mancuso: 630-908-6308
nicolemancuso@ast.com
