The marketing heads at Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate apparently get all powered up from perusing photos of stacked, stinking, snow shred houses, what other reason could they have for their new Flophouse photo contest?
The SDS has been collecting entries we’ve gotten throughout the season, getting ready to vote on the World’s Best Flophouse of the 2009. The winning crew will get 5 Rome decks to fight over. We’ll be deciding around mid July, so get your photos from the season together and get to uploading by the entry deadline, June 15th.
They are looking for photos of homes that are knee deep in moldy first-layer fungus and all the stench that goes with it. Sounds like delicious marketing. Follow the jump for all the details. Or click here to send email to Ridercouncil@romesnowboards.com
Rome SDS Flophouse Contest
Flophouses are key to the life of snowboarding. When riders descend on a small mountain town, pack 8+ people into an apartment designed for 3, and ride park and pow everyday, the stories that emerge are what define the best parts of snowboarding. From Breck to Tahoe to Whistler to Killington to Mammoth.
This season, the SDS is looking for photos of your Flophouse. In the Flophouse gallery, you can post pictures of your house and check out how other shreds who ride 100+ days a year are living around the world.
Is your apartment a Flophouse? Are there always 3 air mattresses inflated? Is your share of the $1000 dollar rent $125? After 3 or 4 powder days, does your apartment smell like a bag of ass? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then your apartment is a flop house.
The SDS has been collecting entries we’ve gotten throughout the season, getting ready to vote on the World’s Best Flophouse of the 2009. The winning crew will get 5 Rome decks to fight over. We’ll be deciding around mid July, so get your photos from the season together and get to uploading by the entry deadline, June 15th.
Email Ridercouncil@romesnowboards.com with any questions…
sounds like the smart ones at Rome just ripped off the Cloudveil Ski Cribs contest.
Has Rome ever done anything original?
Hmmm… pretty sure they were the first to leave burton and start their own brand. but ever since 050601 they have been biting on every brand out there.
yay ROME! biting pillows since 2001.
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