{"id":21829,"date":"2011-03-04T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21829"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T21:26:00","slug":"do-skate-contests-matter-alli-hopes-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21829","title":{"rendered":"Do Skate Contests Matter? Alli Hopes So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/chaz_ortiz_park_final_SLC.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/chaz_ortiz_park_final_SLC.jpg','popup','width=640,height=370,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/chaz_ortiz_park_final_SLC-tm.jpg\" height=\"115\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chaz Ortiz Park Final Slc\" \/><\/a>Not surprisingly, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alli Sports<\/a><\/strong> (the website of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comcast<\/a><\/strong><strong>\/<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viacom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viacom<\/a><\/strong><strong>\/<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pepsi Co<\/a><\/strong> joint venture responsible for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisports.com\/dew-tour\" target=\"_blank\">Dew Tour<\/a><\/strong>) has a <strong>Paul Zitzer <\/strong>story on their website explaining exactly why skateboarding contests matter again. Apparently it&#8217;s all about the money. Paul writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When $150,000 is riding on your favorite skater\u2019s last attempt at a kickflip, you\u2019ll notice that even people that \u201chate\u201d contests sure seem to talk about them a lot. But, as the credits roll on this write-up, maybe the raddest thing about contests is that you get to see what used to take two years and a kajillian tries happen live on TV right before your eyes in an afternoon. That\u2019s nothing to complain about\u2026so long as no one decides to add a halftime show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We don&#8217;t exactly disagree, but it is fun to read a skate contest hyping piece on a site whose entire business model relies solely on contests and competition mattering. If contests don&#8217;t matter, then the Dew Tour doesn&#8217;t matter. No duh, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisports.com\/alli\/feature\/zitzer-why-contests-matter\" target=\"_blank\">Alli Sports<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Alli Sports (the website of the Comcast\/Viacom\/Pepsi Co joint venture responsible for the Dew Tour) has a Paul Zitzer story on their website explaining exactly why skateboarding contests matter again. Apparently it&#8217;s all about the money. Paul writes: When $150,000 is riding on your favorite skater\u2019s last attempt at a kickflip, you\u2019ll notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21835,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions\/21835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}