2009 Build Off news.

[sniffleless]

I haven't forgotten about the Build Off. Have you???
So I am scheming and thinking on how we can make the Build Off bigger and better this year. If you have an idea please throw it out here.

So I'm thinking we have a Build Off for April or May. April being a week away at this point might be too little time to spin up some builders but April is when I'd like to do it. What do you guys say? As for theme.....I am thinking dancers. We start off easy and try and get a little harder with each Build Off.

We will have our Open Theme Summer Build Off either in June or July. That is a no theme build. You will have to declare a class this year. Beginner/Novice or Experienced/Expert. If you're a new builder you are a novice. If you've been doing these contest for awhile or run your own board building business you are an expert. Do you get the idea? Sand baggers will get bumped up if I have too.

So this should be the year of the championship tournament. We will run four Official Build Offs this year. I'm going to run some sort of points system. Builders that enter all four Official Build Offs will earn points. Points are awarded on how you place in each contest. At the end of the year (or at the end of the last official contest) a winner will be selected as "Builder of the Year." We'll try and do something nice for you. No promises but we shall see. What do you guys say about that?

[phil7153]

i think a dancer thread would be so damn awesome. Not only will we get super amazing builders to make dancers, we will also get to experience the "non professional" builds which will get more people into building. Right on, now im stoked.

[vj922]

Sweet, sounds awsome to me!!

Although i dont fancy making a dancer, il make a big board that dancing can be carried out on, if thats allowed.

Love the idea of having classes, will stir up the newbies and give em some more competition, and for the older, well i say older, more experienced guys a chance to show there new stuff, great idea.

Nice idea of having an overall builder of the year to, that will be pretty cool.


April is fine, Beter get ordering some supplies.

Rob

[Gs-boards]

imma busy with a dancer now... if u started a week ago...

[Daniel M.]

Awesome sniff! Ready for a whole 'nother year of building! Gonna step it up with the dancer build off, got some ideas brewing. Can't we start earlier?

[Everett McCord]

Sounds like loads of fun!!!

Dancer sounds good to me, been lookin to make one of dem for a while now

[bradley13148]

Dancer sounds good... just started drawing out some shapes. Maybe instead of "Dancer" it should just be a length requirement? Over 48"? I dunno. Anyway, super stoked for the first build off of the year, and I love the Idea of a "builder of the year" award. Maybe Free advertisement space here on the fish for the experienced/pro builder category? Any way, let's get building!

[Daniel M.]

Seconded on the length requirement instead. I skateboard, not dance

[vj922]

But surely you can dance on any longish deck...?

[Daniel M.]

But surely you can dance on any longish deck...?

You could boardwalk or cross-step one... I guess you could dance on it if you wanted to though lol.

[Everett McCord]

yeah I agree with a length limit... over 48" sounds good to me

and I would love to get this started soon... cant wait to start on my board ;D

and I also like the sound of advertising space

[vj922]

Twitch let me guess your deck in mind is a 49".???


I was thinking a 48 would be pretty cool but hay, will see what everyone else thinks, Id be up for a length limit.

48 and above..? haha.

[Everett McCord]

nope I am thinking 55"

[ielongboardman]

Sounds good to me. About how much time do we have for each build?

[Zach_Wolf]

I'm ready.

[dustm]

D=

lookit all that carbon!

jeepers

[vj922]

I'm sorry but that is just unfair.

[wardlarson]

subscribing

[thokk2]

Dancers sound good to me! I've been wanting to build one for a while. Our new press is almost done, and the first thing I was going to press was the dancer!

[hoch92000]

I'm ready.

I sense some carbon dancers are being submitted this time.

It's about time for another build. Thanks Sniff.