Damn Am Awards Announced: January 22, 2009, San Diego, CA
Posted on Friday, May 02, 2008
Details About The Damn Am Awards
SPoTlight Productions would like to announce the 1st Annual Damn Am Am Awards, taking place during the ASR Trade Show in San Diego, January 22 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center. The "Damn Am of the Year" is going to be based on the 2008 Damn Am events and Tampa Am. Here's how it's going to break down:
All Damn Am events follow the same format - timed runs with the top 30 making the cut to the Semi-Finals on Sunday. Once a skater makes the cut to Sunday during two separate Damn Am events, they are in the running for "SPoTlight Am of the Year." Their highest scores from those days are then averaged together for the final score, indicating who will be crowned Champ.
For an example of how these results would have been calculated in 2007, click here.
This year the Damn Am will be traveling to Minnesota, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Costa Mesa, and finally Tampa, for the coveted Tampa Am. Beginning in 2009, Damn Am will also be adding a stop way Down Under in Melbourne, Australia.
In addition to the highly coveted "Damn Am of the Year" award, we're working on other less-serious categories as well, such as Favorite New Am, Coolest Kid to Chill With, Worst Haircut, Changed Up His Kit, and so on. So if you're over every party at ASR that you can't get into because you're too young, or you're tired of getting "tickets" to find out that you have to wait outside the club for two hours and still not get in, come check out the Damn Am Awards. We're talking bands, food, and the usual damn good time that you've come to expect from the Tampa crew.
I guess that awards shows can be greeted with different emotions. Some think they’re cool; others think they’re lame. But we just wanted to have a good time...
SPoTlight Productions has announced the creation of the first annual SPoTlight Am Awards. Here's how it will all break down.
What's Up at SPoT: Random Posts From Over the Years
I've been posting random ramblings to this What's Up blog on the SPoT site since 1999. Here's a random list of some of my favorite posts over the years...Rob.
It's pretty amazing sitting in an hours long business meeting with like 10 people and literally everyone in the room is on the same level with the same goals and same views of skateboarding and how it needs to stay true.
Skate photos are coming soon. For now, here's a chill cam dump with everything from a tour of the Nike facilities to the sketchy characters at the Bro Bowl:
Lurking In Two Corners of the Country: Tampa and Nike in Portland
Too Much Megalomania In Skateboarding These Days (Sep 2008)
Posted by Rob on
Tue,
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I learned a new word today: megalomania. Maybe you can figure out what it means without looking it up. First read these quotes from an email discussion I've had recently with someone trying to get a spot in Damn Am:
(1) I know I could hold my own against any AM. It's cool if you don't think so, I won't argue with you bro. (2) i'm a great guy with a good head on my shoulders, I have full confidence i'll make it in skating (3)a lot of people seem to like my skating. Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting paychecks (4)I'm a great business guy at only 23 and really down to earth (5)I did enter MASA,with billy marks, jeremy rogers, lutzka,etc,etc and got top 40's and there were over sixty riders.
Sounds amazing, huh? Now check out 30 seconds of his footage. Let me know if you think I should give him a spot.
Schaefer and I were supposed to go home yesterday. We never got on that flight. There's an event in Rotterdam this weekend so we're staying for that. Not only are we staying, we've also kidnapped DMFP who will also be spending the week here. Here's some random flicks: Onward to Rotterdam.
SPoTlight Productions would like to announce the 1st Annual Damn Am Am Awards, taking place during the ASR Trade Show in San Diego, January 22 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center. The "Damn Am of the Year" is going to be based on the 2008 Damn Am events and Tampa Am. Here's how it's going to break down:
