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This weekend the first annual King Of The Animal House event will take place in Greenville, NC. Today (Friday 11 December) the Cash Jam is on the program. Not only do the riders go crazy for some extra cash ($ 8000,= USD total), but the one who makes most cash today, also will receive a brand new Yamaha TTR dirt bike. Today also forms the groups of tomorrow's finals and the last group receives some extra time in their jam session. Reason enough to go nuts in "qualifying" today. Here are a few notes from yesterday and pics by Sean Hargraves.

-Mad Dog replaces Chase Hawk who is out with hurt shoulder
-Drew Bezanson can’t get out of Canada/into the US for some paperwork issue so he wont be here
-Vince Byron boosting to the moon
-There will be a head to head mini comp between Chris Hughes and Vince Byron to win a place in the final jam. Whoever wins the most $$$ in Friday’s cash jam gets the spot

Showcasing the disciplines of BMX park, vert and dirt with its first ever BMX single-sport event, the Dew Tour’s Nike 6.0 BMX Open was filled with firsts including two newcomers to the podium. Kicking off the Nike 6.0 BMX Open, the BMX dirt finals quickly became the night of the open qualifier, as Josh Hult fought through three rounds of competition to claim a piece of the spotlight. After taking seventh in open qualifiers and second in the prelims, Hult hit the eject button in his first run, putting the pressure on him for his final two runs. A truckdriver tailwhip and 360 to downside whip helped secure the victory for Hult, the first of his career. Hult beat out the past two Dew Cup champions – 2007’s Ryan Nyquist and 2008’s Cam White – to make the feat that much more impressive. Brandon Dosch, who also had never made it onto a Dew Tour podium before the Nike 6.0

The 2009 Dew Tour is officially underway. Things got started with the BMX Park Prelims. In a wild contest, Mirra came out on top. Garrett Reynolds, who has been busy with the Nike 6.0 Street Specialty Competition, managed to run over to the Park course to come in second. Marcus Tooker, Dennis Enarson, Craig Mast, Mark Webb, Brandon Dosch, Morgan Wade, and Steven McCann will also be riding in tomorrow's Finals.
Results Dew Tour Chicago BMX PARK PRELIMS:

Mirra Returns With A Vengeance; Shakes of opening-night slam for Gold in Park LOS ANGELES - If there were any after effects from Dave Mirra's opening-night slam at X Games 11, they weren't evident in Saturday afternoon's BMX Freestyle Park finals. The Miracle Boy has only left the X Games without a gold medal around his neck twice in his previous 10 appearances. Make that twice in 11 appearances after he delivered a knockout punch to his competition on his first run with a score of 89.33 that was highlighted by a Backflip Tailwhip over the spine and a Double Tailwhip and claimed his 14th career gold - 19th medal overall.

On Monday morning after the FISE contest in Montpellier Sean Hargraves, Ryan Guettler and Andy Buckworth made it to the 12h23 TGV train to Paris. However at 12h00 Maxime Charveron and Dave Rytell were still missing. Sean had the tickets for both of them and they literally had to run to the train station in order to make the ride. The train was running late (strike in France?!) so the two met up with the others and were off to Paris for a few days of shooting pics for the Mirraco site, the 2010 online catalog