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AWESOME CONTEST:
THE CONTEST STARTS TODAY. JUNE 16th-25th, 2008!

POSTED June 16, 2008 BY Bob Kronbauer

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  • Category: Skateboarding, Video

15 Responses to “AWESOME CONTEST:
THE CONTEST STARTS TODAY. JUNE 16th-25th, 2008!”

  1. R V C A Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    [...] for more info, please check in with Vancouverisawesome.com, or just check the flyer [...]

  2. bowDIGGA Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    this contest open to anyone in the country??

  3. Bob K Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Yep, it’s open to everyone. E-mail us at contact@vancouverisawesome.com on Monday June 16th and we’ll tell you what you’ve gotta do to enter if you can’t make it to Antisocial.

  4. Rob Rickaby Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    how are they going to regulate what tricks were filmed in said week? hmmm should be fun!

  5. ben stoddard Says:
    June 13th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    can animals enter?

  6. qbit Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    the flier says, “all are welcome” so i believe that should include animals but don’t take my word for it.

  7. atlas rockefellar jr Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    whaaaat i enterd yesterday and the flyer at the shop said the shoelace could be anywhere
    i hought new shoes yeterday though so does it count if everything i film is in the shoes i bought that day? looads of people have mismatched laces

  8. dingleberry Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Loads of people have new shoes too!

  9. Cody Roedl » Blog Archive » Awesome Video Contest Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    [...] Cool skate stuff . You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!éS Footwear and VancouverIsAwesome.com are teaming up to hold a video contest. All parts have to be filmed in one week. Everyone in the [...]

  10. atlas rockefellar jr Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    yeah but i bought them from michelle the day i wrote my name on the piece of paper and we were talking about it
    its cool ill play by the rules, not really into it for the win anyway

  11. Suede Peterson Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    extension?

  12. Bob K Says:
    June 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    To be fair to the people who followed the rules and made a video part in a week… no extensions.

  13. atlas rockefellar jr Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am

    was ha’nin with the screening?

  14. teenwolf Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    who won?

  15. AWESOME VIDEO CONTEST… RESULTS! Says:
    August 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    [...] THIS CONTEST that we put on with eS Footwear? Well, after much deliberation we’ve finally got the results [...]

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