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Eco Challenge 2005

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Watcher
Member

09-19-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 2:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone know when this year's Eco Challenge will be shown? I was thinking it was somewhere around April or May....hope I haven't missed it already.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 3:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee_in_ca should know....drop a line in her folder....

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There was not an Eco-Challenge last year, so there is not one to be shown on TV.

Mid-last year, the Eco organization had a public auction of all of their equipment, etc., so most people assumed the race was officially dead.

However, Mark Burnett gave an interview to Adventure Sports magazine late last year saying that the Eco "might" be back this year -- but since there has been NO movement and no athletes know anything about it, it's assumed to be gone for good.

On another note, the next biggest North American race, the Primal Quest, also is not running a race this year, after an unfortunate death during the race last year, and loss of their television and other sponsors.

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bummer, I really liked Eco-Challenge.

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
no eco challenge?

the world has truly come to an end

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It is a very expensive sport -- both for the athletes and the organizers -- and with a recent spate of high-profile accidents and deaths, now it's very expensive insurance-wise, too. Advertisers haven't put a big amount of $$ behind it since the dot-com/advertising bust, and without TV sponsors, it's become almost too costly for all. It's sad, cause it's a great sport.

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
it was on my to-do list for years - my favorite reality sport competition since it first came on TV

Lexie_girl
Member

07-30-2004

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm so bummed out.

Watcher
Member

09-19-2000

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 10:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee_in_ca.....thanks for the response and for filling us in as I hadn't heard anything about it and was wondering.

I was sorry to hear that news. I loved watching the Eco Challenge the past few years and was looking forward to seeing it again.