For pretty much everyone outside of France the FISE contest is that one big event in Montpellier every year where more people show up for Sunday's park finals than at any other BMX contest. But the FISE is more than that. For years they've taken the portable ramps from town to town in France to put on FISE Experience stops. The overall winner of the tour would win a car. I believe
Maxime Charveron and
Alessandro Barbero won one once and
Daniel Wedemeijer won the overall a year later and got a big check. Fast forward to 2014 and the FISE is taking the tour to the world with stops in France (Montpellier), Andorra, Malaysia and China.
The tour was announced at an official press conference in Paris a few weeks back. Announced was not only the World Tour, but at the first stop of the 2014 Experience tour the pro rider who would win, would get his flights and hotel paid for for the World Tour. Not only that, the first stop in Marseille had a pro purse of € 15.000,=!