Burton NZ Open 2009

11-15 August 09

The festivities will kick off on Monday, August 10 with a free opening party featuring Sunshine Soundsystem in Queenstown, NZ at the Skyline Gondola, followed by an after party at Rattlesnake Bar.

Competition will get underway on Wednesday, August 12 with men’s slopestyle prequalification and qualifications, followed by the women’s slopestyle qualifiers. On Thursday, August 13, the men’s halfpipe prequalification and qualification rounds will go down, followed by women’s halfpipe qualifications. The Gravis Open Sessions will also kick off on August 13 with music from Black Sun Empire (NL), State of Mind and Truth at the Lake Wanaka Center, followed by an after party at Post Office Lane.

All eyes will be on the slopestyle course on Friday, August 14 for men’s and women’s slopestyle semifinals and finals. Later, the action will move to Wanaka for the first annual “Fight Night” at the Lake Wanaka Center, where riders will duke it out UFC-style for the title. An after party will follow at Post Office Lane.

The 22’ superpipe at Cardrona Alpine Resort, the same size halfpipe that will be featured at the 2010 Winter Olympics, will be the locale for the men’s and women’s halfpipe semifinal and final competitions on Saturday, August 15. In the evening, Tiki Live and DJ Reno will wrap up the week’s festivities with the final act of the Gravis Sessions, taking place at the Lake Wanaka Center followed by an after party at Post Office Lane.

There will be live webcasts on Go211.com and for more information visit www.opensnowboarding.com

The Fins finish the Junior World Champs in style
Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajarvi win the Big Air, the final event in the 2010 FIS Junior World Championships in New Zealand -31Aug10
Junior Snowboard Halfpipe World Champions Crowned
Cilka Sadar of Slovenia and Taku Hiraoka of Japan were today crowned Junior Snowboard Halfpipe World Champions in an exciting day of competition at Cardrona that also saw New Zealand earn its first medal of the Championships. -25Aug10
Halfpipe qualifiers at the Junior World Champs
Over 80 young snowboarders today took on the massive 22ft halfpipe at Cardrona in a bid to earn a prized spot in tomorrows semi finals and an opportunity to ride for the 2010 Junior World Championship title -24Aug10
Burton New Zealand Open 2010 Halfpipe results
The eighth annual Burton New Zealand Open Halfpipe finals took place under blue bird skies today at Cardrona Alpine Resort with Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) taking first place in the mens event and Kelly Clark (USA) winning the womens competition -16Aug10
FIS Junior World Championships prepares
Over 300 of the worlds elite junior snow sports athletes will arrive in Lake Wanaka this week to compete in the inaugural FIS Snowboard & Freestyle Junior World Championships which runs from 19-31 August. -16Aug10

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