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Freeze Festival new direction for Snowboarding!

Thu 13 September 12

Relentless Energy Drinks announces the creation of an Invitational Snowboard Event for Freeze 2012.

Freeze Festival new direction for Snowboarding! © Relentless Energy Drinks Freeze Festival

This year sees big changes to the snowboard event at Freeze festival as the event will now invite some of the biggest athletes in the sport. The snowboard comp will now follow the same format as the ski event, Freeze Ski Big Air, and will invite the World’s biggest names in the discipline.

Athletes already confirmed for 'Freeze snowboard Big Air'  include Halldor and Eiki Helgason, Air & Style Winner Marko Grilc, Norwegian Gjermund Braaten, and the UK’s Jamie Nicholls.

This year will also see the addition of grand stand seating available for those hardcore sports fans, who want to be near the action! a strong lineup will see Public Enemy, DJ Shadow and Grandmaster Flash entertain the crowd!

Freeze will also introduce best trick events in both snowboard and ski and the classic Europe v’s The World Rider Cup also returns. A more detailed breakdown of the even can be found below.

Relentless Energy Drink Freeze Festival Schedule and Formats:

Friday 26th October	Saturday 27th  October
Ski Union Battle of Britain Ski 16 riders Top two qualify for International event (Best two of three jumps count)	Whitelines Battle of Britain SB 16 riders Top two qualify for International event (Best two of three jumps count)
Snowboard Cash Jam crowd pleaser/rider rated/style	Ski Cash Jam crowd pleaser/rider rated/style
International Ski Big Air 20 riders (seeding qualifiers/head to head/5 man final)	International Snowboard Big Air 20 riders (seeding qualifiers/head to head/5 man final)
Freeze Test Dummies (our handpicked flying squad will entertain the crowd and test the jump before every event on both days)	EuropeV’s The World Rider Cup 6 person teams (3 x ski & 3 x SB) Head to Head Trick selector/Judges judged/Crowd Judged

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