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(France) - Snowboard contest– Super Pipe
QUIKSILVER CHROMATOPHOBIA
Quiksilver is creating a brand new winter meeting that will bring
together the world’s very best freestyle snowboarders in France,
on Friday 3 April 2009.
The last Super Pipe competition to be held in
France before the Winter Olympics in 2010,
the Quiksilver Chromatophobia aims to establish itself as one of
Europe’s major snowboard meetings.
After historic events like the Quik Cup and the Slopestyle Pro, Quiksilver has opted for La Plagne, the European mecca of freestyle,
which will this year be hosting the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Final and Urban Plagne.
An Olympic-standard Pipe
A SUPER-PIPE of awe-inspiring proportions – 150m long, 18m
wide and 5.5m high – will be built at La Plagne to host the 16
international pro snowboarders invited, as well as the four leaders
of the on-line game «King Of Snow», sponsored by Quiksilver.
This immense structure will require some 15,000 m3 of snow, and
has been designed to Olympic standards.
The Pro Riders
Mathieu Crepel
Mathieu Crépel, Captain
of the French Snowboarding
Team, bronze medallist in the
Half Pipe at the 2009 World
Championships,
double
World Champion in the Half
Pipe and Big Air in 2007, first
ever winner of the TTR professional world tour in 2006 and
winner of the FIS World Cup
in 2005, will be one of the
guests of honour at this inaugural event.
The entire French Snowboarding Team will also be taking
part in the competition. It’s a
simply unmissable opportunity
for the French team to compete in a Super Pipe with dimensions
identical to the one at Cypress Mountain in Canada, which will
be playing host to the Olympic Snowboard events in early 2010.
Alongside Mathieu Crépel, Gary Zebrowski and Olivier Gittler and
others will also be there in la Plagne.
Among the international stars in attendance will be Finland’s
Markku Koski, recently crowned Big Air World Champion 2009 in
Korea, and the versatile Norwegian Freddy Austbo, winner of the
Nanshan Open in Beijing, China.
The Format
Fun and original, the format is inspired by the Mathieu Crépel Invitational event. The competition invites each contender to select his
favourite moves, which will then all go into a single pot together.
The chosen tricks will then be drawn at random by the judges and
the contenders will have to incorporate them into their runs, with
additional moves of their choice.
King of Snow
The event at La Plagne will also be hosting
the final of King Of Snow, the first amateur
snowboard competition on the web, sponsored by Quiksilver.
How it works: from December 2008 to March 2009, every fortnight, a pro-snowboarder performs a reference move that participants in the game, registered on WWW.KING-OF-SNOW.COM,
must then reproduce before posting videos of their exploits on the
website. Over the weeks, the amateurs are judged by the website
visitors and ranked. After missing four events, a candidate is eliminated. After six events, the top four snowboarders in the rankings
will be invited to the Quiksilver Chromatophobia to take part in the
final, the last stage of the game which will see the overall champion
named: the «King of Snow».
Press contacts:
Agence Olivia Payerne / RP Events and Athletes
Cathy Lallement / Marine Dufour
Tel. +33 (0)146 040 862 – Email: [email protected]
Quiksilver Europe
Sophie Rougerie / Communications Director
Tel. +33 (0)559 515 757 – Email : [email protected]