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South America Winter Season Wrap Up

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Another winter season is going off in the south hemisphere and the South American snowboard communities have been able to show again all the potential of this continent. Chilean, Brazilian and Argentinian snowboards crews done a handful of pretty cools events.

The season started in São Paulo city with an indoor slopestyle event realized by the Brazilian Snowboard Federation.

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As past few years, Chile hosted the South America Rookie Fest in Valle Nevado ski resort and for the really first official time, Argentina included one rookie oriented event in the WSF program, organized in the nice snowpark area of Cerro Catedral ski resort, nearly Bariloche city.

Amongst the bizarre winter weather conditions that afflict especially the Argentinian season with continuous warm temperatures, has been possible to organize almost all the 4 stops of the National tour.

The first three stops went down in perfect conditions and touched ski resorts like Chapelco, Cerro Catedral and La Hoya, where the Brazilians done their 2014 tour final.

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Unfortunately, due a very huge black-out in the district of Bariloche that hit the ski resort too, the Argentinian snowboard final suffered obviously contingencies and have forced the cancellation. Well, spring time is on and almost all ski resorts are close, or in the way to.

Well done to all that, keep it real!

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Rip Curl Grom Winter Search 2014 – Cerro Catedral, Bariloche. Argentina

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Here some more news from the Argentinian national snowboard tour happened in August.

For the second year, the traditional Rip Curl GROM WINTER SEARCH become part of World Snowboarding Tour in South America and it is considered as one of the most respected snowboard events for young riders in Argentina! Edition 2014 went down on Monday 18 in a sunny day with great snow, good dj set and choripán (hamburger…) at Terrain Park, the iconic Cerro Catedral’s snowpark. So after the South America Rookie Fest in Valle Nevado – Chile, also the famous Argentinian ski area near Bariloche city, start to became an important point for all the snowboarders under 18 based in this continent. More info, photos or details about the event (Spanish only), just follow this link – https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.807137132650044.1073741834.233974953299601&type=1

 

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Results:
Snowb Rookie
1° Luciano Villalba
2° Federico Chiaradío
3° Iñaki Odriozola
4° Leo Conforte

Snowb Damas
1° Delfina Leman
2° Chiara Massardi
3° Agustina Soler
4° Wanda Van Donselar

Grom Snowb
1° Agustín Catalán
2° Guido Lapena
3° Santiago Usaj
4° Fran Febus

Snowb Niños
1° Esteban Luengo
2° Lucas Gabriel Vallejos
3° Maximus Petrina
4° Santiago Figueroa

Snowb Niñas
1° Daniela Ribeiro

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DC Slopestyle PRO in Cerro Chapelco, Argentina

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Check out some news from the Argentinian national snowboard tour happened in August.

On August the 5th the Argentinian national snowboard stopped in Cerro Chapelco ski resort with the traditional DC Slopestyle PRO. With over 40 riders registered for the event, they showed the high-level in Argentina and all the best snowboarders in the country were ready for starting new season. Each rider had two runs to qualify for the top eight scores modality, than a KO system declared Matías Radaelli as the winner of DC Slopestyle PRO 2014 edition.
More photos and details (Spanish language only) here: https://www.facebook.com/AsociacionArgentinaDeSnowboard/photos/a.497384227014352.1073741826.285571928195584/695992007153572/?type=1

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Results:
1. Matías Radaelli
2. Santiago Gamen
3. Manuel Domínguez
3. Matías Schmitt
5. Nicolás Fuentes
5. Manuel Albisu
5. Gastón Stoker
5. Nicolás Natalucci

 

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ALIVE and KICKING Rip Curl PRO 2014 – Argentina

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Second tour stop of the Argentina Snowboard Tour 2014 went down on Saturday August 23th in Cerro Catedral, the famous ski center near Bariloche, Argentina.
Organized by an Event Agency owned by some great local riders, the classic ALIVE & KICKING Rip Curl PRO results as a true celebration of freestyle lifestyle!

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With the best exponents of national Snowboard scene and many riders coming from Brazil, Spain and Canada,  the 6th edition of this traditional competition was dominated for the second time by one of Argentinian TOP riders: Santiago Gamen.

So now is just missing one last stop to crown the 2014 Argentinian Snowboard Champion! Stay tuned!

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Photos and infos (Spanish ONLY) here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.809798859050538.1073741835.233974953299601&type=1

Results:
Amateur
1 AGUSTIN LANNES
2 ALFONSO LOPEZ ALONSO
3 JOAQUIN MINDURRY
4 FACUNDO GONZALES

PRO
1 SANTIAGO GAMEN
2 MATIAS RADAELLI
3 MATIAS SCHMITT
4 FEDERICO CHIARADIO
5 MANU DOMINGUEZ
6 GASTON STOCKER
7 LUCAS CARDELL
8 JON CONWAY