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Start of the rider registration for the Laax Open

Post author By Elisa
Post date October 23, 2015

Kick-Off for the LAAX OPEN 2016 on www.laax.com/open with the riders’ online registration for the highlight of the upcoming snowboard season. At the LAAX OPEN, being held for the first time from January 18 to 24 2016, there are half a million dollars to be won in the halfpipe and slopestyle contests.

Save your spot for the open qualifiers now! Amaze everyone with your skills and style. And win a golden chunk of the sensational US$ 500,000 prize money. Impossible? Nothing is impossible for true freestylers. Just so you know what you’re getting into, here are the facts at a glance:

Title: LAAX OPEN 2016
Date: January 18-24, 2016
Location/country: LAAX, Switzerland
Tour: part of the World Snowboard Tour 2015/2016, elite level
Disciplines: halfpipe, slopestyle
Participants: 300 riders from around the globe
Categories: women, men
Prize-money: US$ 500.000

What is the LAAX OPEN?
The LAAX OPEN is a snowboard event that will be held for the first time from January 18-24, 2016, setting new standards. The LAAX OPEN guarantees a week of snowboarding at its finest. This includes halfpipe and slopestyle contests for men and women with total prize money of USD 500,000. Concerts and powder sessions round off the LAAX lifestyle experience.

What are the riding formats?
In the open qualifications (30 women/60 men per discipline), each rider has two runs, with the highest score counting. The best riders go on to the semi-finals, where they’ll meet seeded international top riders. If not all of them show up, the field (20 women/40 men) will be filled with more riders from the qualifiers. There are also two runs in the semi-finals, with the best score counting. Those making it to the top 6 in the women’s and top 12 in the men’s category will go on to the finals for the first ever LAAX OPEN titles.

Who are the seeded riders?
The top 10 women and top 20 men in the slopestyle and halfpipe World Snowboarding Points List (as of October 17, 2015) will be seeded into the semi-finals as well as 4/8 wild cards, which are on discretion of the event-organizer LAAX.

May I also take part in the contest?
Yes, qualification is open to any passionate rider, born 2001 or earlier. But to lay it on the line for you: you should be able to rock the Pro-Kicker-Line at Snowpark Curnius with its special event set-up and the 200-metre-long superpipe with its 6.9-meter walls.

How many open spots are there?
30 woman/60 men per discipline

Where and when do I register?
At www.laax.com/open from October 20 to November 30, 2015

Of course, you’re also welcome to experience the LAAX OPEN 2016 as a spectator! And anyone interested in media accreditation should directly contact the media service.

Tags Laax, laax open, World Snowboard Tour

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Sudden Rush Laax 2015

Post author By Elisa
Post date January 29, 2015

Banked Slalom Open by Terje Haakonsen & Nicolas Müller!

Banked slalom is one of the oldest disciplines in snowboarding. The banked turns vary in size and the gates are positioned in the middle. The banked turns are not only a reference to the waves that surfers ride – they originated over 25 years ago and allowed snowboarders to perform quick turns even then, despite the edges and bindings not being as advanced as they are today.

The Sudden Rush Banked Slalom in Laax is therefore a genuine classic. To do justice to its status, the event will be presented by some of snowboarding’s true legends. Presenters Terje Håkonsen and Nicolas Müller are two of the undoubted masters of snowboarding style.

At the Sudden Rush Banked Slalom in Laax you can enjoy races in a number of categories as well as hang out and party with other snowboard fans. The Sunday is dedicated to families and kids – a chance for the older generation of snowboarders to race with and against their children!

Snowboarders only!

Programm:

Freitag 06.03.2015
19.30 Uhr Welcome Night, Indy Bar

Samstag 07.03.2015
10.00 Uhr Open Banked Slalom, Crap Masegn
16.00 Uhr Prize-Giving, Crap Sogn Gion
23.00 Uhr Official Event Bash, Riders Palace

Sonntag 08.03.2015
10.00 Uhr Kids- & Family-Day, Crap Masegn

More info: www.laax.com/suddenrushlaax

Tags banked slalom, Laax

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Tit Stante and Thalie Larochaix win the Iceripper Rookie Fest in Laax

Post author By Elisa
Post date January 13, 2015

Slowenian young gun Tit Stante wins the rookie category ahead of the two swiss riders Menduri Stecher and Yannick Hermann. Rookie Girls winner Thalie Larochaix claimed her victory while Ramona Petrig (SUI) got second and czech girl Katerina Vojeckova got third.

The Iceripper Rookie Fest was a big success. The strong international riderfield was pushing the level of the young halfpipe riding higher and higher. After a perfect bluebird training day the qualification day had to be cancelled due to strong wind. But this is not a big deal in Laax, most riders just spent the afternoon in the freestyle academy then. The evenings before the young riders enjoyed a ping pong tournament or a movie night all together.

For the final day the organizers could use a short window of less wind and made a fair contest with two runs for each rider possible. With two solid runs Tit Stante knew how to impress the judges and scored 94 points in his second run. “I’m very happy with that victory because I always like being here, the pipe in Laax is just great!” Best grom of the Iceripper Rookie Fest was young swiss rider Florian Fischer. The incredibly talented slopestyle-rider Elias Rupp got second while almost-pro-skater Dawa Jordenkhangsar completed the podium of the groms.

Best grom girl was the young swiss Berenice Wicki just slightly ahead of Leilani Ettel from Germany and Ariane Burri. The first World Rookie Tourstop in switzerland was realized thanks to the initiative an teamwork between the snowboardteam iceripper, the Audi Snowboard Series, the World Rookie Tour and Laax.

Download the full rank of the event here: http://bit.ly/1Bey3rv
Watch all the pictures from the event shot by Tino Scherer here: http://on.fb.me/1ss8p0A

Follow the World Rookie Tour online @
Web: http://bit.ly/wrt2015
Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/worldrookietour
Vimeo channel: www.vimeo.com/channels/worldrookietour
Mpora WRT channel: www.mpora.com/worldrookiesnowboardtour/

2014.15 World Rookie Tour – Calendar
South America Rookie Fest / Valle Nevado . Chile / 8-12 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
Australian Rookie Fest / Thredbo . Australia / 22-23 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
Iceripper Rookie Fest / Laax . Switzerland / 7-10 Jan 2015 / Halfpipe – DONE
WSF World Rookie Fest / Livigno . Italy / 10-15 Jan 2015 / Slopestyle – GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW
Hellas Rookie Fest / Greece / 13-15 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle
Bulgarian Rookie Fest / Pamporovo . Bulgaria / 30 Jan -1 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
Transilvania Rookie Fest / Arena Platos . Romania / 6-8 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle
Trentino Rookie Fest / Monte Bondone . Italy / 25 Feb -1 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
Oslo Rookie Fest / Oslo Vinterpark . Norway / 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2015 / Halfpipe
Indy Park Rookie Fest / Nekoma . Japan / 6-7 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle
Völkl World Rookie Finals / Ischgl . Austria / 07-12 Apr 2015 / Slopestyle

Age Groups
WSF rookie events are reserved to Rookies (born from 1st of January 1997 to 31st of December 1999) and Grom (born from 1st of January 2000 and up), both boys and girls. All contests of the World Rookie Tour will generate valuable results for the TTR World Snowboard Tour Ranks and for the World Rookie Rank developed by World Snowboard Federation.

Tags Iceripper Rookie Fest, Laax, World Rookie Tour

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We won’t give up on you, Iceripper Rookie Fest Laax!

Post author By mucca
Post date December 2, 2014

Because of the lack of snow that is affecting all the ski resorts in the Alps, the organisation commette of the Iceripper Rookie Fest, after a strong commitment from all involved parties, was forced to postpone the first european stop of the World Rookie Tour 2014.15.

The decision was made and the Iceripper Rookier Fest will be held from the 7th January until the 10th of January 2015.

Event Program:
January 7th: arrival day and hotel check in
January 8th: halfpipe trainings
January 9th: halfpipe qualification and semifinals
January 10th: halfpipe finals, prize ceremony

If you are going to take part in the World Rookie Fest in Livigno from the 10th January to the 15th January, don’t worry, you will still be able to join both events; in fact the price giving will be as early as possible on Saturday, 10th January, so that everybody will be able to reach Livigno in time and with no stress.

Download all the information about accommodation, transport, registration and contest at this link:
www.worldsnowboardfederation.org/xdownload-data/WRT2015/2015_IceripperRookieFest_Infosheet.zip

2014.15 World Rookie Tour – Calendar
– South America Rookie Fest / Valle Nevado . Chile / 8-12 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
– Australian Rookie Fest / Thredbo . Australia / 22-23 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
– Iceripper Rookie Fest / Laax . Switzerland / 07-10 Jan 2015 / Halfpipe
– WSF World Rookie Fest / Livigno . Italy / 10-15 Jan 2015 / Slopestyle
– Hellas Rookie Fest / Greece / 23-25 Jan 2015 / Slopestyle
– Bulgarian Rookie Fest / Pamporovo . Bulgaria / 30 Jan -1 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
– Transilvania Rookie Fest / Arena Platos . Romania / 6-8 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle
– Trentino Rookie Fest / Monte Bondone . Italy / 25 Feb -1 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
– Oslo Rookie Fest / Oslo Vinterpark . Norway / 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2015 / Halfpipe
– Indy Park Rookie Fest / Nekoma . Japan / 6-7 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle
– Völkl World Rookie Finals / Ischgl . Austria / 07-12 Apr 2015 / Slopestyle

Age groups
WSF rookie events are reserved to Rookies (born from 1st of January 1997 to 31st of December 1999) and Grom (born from 1st of January 2000 and up), both boys and girls. All contests of the World Rookie Tour will generate valuable results for the TTR World Snowboard Tour Ranks and for the World Rookie Rank developed by World Snowboard Federation.

Follow the World Rookie Tour online @

Web: http://bit.ly/wrt2015
Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/worldrookietour
Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/channels/worldrookietour
Mpora WRT channel: www.mpora.com/worldrookiesnowboardtour/

Tags halfpipe, Iceripper, Laax, World Rookie Tour

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Iceripper Rookie Fest in Laax, Switzerland

Post author By mucca
Post date November 11, 2014

The Black Yeti will land in Swiss soon to taste the finest chocolate and the biggest halfpipe of the world with the first edition of Iceripper Rookie Fest, the newest World Rookie Tour event. Laax is globally renowned for its high level facilities and for the biggest superpipe worldwide where the rookies will experience a 4-days program of training and competition.

The event crew and participants will have the opportunity to live a unique experience and enjoy a fantastic accommodation at Crap Sogn Gion Mountain Hostel, directly placed on the top of the mountain. All the podium riders will get their spot for the end of season Volkl World Rookie Finals 2015 in Ischgl, Austria, and many prizes from the event sponsors Audi, Volkl, Level, Smith Optics and TSG.

Event Program

January 7th: arrival day and hotel check in
January 8th: halfpipe trainings
January 9th: halfpipe qualification and semifinals
January 10th: halfpipe finals, prize ceremony

Registrations: by sending the registration form to david.huerzeler@swiss-ski.ch no later than November 24th.
You can download the full program and the registration form here www.worldsnowboardfederation.org/xdownload-data/WRT2015/2015_IceripperRookieFest_Infosheet.zip

2014.15 World Rookie Tour – Calendar
– South America Rookie Fest / Valle Nevado . Chile / 8-12 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
– Australian Rookie Fest / Thredbo . Australia / 22-23 Aug 2014 / Slopestyle – DONE
– Iceripper Rookie Fest / Laax . Switzerland / 7-10 Jan 2015 / Halfpipe
– WSF World Rookie Fest / Livigno . Italy / 10-15 Jan 2015 / Slopestyle
– Hellas Rookie Fest / Greece / 23-25 Jan 2015 / Slopestyle
– Bulgarian Rookie Fest / Pamporovo . Bulgaria / 30 Jan -1 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
– Transilvania Rookie Fest / Arena Platos . Romania / 6-8 Feb 2015 / Slopestyle
– Trentino Rookie Fest / Monte Bondone . Italy / 25 Feb -1 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle + Halfpipe
– Oslo Rookie Fest / Oslo Vinterpark . Norway / 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2015 / Halfpipe
– Indy Park Rookie Fest / Nekoma . Japan / 6-7 Mar 2015 / Slopestyle
– Völkl World Rookie Finals / Ischgl . Austria / 07-12 Apr 2015 / Slopestyle

Follow the World Rookie Tour online @

Web: http://bit.ly/wrt2015
Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/worldrookietour
Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/channels/worldrookietour
Mpora WRT channel: www.mpora.com/worldrookiesnowboardtour/

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