Quiksilver Chromatophobia hits La Plagne on April 3

2009. 

 

It's the last Super Pipe competition to be held in France before the Winter Olympics in 2010. It'll feature a 150m long, 18m wide and 5.5m high pipe. Sixteen international pro snowboarders have been invited to take part as well as the four leaders of the online game "King Of Snow", sponsored by Quiksilver. 

 

Mathieu Crepel, Captain of the French Snowboarding Team, bronze medallist in the halfpipe at the 2009 World Championships, double World Champion in the halfpipe 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. 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 contest format, inspired by the Mathieu Crepel Invitational 2008 event, 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. 

 

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".

 

 

 PROGRAM : Friday April 3

 

Morning : Trainings

 

1pm : Quiksilver Chromatophobia

 

7pm : That's It That's All movie premiere

 

8pm : Urban Plagne prize giving ceremony

 

9pm : Quiksilver Chromatophobia prize giving ceremony