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, Quik-silver 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 PipeA 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 RidersMathieu 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 profes-sional world tour in
2006 and winner of the FIS World Cup in 2005, will be one of the
guests of honour at this inau-gural event. The entire French
Snowboar-ding 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 FormatFun and original, the format is inspired by the
Mathieu Crépel Invi-tational 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 SnowThe 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 fortni-ght, a pro-snowboarder performs a
reference move that partici-pants 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 elimi-nated. 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
AthletesCathy Lallement / Marine DufourTel. +33 (0)146 040 862 –
Email: [email protected]
Quiksilver EuropeSophie Rougerie / Communications Director Tel.
+33 (0)559 515 757 – Email :
[email protected]
(France) - Snowboard contest– Super Pipe
Mathieu Crepel
