With a nine-story-tall ramp and $100,000 on the line, it’s official – Red Bull Snowscrapers has locked down the heaviest snowboarders on Earth, and an entirely fitting musical act.
Red Bull’s iconic snowboarders, including Olympic gold medallist Shaun White, freestyle/backcountry legend Travis Rice, and ultra-progressive phenomenon Pat Moore, will fight for their share of the massive $100,000 prize purse in the East River Park between 6pm and 9pm. Other confirmed Red Bull riders include Finland’s Eero Ettala and Canadian prodigy Dustin Craven.
World-renowned Burton riders for the groundbreaking event include Kevin Pearce, Mikkel Bang, Danny Davis, Japan’s own Kohei Kubo and Kazuhiro Kakubo, as well as Norwegian snowboard icon Terje Haakonsen.
Other confirmed riders include Nitro’s Andreas Wiig, DC’s Torstein Horgmo, Forum’s Jake Blauvelt and Greg Bretz, along with Rome rider Bjorn Leines and Ride’s JJ Thomas.
Anthrax, known for being the first group to combine heavy metal with rap music and the thrash metal scene, are from the Big Apple. Staying true to the core, Red Bull enlisted their local talents to blow out the spectator village located in East River Park.
With so much on the line, Red Bull has left nothing to chance, enlisting a panel of internationally licensed judges to call the shots at the banner event. Confirmed competition director for the Snowscrapers event is International Snowboard Judges Commission judge and pro/am organiser, Jason Grossi.
Red Bull Snowscrapers will join the ranks of the most prestigious snowboard events on the planet as a 5-Star stop on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour.
“We’re excited to have Red Bull Snowscrapers come on as a 5-Star event on the TTR World Snowboard Tour,” said Reto Lamm, president of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. “It’s great to have another innovative Red Bull concept on tour and there’s no better location than New York City to put this on. New York has a huge snowboard community and this will be a great opportunity to showcase our sport on such a large platform.”
The TTR crowns a World Snowboard Tour Champion at the culmination of each season and pays out an end of season prize purse worth $200,000.
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