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Date: 16.08.2011 By: Stylewars With just under a week to go, Stylewars is preparing to hit Falls Creek, Victoria for the 10th anniversary event. With $25,000 in cash and prizes to be won, riders from as far as The Netherlands and Norway will join the cream of the crop from Australia and New Zealand with three days on hill and one night under lights of world class snowboarding. The names to watch in the slopestyle will be Gjermund Braaten (NOR) who is currently in 5th position on the world tour, Clint Allan (AUS), Jye Kearney (AUS) Nick Brown (NZ), Tor Lundstrom (SWE) and the young Big Air Champ Max Buri (CH). In 28 Stairs the one to watch will be Cees Wille (NED) in a stand out field of street rail competitors. Sunday will be a practice day. Monday will kick off the action in the park with qualification and warm up session from 9 – 10.30 followed by Stylewars jam format slopestyle from 11 – 1pm. This will be repeated on both Tuesday and Wednesday weather permitting and the event will close with the 28 Stair rail jam, event presentation and closing party in the Village Bowl. Stylewars slopestyle split to be: 28 Stairs split to be: The Bledisnow Cup between Australia and New Zealand has been cancelled due to the dwindling New Zealand team numbers after the record snow falls in the South Island. The $5000 allocated to this has gone into the creation of second and third places in the slopestyle and Top Aussie in 28 Stairs. The four party nights of this year's event will showcase some of Australia's top Hip Hop acts and DJs. Sunday: MUPH and PLUTONIC supported by RJMC, Ru.CL, DJ Perplex at The Man. Monday: VENTS supported by DJ ADFU at The Man Tuesday: PHRASE supported by DJ Perplex at The Man Wednesday: 7pm. 28 STAIR RAIL JAM followed by THE DJ KNOWS CREW at The Frying Pan Stylewars has joined forces with the Australian Junior Series and will be providing the 2 winners of the junior tour FOC entry spaces into Stylewars at the Australian Rookie Tour Event. All of these Slopestyle events are on the TTR World Tour. |
