Roxy Chicken Jam set for Kitsteinhorn

Everything is prepared for the biggest women's snowboard contest. The Roxy Park at Kitzsteinhorn glacier is open, and some of the world's best female snowboarders will meet at the Fifth Roxy Chicken Jam Europe from December 14 to 16 2007 to win €30,000 in prize-money and loads of points for the Swatch Ticket To Ride Women's World Snowboard Tour (WTTR).
 
Cheryl Maas (NED) and Jamie Anderson (USA), winners of the previous two Roxy Chicken Jams, will appear at this SIX(6) STAR WTTR event. Furthermore, winner of the TTR tour 2006/07 Torah Bright (AUS), the third of the Olympics Torino 2006 Kjersti Buaas (NOR) and the fifth of the TTR tour 2007 Sina Candrian (SUI) have confirmed their appearance at Kitzsteinhorn. Plus, there's Ursina Haller from Switzerland and Germany's best slopestyle riders Silvia Mittermueller and Conny Bleicher.

Austria will be represented by locals Lisa Filzmoser and Kathrin Gappmayr, while Margot Rozies will come from France and Tania Detomas from Italy. US riders Kimmy Fasani, Erin Comstock and Alexis Waite will fly over from the States. Altogether, 25 invited riders plus five qualified will start at the Roxy Chicken Jam main session on Saturday, December 15. The eight best of these 30 participants will attend the super finals on Saturday afternoon.
 
Valuable points for the WTTR ranking

The victory at the Roxy Chicken Jam has become even more valuable as the overall winner of the WTTR 2007/08 will get a US$ 50,000 prize-money at the end of the season. As the first of only five 6-star events of the tour, the Roxy Chicken Jam winner will collect loads of points for the overall ranking. In addition, she will be awarded with an original Gibson guitar and the main share of the € 30,000 prize-money.
 
For the spectators: Test center, movie première and parties Spectators at the Roxy Chicken Jam should not only look forward to top-notch snowboarding but also be prepared to go riding themselves and try the latest Roxy and Quiksilver boards of the 2007/08 season at the test center. In addition, the new "Labor of Love" movie will première at the Roxy Chicken Jam. Roxy girls traveled all over the world to ride the world's best locations.

The party on Saturday evening is what finally makes this event really special. So bring the Xmas spirit with you and dance the night away with the snowboard stars.
 
For more information please see
www.roxy.com and www.chickenjam.com ttrworldtour.com