TTR Approve Application for World Snowboarding Championships

The news of the creation of the World Snowboarding Championship came following the "Art Rules", a glitzy event held in Barcelona to unveil the new Swatch TTR trophy, designed by competition winner Axelle Dorado. This red carpet event was attended by most of the industry heavyweights along with TTR Champions Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajärvi. Method was invited to show the 5x5 = 25 years of Snowboard photography exhibit which, as mentioned by Swatch President Arlette-Elsa Emch in her speech for the unveiling of the new trophy, "snowboard photography illustrates the creativity in snowboarding". The Method 5x5 exhibition is in the midst of a 12-month tour and features 25 years of legendary snowboarding from legendary shooters such as Mark Gallup, Calle Eriksson, Vincent Skoglund, Bud Fawcett & Frode Sandbech. The event was a cracker and made even more interesting by suited and booted snowboard types, these guys and girls can dress up although sneakers were still to be worn. Check out some party snaps below and make sure you check out the schedule for the 5x5 exhibit for the next show.

Reto (Zimstern) and Rasmus

Death Metal Band in a Box, random event outside the Swatch TTR Art Rules venue Viola and Nugget from TTR

Art Rules and Art Ruling, live art outside the event

Red Carpet and Red Suit...

Donald (MTC & BEO event director), Arlette-Elsa Emch (Swatch President), Rasmus, Peter (Swatch), Matti (UCI BMX)

Arlette-Elsa Emch (Swatch President), Rasmus, Peter (Swatch)

Joe Prebich (OAKLEY) checking out Ingemar's 1996 World Record

Viola (TTR) and Enni Rukajärvi checking out the 5X5 exhibition

Peter Hertrampf (Quattro Media)

Rasmus and Joe (Oakley)

Per, Terje and Rasmus enjoying the red wine

Sean Lake, Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajärvi on stage

Sean Lake was the Toastmaster, here with Swatch President and VP of Marketing

Seconds before the unveiling

And Voila here it is, the new SWATCH TTR Trophy

The design contest winner Axelle Dorado, gets her prize

The Trophy in all its glory

The Trophy Security Team

A lot of peeps on stage

The Band

Rasmus, Tommy Klaehn (TTR) and Reto (Zimtstern)

Ilmo (Pulp Agency), Rasmus and Tommy (TTR)

Peetu Piiroinen and Rasmus again

Claude from Urban Knights Dance Squad and Rasmus

Bunch of happy people...

More happy people checking the 5x5 Exhibition

Axelle Dorado design competition winner

Chuckbuddies were everywhere

He loves it

They love em

Everyone loved the chuckbuddies

Peetu Piiroinen and Enni Rukajärvi

Another fan of the chuckbuddies

Reto Lamm (TTR President) and Sean Lake posing

Here's the Chuckbuddies again

enough said

Well, what, who's that?

Simon MacGregor pimpin

Girls found out Chuckbuddies could also be used as a sex toy and they all wanted one

Rampage

One Chuckbuddie got lost on the way out

 

Tine Birbaum knows how to dress to impress

Pimps and chicks

Hannes (TTR) with Axelle Dorado

Trophy

Terje and Peetu Piiroinen

TTR pro snowboarding approves application for world snowboarding championships

Barcelona - May 24th, 2010: TTR Pro Snowboarding today announces the creation of the World Snowboarding Championships. A new world-class snowboarding event, the World Snowboarding Championships will be held every four years and will feature men’s and women’s halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines. The first event is planned for the 2011/2012 season and will create an environment for the best freestyle riders to compete for world snowboard champion titles in both halfpipe and slopestyle formats.

"The creation of the Snowboarding World Championships is a great step forward for the TTR and the world of snowboarding as a whole," says Reto Lamm, President of the TTR World Tour. "We look forward to putting on a world-class event to push the progression of the sport and provide a global platform to showcase the best riders in the world."

The concept for the World Snowboarding Championships was developed by a group of international representatives of the sport at the 2009 TTR General Assembly in Austria and is a joint project of the TTR World Tour and the World Snowboard Federation (WSF). With a unanimous vote at the General Assembly 2010, the application for the Norwegian capital, Oslo, has been accepted to hold the inaugural event in 2012. The proposal was put forward by a consortium of the Norwegian Snowboard Federation, the Arctic Challenge organizers and the hosting resort Tryvann.

 

The municipality of Oslo will back the project with $4.3-million USD for the event and another $1.3-million USD for preparations. The final decision whether the event will take place is pending approval by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment for the expansion plans of the event arena at Tryvann Vinterpark.

After the 2011/2012 event, the World Snowboarding Championships will continually change locations every four years and will take applications from cities around the world to host future events. Other details surrounding the event, such as qualifications, prize money and event schedules will be determined over the next six months and will be released as they are finalized.

ABOUT SWATCH TTR:
Founded by Terje Haakonsen and industry innovators in 2002, the Swatch Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour is a non-profit, rider-driven organization with the mission “to create the highest quality competitive snowboard environment in the world, using authenticity, accessibility, innovation as guiding principles”. Since its foundation, the Swatch TTR Tour has been developing into the most exposed snowboard tour worldwide featuring global grass root and key independent freestyle snowboarding events over a ten-month period from Southern to Northern Hemisphere locations. Events are rated via a 1-through-6Star system, with points allocated accordingly, a 6Star event holds the highest (1000 points). Any rider participating in these events, from up-and-coming to professional talent, earns ranking points and a position on the Swatch TTR World Ranking List. The top male and female rider based on an average of their best six results of the season (5+1 system) is crowned Swatch TTR World Snowboard Champion. For more information visit www.ttrworldtour.com