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Oakley Stylewars kick off in Australia, August 24-28
2008-08-19 00:00:00-04 |
Falls Creek, Australia -- The 08/09 season of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour is charging at full steam down under and the anticipation is rising for the first 4Star event on the tour, the Oakley Stylewars. Taking place August 24–28, 2008 in Falls Creek, Australia, the 4-day lifestyle slopestyle event, complete with intense snowboarding, parties and live music, is set to be the highlight of the Southern Hemisphere.
With 500 Swatch TTR ranking points in the mix along with a $15,000 USD prize purse, Stylewars is sure to carry the competitive momentum set just recently at the 5 Star Burton New Zealand Open and 3Star Billabong Snow Stock.
Expect freestyle entrepreneur Travis Rice (USA) to make things spicy as current TTR World No. 2 Chas Guldemond (USA) attempts to get back the Tour Lead that was taken from him last week at the 3 Star Billabong Snowstock by James Hamilton (NZE). Also expected to attend is Swatch TTR No. 4 Janne Korpi (FIN), TTR No. 13 Mikkel Bang (NOR), TTR No. 21 Sebastien Toutant (CAN), and TTR No. 40 Antti Autti (FIN). They are sure to keep it interesting alongside a sick south-hemi contingent that includes the likes of TTR No. 26 Jake Koia (NZE) and Australian snowboarders Robbie Walker and Ryan Tiene.
Riders will be greeted with a relaxed, shred-friendly atmosphere, but even more exciting is the private, contest-purpose built slopestyle course that is already beefed up due to an excellent snow season thus...
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