TTR World Snowboard Tour - 10th Season

Greetings,

our partners from the TTR World Snowboard Tour get ready for their anniversary tour. Like us, it's their 10th year and you can expect professional snowboarding as usual. Please find the press release below:

Scuol, Switzerland – June 20, 2011:  The TTR World Tour is getting ready to kick off its 10th season of snowboarding with the 5Star Billabong Ante Up in Whistler, Canada before heading down to New Zealand and Australia for the Southern Hemisphere leg of the tour.  The Southern Hemisphere calendar is full of highlights including the 3Star Dew Hut Jam in July, and the 4Star Billabong Bro Down, 5Star Burton New Zealand Open and 4Star Stylewars all happening in August.  There is a ton of action lined up for the 2011/12 season including an all-new ranking system, the 6Star World Snowboarding Championships in February and all the other elite events the TTR World Tour is known for.

• 5Star Billabong Ante Up - Whistler, B.C., Canada July 1, 2011
• 4Star Billabong Bro Down - Wanaka, New Zealand, August 5-6, 2011
• 5Star Burton New Zealand Open - Wanaka, New Zealand, August 9-13, 2011  
• 3Star New Zealand Winter Games - Wanaka, New Zealand, August 19-24, 2011
• 4Star Stylewars - Falls Creek, Australia, August 21-24, 2011
• 3Star Dew Hut Jam Mt. Buller, Australia, July 30-31, 2011

ABOUT TTR PRO SNOWBOARDING:

Founded by Terje Haakonsen and industry innovators in 2002, TTR (Ticket To Ride) PRO SNOWBOARDING is a non-profit, rider-driven organization that owns and operates the TTR World Snowboard Tour and the TTR World Ranking Lists.  TTR Pro Snowboarding strives to create the highest quality competitive snowboard environment in the world using authenticity, accessibility and innovation as guiding principles and has developed the TTR World Tour into the most exposed snowboard tour worldwide featuring a 10-month season filled with hundreds of grass roots and major independent freestyle snowboarding events. Events are rated on a 1-through-6Star system, where all competing athletes earn TTR world ranking points based on the star level of each event; a 6Star event holds the highest allocation of ranking points.  The TTR awards World Champion titles based on the World Ranking lists in four different areas including halfpipe, slopestyle, big air (men-only) and overall.  In February 2012, the TTR and the World Snowboard Federation (WSF) will hold the inaugural World Snowboarding Championships, an elite level event that will be held every four years in alternating cities around the world.

Good to see a strong support behind this beautiful sport and lifestyle!

Big up,

David