September 02, 2008 @ 8:04 AM
From 1-5 September, the top male and female shredders from all over the world will be descending upon Perisher Blue to battle it out for the halfpipe and slopestyle crownage.
The second stop on the 2008-2009 Burton Global Open Series, the Aussie Open is an open event, which means anyone can enter!
The women’s field is looking strong with competitors such as Olympic gold medalist Hannah Teter (USA) and women’s 07/08 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion and back-to-back X-Games slopestyle gold medalist Jamie Anderson (USA). Jamie currently leads both TTR and BGOS women’s rankings after her first place halfpipe and slopestyle finishes at the New Zealand Open earlier this month.
Competition gets underway on Tuesday, September 2nd with the men’s and women’s halfpipe qualifiers. On Wednesday, September 3rd, the action moves to Perisher’s slopestyle course for the qualifiers. All eyes will be on the halfpipe on Thursday, September 4th for semi-finals and finals when the world’s best will fight it out for the Open title and a share of the $50,000 prize purse. On Friday, September 5th the event wraps up with slopestyle finals.
See you down under!
