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The Swatch TTR Event applications are over and we are looking forward a new season of amazing snowboarding performances - with an incredible prize money of over $2.500.000 USD up for grabs at events worldwide over a 10-months period. The Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour kicks off downunder where it has been growing steadily since the start of the Tour with some hugely successful events and unexpected record-breaking moments.

With the season’s first snow already on the ground it is setting up to be the best southern hemisphere tour to date. 2008 will see the introduction of two new events to the already solid southern hemisphere event line up. The Boost Mobile Sno Sho at Perisher Blue, Australia and the Billabong Snow Stock in Snowpark, New Zealand, have applied to be a part of the Swatch TTR Tour and, if accepted, will join the Burton New Zealand Open (5Star in 07/08), Oakley Stylewars (3Star in 07/08) and the Burton Australian Open (4Star in 07/08) bringing with it more prize money and more event possibilities for international riders travelling downunder.

The Southern Hemisphere Tour starts in New Zealand with the BNZO. Held on Snowboarding’s holy ground, Snowpark, The Burton New Zealand Open has a long history and the park builders from Snowpark never disappoint. With one of the world’s best halfpipes, a perfect slopestyle set up and a massive quarter pipe the BNZO is always a must for transition riders. As the first stop on the Burton Global Open Series (BGOS) the NZO is a must for all riders wanting to start the northern hemisphere tour with practice and TTR points under their belts.

Get ready for an exciting start into the new Swatch TTR Tour season which again will be filled with the biggest names of snowboarding. On the list of already confirmed riders are Torstein Horgmo (NOR), Jonas Karlsson (SWE), Sani Alibabic (AUT), Robbie Walker (AUS), Jacob Koia (NZE), Chas Guldemond (USA), Quentin Robbins (NZE) and many more, all trying to get a good head start for the Northern Hemisphere season. Stay tuned for news, videos and blogs from Oceania.

TOUR DATES

New Zealand
Burton New Zealand Open
Snowpark New Zealand
July 29 - August 2
HP, SS, QP
http://www.opensnowboarding.com

Billabong Snowstock
SnowPark New Zealand
August 8 - August 18
SS, QP

Australia
Oakley Stylewars
Falls Creek, Victoria
24 - 28 August
SS, Night rail
www.stylewars.com.au

Boost Sno Sho
Perisher Blue, NSW
28 - 29 August
(All Stylewars riders get wildcards straight to the Boost Sno Sho finals)
SS, Rail Jam, BA

Burton Australian Open
Perisher Blue, NSW, Australia
2 - 6 September
HP, SS
www.opensnowboarding.com