This Saturday, January 9th the 14th Red Bull Open at the Nanshan Mellow Park kicks off with the National Qualifier. This WST National Level qualifier event determines which 8 local riders will earn a spot in the following week’s International Level competition with a total of $55,000 up for grabs! Be there to check out riders giving their all in order to impress the judges and make it through. Rumour has it Nanshan Open super-fans Ian Thorley (USA) and Sam Hulbert (USA) will also be attempting to qualify for the main event this way!
See the event details below, including the confirmed International rider list for the big one, and check the mellowparks.cn website for more info including rider bios.
14th Red Bull Open National Qualifier (World Snowboard Tour National Level)
Saturday, 9th of January 2016
Open Event. Each rider will have two runs; best single run counts. The top eight riders (with a minimum of four Chinese Nationals) will progress to the 14th Red Bull Open on the 16th and 17th of January.
PRIZES:
1st = US$ 1,000 / WST Ranking Points
2nd = US$ 600 / WST Ranking Points
3rd = US$ 300 / WST Ranking Points
4th-6th = US$ 100 / WST Ranking Points
OTHER:
Speaker: Steve Zdarsky (AUT)
Judges: Huang Marco (PRC), Wang Lei (PRC), Mi Mark (PRC)
09:00 – 10:30 Sign up / Training
10:30 – 12:00 Qualification first run
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break and park maintenance
13:00 – 14:30 Warm up and Qualification second run
15:00 – 15:15 Prize giving ceremony
JUDGING CRITERIA
Slopestyle (choose your line)
14th Red Bull Open Rider List:
Kleveland Marcus (NOR) / Red Bull, Nitro, Volcom
Beauchemin Eric (USA) / US Snowboarding, Omatic, Glorify Eyewear
Weissenbacher Mathias (AUT) / Head Snowboards, Absolutpark, Blue Tomato
Ryan Sean (USA) / JBMC, Stonp
Tonteri Roope (FIN) / Red Bull, Burton, Anon
Coultas Rowan (GB) / Vans, Oakley, Bataleon
Truchon Antoine (CAN) / Yonex, Absolut Park, Performance Boardshop
Inamura Tatsuki (JPN) / Murasaki Sports, Salomon
Park Kwang Soo (KOR) / JBMC, Aspect, Outdoortech
Fritjof Tischendorf (NOR) / Quiksilver, Dragon, Dakine
Bergrem Torgeir (NOR) / Nitro, Volcom, Electric
Billtoft Ludvig (SWE) / Nitro, Volcom, Thirtytwo
Moody Brett (USA) / US snowboarding, DC, Oakley
Normandin Zach (USA) / Volcom, Union, Electric
Richenberg Brage (NOR) / Volcom, Dragon, Rockstar
Kjoll Eilertsen Haakon (NOR) / Burton, Anon, Analog
Pos | Name | Country | Sponsors | Points |
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1. | Thorley, Ian | USA | 200.00 | |
2. | Hulbert, Sam | USA | 182.32 | |
3. | Wei, He | CHN | 167.00 | |
4. | Wang, Lei | CHN | 153.68 | |
5. | Seed, Andrew | UKR | 142.04 | |
6. | Fei, Doudou | CHN | 131.82 | |
7. | Feng, Zi | CHN | 122.82 | |
8. | Wang, Andrew | CHN | 114.84 | |
9. | Liu, Hanpu | CHN | 107.74 | |
10. | Cheng, Qian | CHN | 101.36 | |
11. | Su, Ming | CHN | 95.62 | |
12. | Lin, A Gui | CHN | 90.38 | |
13. | Li, Xianyi | CHN | 85.60 | |
14. | Liu, Jinglei | CHN | 81.20 | |
15. | Lin, Zhang | CHN | 77.12 | |
16. | Zhang, Kuso | CHN | 73.30 | |
17. | Jia, Xin | CHN | 69.72 | |
18. | Huang, Jian Yu | CHN | 66.32 | |
19. | Yong, Yan | CHN | 63.08 | |
20. | Rocky, Chiu | CHN | 60.00 | |
21. | Ye, Yang Ye | CHN | 57.02 | |
22. | Yan, Ziqi | CHN | 54.14 | |
23. | Luo, Hui | CHN | 51.36 | |
24. | Michael, Michael | CHN | 48.64 | |
25. | Wang, Xuan | CHN | 45.98 | |
26. | Qian, Duoduo | CHN | 43.36 | |
27. | Chao, Huang | CHN | 40.80 | |
28. | Gao, Cece | CHN | 38.28 | |
29. | Di, Zhu | CHN | 35.78 | |
30. | Zhao, Jing Guo | CHN | 33.30 | |
31. | Lin, Jianwei | CHN | 30.86 | |
32. | Zhao, Jianfeng | CHN | 28.42 | |
33. | Zhao, Lin | CHN | 26.00 | |
34. | Zhu, Xin | CHN | 23.60 | |
35. | Little, Ant | CHN | 21.22 | |
36. | Tao, Tao | CHN | 18.84 | |
37. | A, K | CHN | 16.46 | |
38. | Chen, Si | CHN | 14.10 | |
39. | Chen Ii, Si | CHN | 11.74 | |
40. | Xue, Meng | CHN | 9.38 | |
41. | Cao, Ran | CHN | 7.04 | |
42. | Feng, Feng | CHN | 4.68 | |
43. | He, Ran | CHN | 2.34 |