The 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City
Grouse Mountain hosted it’s 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City this weekend, and it was awesome! Born five years ago , the event has grown to attract top talent from across Canada and the US with the TTR World Tour 4 Star point designation. Over the past few years the event had been caught in bad weather systems but this year that was not the case. The sun was out, and the beer garden was jumping. Another exciting factor about this years Showdown was the jumps. The Grouse Park Crew built the best course to date. Each of the jumps in the double jump line could have been featured as a stand alone Big Air kicker. With 20′ tall wedges and 60′ decks these kickers were no joke.
Here are a few shots I captured at the event.
Drop In! "What's the speed?" "Straight in from here."
Unidentified Sender!
Heli Cam!
Judges judge. Darcy Sharpe flying.
Man Sized Air
The top jump was no joke.
Snowboarding Roayalty - Chris Dufficy Happy about his cookie and riding in the finals with a huge Cab 9 to Double Wildcat.
John Versteeg $5,000 richer.
Results:
1) John Versteeg
2) Darcy Sharpe
3) Craig McMorris
Stay tuned for the Andrew Santos edit for the Filmmaker Showdown.
-Myrosha
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Quiksilver Showdown Over the City this week!
Well spring break is over and the season is starting to wind down with only a few weeks remaining. But we have saved the biggest event of the season until the very end! In less than a week every top Canadian snowboarder will be visiting Grouse Mountain for the 3rd annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City!
A few of these athletes are fresh off wins or big podium placements this season inlcuding:
Seb Toutant: Currently 9th on the TTR tour. He just came 2nd in the US Open Slopestyle yesterday, 3rd in the QP on Friday, 2nd at the Canadian Open
Craig Beaulieu: Just won the UB Crowned Slopestlye in Quebec on Saturday. He is ready to battle it out for another $10K cheque
Dave Fortin: 1st place at the Telus Big Air 2 weeks ago at Blue Mountain. Dave is always ready to put on a show.
Mat Belzile: 1st place at the You Look Good Seymour Cup earlier in the year.
Registration is still open for AM Qualifiers
This event includes a Qualifier division taking place on Friday that is open to any rider that wants to either earn a qualifier spot or just to compete against other am riders from across Canada. Top 6 riders from the qualifiers will advance to both the Friday Night Jib Session and Saturday Jump + Jib Session.
Register Now (Please note: this is a mens only event, sorry ladies)
EVENT SCHEDULE – Check out the key times and details below
FRIDAY
| 11:00am-9:00pm | Rusty Rail Outdoor BBQ | Watch the action on the big screen! |
| 12:00pm – 4:00pm | Qualifying | |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Friday Night Session Practice | |
| 6:00pm – 9:00pm | DJ MARVEL spinning on-course | |
| 7:30pm – 8:30pm | Friday Night Jib Session | |
| 9:00pm – Close |
Awards in the main chalet Coors Light Apres in Lupins Cafe |
Featuring DJs SEKO + MARVEL |
SATURDAY
| 11:00am-close | Rusty Rail Outdoor BBQ | Watch the action on the big screen! |
| 11:00am-3:30pm | DJ MARVEL spinning on-course | |
| 10:30am – 12:15pm | HEAT 1 Practice and Semi-Final | |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | HEAT 2 Practice and Semi-Final | |
| 2:30-3:30pm | Head-to-Head FINALS | |
| 3:45pm | Awards in front of Peak Chalet | |
| 9:00pm – Late | Coors Light Afterparty at Tonic |
Visit www.showdownoverthecity.ca and check out last year’s short video on the home page for a taste of what’s in store.
Quiksilver Showdown Over the City coming soon!
One of the biggest pro-am snowboarding events in the country is just over 3 weeks away! Make sure you mark this weekend down on the calendar, tell all your firends, and make your way out to watch some of the most progressive snowwboarding you will see anywhere in Canada including Grouse Mountain team riders.
Course plans are being finalized, invite list is being confirmed, media are booking their attendance, guest MCs Jesse Fox and Trini are writing their material, Monster Energy is getting their entourage list together, Quiksilver is deciding on what mascot costumes to rent, Coors Light is making sure they have enough beverages for the crowds, and locals will quickly be deciding whether they have what it takes to enter the qualifiers.
For all of you local shredders who want to take a run at the qualifications to earn one of the 8 qualifiers spots, go and register online here. There are only 100 spots available so get on it!
Check out last year’s video here. Sorry I am having some vimeo embedding issues.
Volunteers! If you are interested in gaining some valuable event experience either for school, volunteer hours or personal interest, please contact showdown@grousemountain.com . There are several positions available including course marshalls, event setup/takedown, registration, to name a few.
Monday Madness: Link Fest
A few noteworthy stories I stumbled upon in the last couple of weeks:
MGT Snowboard Camp announces MGT Academy and it’s lineup for 2009 including a weekend at Grouse Mountain:
In 2009, MGT will be holding three, two-day winter camps, the first being a camp at Canada Olympic Park on Dec13th-14th, the venue for the first ever Burton Canadian Open in February. Close on it s heels is another camp for the coastal crowd at Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver Jan 3rd-4th. To cap off the season, MGT is once again returning to Alberta, its original breeding grounds, to session Mt. Norquay’s re-vamped and professionally cut snowboard park on April 4th-5th.
TTR World Tour has launched a new website.
Grouse Mountain’s opening day weekend had loads of people building kickers and enjoying the snow. BTW, if you have pics you want to share, throw a link in the comments.
Here is the craziest weather forecast ever for Grouse Mountain. It’s really detailed and surprisingly accurate.
The North Face has now launched an iPhone app in the same vein as Snocator et. al. Still don’t have an iPhone to check it out… wish I did. Feel free to post reviews in the comments.
Now, I want to thank everyone who has submitted an application to join our team of blogospondents. The opportunity has now come to a close. I’ll be reviewing all the applications in the next couple of days and will communicate with each applicant by the end of the week.