Championship Ski & Snowboard (CSS) is a new competition series for British freestyle snowsports. The first of its kind ever be held in the UK, the event brings the freestyle community together by providing a competition platform in which events staged on indoor slopes and dry slopes across the country are posted in an online video league for judging, thus allowing teams from all over the UK competing against each other.
CSS features six snowboard and six ski teams from slopes across the UK going head to head in a league, with teams submitting videos of their best tricks filmed at their local indoor or dryslope scene. Footage will then be judged, scored and edited into “matches”. After launching in May, the first round is now live.
Watch the videos to see which teams came out on top!
Round 1 – Ski – Aberdeen V Milton Keynes
Round 1 – Ski – Tamworth V Hemel
Round 1 – Ski – Bearsden V Stoke
The world class judging panel consists of GB Park and Pipe rider Katie Summerhayes, Josh Fawcett, Dave Young and Bobby Taylor on the ski side and Laura Berry, Kevin Mills, Colum Mytton and Andy Mills on the snowboard side. The overall scoring process is then overseen by the head judges who are GB Park and Pipe coaches Hamish McKnight, Pat Sharples, Jack Shackleton and Jamie Matthew.
Round 1 – Snowboard – Braehead V Hemel
Round 1 – Snowboard – Aberdeen V Tamworth
Round 1 – Snowboard – Bearsden V Milton Keynes
Next Round
Filming for the next round of Championship Ski and Snowboard has already begun, with the videos and results being available in early July. After five rounds, the teams who come out top of the CSS leaderboard will claim a cash prize donated by the Snowboard Asylum, Ellis Brigham and Delancey to be spent on the development of freestyle at their slope. They will also have the kudos of being crowned “best scene in Great Britain”.
To see the results, vote on the polls and see which riders, skiers and teams are coming out top in the league table head over to the CSS websites:
snowboard.championshipskiandsnowboard.co.uk
ski.championshipskiandsnowboard.co.uk
