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The Burton Global Open Series (BGOS) announced its dates for the 2008/2009 international snowboard competition series this week. The Series will kick off in New Zealand in July. All six BGOS events offer riders the chance to earn points towards a male and female championship title, each worth $100,000, currently the largest single payout in snowboarding.
Also, this week, the new BGOS website is launching and will include new features such as rider profile pages, bios, current BGOS standings and event results per rider. Riders can now register for both the New Zealand Open and Australian Open.
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See: opensnowboarding.com to check out the new site and for more information about both of these events.
Dates and locations for all 2008/2009 Burton Global Open Series competitions:
Burton New Zealand Open
July 29 – August 2, 2008
Snow Park, New Zealand
Burton Australian Open
Sept 2 – 6, 2008
Perisher Blue, Australia
Burton Canadian Open
December 1 – 7, 2008
CODA’s Canada Olympic Park
Burton European Open
January 9 – 16, 2009
Laax, Switzerland
Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open
February 24 – March 1, 2009
ALTS Bandai, Japan
Burton US Open
March 16 – 22, 2009
Stratton Mountain, USA
The BGOS is also part of the Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour, the largest group of independent freestyle snowboard events in the world. TTR ranks riders based on their results at participating competitions and crowns a TTR World Champion at the US Open.
For more information on TTR, visit www.ttrworldtour.com
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