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6Star Nike 6.0 Air & Style Set to Rock Munich’s Olympic Stadium This Weekend

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Munich, Germany – The 6Star Nike 6.0 Air & Style Munich is set to go off this Saturday, Feb. 12 at the Olympic Stadium, with 16 invited professional snowboarders ready to battle it out in the dramatic head-to-head format, which has become a signature of the Air & Style events.nThe unique format encourages riders to push themselves making for a heated competition for a slice of the €75,000 prize purse, the coveted “Air & Style Ring of Glory” and a maximum of 1000 TTR world ranking points. This is the third and final Air & Style event of the season, all of which are 6Star events on the Swatch TTR World Tour.

With five riders in the current Top 10 of the TTR World Ranking set to hit the massive straight jump at the Nike 6.0 Air & Style Munich, it will be a game changing result since there is only one more 6Star event, The Oakley Arctic Challenge, before the 6Star Burton US Open where the Swatch TTR Tour Champions will be crowned. Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen is sitting comfortably in the tour lead after placing second at last weekend’s Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck – Tirol and, with a solid result in Munich, has a good shot at taking his third TTR Tour Champion title. He will, however, need to contend with the likes of current World No. 4, Seppe Smits of Belgium, and World No. 5, Canadian Sebastien Toutant. Also scheduled to compete is the fearless American rider, Sage Kostenburg, who successfully landed the world’s first Cab double cork 1440 in competition last week at the Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck.

The start list for the first round of the head-to-head competition will be announced on Friday after the traditional rider’s draw held at a press conference in the Olympic Stadium. Eight of the 16 riders will choose a name at random to determine who they will ride against. Before the main action kicks off on Saturday, the crowds will witness the winners of the 2Star Nike 6.0 Stairset Battle Tour 2010/11 event series put on one final 3Star rail battle grand finale.


Nike 6.0 Air & Style Munich Rider List:

  • Peetu Piiroinen
  • Iouri Podlatchikov
  • Werner Stock
  • Markus Malin
  • Janne Korpi
  • Sebastien Toutant
  • Seppe Smits
  • Sage Kotsenburg
  • Halldor Helgason
  • Christian Haller
  • Nils Arvidsson
  • Markku Koski
  • Peter König
  • Ethan Morgan
  • Ulrik Badertscher
  • Mason Aguirre

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