The SSNZ Freestyle Series is back for the 2025 winter season!

Consisting of the Snowboard Series and the Freeski Series it travels across New Zealand with events at Mt Hutt, Cardrona and The Remarkables as well as a nationwide virtual comp!

Head to the series website here to see the leaderboard and get an idea for how the series works. 

The challenge is simple, we want to see a full slopestyle run from you. Show us what you’ve got!

We will be judging the first 5 tricks in each submission. You are welcome to add more but only the first 5 tricks will be judged. We want to see creativity, difficulty and good execution of tricks.

You will be judged by professional judges chosen by Snow Sports New Zealand.

Points from this competition are eligible towards the overall Freestyle Series awards, so let’s see your best Cyber Slopestyle run!

Entry requirements:

• Only entries from athletes who have a SSNZ membership will be judged.
• You must register for the event on the SSNZ website (registration is $10).
• You can only enter one category, either U14 or Open.
• Entry Deadline: 5 pm, 1st September.

Video requirements:

• Must be filmed in NZ.
• Must be filmed in the 2025 season.
• Edit cannot contain competition footage.
• Each entry, trick and landing must be 1 continuous clip and not edited so that it can be judged correctly.
• Submissions should contain 5 different tricks from 5 different features stitched together into your edit.

Judging:

• Trick creativity and execution.
• Video creativity.
• Trick difficulty.

Event categories:

*Athletes younger than U14 are welcome to compete but will be entered in the U14 category.

How to enter: 

- Create and edit your video 

- Save your file as your first and last name only

- Save your video in your discipline/ age group folder:

Freeski

U14 Girls

U14 Boys

Open Female

Open Male

Snowboard

U14 Girls

U14 Boys

Open Female

Open Male

- Please note, video submissions may be used in full or partial to promote and celebrate the Snow Sports NZ Freestyle Series on Snow Sports NZ Social Platforms, website and YouTube channels. If you do not wish your footage to be used in this way, please email [email protected] prior to submitting your footage.