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27th August 2008

 Stylewars 2008 presented by Oakley.
August 24-28, 2008
Falls Creek Resort, Australia.

French Canadians Matts Kulisek and Charles Reid continue their dominance at Stylewars during day two of competition at Falls Creek Australia.

Strong winds, scattered clouds and a riders vote meant that today the Stylewars course was restricted to the bottom feature of the park the gap jump. The jump had been re-shaped last night to give some more pop and allow the riders a little more hang time. The level of style and tricks definitely stepped up today at Stylewars with the help of the course fine-tuning from head park builders Rueben Cameron from Australia and Doug Mercer of Mammoth, California.

Kiwi Quentin Robbins. Ball shrinking one-footer. Photo: Alex Roberts

Matts Kulisek (CAN) was again throwing down all day with consistent incredible tricks over the gap like backside rodeo nines and frontside 1080s. His slaying of the jump pushed him to first place today and number one in the overall standings of the three-day freestyle marathon.

Charles Reid (CAN) was bumped into 2nd position by his countryman Matts, but his slew of 1080s, nines and smooth fives held him solidly in striking position for the win on the upcoming final day.
Usually in a contest the guys who spin the most win, but I have been spinning some big threes and sevens and I was winning yesterday, so I think its a great comp - you dont have to do a 1260 or something to win. Reid said.

Tyler Chorlton (GBR) threw the most interesting trick of the day with a nollie front-flip nose grab but was not to be outdone by Kiwi Quentin Robbins who launched a one foot indy over the high-speed gap kicker.

In the hotly disputed Bledisnow Cup, which is an Australia vs New Zealand comp within Stylewars. Australian riders took out day two, led by acting team captain Ryan Tiene and team mate Mitch Allan. New Zealand and Australia are now tied at one day each with New Zealand just ahead in the points.

RMB getting it done! Photo: Alex Roberts

Tonight at Stylewars the party continues with a special showing of Travis Rices new film Thats It Thats All followed by infamous Australian hip hop act Bliss&Eso who will no doubt tear the bloody roof off. Hangovers assured for all tomorrow.

The third day of Stylewars competition is planned for tomorrow, and includes the Volvo 28 Stair Rail Jam to be held in the evening under lights in Falls Creek Village.

For video highlights of yesterday go to: www.stylewars.com.au

The 2008 Stylewars is presented by Oakley and is supported by Falls Creek Resort, SilverSki Lodge, Corona, Red Bull, Volvo and New Era.



LINKS:
www.stylewars.com.au
www.ttrworldtour.com




Overall rankings after Day 2:

RANK    NAME    Grand Total
1       Matts Kulisek   1498
2       Charles Reid    1464
3       Torstein Horgmo 1312
4       Ville Uotila            1199
5       Stef Zeestraten         1192
6       Shayne Pospisil         1191
7       Jacob Koia              1153
8       Mitch Allan     1151
9       Ryan Tiene      1147
10      Will Jackways   1132
11      Keiji Okamoto   1109
12      Tore Holvik             1099
13      Robbie Walker   1052
14      Clint Allan             1021
15      Nick Brown      919
16      Roland Morley Brown     867
17      Masaharu Nakao  861
18      Jye Kearney     837
19      Dustin Craven   722
20      Chas Guldemond   618



ENDS

For more information contact:

RUSSELL HOLT
Stylewars Media Manager
+61 (0)414 266 747
rholt@acpmagazines.com.au






About StylewarsStylewars is a 4-Star TTR World Tour event.
In 2002 Stylewars was born. With help from Red Bull and the understanding and complete commitment from Falls Creek, a small, little known Victorian resort with a great events department who had the ability to listen to riders rather than tell them what they needed, Stylewars was launched with a completely different approach to competition. All standard event formats were ignored and all scheduling forgotten about. The event was totally freestyled based on what riders wanted to do and where the best place to ride at that moment was. The event was fun for everyone involved and the media that came from it was the first Superpark style session in Australia.

Unlike any other event on the Swatch TTR World Tour, Stylewars is as much about snowboarding lifestyle as it is about on mountain competition. With world premieres of the latest international film releases, live music almost nightly, happy hours and under-lights rail sessions in the village the event tries to cover all angles to keep the crew stoked with an on holiday feel. Some riders have referred to it as the endurance marathon of the tour. 3 full days of competition in the park with 2 judged sessions per day. 1 night rail event under lights and 5 nights of partying means only the strongest can survive.