Billabong has been taking the show to Snow Park since 2003, and this is the first year which the Big Air event will be a 3 star TTR rated. Open to all riders, the events are designed to throw away the standard Slopestyle competition format and pave the way for progressed riding. The Billabong Big Air will be capped at a max of 100 riders in Open Men, Open Women’s, Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s divisions where each competitor will be given three runs with the top score counted. The field will be cut to 16 riders for the final where a man on man knockout system will pit the top qualifier against the bottom qualifier until a two person final is reached. The Nixon Quarter-Pipe Throwdown will be a looser jam format where Open Men’s, Open Women’s, Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s divisions will ride in one session (Junior entrants to be aged 18/U as of the 31/12/2007). The Panasonic Night Fight will be a rail session under lights on Thursday 14th August. A jam session format out the front of the Woolshed will award prizes to the best rail trick. Both days will feature live music from a number of NZ’s top DJ’s including Downtown Brown, Turbohag, K-Lab and Johnny Lowe. The Snow Stock after party on Friday 15th of August will rock out to the sounds of DJ Tim Phin. All the events will be run from an 80’s themed festival area at the Snow Park Woolshed with prizes for wildest trick, best dressed and loads of free giveaways. There will be BBQ’s, Olly Comps, Beer’s and Babes available for the public. (BYO Babes). (Source: Event’s PR)