2011 USA Powder 8 Championship

March 3rd & 4th 

Information and Rules

Entry fee will be $300 per Powder 8 alpine team. This fee includes a two-day lift pass and competitor’s prize package.

Competitors will apply to one of three alpine divisions. Each division must consist of a minimum of four teams.

Open division is open to all alpine competitors.

Masters, both team members must be at least 40.

Women’s, both team members must be women.

Day one: Combined score of two groomed runs for seeding into the head to head elimination brackets. Head to head elimination rounds in the Aspen Highlands bowl to select the final four teams from each division that move to the final.

Day two: Aspen Powder Tours snowcat skiing with the final selected USA Powder 8 competitors. Head to head elimination brackets are developed from a seeding based on the scores during the elimination runs of day one.

Outcomes

Award a USA Powder 8 Champion from an open, women's, and masters division.

Judging Criteria

Scoring will be made up of three categories; synchronized skiing, dynamic skiing, and roundness/symmetry/line of descent. Each category will be scored with a possible fifteen (10) points. Judges will score resulting in a total possible score of 30. Ties will be determined by the Head Judges Score.

The Powder 8 teams that advance to the second day will be reseeded based on their scores from the elimination rounds.

Synchronization relates to the skiing and turning behavior of both partners between the start and finish line. The movements of each partner must be made in time with each other, both from the perspective of front to back and side to side.

Dynamic Skiing relates to the utilization of the skis design through powerful efficient movements. The greater the dynamics the faster, round turns are achieved.

Roundness/symmetry/line of descent is a marriage of three elements to direct an overall straight path from start to finish with the use of consistently round turns.

Start Procedure; red course ready, blue course ready, “GO”.