Burr Ridge, Ill. – December 14, 2010 – Over 380 of the best freeski and snowboard athletes from 18 different countries will compete this weekend at Breckenridge Ski Resort at the Nike 6.0 Open. For the third consecutive year, Breckenridge will kick off the 2010 winter season debuting their brand new 22-foot superpipe live on NBC, and will host competitions with the top winter athletes in freeskiing (slopestyle and superpipe) and snowboarding (slopestyle and superpipe) along with a Friday night concert featuring Midwest hip hop group, The Cool Kids.
In a continuing effort to develop new, up-and-coming talent, the Nike 6.0 Open will feature an expanded field of Open Qualifiers with over 280 athletes competing this weekend to earn a spot on the Tour. The three-stop Tour will continue on to Killington Resort in Killington, Vt. in January and will conclude with the Toyota Championship at Snowbasin Resort in Ogden, Utah this February. Highlighting the men’s snowboard superpipe roster includes defending 2009-10 Dew Cup champion JJ Thomas, as well as Olympian’s Scotty Lago and Louie Vito.
Sixteen-year-old Sage Kostenburg looks to defend his Dew Cup title in snowboard slopestyle, against the likes of Torstein Horgmo, Tyler Flanagan and Chas Guldemond. Kaitlyn Farrington is ready to defend her snowboard superpipe Dew Cup champion status(snowboard superpipe), as Olympian’s Elena Hight, Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler look to start their Winter Dew Tour season with a win. Spencer O’Brien and Jamie Anderson, both previous snowboard slopestyle Dew Cup champions in 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively, will be battling it out for the top podium spot during Sunday’s slopestyle finals.
Athletes are pre-qualified based on their rankings at the end of the 2009-10 Winter Dew Tour season. The full list of pre-qualified athletes is as follows: 
The Nike 6.0 Open schedule of events is as follows:
Thursday, December 16th – Festival Village Opens at 8:00am
9:30AM – 1:00PM Snowboard Slopestyle Men Open Qualifiers
10:30AM – 1:30PM Freeski Superpipe Men Open Qualifiers
2:15PM – 4:00PM Snowboard Slopestyle Women Open Qualifiers
3:00PM – 4:00PM Freeski Superpipe Women Prelims
Friday, December 17th – Festival Village Opens at 8:00am
10:00AM – 10:45AM – Snowboard Superpipe Women Prelims
10:30AM – 12:30PM – Freeski Slopestyle Men Prelims
11:05AM – 12:30PM – Snowboard Superpipe Men Prelims
2:00PM – 4:00PM – Snowboard Slopestyle Men Prelims
2:30PM – 4:00PM – Freeski Superpipe Men Prelims
7:00PM – 9:00PM – The Cool Kids/The Knocks Concert at Riverwalk
Saturday, December 18th – Festival Village Opens at 8:00am
9:00AM – 9:40AM – Freeski Superpipe Women Final
10:00AM – 11:00AM – Freeski Superpipe Men Final
11:00AM – 12:00PM – Snowboard Slopestyle Women Prelims
12:00PM – 12:40PM – Snowboard Superpipe Women Final
1:00PM – 2:00PM – Snowboard Superpipe Men Final
2:00PM – 3:30PM – Freeski Slopestyle Women Prelims
Sunday, December 19th – Festival Village Opens at 8:00am
10:00AM – 10:40AM – Snowboard Slopestyle Women Final
11:00AM – 12:00PM – Snowboard Slopestyle Men Final
1:30PM – 2:10PM – Freeski Slopestyle Women Final
2:30PM – 3:30PM – Freeski Slopestyle Men Final
