Sneak preview: 2022/23 Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup calendar

May 27, 2022·Snowboard Park & Pipe

Red Gerard (USA) at Mammoth Mountain © Buchholz/FIS Snowboard

The 2022/23 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe and FIS Freeski calendars were revealed last week at the annual spring committee meetings, and for the first time in three seasons we expect to see full crystal globe-worthy World Cup seasons for all of the halfpipe, slopestyle and big air tours on both the snowboard and freeski side of things.

Freeski will see four big air, four halfpipe and six slopestyle World Cup competitions go down, while it will be four slopestyle, five halfpipe, and a World Cup record six big air competitions for the snowboarders.

2022/23 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe calendar:

With approximately five months to go before the start of the 2022/23 season there are currently eleven venues in seven countries on three continents lined up and set to host a total of 15 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup competitions from October through to the end of March, with some legacy venues, a couple more recent additions, and a couple brand-new hosts spread amongst those stops.

We kick off next season’s Park & Pipe calendar in Switzerland at the Big Air Chur Festival on 22 October, a competition that joined the World Cup last season and immediately established itself as one of the most exciting venues in the world with its mix of big air action, a full music festival lineup and some 15,000+ fans passing through the gates over the course of the weekend.

As mentioned above, Chur is the first of six big air World Cup competitions slated to take place in 2022/23, and a few weeks after we recover from the fun there in Switzerland we’ll be heading to Falun (SWE) from 24-26 November for the second big air of the season and the first of two new World Cup venues on next season’s calendar.

Then it’s back to the scene of some of the most epic competitions of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, when we hit the world’s one and only permeant big air venue in Beijing from 2-3 December, before we roll on to North America for the second new venue to join the World Cup in 2022/23, with city big air action slated to hit Edmonton (CAN) from 9-11 December.

After Edmonton we’ll stay on in North America, stopping in at the legendary Copper Mountain (USA) for the halfpipe World Cup season opener as well as Copper’s first big air World Cup since 2017, with Copper serving as the final events of 2022 from 14-17 December.

In the new year we’ll be heading back to Europe for the final big air competition of the season, kicking off 2023 in Kreischberg (AUT) from 13-14 January, and then it’s on to the Laax Open, where slopestyle and halfpipe action at the perennial season highlight will be going down from 18-21 January.

After hitting one of the most legendary freestyle European resorts there in Laax, we’ll follow it up at one of the most legendary North American locales in Mammoth Mountain, with another weekend of slopetyle and halfpipe action going down from 1-4 February.

After Mammoth we’ll stay on for two more North American competitions, as we head back up north to Calgary for another big week of halfpipe and slopestyle action from 9-12 February, before jump back across to Europe for the showcase event of the season.

From 19 February to 5 March we’ll be in Georgia for the Bakuriani 2023 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, where Park & Pipe competition is set to take a starring role once again at the biggest event of the season.

Bakuriani 2023 will mark the 15th time that freestyle snowboarding competition has been a part of the FIS World Snowboard Championships, with Bakuriani coming 27 years after halfpipe competition made it’s WSC debut at Lienz (AUT) back in 1996.

After Bakuriani it’s straight into the World Cup homestretch, firstly with a trip back to China’s Secret Garden from 10-12 March to conclude the 2022/23 halfpipe World Cup season at what proved itself to be perhaps the finest halfpipe ever built at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games last season.

After the halfpipe globes are handed out in Secret Garden we’ll take a week to catch our breath before we head back to Switzerland’s Silvaplana, where for the third year running we’ll cap off what promises to be another epic season with the slopestyle season finale at Corvatsch 3033.

2022/23 FIS SNOWBOARD PARK & PIPE DATES AND VENUES:

21-22 OCT

BIG AIR CHUR (SUI)

24-26 NOV

FALUN (SWE) BIG AIR

2-3 DEC

BEIJING (CHN) BIG AIR (TBC)

9-10 DEC

EDMONTON (CAN) BIG AIR (TBC)

14-17 DEC

COPPER MOUNTAIN (USA) BIG AIR/HALFPIPE

13-14 JAN