Slopestyle season set for Tuesday start at 2024 Laax Open

The first phase of competition at 2023/24 FIS Snowboard slopestyle season-starter is set to drop in on Tuesday, when a big day of men’s qualifications and women’s finals hits the slopes of Crap Sogn Gion at the 2024 Laax Open.

With a mixed bag of weather in the forecast for this week, organisers and officials in Laax elected to revamp the program from the original schedule, moving the women’s semifinals up from Thursday to Tuesday to take advantage of some forecasted sun.

While there could be more schedule changes in our near future, for now we know that women’s semifinals are slated to begin at 9:10 CET, followed by men’s qualifications heat one at 11:40, and finally heat two at 14:10. From there, we’ve got men’s semifinals slated for Friday, with finals for both the women and men then set to go down on what we hope will be a sunny Saturday beginning at 13:30.

The top 12 men from each heat will be put through to semifinals, with the top 12 from semis then going on to Saturday’s finals. For the women, the top eight riders from semifinals will go straight through to finals.

While the new schedule creates some challengers, organisers in Laax are confident that they will be able to provide a free livestream of qualifications at on the Laax Open website, HERE.

While all that’s going down, we’ll also see the first day of Laax Open halfpipe training taking to the immaculate Snowpark Laax pipe…but we’ll have more on that later in the week.

We’ve already dropped our 2023/24 FIS Snowboard slopestyle World Cup season preview, which you can read HERE. However, below we’ll get into a few more Laax-specific details to get you ready for a big week ahead.