Watch the Burton New Zealand Open Live on Go211.com

Live event webcasts on Go211.com. Webcasts will feature the men's and women’s slopestyle and halfpipe semi-finals and finals taking place on July 31 through August 2, 2008 at Snowpark, New Zealand.

WHO: Juliane Bray, Kendall Brown, Mitchell Brown, Stef Zeestraten and James Hamilton are just a few of the top invited Kiwi riders who plan to compete for a piece of the NZ$50,000 prize purse against some of the world’s top international riders.

WHEN: Catch the entire events as they go down with LIVE webcasts on Go211.com during the following times:

LIVE WEBCASTS: New Zealand Time Zone
Friday, August 1

Slopestyle Semi-finals: Women 9:15 – 10:05
Slopestyle Semi-finals: Men 10:35 – 12:05

Slopestyle Finals 12:35 – 14:05

Saturday, August 2
Halfpipe Semi-finals: Women 9:30 – 10:30

Halfpipe Semi-finals: Men 11:15 – 12:45

Halfpipe Finals 13:30 – 15:30

For more information on the New Zealand Open, visit www.opensnowboarding.com

About the Burton Global Open Series

The Burton Global Open Series events are the pinnacle snowboarding events of the season. Founded by Jake Burton, the Opens have grown from grassroots events to global spectacles attracting tens of thousands of spectators and riders from around the world. Since the beginning, the Opens have been driven by riders, for riders evolving with snowboarding and riders’ needs over the years. With events held in Canada, Europe, Japan, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, the Opens set the standard for snowboarding events around the globe. For more information, visit www.opensnowboarding.com

About the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour

Founded by Terje Haakonsen and industry innovators in 2002, the SWATCH Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour is a non-profit, rider-driven organization with the mission to create the highest quality competitive snowboard environment in the world, using authenticity, accessibility and innovation as guiding principles. Since its foundation, the Swatch TTR Tour has been developing into the most exposed snowboard tour worldwide featuring global grass root and key independent freestyle snowboarding events over a ten-month period from Southern to Northern Hemisphere locations. Events are rated via a 1-through-6Star system, with points allocated accordingly, a 6Star event holds the highest. Any rider participating in these events, from up-and-coming to professional talent, earns ranking points and a position on the SWATCH TTR World Ranking List. The top male and female rider based on an average of their best eight results of the season is crowned SWATCH TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion. For more information, visit www.ttrworldtour.com

About Go211.com

Go211.com is the leading community and video site for lifestyle sports created by and for action sports athletes and enthusiasts. It’s the place to hang with the pros and friends to get behind-the-scenes video, blogs, photos, webcasts and podcasts from featured contributors along with other action sports fans. Go211.com offers a broad range of exclusive content submitted directly from the athletes. The current Go211 Pro Team roster includes Keir Dillon, Keegan Valaika, Danny Kass, Hannah Teter, Kevin Pearce, Kelly Clark, Jack Mitrani, Ben Watts, Donny Robinson, CJ Hobgood, Christian Hosoi, Holly Beck, Sarah Burke and Mike Losness, among others.