Absolut Park Spring Battle 2025 adds the FIS Snowboard Worldcup Finals
Absolut Park Flachauwinkl hosts the Snowboard World Cup Finals
Snowboard history is being made in Salzburger Pongau: The Spring Battle at Absolut Park, Europe's longest-running independent elite snowboard competition, will be complemented by a Snowboard World Cup for the first time, merging the best of both worlds.
Since 2002, Spring Battle has been held annually at Absolut Park Flachauwinkl, becoming the longest-running snowboard contest in the independent snowboard scene (WSF). Driven by technical innovations and the progressive development of snowboarding, the Spring Battle format has always been ahead of traditional snowboard events. With its current Follow-Cam-Jam-Session mode, where the world’s best snowboarders are tracked by their cameramen and FPV drones, athletes have new opportunities to put down the perfect run using only their best tricks on a creatively designed slopestyle course. A panel of judges evaluates the submitted videos to determine the winners of the event, which boasts a prize pool of €65,000, put out by the World Snowboard Federation.
The Slopestyle World Cup, originally planned in Livigno, Italy, as a test event for the 2026 Winter Olympics, had to be canceled due to ongoing work at the venue. Recognizing the potential to combine both series, in collaboration with the Austrian Ski Federation and Snowboard Austria, the World Cup Final was moved to the unique training facility at Flachau. The excellent infrastructure of Absolut Park made it possible to step in at such short notice. Instead of leaving a gap in the FIS competition calendar, a true season highlight has emerged thanks to the tireless efforts of Absolut Park management under CEO Seppi Harml and FIS Contest Director Roby Moresi.
As a result, athletes will have two opportunities within a week to earn valuable points for the World Snowboard Points List (WSPL) and a significant prize purse. From March 8 to 12, 2025, the legendary Absolut Park Spring Battle will take place as scheduled, seamlessly transitioning into the FIS Snowboard World Cup Flachau on March 13 and 14. While Flachau has a long history of hosting FIS Alpine events dating back to 1993, this will be the first time the region hosts an FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup. Home to local snowboard icons Anna Gasser and Clemens Millauer, as well as numerous international top riders and national teams who regularly train there, snowboarding history will once again be made in Austria—where an independent WSF event merges with the FIS Snowboard World Cup.
"It's incredibly cool that we now also have a Slopestyle World Cup in Austria. Together with the Big Air events in Klagenfurt and Kreischberg, we now have three home World Cups this season. The fact that both the Spring Battle and the World Cup finals are taking place within a week is very exciting. Going straight to the World Championships in St. Moritz afterwards adds even more value to the week in Flachau," says double Olympic champion Anna Gasser, looking forward to her "home game."
Oyvind Kirkhus from Norway just visited Absolut Park and says: “I’m really looking forward to the World Cup in Absolut Park! Absolut is one of the best parks in Europe and it has been for over 10 years so I would say it was about time we had a slopestyle World Cup there.”
As the final Snowboard Park & Pipe World Cup of the season, Absolut Park will also award the coveted crystal globes to the best slopestyle riders of the World Cup season before they head to the 2025 World Championships in the Swiss Engadine.
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