2025 Livigno World Rookie Fest: celebrating the 20th edition with a fresh twist!

Once again, the event will feature both freeski and snowboard competitions, but with a major twist: this year, the order of the competitions has been reversed compared to last year! The event will kick off with freeski from January 11th to 14th, followed by the snowboard competitions from January 14th to 18th. This is a unique opportunity to experience the thrill and excitement alongside riders and fans worldwide.

2025 Highlights: all riders on rookie and grom podiums of both disciplines will secure a spot in the World Rookie Tour Finals:

- top freeskiers will head to Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) from March 29th to April 3rd.

- top snowboarders will compete in Kitzsteinhorn - Zell am See Kaprun (Austria) from March 24th to 29th.

We are proud to announce that the 2025 Livigno World Rookie Fest is part of the Milano Cortina 2026 Foundation's national sports program. The event reflects the values of the Italia dei Giochi 26 project.

The 2025 Livigno World Rookie Fest will also feature plenty of side activities, making for a week packed with fun, friendship, and adrenaline!

• Freeski Slopestyle: January 11th - 14th, 2025

• Snowboard Slopestyle: January 14th - 18th, 2025

Stay tuned for more information in the coming days. In the meantime, get ready for an unforgettable experience in Livigno!

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ABOUT THE WORLD ROOKIE TOUR

The World Rookie Tour is organized by the Black Yeti ssrl in collaboration with the World Snowboard Federation, National Snowboard, Ski and Skateboard Associations, and selected action sports agencies. It was born in 2005 as a series of youth snowboard events and it consists now of a selection of high-quality International events for snowboard, Freeski, Skateboard and Surf, the so-called "Rookie Fests", reserved for riders under 18's only, in Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The World Rookie Tour consists not only of competitions: it also features loads of other activities to help rookies to grow in the field of professional action sports, such as photo & video shootings, avalanche, and rescue clinics, meetings with photographers, and international team managers, parties and English talks. Since year zero, it awards tickets to world-class events such as X Games Norway, Audi Nines, The Arctic Challenge, The Air & Style, The World Snowboarding Championships, Red Bull Roller Coaster, Simple Session, Mystic Sk8 Cup, invitations to professional photo & video shootings, and shooting trip all around the world. Every year the tour crowns the World Rookie Champions at the end of the season, during the World Rookie Finals, a unique event format where the best youngsters from almost 30 countries compete and have fun. More information at www.worldrookietour.com

ABOUT BLACK YETI ssd

The Black Yeti is a sport company dedicated to the realization of snowboard, freeski and skateboard projects for boys and girls up to 18 years of age, in Italy and abroad. One of the most successful project is the World Rookie Tour, the biggest and the most famous tour in the action sports world that attracts 3.000 young athletes from 30 nations to the events called “Rookie Fest”, organized all over the world: Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The Rookie Fests program includes not only the competition but also many side activities such as avalanche and rescue clinics, workshops and English talks.

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