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Stratton Mountain, VT- As the grooming crew and park and pipe specialists work round the clock putting the finishing touches the slopestyle course and superpipe, Stratton Mountain braces for the twenty-sixth annual Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championship.  Fans, members of the media, industry affiliates and professional snowboarders will be converging on the mountain for this prestigious and historically significant event. 

Stratton Mountain has had a long standing relationship with Burton Snowboards and the sport of snowboarding in general.  In 1983, Stratton was the first mountain on the east coast to open its doors to participants of the sport.  At the time Burton Snowboard's founder Jake Burton was living in and operating his fledgling business out of nearby Londonderry and helped to launch the Stratton Snowboard School.  2008 will be the twenty-third year that the U.S. Open has come to Stratton and will once again feature the best and brightest snowboarding stars on the planet!

• The competition will be held in the Sunbowl area of Stratton Mountain March 17-23.
• It is the sixth and final stop of the Global Open Series.
• At the end of the competition, the 2007/ 2008 Global Open Series will crown the overall winners in both the men's and women's categories.
• There will be four disciplines involved in the competition: Slopestyle, Superpipe, Big Air, and Junior Jam.
• The event finals will be broadcast on NBC, Sunday March 23 from 1:30-3:00 pm.
• The world's best riders like Shaun White, Lindsey Jacobellis, Jenny Jones, Mason Aguirre, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Kelly Clark, Elena Hight, and Torah Bright will be competing.
• Current Burton Global Open Series men's standings leader Kazuhiro Kokubo (JPN) has 35,405 points going into the U.S. Open.
• Current Burton Global Open Series women's standings leader Jenny Jones (GBR) has 37,316 points going into the U.S. Open.
• Both the men's and women's winner will receive a $100,000 payout which is the largest single check in competitive snowboarding.
• The 22-foot tall, 450-foot long superpipe is handcrafted by Pat Melandoski and his crew at Planet Snow.
• Melandoski's resume includes creating superpipes for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the 2006 USSA Grand Priz in Breckenridge, CO and the 2007 World Cup in Lake Placid, NY.
• Volvo will be awarding two new Volvo C30 R-Designs to the male and female "Most Valuable Riders".
• Burton, Volvo, Virgin America, SoBe, Gore Tex, Paul Mitchell, Gravis, Corona, and Emergen-C are just some of the sponsors of the event.
• Be sure to come by the Stratton "Fresh Tracks" tent for environmentally friendly giveaways, to learn more about Stratton's commitment to the environment, and how you can make a difference.
• In going with the medieval theme of this year's event, five jousting matches per day will take place at the Burton tent in the U.S. Open sponsor village.
• Events will be going on all week and there will be free live concerts on the main stage both Friday and Saturday nights starting at 8:30.
• Post event, from March 28- April 6, Stratton will host the U.S. Open After Party where visitors to the mountain will have the opportunity to ride the superpipe and slopestyle course used in the Open!

Visit Stratton.com and Opensnowboarding.com for more details.