The lineup for the Yeti Natural Selection Duels 2025 has been released, and we have some top-tier matchups from both the men and women's side of the competition.
Eight men and four women have been invited to the Duels. Each Duel will showcase two riders head-to-head in the backcountry competition during their weather window. The winner of each Duel will head to the next stage of the Natural Selection Tour in Revelstoke.
The Duels are as follows:
Tor Lundstrom x Stale Sandbech at Andermatt+Sedrun+Disentis, Switzerland
- Stefi Luxton x Madison Blackley at Eleven Irwin, CO
- Bjorn Leines x Brin Alexander at evo’s Journeyman Lodge at the Callaghan, BC (foot-powered DUEL)
- Severin Van Der Meer x Brandon Davis at Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Lake Tahoe, CA
- Gabe Ferguson x Blake Moller at High Mountain Heli, Victor, ID
- Aya Sato x Sarka Pancochova at Myoko, Japan
"I’m really excited to be competing in the DUELS this year. The last time I did Natural Selection it was a pretty last-minute thing, so it’s nice to have time to prepare,” said Stefi Luxton in a press release. “The venue at Eleven Irwin looks incredible–fun, flowy, freestyle terrain. I can’t wait to check it out and spend the week snowboarding with Madison in Colorado.”
Photo: Tiffany Cook
Viewers can watch the entire competiton on Red Bull TV starting on February 24, 2025.
“I’m feeling honored and stoked to have the opportunity to be riding in the NST DUELS!” Bjorn Leines, who was at the first-ever Natural Selection in 2008, said in a press release. “The mindset of big mountain freestyle riding combined with the location, the format, and the talent pool are the ingredients that I’ve been dreaming about for some time now. Looking forward to visualizing, charging, and putting signatures down on BC’s Coast Range alongside Brin and battling it out in God’s country!”
Photo: Katey Hamill via NST Media Assets
Mikey Ciccarelli took home the 2024 Natural Selection Tour crown for the men.
"My winning run was a bit of a Hail Mary. I just put it all on the line and tried to go as big as I could,” he told Snowboarder in March. “This is by far the biggest accomplishment of my career. I have been a huge fan of NST since the first event and had the dream to one day make it onto the tour.”
Marion Haerty won for the women. She has competed in Natural Selection since the year of its inception in Jackson, Wyoming, but was forced to take the previous season off while she rehabbed an injury.
“I wasn’t thinking about competition, I was thinking about what would be beautiful snowboarding," she said after she won.
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