The future of snowboarding is here.
The Snow League, Shaun White’s new professional halfpipe league, debuts Friday, March 7, 2025 at Buttermilk in Aspen. The league features a $1.6 million prize pool.
Each event will give $370,000 to the winners, and prize money between men and women will be evenly distributed. Riders will get a $5,000 appearance fee for showing up, and a Snow League World Champion will be crowned at the end of the season, and take home an additional $160,000.
No matter how you feel about halfpipe riding, it’s a monumental moment in contest snowboarding, and the future of the sport.
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How To Watch First Snow League Event
Live coverage of The Snow League will begin on Peacock Friday, March 7, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The second day of competition will feature live coverage on Peacock from 11:30 a.m. EST, and a rebroadcast will go live on NBC March 29, 2025 at 1 p.m.
Peacock Premium starts at $7.99 a month, or $79.99 a year. Peacock Premium Plus, which eliminates ads, starts at $13.99 a month, or $139.99 a year.
For those outside the U.S., you’ll also be able to watch. In Asia, SPOTV will bring the Snow League to fans in Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. FUEL TV will air The Snow League to 18 countries across central and South America, including Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Canadians can watch on CBC Gem and cbcsports.ca on Friday, March 7, 2025 and Saturday, March 8, 2025 starting at 11:30 a.m. EST. Kayo Sports will have the broadcast for viewers down under in Australia.
Who Is on The First Snow League Broadcast?
The Snow League has brought in two of the most prominent voices in snowboarding: Tom “T-Bird” Monterosso as a sideline reporter and analyst, and Chris Grenier as a halftime and post show host.
As for the broadcast host, Jac Collinsworth will step outside of his role as a football broadcaster for Notre Dame and the NFL to be The Snow League’s broadcast host. Collinsworth has had prior experience broadcasting nontraditional sports, as he was on the call for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Todd Harris will be on the play-by-play call. Harris has called BMX and skateboarding at the Olympics for NBC Sports, and most famously was on the call with Todd Richards for Shaun White’s gold medal final run at the 2018 Pyongchang, South Korea Olympics.
Tina Dixon is also a sideline reporter. She has covered five winter Olympics for NBC, and has covered the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Grand Prix’s and World Cups as both in play-by-play and analyst. She has also worked for Red Bull TV for the last 10 years.
Connor Manning will serve as a judging analyst. The Vermonter has served as a judge for the X Games and other contests for nearly 20 years.
What Does the Rest of the Snow Season Look Like?
The series will premiere at Buttermilk from March 7-8, 2025. Then the second stop will go down from Dec. 4–6, 2025, at the Yunding Secret Garden in China. Stop three will return to Buttermilk at Aspen Snowmass from Feb 26–28, 2026, and stop four will head to LAAX, Switzerland from March 19–21, 2026.
The large gap in the schedule will make space for the 2026 Olympics in Italy. The winner will be crowned at the LAAX stop.
What to Watch for at Snow League
There are some huge names in this lineup, and all eyes are going to be on the legacy riders who have already established themselves in the world of halfpipe: Ayumu Hirano, Ruka Hirano, and Kaishu Hirano are the most obvious riders to keep an eye on.
China’s Xuetong Cai has already had a stellar season, and Maddie Mastro is coming to Aspen fresh off of winning the FIS Crystal Globe, after landing on three podiums throughout the FIS season and winning X Games halfpipe silver.
Photo: Brie Coops/U.S. Snowboard Team
Keep an eye on some others from the field, though. American Alessandro Barbieri just took home a halfpipe gold medal in Calgary. Maddy Schaffrick found the podium at China’s Secret Garden in December in a triumphant return to contest snowboarding.
Ziyang Wang won an X Games gold medal in the Knuckle Huck, and Bea Kim will be competing in the halfpipe for the first time since X Games.
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