The Snow League’s Debut already happened in Aspen. Sena Tomita and Yuto Totsuka already won. Maddie Mastro and Ruka Hirano already finished in second. Gaon Choi and Ayumu Hirano already finished in third. The contest was electric.
On Saturday, you can relive it all over again.
A special encore presentation of Shaun White’s newest professional snowboarding league will debut on NBC Saturday, March, 29, 2025. It will air at 1 p.m. EST.
The contest went down in Aspen on Friday, March 7 and 8, 2025. Tomita and Totsuka each won the inaugural contest, and both earned $50,000 a piece out of a total prize purse that tallies up to $370,000. The two now hold a lead in the World Championship standings, with 100 points each and three events to go.
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“I’m so happy to win the inaugural Snow League event—this feels like the start of something big!” Tomita said after the event through a translator. “It’s hard to put into words, but this is so awesome!”
The two-day contest aired live on NBC’s streaming service Peacock. The network brought in some of the most recognizable voices in snowboarding, like Tom “T-Bird” Monterosso as a sideline reporter and analyst, Todd Harris on the play-by-play call, and Chris Grenier as a halftime and post show host.
Vermonter and X Games judge Connor Manning served as a judging analyst. Tina Dixon worked as a sideline reporter, and Naoko Funayama served as a interpreter and sports commentator. Jac Collinsworth, who typically serves as the voice of Notre Dame football and NFL football, served as the broadcast host.
The live broadcast was extremely polished, as it should have been, being hosted by a legacy media company like NBC. On-screen graphics appeared during each rider’s runs, detailing the exact trick a rider threw on each hit.
Replays provided slow-motion looks accompanied by explanations from the announcers that walked the audience through why a rider might lose points for letting go of a grab early, or landing poorly. Todd Richards would call a trick, like a backside 540 truck driver, then walk the audience through what the trick was comprised of, and the meaning behind the name.
The next event on the season will go down from Dec. 4–6, 2025, at the Yunding Secret Garden in China. After that, the league 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.
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