Wow so we just got news that the Burton European Open, which was scheduled for early Jan, has been postponed to the end of Feb due to crappy weather conditions. The BEO 2012 is now scheduled to run from Feb 25- March 3, 2012.
Mad that they’re making this call that early, but we lie not, as you can see from the official blurb:
‘Burton and LAAX are committed to providing a very high standard of Slopestyle and Halfpipe snowboarding events. The temperatures at the moment do not allow preparation of a park set-up in time that meets the expectations of organizers and riders. For this reason postponement of the event has been confirmed.’
And on the left’s the, what we imagine was a pretty hastily redesigned, poster: