The Tour

If you dream to become a professional action sport rider,
your future starts from World Rookie Tour!

World Rookie Tour is the most famous, largest and oldest youth international action sport series with more than 3.000 riders: snowboard, freeski, skateboard and, from summer 2021, surf. It consists of a selection of high quality International events, which are not only competitions, but also features loads of other activities to help rookies to grow in the field of professional sport, such as workshops, photo & video shootings, meetings with photographers and international team managers, ticket to the best action sports events, parties and English talks.

Go to www.worldrookietour.com/calendar  to see the full schedule.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE TO THE WORLD ROOKIE TOUR

The World Rookie Tour is an under 18 snowboard and freeski freestyle competition (under 19 for the skate comp) opened to everybody who wants to become professional action sport rider.

QUALIFYING CRITERIA TO THE WORLD ROOKIE SNOWBOARD FINALS

– Rookies (men and women) born from the 1st of January 2006 to the 31st of December 2008.
– Groms (men and women) born from the the 1st of January 2009 and younger.
– Qualification by Rank: the top 20 riders of the World Rookie Rank (top 20 man, top 20 women) + the top 10 riders from the Grom rank at 4 days before the beginning of WRT Finals. You can check the ranking here.
– National Quota: every WSF member National Snowboard Association is entitled to nominate 2 Rookies Men, 1 Rookie Women, 1 Grom Men, 1 Grom Women. It’s up to the national association to define how they give out the spots. To get in touch with your national reference contact please write to registration@worldrookietour.com.
– The top 3 riders, both men and women / Rookie and Grom, from the previous international stops are already qualified to the World Rookie Finals.
– Wild Cards: the organization can assign up to 8 wild cards for the final to partner events, team, sponsor or single athletes.
– National secretary or national coaches are allowed to send their team registrations.
–  All World Rookie Finals podium riders from previous season, are already qualified to the next World Rookie Finals (if they are still in age to compete in the WRT).

QUALIFYING CRITERIA TO THE WORLD ROOKIE FREESKI FINALS

– Rookies (men and women) born from the 1st of January 2006 to the 31st of December 2008.
– Groms (men and women) born from the the 1st of January 2009 and younger.
– Qualification by Rank: the top 20 riders of the World Rookie Rank (top 20 man, top 20 women) + the top 10 riders from the Grom rank at 4 days before the beginning of WRT Finals. You can check the ranking here.
– National Quota: every nation is entitled to nominate 6 athletes (4 men and 2 women). It´s up to the national association to define how they give out the spots. To get in touch with your national reference contact please write to registration@worldrookietour.com.
– The top 3 riders, both men and women / Rookie and Grom, from the previous international stops are already qualified to the World Rookie Finals.
– Wild Cards: the organization can assign up to 8 wild cards for the final to partner events, team, sponsor or single athletes.
– National secretary or national coaches are allowed to send their team registrations.
–  All World Rookie Finals podium riders from previous season, are already qualified to the next World Rookie Finals (if they are still in age to compete in the WRT).

QUALIFYING CRITERIA TO THE WORLD ROOKIE SKATEBOARD FINALS

– Rookies (men and women) born from the 1st of January 2004 to the 31st of December 2007.
– Groms (men and women) born from the 1st of January 2008 and younger.
– Qualification by Rank: the top 10 Rookie Girls, top 10 Rookie Boys + the top 10 Grom Boys by the deadline september 2023. You can check the ranking here.
– National Quota: every Nation is allowed to nominate 3 Riders (2 men and 1 women). It´s up to the national association to define how they give out the spots. To get in touch with your national reference contact, please write to registration@worldrookietour.com
– The top 3 riders, both men and women / Rookie and Grom, and the Best Trick winner, from the previous international stops are already qualified to the World Rookie Finals.
– Wild Cards: the organization can assign up to 8 wild cards for the final to partner events, teams, sponsors or single athletes.
–  All World Rookie Finals podium riders from previous season, are already qualified to the next World Rookie Finals (if they are still in age to compete in the WRT).