The Burton European Open is the most important freestyle snowboard event in Europe. As a counterpart to the US Open, the European Open connects different disciplines in an impressive event and guarantees progressive snowboarding at an up-to-date level. Livigno hosts the Burton European Open 2004. Competing together the newcomers, amateurs and the stars  perform their abilities in the disciplines Super-Pipe, Slopestyle and the Night-Shoot-Out. The very special thing about this contest: 100 male and 40 female snowboarding newcomers will have the chance to reach the olymp of snowboarding, hand in hand with  international stars and their rolemodels.