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Philosophy

Sport communications is the process of communication between a brand and its audience, based on passion and love to sports that constantly keep unbelievable interest to it. We have checked that proper work with this peculiarity lets amazingly enrich the content of brand values and deepen the penetration of a message.



Marketing communications. We start building any communication from the answer to a question: what do we want to say and to whom? And only after that we apply all the necessary tools that let us say what we want and to whom we want with maximum effect. There are instruments that we have mastered perfectly, and there are ones we have to create depending on the goals. All members of our team can effectively apply the well known marketing instruments, but we are sure that the use of standard instruments is not enough for performing concrete tasks. Here, individual approach is needed.

Sport. The sports we chose have many names: extreme, non-Olympic, action sport, fun sport, etc. We prefer to call them «alternative sports», as in the frame of sport this name lets us embrace quite a wide variety of sports. Also it lets us avoid such connotations like in case with «extreme sports», associated mainly with teens and high level of risk for health, but it is not always like this (потому что?). But, honestly speaking, in the most interesting cases we are ready to work with traditional sports. All members of our team ride or play something.

People. They are the most important for us. They are the ones who determine what we do. People who work in the agency should enjoy their job, that's why they love what they do and succeed in it. The people who take part in our projects are the main, that's why we try to offer them only the things they will really like and need. The people who apply to us for service are everything for us, as they are the ones who make our work effective and efficient.
All members of our team communicate with people, not brands, companies, legal entities, robots etc.

We. We say that «being first is an advantage» because we have checked it in the two main spheres of our lives- sport and business. It's not easy but someone should! Our mission is to make sport an effective communicational platform for completion of business tasks. That's why this process promotes the development of business, sport our clients and us. We have worker under the brand of 360SCA since10 February 2006 and this idea belongs to three people: Alexey Mitrofanov, Ekaterina Kolchanova and Alexey Bezugliy, but our existence owes to everyone who works in the Agency.

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Freeride World Tour 2009

Four locations around the world have been selected for the second edition of the Freeride World Tour. On top of it, qualification events have joined as Freeride World Qualifier events making the Tour even more attractive, with more events and more riders. The planet's top freeride skiers and snowboarders will start in Sochi with the Nissan Russian Adventure 2009 and then travel to the USA, France and Switzerland to prove their skills on some of the world's most challenging faces. The Freeride World Tour has a prize purse of $250,000, the highest sum ever to be paid in ski or snowboard freeride contests.

On March 15, 2008, the first ever edition of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) was completed after five successful events around the globe, finishing with the prestigious Nissan O'Neill Xtreme in Verbier, Switzerland. Elyse Saugstad (USA) and Henrik Windstedt (SWE) in skiing, Ruth Leisibach (SUI) and Xavier de le Rue (FRA) in snowboarding became the first Freeride World Champions in history.

The Freeride World Tour is on for the second edition. The world best professional freeriders are back on the Tour and have all confirmed their participation. A number of 40 male and female riders plus wild cards are invited to the first three contests: Nissan Russian Adventure in Sochi (Russia), Nissan Tram Face in Squaw Valley (USA), and Nissan Freeride in Tignes (France). The final contest will take place in Switzerland with the Nissan Xtreme — Verbier 09, on the gruelling north face of the Bec des Rosses, one of the most challenging descents in the world of freeriding.
«It is great to see that the Tour will continue to its second year with all the top riders of last year’s edition present,” said Swedish skier Henrik Windstedt, the sensational Freeride World Tour Champion 2008. “With the high level of the athletes, the standard of the riding will if possible be even greater than last year. The Tour will also develop and grow to an even higher quality event, which is just great for the future of this sport», Windstedt further commented.
Founder and organiser Nicolas Hale-Woods (SUI) is very pleased with the progression of the Freeride World Tour to its second edition. “The fact that 100% of the top ranked riders from last year have confirmed their participation for this year is really a measurement of success for the Freeride World Tour. We feel that the progression of the sport is strong. With the extensive support of our main partner Nissan, new partners joining in and top resorts like Sochi, Squaw Valley USA, Tignes and Verbier hosting our contests, we are attracting more and more attention of the public, the media and the industry. ”
Jean-Pierre Diernaz, General Manager of Nissan’s Marketing Communications in Europe said, “As we prepare for the second year of Nissan’s commitment to the Freeride World Tour across Europe and North America, we are very excited by the addition of new Freeride World Qualifier events in countries including Italy, Slovakia and Norway. This will allow more athletes than ever before the opportunity to qualify for the four Nissan sponsored Tour events. Through these, we hope that the Freeride World Tour will uncover the next generation of male and female international skiers and snowboarders.”
In order to allow freeriders who are not qualified for the Freeride World Tour to participate and score points, the Pro Freeriders Board elected existing international events to be part of the Freeride World Qualifier (FWQ). The FWQ is a series of independently organised events around the world. Riders participating in those events collect points in the Freeride World Ranking (FWR), a unique ranking list for both FWT and FWQ events. Riders from the Freeride World Tour and the Qualifier will therefore climb up and down the ranking list throughout the season. Finally the three best results will count to score the 2009 Freeride World Champions who will be crowned in Verbier after the Xtreme.

The four events of the Freeride World Tour 2009 are:
1. NISSAN RUSSIAN ADVENTURE — SOCHI, RUSSIA
Dates: 20–25 JAN 2009, Preliminary contest day: Wednesday 21 January
40 riders qualified + wild cards:
 — 15 males: 10 best of FWT08 + 4 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
 — 5 females: 2 best of FWT08 + 2 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
2. NISSAN TRAM FACE — SQUAW VALLEY USA
Dates: 27 FEB-05 MAR 2009, Preliminary contest day: Saturday 28 February
40 riders qualified + wild cards:
 — 15 males: 10 best of FWT08 + 4 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
 — 5 females: 2 best of FWT08 + 2 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
3. NISSAN FREERIDE DE TIGNES, FRANCE
Dates: 8–14 March 2009, Preliminary contest day: Monday 9 March
40 riders qualified + wild cards:
 — 15 males: 10 best of FWT08 + 4 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
 — 5 females: 2 best of FWT08 + 2 best of FWQ08 + 1 FWQ09 sister event* winner + wild cards
4. NISSAN XTREME — VERBIER 09, SWITZERLAND
Dates: 20–29 March 2009, Preliminary contest day: Saturday 21 March
22 riders qualified + wild cards:
 — 8 best males on the FWR09 + wild cards
 — 3 best females on the FWR09 + wild cards
The final entry list for the Nissan Xtreme — Verbier 09 will be announced at 4pm CET the day of the Nissan Freeride de Tignes