Gaon Choi #77 of Korea competes in the women’s halfpipe competition on day 2 of The Snow League at Buttermilk Ski Resort on March 08, 2025 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
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Shaun White’s winter sports league, The Snow League, kicked off its inaugural season in Aspen Snowmass March 7–8, 2025, and now prepares for the second of four events in its first year.
The 36 snowboarders who competed in Aspen now travel to Yunding Snow Park in China for Event Two, to be held December 4–6, 2025.
Joining them for the first time in The Snow League will be 16 freeskiers, fulfilling White’s vision of a true winter sports league, not just a snowboarding competition. Though halfpipe is the only discipline for snowboarding and freeskiing, The Snow League plans to add more disciplines (for example, slopestyle and rails) in future seasons.
Sena Tomita and Yuto Totsuka, both of Japan, won the women’s and men’s halfpipe competitions, respectively, at Event One in Aspen Snowmass. Each took home a first-place prize of $50,000 out of a total prize purse of $370,000 for the event as well as the lead in the Snow League World Championship Standings.
The total prize purse across all four snowboarding events is $1.6 million. All finalists earn prize money, with $20,000 for second, $10,000 for third, $5,000 for fourth and $2,500 each for fifth through eighth.
The freeski purse for Season One of the Snow League is $580,000 across the two events (December’s event in China and then Event Four in LAAX, Switzerland, in March 2026), with equal prize money for men and women. An $85,000 purse for each gender is on the line, including $50,000 for first, $20,000 for second, $10,000 for third and $5,000 for fourth. The top three men’s and women’s freeski finishers in Season One will receive $80,000 in Championship awards.
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Setting The Snow League apart from many other professional leagues and reflecting White’s goal of provided unprecedented support to winter sports athletes, each of the 52 freeski and snowboard athletes receives a $5,000 appearance fee at each event.
Event Two will be broadcast in more than 175 countries, including live coverage and recap shows. Everything you need to know to tune in to Event Two at Yunding Snow Park, the site of the Beijing 2022 snowboarding and freeski competitions, is below.
Aerial photo taken on Nov. 16, 2021 shows a view of Yunding Ski Resort in Chongli of Zhangjiakou City, north China’s Hebei Province. The seats of Yunding Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou competition zone have been installed, and the staff are busy preparing the tracks for the upcoming test events of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
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The Snow League Event Two
Location: Yunding Snow Park, China
Dates: December 4–6, 2025
TV: NBC (U.S.); see other global broadcasters here
Streaming: Peacock (U.S.); see other global broadcasters here
The Snow League will return to Aspen Snowmass in February 2026 for Event Three before wrapping up Season One in Laax, Switzerland, in March.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellebruton/2025/11/30/how-to-watch-event-two-of-shaun-whites-the-snow-league/
