Snow League’s expanded Season Two field sets up a deeper halfpipe title race

With 60 athletes, four returning champions and 15 Olympic medalists, The Snow League is widening its competitive stage—and bringing both snowboard and freeski to every stop.

The Snow League’s second season is shaping up as more than a repeat of its debut. Its newly announced 60-athlete field brings together all four reigning Snow League world champions and 15 Olympic medalists, whose combined tally is 26 medals, including eight golds. The roster spans 12 countries and five continents, with men’s and women’s snowboard and freeski scheduled at each regular-season event.

The headline names include Olympic halfpipe champions Eileen Gu, Yuto Totsuka and Gaon Choi. They arrive with distinct challenges ahead: Gu and New Zealand’s Luke Harrold will defend their freeski titles, while Totsuka and women’s snowboard champion Sena Tomita return to protect their crowns. The field also includes eight of the 12 halfpipe medalists from the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, concentrating much of the sport’s recent Olympic success in one series.

The snowboard competitions offer several compelling rivalries. Totsuka faces a strong Japanese contingent that includes three-time Olympic medalist Ayumu Hirano and Olympic bronze medalist Ryusei Yamada. In the women’s field, Tomita will meet Olympic champion Gaon Choi, American standout Maddie Mastro and teenager Sara Shimizu, who won the final two events of the first season. Fifteen-year-old Patti Zhou, after a breakthrough win at Yunding Snow Park, earns her first full-time roster place.

Freeski is expanding, too. The league has increased the regular-season freeski field from 16 athletes to 24, adding room for more head-to-head contests. Returning champion Gu will face a deep international field that includes Olympic medalists Zoe Atkin and Fanghui Li. On the men’s side, three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist Nick Goepper returns to halfpipe competition alongside fellow Olympians David Wise, Hunter Hess and Gus Kenworthy; Harrold, the reigning champion, will be among the athletes to beat.

That larger field reflects a format designed around direct matchups rather than a single, all-athlete final. The league says Season Two will use a three-day schedule: qualifying on Day One, quarterfinals on Day Two, and semifinals and finals on Day Three. Athletes accumulate points across the season, with the championship decided by their results over the series.

The regular season moves from Buttermilk at Aspen Snowmass, Colorado, on January 7–9, 2027, to Park City Mountain, Utah, on January 21–23, before its March 11–13 finale at LAAX, Switzerland. The calendar was preceded by the World Challenge at Cardrona, New Zealand, in September 2026—a separate team-format event that brought athletes together from four regions.

For viewers, Season Two events are scheduled to stream live in the United States on Peacock and globally on The Snow League’s YouTube channel, with encore presentations on NBC’s broadcast network.

The roster announcement’s larger significance is the league’s attempt to make halfpipe competition feel like a season-long contest, not just a collection of isolated events. More freeskiers, both disciplines on every stop and a bracket-style format create more opportunities for consequential matchups. Whether that produces lasting momentum for a young circuit will depend on the action in the pipe—but the field gives the season a strong cast of champions, contenders and emerging names.