WATCH NOW: DAY 1 OF 2025 YETI NATURAL SELECTION AT REVELSTOKE MOUNTAIN, BC

Watch now as 24 of the world’s preeminent practitioners of off-piste freestyle battle for bragging rights and big novelty checks in snowboarding’s most formidable forum. Revelstoke’s renowned Montana Bowl will once again host this one-of-a-kind contest showdown.

For 2025, the YETI Natural Selection at Revelstoke has updated the process by which riders will earn their invite to Day 2. On Friday the contest will commence with 2 heats of 8 men and 1 heat of 8 women each taking 1 run with 2 riders from each of these three groups(6 total) advancing. Next, the remaining 18 competitors will once again drop within their respective heats with a single contender advancing from their designated fields. The third round serves as a last chance qualifier into day 2, with only 1 athlete in each bracket earning an invite to take part in the main event on Saturday.

So who are the contenders? The following is a breakdown of the specific groupings and the order that they will be dropping in on Friday:

Heat 1 Women:

1.        Madison Blackley

2.        Estelle Pensiero

3.        Mary Rand

4.        Šárka Pančochová

5.        Ellery Manning

6.        Spencer O’Brien

7.        Elena Hight

8.        Aya Sato

Heat 1 Men:

1.        Brin Alexander

2.        Travis Rice

3.        Torgeir Bergrem

4.        Ståle Sandbech

5.        Gigi Rüf

6.        Mikey Ciccarelli

7.        Ben Ferguson

8.        Severin van der Meer

Heat 2 Men:

1.        Mikkel Bang

2.        Jared Elston

3.        Brandon Davis

4.        Austen Sweetin

5.        Sage Kotsenburg

6.        Dustin Craven

7.        Blake Moller

8.        Nils Mindnich

In addition to YETI the 2025 Natural Selection at Revelstoke Mountain, BC is brought to you by Arc’teryx, Deathgrip Glove Company, A New Earth Project, Blackstrap, Dakine, 10 Barrel Brewing, Oakley, Ski-Doo, Turtlebox, Manscaped, Mammut, BOA, the Government of British Columbia Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport, Tourism Revelstoke, and Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing with further support being provided by the NST Industry Alliance program which includes Union Bindings, Salomon, Lib Tech, The North Face, Remind Insoles, Arbor, Anon, K2, Dragon, Rossignol, and Burton.