GoPro Announces $120,000 Contest for Best Skiing Videos

Today, GoPro announced its ‘GoPro Line of the Winter’ video contest, with cash awards totalling $120,000. The contest invites skiers and snowboarders to submit their best GoPro-captured runs for a chance to win cash prizes and the opportunity to be featured on GoPro’s social media.

The judging criteria is based on three main factors: athletic performance; video capture quality and overall “wow factor”. Check out GoPro’s announcement video from the Instagram account below:

GoPro are awarding $120,000 in total

So what’s up for grabs? Well, along with the potentially career-changing benefit of being featured on GoPro’s social channels, there is also a total prize pool of $120,000. This money is broken down in a couple of ways.

Firstly, each month (from January to April), GoPro will award $10,000 to one skier and one snowboarder, for a total of $80,000 being awarded for the ‘Line of the Winter’ monthly awards. Then in May, GoPro will announce one skier and one snowboarder as the overall winners of the ‘GoPro Line of the Winter Awards’ and each of them will be awarded a $20,000 prize.

For an idea of what GoPro are looking for, here is the 2016 ‘GoPro Line of the Winter’ co-winner for the month of March.

GoPro-sponsored snow athletes will be the judges

The judging panel will be made up of GoPro-sponsored snow athletes — Olympic snowboarding champions Jamie Anderson and Sage Kotsenburg, eight-time X-Games skiing slopestyle medalist Tom Wallisch, three-time Freeride World Tour runner-up Hedvig Wessel, and 16 year-old pro skier Kai Jones. They will be judging the submissions on three factors: athletic performance; video capture quality and overall “wow factor”.

Submissions close on April 30, 2024, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. To enter the competition, or to find out more, go to the official ‘GoPro Line of the Winter’ page.