To the INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION - Members of the Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup Blochstrasse 2 - Peter Gerdol, Chief Race Director World Cup Women 3653 Oberhofen/Thunersee - Markus Waldner, Chief Race Director World Cup Men - Jean-Philippe Vuillet, Race Director World Cup Women Speed Events Switzerland Hannes Trinkl, Race Director World Cup Men Speed Events Tel +41 33 244 61 61 - Markus Mayr, Race Director World Cup Women Technical Events Fax +41 33 244 61 71 - Emmanuel Couder; Coordinator Men’s World Cup
For information to: - Gian Franco Kasper, FIS President - Sarah Lewis, FIS Secretary General - Bernhard Russi, Chairman Alpine Committee - Atle Skaardal, Technical Expert Alpine - Stefano Pirola, Chairman Continental Cups - Jenny Wiedeke, FIS Communications Manager - Jürg Capol, Marketing Director - Stefan Huber, FIS Event Director - Janez Fleré, FIS Alpine Technical and Administrative Coordinator
Oberhofen, 16.10.2019
Minutes of the Sub-Committee Meeting for the Alpine World Cup Hotel Hilton Zurich (SUI), Friday, 04.10.2019, 08:00.
Dear Ski Friends,
We are pleased to send you the minutes of the Sub-Committee Meeting for the Alpine World Cup, which was held in Zürich (SUI), 4th October 2019.
We kindly ask that you send any remarks to the FIS Alpine Office in Oberhofen by the 30. October 2019 ([email protected]).
We would also like to take the opportunity to inform you that the minutes are available on the Member Services section of the FIS Website: www.fis-ski.com.
Thank you very much for your valuable contribution.
Kindest regards,
INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION
Niklas Carlsson Chairman Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup
Enclosure: mentioned
INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup
Minutes of the meeting Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup Friday, 04.10.2019, 08:00, Conference Room “Panorama A/B/C”
All proposals and decisions of the Sub-Committee are subject to the confirmation of the Alpine Committee and to the approval of the FIS Council in November in Konstanz (GER).
1. Welcome and opening of the meeting Niklas Carlsson, Chairman of the Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup, opens the meetings and welcomes all presents.
2. Roll-call Janez Fleré, Alpine Coordinator, calls the Roll (attached list).
3. Approval of the agenda The agenda is approved by the Sub-Committee.
4. Approval of the minutes of the meeting held in Cavtat-Dubrovnik (CRO) on 31.05.2019 The minutes are approved by the Sub-Committee.
5. Reports a) from the Chairman Niklas Carlsson The Chairman looked back at the previous meetings in Cavtat-Dubrovnik and he noted the commitment of the organisers and the NSAs to improve the World Cup. This passion is the biggest asset of this Sub-Committee. The collaboration between the stakeholders is great. It feels like the World Cup is one team, even though sometimes there are different opinions.
After the World Championship in Are, the Council gathered and decided to implement the Alpine Combined and improve the Parallel format. He underlines the challenge for the race directors to increase the calendars and he asked once again to support their choices that brought a lot of tough compromises. He congratulated their amazing work on finding the right solution to set the right balance between disciplines in the calendars that has never been so changed in the past. Finally, the calendars have been set but everybody agreed that it is not acceptable to have these short term change sets into the calendars.
He also pointed out the first decision to reject the 1st of January races during the meeting in Cavtat-Dubrovnik underlining the importance of the date itself. Consequently, the 1st of January has been set once again as part of the future calendars. He cared to underline once again how important is working together with the aim to develop the World Cup considering all the stakeholders and the requires in general.
b) from Markus Waldner, Chief Race Director World Cup Men He welcomed everybody and he went through a short report from his side. He talked
about summer warm temperatures that, luckily, didn’t affect too much the glacier conditions so he is confident to have Soelden in good condition to kick off the World Cup.
He explains that the organisers and NSAs have been working on the feedbacks from last season, mainly the camera positions, the start times, the course preparation, safety installations and snow-making systems. Everybody is willing to work on these topics and get to make excellent events.
He underlines that flexibility and cooperation are key words for the future and he thanked already all of the stakeholders for being flexible in terms of changing programs.
He pointed out how important are the contingents plans and together with Infront they are working on it to improve the entire scenario including start timing coordinated with other sports, tv graphics and good story telling.
Markus Waldner (FIS) also takes the time to remember one of the most important retirement in the skiing history with the case of Marcel Hirscher thanking him for his professionality and his commitment to this sport. Thank to him the entire World Cup set higher standard. c) from Peter Gerdol, Chief Race Director World Cup Women Peter Gerdol (FIS) welcomed members and organisers and thanked FIS that trusted on him on this new role. He also thanked Atle Skaardal for his outstanding job in the past in developing the Alpine Skiing Women’s World Cup with the purpose to keep working on the same direction and he also thanked him for the support he gave him in the last few months. He presented his team with: Jean-Philippe Vulliet, FIS Race Director Women Speed Events, Markus Mayr, FIS Race Director Women Tech Events, Andreas Krönner, FIS Technical Operations Manager and he presented Giulia Candiago as a new media coordinator for the Women’s tour.
Peter Gerdol (FIS) explained that the summer was business as usual with inspections going on to improve as much as possible. FIS is working in the direction of course preparation especially for speed races and took action over the summer to make it a special inspection point with organisers. He mentioned at few issues that his colleagues faced last season such as jumps during the speed events and timing issue. Regarding the timing issue he affirmed that after Crans Montana issue last year, Swiss Timing and Longines reacted immediately providing a 3rd measurement system.
Having no big events for the next season means that it will allow him to go into details venues by venues and understand in a better way everything he is not aware of. He had the opportunity to visit the places where the next big events will be held: Cortina D’Ampezzo (ITA), Courchevel-Meribel (FRA) and Beijing (CHN) to start having a bigger idea of the concept itself.
d) from Jürg Capol, Marketing Director He affirms that in general the number of viewers is stable and it doesn’t show particular progress. The core market is represented by 5 countries which generate the 74% of the viewers.
Jürg Capol (FIS) continues by showing his concern regarding the Downhill starting list order due to the fact that viewers are interrupting watching the race very early because they already know the result.
He pointed out the Parallel format and the letter that EBU has sent where they underlined that the new Parallel format is not TV-Friendly. Jürg Capol (FIS) underlined that it’s our responsibility to not overlook.
He reported the importance on watching into the future of Winter Sport and he underlined the importance of Alpine Skiing fans. The fans are the core of the Winter Sport community so FIS has to work in the direction of understanding their needs, interact with them, know them, improve their approach. This will add value to the sport in general and to its partners.
He asked to the present to fill in the papers they will distribute answering the question if the World Cup is good enough.
Jürg Capol (FIS) mentioned that Longines as a partner is willing to participate with a special prize translate in 1 gold kilo = 45.000 CHF.
He reported the TV directors are key partners that love our sport and want to present it in the best possible way. He says that we can no longer ignore their feedbacks. The audience wants to see the best athletes of the world in a compact format. He concluded his presentation by pushing the sport side, the marketing side, the stakeholder in general and the communication side to create all together engagement and revenue for Alpine Skiing.
Srecko Medven (Club 5) asked to create a Working group with all the stakeholders to review the World Cup in a bigger picture connecting it to a commercial value and he also asked to point out the responsible person that will generate power behind this group.
Niklas Carlsson (FIS) confirmed the need to have a strategy for the future and to make sure to discuss it going forward.
Srecko Medven (Club 5) asked to be proactive in this direction and not wait too long. Niklas Carlsson (FIS) asked to present a concrete proposal by the next meetings.
6. Rules Season 2019/20 6.1 Precisions Rules for World Cup Parallel Niklas Carlsson (FIS) remarked the work done by Ken Read and the working group on the Parallel format based on run and re-run system. Despite this, he underlined the importance of EBU feedback and the request from the organisers to not overlook at it due to the fact that they need to have the broadcasters’
support. For the fairness of the sport, without doubts, the best solution is “run and re-run” format but listening to the broadcasters’ and sponsor’ needs, one-run format is the best TV-friendly solution. Therefore, there will be one qualification run, after which the first 32 athletes will qualify to the elimination phase.
Markus Waldner (FIS) confirmed what the Chairman said specifying that the round of thirty-two will have a “run, re-run” format, but from the round of sixteen, there will be only one run (knock-out system). Bernard Russi (SUI) wanted to underline that none want to change the rules on the ICR but everybody has agreed to find the right compromise to sell the product in the best way they can and make the Parallel attractive for all the stakeholders.
6.2 Alpine Combined Format (Proposal Working Group Council) The Alpine Combined more attractive and accorded to the new rule, the first run will be a speed event, if possible, a Super G (exception for Wengen where it will be a DH). The new proposal from the council group is to start the second run (slalom) in the same order as the ranking of the first run (Super G) and not reverse the starting order.
Wolfang Maier (GER) asked if in general the priority will go to the Super G and pointed out what Jürg Capol (FIS) said about the audience, underlining that with this new adjustment the World Cup is going against the audience needs. Also, he considered the advantages and disadvantages for the tech and speed skiers in the case the second run will be in the same order as the ranking of the first run.
Markus Waldner (FIS) took the word mentioning the importance of being flexible with regards to the needs.
Wolfgang Maier (GER) repeated once again his disagree on this new proposal.
Niklas Carlsson (FIS) called the vote.
The proposal has been approved by the Sub-Committee, with 8 votes for and 6 votes against, and will be forwarded to the Alpine Committee.
Janez Fleree (FIS) clarified that the athlete’s commission has the right to vote so he came back to the 9.5.3 article and asked to the athlete commission to make the last vote. The athlete commission voted in favour of the proposal. The proposal has been approved by the Sub-Committee, with 9 votes for and 6 votes against, and will be forwarded to the Alpine Committee.
6.3 SRS Rule proposal (ITA, Working Group Coaches) Niklas Carlsson (FIS) reminded that the proposal has been presented in Cavtat but it wasn’t ready to go through. The current proposal has been presented through the Club 5 and they are happy with the matter but they want to test it for the first year.
7. Calendars 2019/20 Peter Gerdol (FIS) went through the women’s calendar with 42 competitions in 21
resorts. Soelden – the autumn has been very good in term of snow and temperatures. They started to work on the slope the 3rd of September and there is a potentially opportunity to train on the race hill from the week of 14th of October.
Levi – they have been a colder summer and the snow is already there into the storage under the covers is in good shape heading into the fall. The slopes are already open to tourist.
Killington – they will provide team services the day earlier of the official arrival day. They will keep the team update with the snow situation to see if there will be the opportunity to train.
Lake Louise – Same wax cabin location as last year. There have been improvements on snow guns.
St. Moritz – they will host the first PAR of the season with a PSL format and the new qualification format.
Courchevel - The Emile-Allais slope has benefited from a summer re-modelling with an extension of 70 meters and more marked terrain movements that make the final part of the race more attractive. The snow making system has been modernized and adapted to the needs and the fiber network has been completely rebuilt on the lower part of the track. All these works are part of the construction of the new building of the Club des Sports de Courchevel.
Val D’Isere – they will host the first AC of the season with Super G first, like the other 3 AC.
Lienz – as every second year, the World Cup has been hosted in this traditional venue. Zagreb – slalom races joined with the men’s tour, with new starting time approved by TVs.
Zauchensee – like Lienz is a traditional venue that comes every second year. Flachau – the women’s night event has been always really exciting and he can’t wait for it.
Sestriere – they are happy to be back in the World Cup tour after 4 seasons of absence. They will host a GS and PGS. Peter Gerdol (FIS) underlined that the PAR format could be with PSL or PGS, it will depend on the slope specifications and in the case of Sestriere it has been decided to race a PGS.
Bansko- honored to be back after 5 years. They will use the same format as 5 years ago and last year on the men’s tour. Everything is running by the schedule with the first OC meeting planned for the second week of October. FIS travel has been working on convenient way to fly over to Sophia and Sochi from Zurich and come back.
Sochi –They will use the same format as last year.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen – last year they faced major jumping issue during the downhill race and it will be definitely part of the future cooperation between LOC, coaches and FIS to work on this issue.
Maribor – all set and not major changes for the upcoming season.
Crans Montana – the venue is organising the continental cup before the World Cup and Peter Gerdol (FIS) thanked the organisers to take charge of it too.
La Thuile – excited to come back after 4 year. The race will be in the same Franco Berthod slope. The program has been confirmed with the Super G and the Alpine Combined.
Ofterschwang- as every second year the World Cup has been host in this traditional venue.
Are – after the failed Olympic candidacy, Stockholm dropped the PAR event and Are providently took charge of it. They will use the same format as the World Championship and they will host 3 events with a PSL, GS and SL.
Cortina – the slalom race will take place on the same slope as the other disciplines and not on the World Championship slope due to a logistic issue. The PAR will be a PGS format due to the slope characteristics.
Markus Waldner (FIS) went through the calendar which is very intense, with 45 races in 22 resorts. Markus Waldner (FIS) mentions that there was an attempt to reduce the number of races or move some competitions around, but this was not possible also because of a lack of support from the NSAs on this initiative.
There will be three Alpine Combined in the next season in Bormio (SG), Wengen (DH) and Hinterstoder (SG).
Stockholm recently dropped the PAR event. The Women’s Tour was able to add a PAR event in Are. Markus Waldner (FIS) mentions that they tried to find a replacement host for the men, but despite some venues being interested in hosting a PAR, they are not ready to deliver the needed quality for the next season with such short notice.
Markus Waldner and the Organisers go through the different World Cup venues, mentioning the key points for each site:
Soelden- There is more snow than in the previous years. Team is working hard to push the snow out and if everything goes well, there could be the opportunity to start training there during the week of the 14th October, more details will be communicated.
Levi- Even in Levi there is more snow than last year, it was a cold summer. Slopes are already open to tourists. There is a new aspect in Finnish law: The LOC will need tax identification code (TIN) to be able to pay prize money.
Lake Louise- Wax cabins location was confirmed as last year. Movement of professionals around the pitch improved due to construction of new road. There have
been improvements on snow guns as well. Program stays the same as last year.
Beaver Creek- Two trucks from Lake Louise to Beaver Creek, same as in the past. Charter flight will also be the same as last year.
Val D’Isere - Ingrid Jaquemod is now in charge of the LOC. No major updates, everything looking ok.
Val Gardena - New starting position for the Super G, moved to the left (first 4 gates slightly different). New snow guns, saving 30% time in preparing the slopes.
Alta Badia - Improved finish area, with more space for spectators and hospitality. Safer positions and better picture for cameras on the slope.
Bormio - Massimo Rinaldi asks to send preliminary entries as early as possible.
Zagreb - Women’s race on the 4th, which means no free skiing day in advance.
Madonna di Campiglio - New date compared to the previous years. More stands for spectators. Everything moved back to convention center where it was back in 2012 for more space.
Adelboden - Same as last year, training in advance not possible.
Wengen - Parts of the slope were made wider, increased safety.
Kitzbühel - Goal is to keep the program as it is. There is no coaches’ tower at the moment, they are trying to find a different location.
Schladming - Nothing special, they will make sure that security is on point and grand stand will be extended again.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Old area for coaches’ tower is gone, now much wider and open. Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a candidate for the 2025 WSC.
Chamonix - Tunnel extended and more space in finish area for crowd and professionals. Below finish area, more constructions. PGS in Chamonix will be similar to the one in Badia but steeper and with a couple more gates.
Yanqing – Markus Waldner (FIS) thanked Atle Skaardal (FIS) for his support on this venue. He has been coordinating and supporting the LOC to move forward in the right direction and stick with the deadlines. The test event is going to be the week before the World Cup with the Chinese Championship. Snow making system will be ready at the beginning of November. The downhill slope is very demanding so they will provide former World Cup athletes as forerunners.
Niigata Yuzawa Naeba – An inspection took place in mid-September. Small bump will be added on the slalom to make it more difficult. Venue is 4.5 hours from Narita Airport and 3.5 from Haneda Airport.
Hinterstoder – will host the 3rd Alpine Combined with Super G.
Kvitfjell - Super G start was moved away from the Downhill course. European Cup competitions will take place before. Hosting the European Cup on the same World Cup slope is a big and crucial step in term of developing the future speed generation. Small improvements have been implemented (fiber for TV, saving for snow making).
Kranjska Gora - Bigger grandstand, no major changes apart from that.
Cortina d’Ampezzo – The men’s downhill has been tested during the Italian championship and, just for the finals, the slalom will take place on “Rumerlo” to have one common finish area without fans having to move around (and not to affect starting times).
Patrick Lang (AIJS) asked if there will be a long-term plan for the Far East competitions such as Korea/China/Japan.
Markus Waldner (FIS) replied that China will be definitely part of the plan because they are respecting the World Cup standards.
8. World Cup calendar proposals 2020/21 – 2022/23 Peter Gerdol (FIS) mentioned about the upcoming calendars saying that he didn’t change much respect what Atle Skaardal already set. He commented on the following venues regarding 2020-21: - Soelden will be one week earlier due to their annual vacations. He has been working with Markus Waldner on the race weekend between Soelden and Levi to find the right venue that will host another event.
He commented on the following venues regarding 2021-22 - Soelden will be one week earlier due to their annual vacations. - The first weekend of March is still open
Patrick Lang (AIJS) asked if there will be a long-term plan for the East-Europe competitions.
Peter Gerdol (FIS) agreed with Patrick to come back on the East part of Europe with the Women’s World Cup.
Peter Gerdol (FIS) commented the first calendar draft of 22-23, there are still open spots with many candidates such as Italy, Czech Republic, ext.
Thomas Stauffer (SUI) asked if the PAR event in Cortina’s World Championship is a PSL or PGS.
Peter Gerdol (FIS) answered that it will definitely be a PGS.
Thomas Stauffer (SUI) commented that for the 20-21 season there will be 3 PSL and it doesn’t match with the World Championship needs.
Peter Gerdol (FIS) remarked that he didn’t make any changes on Skaardal calendars but he will definitely work on this issue and implement a PGS event before the World Championship.
Markus Waldner (FIS) took over and started going through the 2020/21 calendar: - Soelden will be one week earlier due to their annual vacations. - There will be few proposals to fill up the gap between Soelden and Levi with 2 venues in Austria, Livigno (ITA), Oslo (NOR) with a brand-new ski dome. - 1st of January date has been considered again and Davos is one of the strongest candidates. - Chamonix has been set again with a Downhill race. - Garmisch-Partenkirchen weekend has been anticipated Friday-Saturday instead of Saturday-Sunday before the World Championship in Cortina. - Bansko has been included again with the JWC on the contract.
Markus Waldner (FIS) started going through the 2021/22 calendar: - Soelden will be one week earlier due to their annual vacations. - The biggest event is going to be the Olympics in China and before it the weekend has to be free from races. In this case Garmisch-Partenkirchen weekend has been moved afterward with a SL and a PAR event. - Courchevel will host the finals and it will be the Test for the new downhill slope.
Bernard Russi (SUI) asked to work on long-term planning calendars and not make last minutes adaptations. The directors have to work in the direction to advantage the LOCs and present long-term guaranteed calendars with the aim to improve LOCs infrastructures and reasonable investments.
Markus Waldner (FIS) agreed on this point with Bernard Russi.
Sarah Lewis took over with regard to the athletes’ commission vote, specifying that for the FIS World Cup finals they are not allowed to cast a vote because of a lack of time to consult the athletes represented. She remarked that this was the only committee where there is such a vote taken. She thanked Verena Stuffer (ITA) and Daniel Yule (SUI) for their efforts and commitment to their roles as representatives.
Jürg Capol (FIS) came back to point 5 of the agenda and he announced the result of his test: 75% of the present said that the World Cup is not good enough 25% of the present said that the World Cup is good He also added that he will go through all the comments.
9. Finals 2022/23 The 3 candidates (Andorra, Hafjell Kvitfjell and Lenzerheide) presented their proposal. Niklas Carlsson (FIS) called the vote. Because no one reached the majority a second draw between Soldeu and Hafjell Kvitfjell was done. Niklas Carlsson (FIS) called the vote once again.
Soldeu won the 2023 FIS World Cup finals with 9 votes in favour.
10. Miscellaneous Peter Gerdol (FIS) explained that the Alpine Team Event change the name into Mix Team Parallel according to IOC rules for the next Olympic Winter Games.
11. Next meeting – FIS Congress Royal Cliff (THA), 17th - 23rd May 2020
12. Closing of the meeting Niklas Carlsson concluded the meeting by saying that this has been his last meeting. He thanks all the present for their support, help and understanding. He wanted to underline how he loves this sport and how proud he has been to be part of this world. The key is always improving the World Cup and it is important to consider the progress that has been made but it’s also crucial to keep working on the future of the World Cup considering how the new technologies are challenging the World Cup in term of generation changes. Stay up with the times is one of main focus to create commercial values and attention.
ALPINE MEETING
October 2019 DEVELOPMENT? 2 ALPINE SKIING: SEASON COMPARISON
LADIES AND MEN
Media Impact Ø Media Impact per race 71.123
64.301 61.754 62.254 57.369
882 853 869 790 765
2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 *** COMMENTS:
Less athletes on start - effects:
- TV transmission times will be more accurate - More TV time for stars and FUTURE stars - Higher interest on TV, better coverage - Quality of slopes will be better = better TV show - NO TV interest in athletes beyond Bib 40 actually - Easier programming of starting times (Effect on overall FIS calendar) - Longer start intervals are possible = better TV show
- Tech: 1st Run: 40 or 50 max - 2nd Run/Final: 25 - Speed: 25 – 35 max in total
4 PODIUM DH MEN
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 PARALLEL FORMAT DO WE FOLLOW UP THE DEVELOPMENT AND CREATE ANY NEW VALUE?
(MMR + Innovation) x digital Technology = Revenue
MMR: Current Revenue from Rights (Media/Marketing): € 500 M Digital Technology: Today’s Factor is 1, if not active until 2025: < 1 Innovation: New products and development regarding all kind of matters
FIS ALPINE WORLD CUP PRODUCT 8 LONGINES WHITE GOLD TROPHY
Proposal: Introduction of a high profile Longines White Gold trophy, awarding one kilo of gold for a female and male athlete who wins three times in a row in the same race format.
9 REPORT ABOUT OPTIMIZING CIRCUIT STRUCTURE FOR FIS ALPINE SKI WORLD CUP
• Scheduling and location of events • Competition format • Marketing and Media Rights • Cooperate Identity • New Revenue / FIS World Cup Racing eGame FIS Ski World Cup requires an optimized circuit structure in order to becoming one of the worlds leading sport brands OPTIMISING CIRCUIT STRUCTURE RACE CALENDAR (1/3) . World Cup season start on first weekend of November . Venue snowy/wintry (Kick-off to alpine season atmosphere) . World Cup season end on first weekend of March . Venue snowy/wintry (Season finale atmosphere) . Interest of the FIS Ski WSC? . World Cup Final . Focus on Friday to Sunday, Downhill (DH) on the weekend . Build excitement around the overall Cup-winner determining races . FIS Alpine Ski World Championships . Staging of FIS World Championships? . Days of FIS World Championships (SAT – SUN over 3 weekends?) . Maintain the same total number of World Cup races . Olympic Winter Games . World Cup season to continue for two race weekends after the Olympics and WSC . Maintain the same total number of World Cup races as in a regular season . Highlight “revenge” races after Olympics and WSC, as well as, the points races for the overall World Cup titles OPTIMISING CIRCUIT STRUCTURE RACE CALENDAR (2/3) . General . Each weekend with men's and ladies competitions (separate venues) on each day with generally standardised and fixed starting times (any other time is an “exception”) . Race days . Optimal weekend schedule (competitions in different venues) . Weekend “A”: . Saturday – men’s speed and ladies technical events . Sunday – men’s speed and ladies technical events . Weekend “B” (following an “A” weekend) . Saturday – men’s technical and ladies speed events . Sunday – men’s technical and ladies speed events . Race times . Fixed start times for planning (weather/course conditions may affect actual start time) . Fixed start times for technical events, 11:00 and 14:00 . Fixed start times for speed events, 12:45 DIVISIONS 14 CREATE THE FIS WORLD CUP LEAGUES
• 2 MAIN DIVISIONS • IMPLEMETENT AN OVERALL SYSTEM INCL. CONNECTION OF THE DIFFERENT DIVISIONS (WORLD RANKING LIST) • KEY – NOTES: TV / COMMUNICATION / HIGHEST SPORT VALUE • INCREASE THE LEVEL ON ALL THE DIVISIONS
15 CREATE THE DH / SG WORLD CUP LEAGUES / PHASE 1
FIS WORLD CUP • TV Production TOP 30 / STARTING ORDER 30 – 1 ACCORDING WRL / TOTAL NUMBER OF DH and SG: 16 – 18 / • Transmission 1 RESORT / STARTING TIMES 13:00 / WORLD CUP POINTS 100, 80, 60… RELEGATION OF THE LAST • Up/ Down ATHLETES ACC. NEW WRL • Injured Athletes will be replaced by the next athlete according WRL CHALLENGE CUP STARTING FIELD APPROX. 30 - 45 START ORDER ACC. WRL / QUOTA ACC. TODAYS STANDARD / 1 RESORT / STARTING TIMES 10:00 / WRL FOR TOP 15 (Phase 1): 15, 14, 13, 12, 11…
COC
PRIZE MONEY LIST
Prize Money 140'000 120'000 100'000 80'000 60'000 Prize Money 40'000 20'000 0 Prime WC Challenge COC
* = according FIS point penalty WORLD RANKING LIST: PHASE 1
Cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
WC Prime 100 80 60 50 45 40 36 32 29 26 24 22 20 18 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WSC/OWG
Challenge 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
COC
FIS Level 1*
FIS Level 2*
FIS Level 3*
* = according FIS point penalty OPTIMISING CIRCUIT STRUCTURE RACE CALENDAR (3/3) . Race programme length range (max.) . Speed events: 90 - 120 . Technical events: 60 . Fixed television ad breaks . Location of events . In establishing the race calendar it is a necessity, just as FIS is currently doing, to fix the locations of the events for a minimum of three to five years . in advance, in order to facilitate the planning for all stakeholders, primarily the NSA’s, media, commercial agencies and OC’s . “Classic” races must have fixed calendar dates . New World Cup markets should focus on Russia and China . Use World Cup courses for Challenge League and Continental Cup events OPTIMIZING CIRCUIT STRUCTURE SUMMARY
Race Format Communication Race Calendar • Exciting for TV and fans • Optimized TV production • Fix long-term calendar • Maximum starting field of 30 • Promote the brand FIS Alpine • Fix dates for «classics» (speed) and 45 (technical) Ski World Cup • Four races each weekend athletes, Challenge League • Promotion of events; speed • Early November season start • Maximum of 40 races and technical • Early March season end • Longer start intervals • Educate the fan • World Championships at end • Fixed ad breaks • Build upon ceremonies of season • Define AC and Parallel • Rationale for new markets
Optimized circuit structure
FIS as the governing body of the leading winter sports brand ALPINE SKIING: READY FOR THE FUTURE?
SPORT STAKEHOLDERS PROMOTION • National Ski MARKETING & SALES SPONSONRS, RESORTS COMMUNICATION Associations • Overall sales concept & • Promotion Winter • Strategy Documents • Optimzation of INDUSTRY sport in regards to our Rights • Overall winter sport • Exciting for TV and engagement Fans • New Revenues in fans • Nations and • Disciplines, regards to platforms • Optimized TV Infrastructure Challenges and and digital Strategy production • Technology Formats • Cooperation • Cooperation between • Promote the brand • Series between NSA Partners FIS World Cup • Youth programmes • FIS Media and • Youth • Digital Strategy and Engagement Marketing GmbH • Sustainability (Streaming, Gaming, • Integration of • Quality of slopes will • Data of winter sport Services) stakeholders be better = better fans, Value of • Snow Challenge • Investment in regards TV show Communities to development • Development OTT Platforms
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