📅 10/03/2025
📍 Sunset Park Henrik Harlaut
SLVSH Cup Grandvalira 2025 was a head-to-head freeski battle event held at Sunset Park Peretol in Andorra with games released from March 10 2025 | Disciplines: trick calling, rail lines, park features and matchplay freeskiing | Notable finalists: Max Moffatt, Alec Henderson, Taylor Lundquist, Alaïs Develay | Format: 16-man bracket, first women’s bracket, SLVSH Open qualifier and video-release tournament
SLVSH Cup Grandvalira 2025 brought the head-to-head freeski format back to Sunset Park Henrik Harlaut in the Peretol sector of Grandvalira, Andorra. The public release cycle started on March 10 2025 with the first men’s game, then unfolded like a freeski advent calendar through first round battles, quarterfinals, semifinals, consolation games and finals. The event was not judged like slopestyle and it did not use a single score sheet. It used the SLVSH rule set: one rider calls a trick, the other has to match it, and missed matches become letters.
The 2025 edition had two major structural markers. The men’s side used a 16-rider bracket, while the women’s side introduced a compact four-rider cup. The men’s list included Ian Serra, Kuura Koivisto, Ryan Stevenson, Matěj Švancer, Max Moffatt, Johan Berg, Felix Klein, Mikkel Brusletto Kaupang, Evan McEachran, Andreu Moreno Coll, Sebastian Schjerve, Valentin Morel, Alec Henderson, Chris McCormick, Ferdinand Dahl and Nico Porteous. The women’s bracket featured Taylor Lundquist, Anri Kawamura, Alaïs Develay and Rylie Warnick. That format made the edition broader than a normal SLVSH drop and closer to a true seasonal tournament.
The first decision of the 2025 event happened before the main bracket. Andreu Moreno Coll won the SLVSH Open, earning the final men’s roster spot and giving the event a local Pyrenean entry point. That mattered for the character of the cup. SLVSH can easily become a closed invitation show built only around known names, but the Open added a qualification layer. A rider could enter the event through performance at Sunset Park rather than only through reputation, which helped connect the international bracket to the Andorran and Spanish freestyle scene around Grandvalira.
Men’s SLVSH Cup Final — 2025
Final matchup: Max Moffatt (CAN) vs Alec Henderson (CAN)
Women’s SLVSH Cup Final — 2025
Final matchup: Taylor Lundquist (USA) vs Alaïs Develay (FRA)
The safest archive record should separate confirmed bracket structure from unverified podium expansion. The men’s final was Max Moffatt against Alec Henderson, after Moffatt beat Kuura Koivisto in one semifinal and Henderson beat Evan McEachran in the other. The women’s final was Taylor Lundquist against Alaïs Develay, after Lundquist faced Anri Kawamura and Develay faced Rylie Warnick in round one. Public profile material later confirms Develay as a Grandvalira SLVSH Cup winner, but a full formal top three table for every bracket should not be invented unless SLVSH publishes it in that form.
The men’s final gave the 2025 edition a clean Canadian ending. Moffatt reached the last game after moving through Johan Berg, Mikkel Brusletto Kaupang and Kuura Koivisto. Henderson’s path ran through Chris McCormick, Ferdinand Dahl and Evan McEachran. That bracket shape matters because it mixed different kinds of park skiing. Moffatt brought technical control, strange body positions and creative rail instincts. Henderson brought younger energy, fast adaptation and a strong head-to-head record inside the format. A SLVSH final between those two riders is less about one huge trick and more about who can keep matching under pressure.
The women’s bracket was the most important development of the 2025 edition. Develay’s run to the final against Lundquist gave the women’s SLVSH format immediate credibility, because the games were placed inside the same Grandvalira media cycle rather than treated as a side clip. X Games later described winning SLVSH Cup in Grandvalira as one of Develay’s proudest accomplishments, which shows how quickly the result became part of her public profile. For women’s freeskiing, the value was simple: a readable head-to-head format, a real bracket and enough visibility for the win to matter beyond one video upload.
The quarterfinal stage gave the men’s bracket its sharpest names. Matěj Švancer met Kuura Koivisto in Game 12, while Moffatt faced Mikkel Brusletto Kaupang, Schjerve faced McEachran and Dahl faced Henderson. Prime Skiing noted that Švancer was one of the strongest names in the field, which made his quarterfinal exit part of the edition’s story. In a scored big-air or slopestyle event, he might carry a different kind of favorite status. In SLVSH, the bracket can turn on matching one called trick, one missed rail detail or one tactical choice.
The 2025 cup was presented through SLVSH and Monster Energy, with each matchup released as a standalone video. That release strategy is part of the event, not just its promotion. A normal contest often compresses everything into one broadcast window. SLVSH Cup works because each game has its own narrative: rider introduction, trick calls, letters, missed attempts, momentum shifts and a final make or miss. The format also suits Sunset Park Peretol. The venue’s compact rails, night-session identity and feature variety make trick calling easy to follow on camera.
SLVSH Cup Grandvalira 2025 should be indexed as a major alternative freeski competition edition, not as a standard rail jam or slopestyle contest. Its archive value comes from the 16-man bracket, the SLVSH Open qualifier, the first women’s bracket, the Peretol setting, the finals featuring Moffatt, Henderson, Lundquist and Develay, and the full video-release structure. It is important because it showed that SLVSH could carry a larger event without losing the simplicity of the original game. One skier calls. One skier matches. The bracket keeps moving until the pressure decides who survives.