Every race requires participants, that’s a no-brainer, but how you find the right people and get them to enter is where a lot of brain power and hard work come into play. You have to get the news out there, and that’s exactly what our team at zooom did through the power of press releases and social media; as well as partnering up with brands like Salewa, Skywalk, Recco, and turnpoint partners like Wagrain Kleinarl, Austria, and Kronplatz, Italy. Once we got the right people interested, we ensured that once again the application process ran smoothly with our back- and frontend continual development of the Red Bull X-Alps website.
Once the application phase was closed, we put together the athletes selection with the Race Committee to define who will be the world’s toughest adventure athletes. The announcement is one of the biggest parts of the competition, drawing attention from fans all over the world with eye-catching graphic and motion design; for example, in the most recent Athletes Announcement video. Our community management creates hype within the community, reaching out to new followers and gaining more adrenaline addicts with every edition.