the second winter x games europe will be held in tignes, france. but canthey replicate their success in a european sporting culture? >>reporter: the winter x games, home to a 22 foot high superpipe and a slopestyle course with some of the most challenging kickers, jumps and rails to be found on mountain. >>woods: everything about the x games is cool and awesome, that's just how i've grown up seeing it and seeingx games as the pinnacle of where you want to be >>reporter: after 15 years stateside, the games have become the blue riband event for freestyle skiing and snowboarding and in 2010 the games finally made it across the atlantic for the first edition of the winter x games europe. >>merignargues: last year it was a big success, it was a surprise for us and for espn and canal + too. we expected 30,000 spectators and there was more like 60,000 spectators, we expected 200 journalists and there were nearly 400 journalists, everything like that it was a very very big success for the first years. >>reporter: and, despite extremely challenging weather,