
A world championship's new home on the web.
The OETZ TROPHY is the Sprint Extreme Kayak World Championships — four days of whitewater racing on the Ötztaler Ache in Tirol, running since 2019. For 2026 the event got a new format, and with it a complete new website from FlowSt8.
Web designBooking system
Visit the live siteBEFORE
The old site didn't match the event's world-championship ambitionRace registration lived outside the websiteContent updates needed a developer
AFTER
A fast, bilingual site (DE/EN) built on Node.jsAthletes register for the race weekend directly on the siteThe team publishes news and program changes themselves
What we did
1
Complete new buildA new site built from scratch — video hero, live countdown, program, news and calendar export. Fast pages, deployed on Vercel.
2
Registration systemRace-weekend registration built into the site, including volunteer sign-up — no third-party forms, no media breaks.
3
Self-serve contentNews, schedule and images managed by the event team through a CMS — in German and English, without touching code.
4 daysof festival, races and results on one site
2languages, one CMS
100%of registrations through the site
