Crankworx Rotorua Seeks Volunteers

Dec 15, 2014
by Official Crankworx  
Crankworx Rotorua
The Crankworx Rotorua team are looking for 250 enthusiastic people to help cement Rotorua’s place on the world stage as a premier mountain biking destination.

Crankworx is the largest mountain biking festival in the world, combining the best pro-athletes with competitions, concerts and cultural components, and volunteer shifts must be filled from Mar. 19 to Mar. 30, 2015.

“It’s not often New Zealand has the chance to host a competition of this calibre, so if you’re keen, excited and hardworking, come and rub shoulders with some of the world’s top mountain bike athletes and be a part of history in the making,” says Tak Mutu, Crankworx Rotorua event director.

Volunteers are needed for everything from event preparation and set-up to the competitions and final pack-up, with crew members being targeted for three areas:
• Sport Operations
• Event offices and administration
• On-site hosts

No prerequisite to be a mountain biker is required. The Crankworx Rotorua team is particularly interested in hearing from those with first aid qualifications, special vehicle licences, administration skills and previous event experience, as well as camera operators, tour guides, chefs and cooks.

Shifts range from two to 12 hours, and a preliminary schedule will be released three weeks prior to the event to confirm assignments and time requirements.

Crankworx Rotorua
Applicants must be a minimum of 16 years old to apply and anyone under 18 at the time of the event will be required to submit a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.

All volunteers will receive a stylish Crankworx T-shirt and an invite to the volunteer wrap-up party on Mar. 29, 2015, which will include prizes.

Potential volunteers are asked to send a résumé to inforotorua@crankworx.com and visit the Crankworx website for volunteer information for information.

The provisional schedule and ticket information has already been released.

Crankworx Rotorua is a gathering of the bike-minded, The festival brings together the world’s downhill, slopestyle and enduro legends with the superfans, rising stars, industry innovators and the next generation of mountain bike riders. It is the first of the three Crankworx festivals: Rotorua, Les 2 Alpes, Whistler. Some 750 riders are expected to take part in the events, with 80 per cent of the competitors coming from international destinations like the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Japan and Australia.

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33 Comments
  • 44 1
 Just give me a flight to ticket. I'll gladly volunteer!!!
  • 6 0
 same boat :p
  • 3 0
 Hahaha same here xD
  • 23 1
 I volunteer as tribute!
  • 11 0
 I'm in the wrong country ;-;
  • 2 0
 will they pay for my travel to get there?
  • 6 8
 Doubtful, travel costs to Queenstown have to be at close to $1500 USD from anywhere in the northern hemisphere. They could pay volunteers $15/hour and get 100 hours of work before they'd come out even on paying travel costs for unpaid volunteers. But, it would be sweet if they had a partnership with an airline to get you there!
  • 3 0
 At least you're on the same continental plate...
  • 11 0
 @mnorris122 But you live in Canada so you automatically win with the MTB side of things.
  • 5 0
 canada is a big place.....and is flat where we live Frown
  • 2 0
 Try flying to Auckland instead. If you end up in Queenstown, you might not make it in time. Not that it's a bad place to be lost...
  • 1 0
 Yup best way is fly to Auckland then cruz from there down to Roto's if your flyin international. Its about 3 hours drive from there..? Very pretty road (mint there's my plug done...) Queenstown is quite a long way away (South island) and I doubt there's many direct flights from there to Roto's...
Oh and fyi a trailbike's best in Rotorua forest. Too flat in most parts for rigs..
  • 7 0
 This would be damn awesome. Does a forklift license count as a special vehicle license? lol, nonetheless like Josh said, if you paid my ticket I'd give all the hours you need.
  • 7 1
 Would love to go, but considering my recent lack of success in job interviews, I don't think I'd even get the job as volunteer... :-P
  • 3 0
 If only I lived in New Zealand......
  • 2 0
 2600.00 for a plane ticket is a little more than volunteering that's investing!
  • 2 0
 I was volunteer at Crankworx Whistler this summer, and I had an amazing experience !!!! I recommend it to anybody !
  • 1 0
 Sure! Lemme plunk down $1500 for a flight to go and work a couple 12 hr shifts for a $13 T-Shirt...

The LEAST they could do is put everybody up in hotels.

Hilarious...
  • 2 0
 Might have to take a holiday
  • 1 0
 im gunna volunteer! it should be awesome! just hope accommodation isn't too much!
  • 1 0
 One problem. Your account says you're 15 and the minimum age to apply is 16.....
  • 1 0
 am 16 from the 3rd of jan Smile
  • 2 0
 Damn I'm not old enough Frown
  • 1 0
 I feel you bro
  • 2 1
 keep it offline chaps...!
  • 1 0
 What? @worm-burner
  • 1 0
 Just finished highschool. Pay for my accommodation and I'll work my butt off.
  • 3 2
 Really 16 couldn't u make it 15 I live there
  • 11 0
 lie your ass off bru
  • 1 0
 haha very funny
  • 1 0
 Would be more like a dream vacation for me Smile
  • 1 0
 Id go but I really can't be botherd with passports and visas.
  • 1 0
 i love the volunteer!







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