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Judging

One of the most unique qualities of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour is the wide variety of competition formats that are used at the events all around world.  Judges for the TTR judge a wide array of freestyle formats including jams, best run, and best trick that showcase a rider’s creativity and performance  at any given TTR competition. The vast majority of events on the Swatch TTR World Tour employ the Overall Impression judging system (see definition below). The Overall Impression system showcases and encourages creativity and energy by looking at the rider’s run in its totality and ultimately rewarding a rider’s progressive riding skills. This system allows for greater consistency across the numerous and varied formats used at the different events.
    
With an incredible array of events that comprise the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour ranging from the  Burton Global Open Series, The Oakley Arctic Challenge, The “Air & Style” events, to the Honda Session, the judges are focused on rewarding the riders that bring the most imaginative and powerful riding to the forefront of competitive snowboarding.  It is this relationship between the riders and the judges that fosters an  open and progressive reward system that drives the competitive snowboarder to excel.

“The judges will score the run by evaluating the run’s “Overall Impression” which includes the execution of the run and the routine (variety of tricks) attempted. In OI judging the judges evaluates the specific tricks individually and as a sequence and looks at line, inherent style and overall flow of the rider on the course. What is desired is the highest level of progression…a run that is done with maximum technicality and one that has a new moves or sequences that pushes snowboard progression forward.”

Focus then is as follows for the judges:

  • The whole run appraised (tricks, flow, amplitude)
  • First emphasis on progression
  • Secondary emphasis on tricks and trick sequences
  • Third emphasis on style and risk


Scoring Base:
(0-20: Poor)  (20-40:Fair)  (40-60:Average)  (60-80: Good)  (80-100:Excellent)

 

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