Today the skies opened up after 2 & 1/2 ft of snow dumped on Laax over the past 24 hours. The junior competitions in slopestyle and halfpipe went down on Friday and Saturday, and today we saw the qualifying runs for the up-and-comers, and the big-dogs heating things up in some training sessions.

The Men’s Qualification for Slopestyle were greeted with sunny skies and a massive amount of riders attempting to make to the finals and ride with invited pros. The guys were killing it today. Here’s a rundown of the Top 10 qualifiers who’ll compete in the BEO Slopestyle finals on Thursday:

1. Sébastien Toutant CAN O’NEILL 67.67
2. Tim Humphreys USA FLOW 66.67
3. Joel Lahti FIN FTWO 63.50
4. Jaakko Ruha FIN KISSMARK 63.33
5. Roger Kleivdal NOR K2 63.00
6. Tore Holvik NOR BATALEON 62.83
7. Jason Dubois CAN O’NEILL 60.67
8. Ville Uotila FIN ATOMIC 60.33
9. Kim Andre Eliassen NOR K2 59.00
10. Zak Stone CAN VOLCOM 55.8

On Sunday, the TTR crew caught up with some pros who were out and about on one of the best blue-bird days one could ask for. We first found Chas Guldemond after some powder runs who laid it down for us:

“We’re at the next TTR event here in Laax. Got some powder going on here, pre qualifiers going down in the slopestyle, halfpipe practice, and then you got the people just shreddin the pow. It’s all good. You’ll want to check it out live on Thursday and Friday on GO211.com. And you’ll be able to check out all the footage here. So check us out!”

© Sander Taphoorn

Shortly after, up at the pipe, we said hello to last season’s TTR Champ Torah Bright who was taking a few laps:

“Hey, we’re here in Laax for the European Open SIX(6)STAR TTR event. We’ve got training going on right now. The qualifications for slopestyle on at the same time… it looks like everybody’s here and we’re all sessioning the pipe and it’s going pretty well… and it’s sunny so we can’t complain! It’s beautiful! We’ve got finals for slopestyle on Thursday and finals for halfpipe on Friday and you can watch it all on GO211.com!”

Needless to say we’re pretty stoked for the finals on Thursday and Friday, not only to see the riders kill it, but also to witness, just maybe, someone take over the TTR tour lead! Stay tuned for more action from Laax!