The Southern Hemisphere competitive freestyle snowboard season is almost coming to an end. Just one last banger weekend is on the schedule and the highest ranked snowboarders, Jamie Anderson (USA) and Sebastien Toutant (CAN), in the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Ranking are looking to defend their spot at the star-studded NZ and OZ 3Stars, the Boost Sno Show and the Billabong BroDown! 

For the full list of attending riders – go check the event bio pages:

Boost Mobile Sno Sho

Billabong BroDown

Current Men’s TTR World Ranking List

Current Women’s TTR World Ranking List 

Check below to see how your favorite rider’s standing could look like after the contest! All predictions are based on the available rider lists pre-event:

3Star Boost SnoSho (AUS)

1. Seb Toutant: Can defend his TTR Tour Lead with a TOP5 finish in the contest against Reid

2. Charles Reid: Head to head with Toutant for World Nr. 1 (if attends)

4. Eric Willet: stays in the TTR TOP5 (if attends)

6. Sage Kotsenburg: very high chances to move into TOP5 (if attends)

20. Marco Grilc: Good chances to move into TTR TOP10

31. Chris Kroell: can move closer to the TTR TOP20 (if attends)

56. Jye Kearney: can move into TTR TOP50

89. Jacob Koia: can move into TOP50 with a 10th place at SnoSho

3Star Billabong BroDown Men (NZL)

16. Antti Autti: Has slight chances to move into TTR TOP5

21. Seppe Smits: Has slight chances to move into the TTR TOP10

24. James Hamilton: Has good chances to move into the TTR TOP20

51. Risto Mattila: Will move into the TTR TOP50

66. Shayne Pospisil: Will move into the TTR TOP50

3Star Billabong BroDown Women (NZL)

1. Jamie Anderson: Will stay in World Nr. 1. Only if Pancochova finishes 1st or 2nd in the competition and Anderson DNS, we would have a Tour Lead change.

4. Sarka Pancochova: If Sarka podium in 1st or 2nd she has a shot at #1

8. Davis-Meehan: Could move past Kelly Clark into World Nr. 7 if she finishes TOP5

17. Shelly Gotlied: Very likely to move into TTR TOP10

(73. ) Luxton, (75.) Frost, (78.) Lockhart and (83.) Jenny Jones could all move into the TTR TOP50.

Never has the Swatch TTR 5Star Burton NZ Open seen such a rider list for the Halfpipe Finals that will go down in Wanaka tomorrow morning. With Shaun White, Peetu Piiroinen, Jamie Anderson, Kelly Clark and Cheryl Mass no less than 5 former and current TTR World Champions will be competing in the pipe besides halfpipe legends like Danny Kass, Masion Aguirre, Scotty Lago, Antti Autti, Danny Davis and many many more. Even riders like Torstein, Seb Toots and Charles Reid that usually prefer booters to transition riding are on the start list. A Swatch TTR Season has never started with such a fulminant battle – here are the chances of the attending riders to shake the world ranking.And don’t forget to check the

• NZO event bio page
• and the Live Webcast page

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Season 09/10 of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour will see its first event go down in Cardrona NZ this week. And it’s a crucial decider of who will lead the Tour going into the Northern Hemisphere winter! So with an amazing field of riders taking the trip down under it will be an amazing show starting with the slopestyle on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

The Men’s Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour title just went to Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen at the US Open in Stratton last weekend. But the TTR Tour is far from over for the girls as the 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam will rock Mammoth next weekend. Jamie Anderson, the women’s Tour Leader for the longest time in competitive snowboarding’s history, injured herself badly and will unfortunately not be able to compete anymore and defend her 07/08 TTR World title this year. (Props to an amazing season to Jamie – Get better very soon!!).Jamie’s no show has serious consequences on the title race. As you can see below there are only 5 (!) more girls that are able to get more points than Jamie at the RCJ, with 2 x 1000 points available for HP and SS. Therefore the riders in contention for the title are:

• Lisa Wiik
• Silvia Mittermueller
• Kjersti Buaas
• Cheryl Maas (05/06 TTR Champion)
• Kelly Clark

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History went down today on Stratton Mtn., Vermont as Danny Kass won the 5th USO Halfpipe title of his career. But the man of the day was without a doubt… no, not Shaun White – he was forced to watch from the sidelines with an ankle problem – …Peetu Piirionen. The calm pal from Finland managed to land on the podium once again this season and thus took home the Swatch TTR World Title and $50.000 a day earlier than expected. The official crowning ceremony will still be held tomorrow though. http://www.vimeo.com/3796291 Read the rest of this entry »

The 6Star US Open has been the final stop on the TTR Tour for 4 years now for the men and it’s never been this exciting.2006 – Tour Champion Mathieu Crepel (FRA): It all came down to Risto and Mathieu battling it out in the HP final in Stratton – Mathieu finished 5th and Risto 6th in the pipe after both messed up in the slopestyle. The Frenchman had only 5 points more and won the first ever Tour title!2007 – Tour Champion  Shaun White (USA): After Travis won the snowy slopestyle and Shaun only managed to come 3rd it came down to the pipe! Shaun won, while Travis got injured breaking his collarbone bailing on the last hit after a sick run and Mr. White became the first ever American TTR Champ. Antti Autti finished just outside the podium in both formats and held on to World Nr. 2 while Kevin Pearce finished in World Nr. 4 and earned his entry ticket to ride in 07/08 TTR events!2008 -  Tour Champion Kevin Pearce (USA): After an incredible season winning 2 Air&Style rings of glory, the BEO HP, TAC – it was one simple gust of wind that almost cost Pearce the title against Shaun. Even though Shaun won both USO formats, Pearce could hold it together and came 3rd in the pipe. Due to 1 result missing on Shaun’s list of results he couldn’t capitalize and the title went to Kevin. Peetu Piiroinen also had his first appearance on the international TTR contest scene and consistent TOP5 finishes and several podiums at the big quarterpipe events paid out and let him jump to World Nr. 2 in the end.Now in 2009 it’s between Shaun and Peetu Piiroinen from Finland for the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Title and it all comes down to the final standings in both halfpipe and slopestyle on Saturday and Sunday. What can happen and who can go where in the rankings – find out all about this nailbiting season finish-up here. Read the rest of this entry »

With 4000 more Swatch TTR ranking points on the table till the end of the season the women’s tour is far from decided. Some girls still have a shot at stopping current Tour Champion Jamie Anderson who has been leading the tour since the Southern Hemisphere and would win the first ever consecutive TTR titles in history. Kjersti Buaas, Sina Candrian and Cheryl Maas – all with excellent skill in all terrains and thus most likely to finish well in the upcoming SS and HP comps – are most likely in contention for the 08/09 Women’s TTR trophy! But current World Nr. 2 Silvia Mittermueller will try her best to stay up in the mix as well.Also invited and competing is Trycia Byrnes – GO211’s Nr. 1 on-the-spot commentator and we were wondering why her age on the startlist says 34 and on her Go211 profile 29 (EIM didn’t pay attention at the Accreditation and made her older accidentally? When does the “legends” age class start again?). Will she be able step into Nicola Thost’s footsteps who also dominated the Burton European Open in Laax’s superpipe as the oldest competitor? (Germany’s Nicola Thost won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She also pushed women’s pipe-riding like Kelly and Torah in the 90ies with the first back to back 7’s in women’s snowboarding)But let’s cut the crap and look into some more serious stuff below (or check out the men’s predictions here): Read the rest of this entry »

Follow this blog for the latest predictions on the Swatch TTR Ranking List and stay on top of developments during the 6Star Burton US Open! You will get exclusive insight on the Tour Championship contenders and the TTR TOP 5 (from the geeky statistical standpoint) or how Risto would say: “You guys are looking for battles everywhere!” - Why are only Shaun and Peetu in contention for the title this season?- How come 07/08 Champion KP is in front of Shaun but does not even have a shot to win the trophy besides the other killer riders in the TOP10?- How is the game changing after the halfpipe finals on Saturday? Read the rest of this entry »