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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It’s been a long time coming: Next week, the Burton New Zealand Open will mark the major kick off of the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour season.Reason enough for more than half of this season’s Swatch TTR Top 10 to make the trip to Downunder and collect some crucial early season points. On board are not only TTR’s current male Top 3 riders, Peetu, Chas, and Antti but also Kelly, Lisa and Jami, TTR’s current female Top 3 riders – they all will be battling it out for the early Tour lead. But winning won’t be easy with the best riders from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia/New Zealand also keen to collect points – Up for the taking: two times 850 Swatch TTR ranking points!To find out who else is coming to the show and what’s going on next week check out the latest news release right here. If you don’t wanna miss any action, watch semis and finals live on 14th and 15th August go211.com.

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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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 »

Today..the first day of snowparks halfpipe… the day before practice so i guess today was practice’s practice. I was cruzing in a fully sick Subura GT-B turbo..with fat as exhaust with Chas G and just as were are leaving the outskirts of beautiful Wanaka..we see current Swatch TTR women’s world tour champion..Jamie Anderson with her thumb out. I hit the skid, slammed it in reverse and Jamie jumps in. Read the rest of this entry »

Also due to her great contest season on the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, ending for Jamie with the win of the tour title, she has been re-signed by Billabong with a multi-year contract. On top of that she will get her own signature outerwear line to be released Fall 2009.

“We are so excited to continue our relationship with Jamie,” says Billabong Brand Director, Candy Harris. “Last season was amazing ending with her TTR win, we are looking forward to a strong season from her next year.”
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After winning the slopestyle today at the Chicken Jam, Jamie claimed enough points to win the 07/08 TTR Championship. Rockstar is not only officially sponsoring the event, but is so stoked about her result, that the guys decided to sponsor Jamie’s unofficial TTR afterparty. I have the slight feeling it would have taken place anyways to wrap up a long season and fun event, but with that much to celebrate you better get your fake IDs out, your partypants on and swing your ass down to the Whiskey Creek in the center of Mammoth (if you bring your credentials you might even enjoy a couple of free drinks – don’t ask for Vodka Red Bull though…)

And by the way – if you happen to have unpurposely taken the 5th place TTR check, that does not only mean bad karma…Cheryl Maas will come to haunt you for those $9.000 Terje dollars.

Be there or be square…

Matthias clucking about the weather

Crazy weather has been following the Swatch TTR World Snowboard tour for the last couple of weeks and the Roxy Chicken Jam, being held this weekend at Mammoth Mountain, California, has been no exception. The first day of the Chicken Jam (the last 6-Star event on the women’s tour) was delayed due to some unexpected snowy weather today.
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Lisa & Alexis

Time for Burton European Open again! Its always fun to come back to Laax where I had my first ever big contest in 2000. Wow, its already 8 years ago!

I was surprised when I saw all the snow on the trees on my way up to Laax. Last year it was just green fields all over the place…. Hope this season will be whiter then last year ?

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