The 3Star TTR Billabong Flaunt It Finals presented by Sony Ericsson is going down this Saturday, March 31st at Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA.  Check out the stellar rail jam set up custom built just for Flaunt It’s competitors!

The slopestyle course consists of 2 rail pads with double options followed by a 40 foot jump and to finish off the course a 60 foot jump.

Ladies – Register online now or onsite tomorrow at 12:00 PM!
www.billabongflauntit.com/registration

FLAUNT IT FINALS OFFICIAL SCHEDULE:

Practice Day: Friday, March 30th 2012

12:00-3:00 PM – Registration (Aspen Café)
12:00-4:00 PM – Practice (Upper Bashful)

Flaunt It FINALS: Saturday, March 31st 2012

8:00-9:00 AM – Registration (Aspen Café)
10:00 AM – Riders Meeting (Start gate)
9:00-11:00 AM – Practice (Upper Bashful)
11:00-12:30 PM – Slopestyle Jam (Upper Bashful)
12:30-1:30 PM – Lunch (Baja Grill)
1:45-2:45 PM – Rail Jam (Lower Bashful)
3:00 PM – Awards (Vendors Village)
7:00-10:00 PM- Flaunt It After Party for Competitors

For all tour information, including registration, visit www.billabong.com/flauntit or visit them on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/billabongflauntit

Check out the pics from Waterville Valley, NH | 17th March

TTR Billabong Flaunt It 2012

The 6Star TTR Burton European Open 2012 Slopestyle went down yesterday with a bluebird day, spring temperatures and an epic course. Jamie Anderson (USA) successfully defended her title and won the BEO Slopestyle for the second year in a row, while Aleksander Ostreng (NOR) won his first international title today. Both winners took home $15,000 and a world-class title to add to their snowboarding resumes.

Jamie’s winning run included a backside tailslide on the rail, a frontside 360 to backside 180 on the step-up/step-down combo, a Cab 720 nose grab and switch backside 540 Indy grab on the kickers, finishing off with a backside lipslide to frontside 360 melon. Enni Rukajärvi (FIN) managed to get close to Jamie with a top score of 81.80, ending up in second place followed by a new face on the BEO podium, Swiss rider Isabel Derungs, who took third.

Aleksander Ostreng claimed the top spot for the mens final with an incredible third run, including a switch frontside 180 on to 360 out on the rail, a super stylish backside rodeo to Cab rodeo 540 on the step-up/step-down combo, followed by a frontside 1080 nosebone and a huge and super clean backside 1260 melon grab, ending with a Cab 180 on to 270 out to tailblunt 270 out on the MINI Creative Use of Space feature.

The MINI Creative Use of Space (CUOS) Awards went to Jamie Anderson and Emil Ulsletten (NOR). Both of them won $5,000 each with the most creative tricks of the day. Jamie earned the award with a backside lipslide to frontside 360 Melon on the MINI CUOS feature, while Emil secured the award with a frontside Alley Oop 360 to Cab 180 on 360 out.

Check out the Men and Women Slopestyle Results below:

Aleksander Ostreng’s run giving him the top spot.

Jamie Anderson’s winning run @ BEO 2012

Be sure to tune in to the live webcast @www.facebook.com/ttrworldtour | Halfpipe Finals 03/03/2012

Spencer O’Brien, 2nd Place at the 6Star Oakley Arctic Challenge:
It’s really important that we’ve been invited to the Arctic Challenge. It’s such an important event for snowboarding, run by Terje, everybody’s snowboarding hero. So it’s really really awesome to be here for the women’s event. To be invited and to do well. I’m glad that everybody rode really well and I think we  showcased women’s snowboarding and proved that we deserve to be here and deserve to be part of every event.

Check ripper Sarka Pancochova, who is recovering from an injury, came to support her One Life crew members, and the other riders.

Check out this little video…

If you missed the 6Star TAC women’s finals…no worries, check it out here!
or READ the full story…CLICK HERE...

The girls of the One Life Crew, Chanelle Sladics, Kjersti Buaas and Sarka Pancochova are giving us a chance to follow the inspiring and cool adventures of the crew. Every other Wednesday they will be releasing a webisode on SNOWBOARDERmag.com.  This weeks first edit follows the girls to Argentina. Chanelle Sladics describes the trip as follows:

“My Little Footprint, Keep-a-Breast, and Protect our Winters collaborated in supporting our One Life project in Argentina in August 2010 at the South America Snow Sessions.  Inspired to support the community of Bariloche, and the earth that gives us so much, we, One Life, and friends, built a greenhouse out of recycled plastic bottles, and bamboo from the local forest.  We collected bottles for 2 days, cut lots of bamboo, rode epic powder, shared yoga, and threw a concert to celebrate our eco adventures.

FACTS: 
1. our greenhouse will yield 10% faster crop growth, 
2. those plastic bottles will not be burnt into atmosphere, and 
3. we are helping with the local produce issues…we hope to inspire you to recycle, reuse, and reduce your footprint on the earth we all share!

One Love, One Life!  For more info check out ThisisOneLife.com”
-Chanelle Sladics

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.

• NZO event bio page
• and the Live Webcast page

for further information.You can download the sheets here

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

For further more detailed information please contact: andy@ttrworldtour.com

RANK	NAME	COUNTRY	SCORE	# RES.	MAX. SCORE	INFO
1	Anderson, Jamie	USA	821,35	7	956,79	injured
2	Wiik, Lisa	NOR	785,99	7	863,09	TOP 5
3	Candrian, Sina	SUI	746,88	7	852,75	not there
4	Mittermueller, Silvia	GER	719,1	7	852,9	TOP 5
5	Pancochova, Sarka	CZE	690,73	7	803,29	TOP 5
6	Hollingsworth, Ellery	USA	669,84	7	788,03	–
7	Buaas, Kjersti	NOR	659,45	5	945,16	TTR Title
8	Maas, Cheryl	NED	651,58	6	854,76	TOP 5
9	Clark, Kelly	USA	644,77	5	930,48	TTR Title
10	Karlinski, Jordie	USA	597,25	7	731,98	–
12	O`Brien, Spencer	CAN	582,12	7	772,27	–
13	Sladics, Chanelle	USA	531,3	6	779	–
19	Bright, Torah	AUS	405,4	3	691,12	Only 5 res.

1. As they have the highest potential score (calculating with 2000 points), it’s between Kjersti and Kelly for the title, Kjersti having better chances with a higher maximum score and better Slopestyle skills
2. Example: Kjersti can finish TOP5 in both formats and wins if Kelly wins the HP and 8th in SS
3. Other girls in the game for TOP5: Lisa Wiik, Silvia Mittermueller and Cheryl Maas (who could all potentially still win the Tour)

Why are Kjersti and Kelly the 2 title contenders having a lot less point than Jamie and Lisa? They are also not even in the TOP 5 right now. Well, with only 5 out of 7 results, they are called “sleepers”, as they have the potential to jump up into the TOP spot at the last minute after hiding in the lower areas of the ranking till the very last minute (just like Shaun White, as he most often gets his 7th TTR 6Star result at the US Open). 06/07 TTR Champion Torah Bright will not be able to close the gap anymore as she currently only holds 3 results and 7 are necessary to accumulate the full ranking score (the best 7 results are taken and devided by 7).So Kelly and Kjersti are the 2 riders with the highest ability to win the Swatch TTR title 08/09 and Kjersti has a slight advantage in slopestyle (Her average statistical finish in SS at TTR events is 6th and HP is 8th while Kelly’s is 13th in SS and 3rd in HP). If we take the average finish and use it as it was next weekend Kjersti would have 888 points while Kelly would have 873 (again this is statistics and not snowboarding – but statistics can be pretty accurate).Check out what went down between Jamie, Torah and Kelly last year in Mammoth:[youtube width="640" height="380"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP8EIffghEw&feature=channel_page[/youtube]The possible scenarios for the 6Star Halfpipe comp are as follows:

RANK	NAME	COUNTRY	AGE	6STAR Roxy Chicken Jam HP
1st	Jamie Anderson	USA	18	Could be bumped out from the World Nr. 1 spot only if Lisa places 1st
2nd	Lisa Wiik	NOR	29	Could take Tour Lead if she places 1st; stays 2nd otherwise
4th	Silvia Mittermueller	GER	25	Fights with Sina, Kelly, Kjersti and Cheryl for the World Nr. 3 spot
5th	Sarka Pancochova	CZE	19	Could move down in the TOP 10 even if places on podium
6th	Ellery Hollingsworth	USA	17	Could move down in the TOP 10 even if places on podium
7th	Kjersti Buaas	NOR	26	Fights with Sina,Kelly, Silvia and Cheryl for the World Nr. 3 spot
8th	Cheryl Maas	NED	24	Fights with Sina,Kelly, Silvia and Kjersti for the World Nr. 3 spot
9th	Kelly Clark	USA	25	Fights with Sina, Silvia, Kjersti and Cheryl for the World Nr. 3 spot
16th	Elizabeth Beerman	USA	17	Could improve her TOP 20 position
19th	Torah Bright	AUS	22	Could improve her TOP 20 position

For further more detailed information please contact: andy@ttrworldtour.com

06/07 Tour Champion Torah Bright has not been competing much this season due to other commitments as a professional snowboarder and will therefore not be in contention for the Championship this season. But she still has a chance to finish inside this year’s TOP10 if she places high at the Open and the Chicken Jam next weekend!