TTR World Snowboard Tour: Stylewars

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Stylewars

Event information
star accreditation	4STR TTRM	date of event	21.08.2011 - 24.08.2011
Format(s)	SS	location	Falls Creek, AUS
entry criteria	open & invitational
Prize Money	USD 20.000,-
Number of riders	70+
Ranking Information	TTR 4Star Points
web address	www.stylewars.com.au
Online Registration	yes

Event Sponsors

Event History

Stylewars was initially launched by riders for riders with the aim of changing the snowboarding event landscape in Australia. A country that not many international riders ever considered visiting to snowboard, Australia has a surprisingly good snowboard scene with a few fun resorts and a small but quality scene of riders.

Through the early 90´s Australia was firmly planted on the world scene. More and more travelling Pros visited every year and the resorts supported the progression with real interest. Terje, Sebu and Iguchi came downunder in the mid 90`s and Thredbo (resort) built a gap that became well known in the Mack Dawg film of that year "The Meltdown Project". That was the end of a great era for Australian snowboarding as it was the best and worst year for the scene till Stylewars launched in 2002. Best as it showed us what was possible and how good our resorts could work with the top riders and the sport´s progression and worst as no resort could back it up for years to come.

A full generation of riders went by with Australia off the global snowboarding map as the events all became novelty one offs with more focus on media return and less on the sport itself. Many a snowboarder was ruined by badly designed courses and resort's inability to grasp that without the riders loyalty there was no scene and therefore events died and frequently so did riders career´s through injury. The traveling pros stopped coming to Australia and all went straight to New Zealand instead. In 2002 Stylewars was born. With help from Red Bull and the understanding and complete commitment from Falls Creek, a small, little known Victorian resort with a great events department who had the ability to listen to riders rather than tell them what they needed, Stylewars was launched with a completely different approach to competition.

All standard event formats were ignored and all scheduling forgotten about. The event was totally freestyled based on what riders wanted to do and where the best place to ride at that moment was. The event was fun for everyone involved and the media that came from it was the first "Superpark" style session in Australia.

The parks have always been the focus of the event. Over the years with the huge help of Mammoth Mt Park builders Mike Gershner and Sam Poffley as well as Lake Louise builder Jeff Patterson the parks have been consistently world class. Even the year of 2005 where Australia had almost no snow by September the park was still sick. Sam Poffley and Falls Creek park builder Reuben Cameron managed to drag almost every last flake of snow off the mountain to make a competition line well worth riding. The images tell the story - there was no snow anywhere on the mountain apart from in the park and the resort closed straight after the event finished.

Unlike any other event on the tour Stylewars is as much about snowboarding lifestyle as it is about on mountain competition. With world premieres of the latest international film releases, live music almost nightly, happy hours and under light rail sessions in the village the event tries to cover all angles to keep the crew stoked with an "on holiday" feel. Some riders have referred to it as the endurance marathon of the tour. 3 full days of competition in the park with 2 judged sessions per day. 1 night rail event under lights and 5 nights of partying means only the strongest can survive.

Event videos

TTR Stylewars - 10 Year Special

Clint Allan takes you through 10 years of Stylewars in Australia and the moments that have made the event what it is today.

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TTR Stylewars 2011 - Final Day

In true form at Falls Creek, finals day at TTR Stylewars went mad once again, showcasing some of the best riders in the southern hemisphere. Swedish Tor Lundstrom took out first place in front of Aussies Clint Allan and Scotty James, but followed closely by an international pack including Nick Brown, Max Buri, Matt Galena and a ton more.

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TTR Stylewars 2011 - Day 1

Young gun Scotty James -- 17-year-old Australian Olympic Halfpipe athlete -- is at the top of the leaderboard after Day One of Stylewars: The Australian Slopestyle Championships. This comes after red-hot favourite Gjermund Braaten from Norway was knocked out of competition, after breaking his collarbone for the second time since December last year.Currently ranked 5th on the TTR World Snowboard Tour, Braaten set the standard high stomping a double cork back 10 in his first judged run of competition. But unfortunately, Braaten fell awkwardly on the last feature ending his chances of winning the money.Following closely behind Scotty James are Clint Allan, Pete Long, Tor Lundström and Andrew Roth.With perfect weather and more blue skies ahead, riders are guaranteed impeccable riding conditions for the entire event. For this reason, a vote was made by the competitors to scale back the slopestyle component of the competition to two days instead of three. This change in schedule gives riders the opportunity to relax and recuperate energy for the notorious 28 Stairs rail jam event on Wednesday night.Richard Hegarty, Event Organiser and founder of Stylewars, couldn't be happier with the event so far. "Apart from Gjermund's injury, everything has run perfectly." He says, "The sunshine (with no wind!) has given our 25 riders the best chance at performing their best. What's more is that unlike previous years, our Aussies are dominating the scoreboard, which is fantastic to see. This could well be in fact in the best Stylewars we've ever had in the past 10 years running."Judged on their two best runs of the two-hour competition window, riders will need to throw down their best performances tomorrow to secure their share of the $25,000 prize money. The winner of Stylewars 2011 will be announced in the afternoon.Day One top Stylewars results:Scotty James (AUS)Clint Allan (AUS)Pete Long (AUS)Tor Lundström (SWE)Andrew Roth (AUS)

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TTR World Snowboard Tour - Best of 2010/11

The TTR World Snowboard Tour 2010/2011 came to an end only a few weeks ago and here is another clip which summarizes the best moments of the largest and most progressive freestyle snowboard tour on the globe. World class events such as the Air & Style, Burton European Open, Arctic Challenge and the O'Neill Evolution are part of the TTR Tour which sees the best riders throw down the most technical and stylish tricks. Among the riders are the 2010/11 TTR World Champions Peetu Piiroinen and Jamie Anderson as well as Chas Guldemond, Sebastien Toutant, Mark McMorris, Kelly Clark and Kjersti Buaas and many more. Don't miss the 2011/12 TTR Tour kick-off in July with the 5Star Billabong Ante Up in Whistler.For more Info check out http://www.ttrworldtour.com

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TTR Stylewars 2010 - Final Rail Jam

Stylewars draws to a close as snowboarders take on the annual 28 Stairs competition under lights, and Mark McMorris is crowned new Stylewars Stairmaster. Best Trick goes to Seb Toots (Switch Hardway 270 Boardslide) and Best Aussie Rider is Jye Kearney from NSW.For full event results, news, videos and updates keep your eyes glued to the http://www.ttrworldtour.com website.

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TTR Stylewars 2010 - Day Two

Stylewars snowboarders make the most of the bad weather by ripping it up during rail jam practice. The annual 28 Stairs competition will be held under lights tomorrow night, and conclude Stylewars' four-day festivities.

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TTR Stylewars 2010 - Day One

Check out the footage from Day One at Stylewars 2010: a sneak preview at the amazing terrain park, the unfortunate inclement weather, and the opening night party featuring Calling All Cars and DZ at The Man Hotel, Falls Creek.

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TTR Stylewars Highlights 2009 - Toutant Bang Reid Willett

Watch the snowboarding highlights from the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour 4Star Stylewars competition in Falls Creek, Australia. Featuring Grand Master winner Sebastien Toutant and Best Trick winner, Mikkel Bang, along with Charles Reid, Eric Willett, Sage Kostenburg, Matts Kulisek, Keiran McLaughlin, Iver Lynne, Charlie Steinbacher, Marco Grilc, Chris Kroell, Cheyne Southwell, Michael Stanschnitz and Herbi Thaler.

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Sebastien Toutant takes TTR No.1 at Stylewars 2009

After Stylewars 2009 Seb Toutant is the new TTR Snowboard Tour Leader. Watch as Seb Toots talks you through his winning run incl. his signature Tootsie Roll Double Cork at this sick snowboarding competition in Falls Creek, Australia. Also featuring Snowboarders Charles Reid and Mikkel Bang ripping it up.

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Chas Guldemond back in TTR tour lead after the Stylewars

The 4Star Oakley Stylewars did not only push snowboarding to another level but also had a major impact on the 08/09 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour Rankings with tour veterans, young guns, and south-hemi up and comers all throwing down enormous maneuvers, staking their claims for the title early on. Chas Guldemond (USA), who recently lost the Tour Lead in New Zealand, claimed back the World No. 1 spot. Leading the charge was a man on a mission, last year's grand master Torstein Horgmo (NOR) who was sending massive smooth tricks with rarely a hand out of place. He took out best trick with an insane switch backside 1260 melon deep into the landing of the first jump and climbed 22 positions up the Swatch TTR rankings into World No. 30. The overall winner of the event was Canadian Charles Reid who dominated for the entire three days of the grueling event that included today. With his victory and 500 Swatch TTR ranking points, Charles claims his first TTR title ever and moves up 9 ranks to World No. 7. A slew of 1080's, rodeos and a consistent style had him pushing out fellow Canadian Matts Kulisek for the win. In the end, Kulisek finished 3rd behind Horgmo.

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Men's Results

Results for Slopestyle 2011
Rank	Name	Sponsors	Nation	Score
1	Tor Lundstrom	Clast	SWE	500.00
2	Clint Allan	Billabong	AUS	471.15
3	Scott James	DC, Red Bull	AUS	450.00
4	Nick Brown		NZL	434.03
5	Peter Long		AUS	421.20
6	Kieran McLaughlin		AUS	410.00
7	Dane Tiene		AUS	399.39
8	Declan Vogel-Paul	Bataleon	AUS	390.00
9	Max Buri	Salomon, Dakine, Clast	SUI	381.68
10	Connor Harding		NZL	373.44
11	Mathew Galina		AUS	365.30
12	Matt Sedunary		AUS	357.25
13	Cameron Staveley	Anon Optics, Red	AUS	349.29
14	Daniel Klein		AUS	341.42
15	Jeremy Burns		AUS	333.64
16	Tim Nelson	O Matic, Nixon, Union Bindings, 32 Snowboard Boots, Snowrev.com, Electric Visual	CAN	325.95
17	Andrew Roth		AUS	318.36
18	Jason Maxfield		AUS	310.85
19	Jye Kearney	Boost Mobile, DVS	AUS	303.44
20	Gjermund Braaten	Swag	NOR	296.12
21	Chris De campo	Von Zipper	AUS	288.88
23	Thomas Clairs		AUS	274.69
24	Shaun Belmore		AUS	267.73
25	William Snowball		AUS	260.86
26	Marc Triffitt		AUS	254.09
27	Greg Murray		AUS	247.40
28	Owen Newman		AUS	240.80
30	Matthew Burgen		AUS	227.89
31	Brian Goodwin		AUS	221.56