Roope Tonteri (FIN) and Jamie Anderson (USA) were victorious in Fridays slopestyle finals at the 12th annual 6Star Burton European Open taking place in Laax, Switzerland.  With her win today, earning 1000 TTR ranking points, Jamie takes over the Swatch TTR World Tour lead and put herself in an excellent position to make a move for the 2010/11 TTR World Tour Champion title.  This was Roope’s first 6Star title of his career, which bolstered his spot at World No. 8 in the TTR World Tour Rankings.  In addition to earning TTR Ranking points, Roope and Jamie also walked away with a share of the huge $125,000 USD prize purse and have also both secured spots to compete in the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships taking place in Oslo, Norway in February 2012.
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The collective aim – to get down the mountain – is the same but that’s often where the common ground between snowboarders and skiers ends.
Skiers have long regarded the younger sport of snowboarding as technically inferior and have often been vocal in railing against complicated tricks and manoeuvres that boarders strive to achieve  … More
Shane Flood and Jesse House head to Timberline to ride the Pineapple Express that has brought nothing but rain to the Northwest the past week. Totally worth it
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