Seb Toots Wins Billabong Ante Up
For the two of you who did not follow all the action from Saturday’s Billabong Ante Up contest on our live webcast here are the results and a choice video, showing an astounding accumulation of Double Cork 1260s in a true park binge. Seb Toots took home the deserved victory. If you were planning on entering the circuit of professional snowboarding anytime soon you’d better step up your slopestyle skills – because the riding level has gone through the roof. The video is a must-see!
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Boy do they look happy. Photo: Matt Forsythe
The Billabong Ante Up competition, the first 5Star event of the 2010/11 Swatch TTR World Tour season, went off this weekend with an excellent showing from a diverse field of riders. The summertime event was held in the Camp of Champions park on the Blackcomb glacier and featured a massive 75-foot gap jump. The Ante Up hosted 40 riders in a big air format who were all going for a piece of the $50,000 prize purse and 850 TTR ranking points. It ended up as an all-Canadian podium and Sebastien Toutant (CAN) took the top spot making him $20,000 richer. Toutant also secured the World No. 3 spot in the TTR World Rankings and received an automatic invite to the 6Star Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck later in the season.
Among a lot of other interesting things you can also see Seb Toots. Photo: Matt Forsythe.
Canadians defend their home turf with 1260 double corks
Every rider was pulling off impressive tricks all day and it came down to a double cork 1260 podium with the top three riders doing different variations of the trick. Toutant won the first place with a flawless Cab 1260 double cork and had this to say about his win, “Winning the first 5Star TTR big air contest was just amazing, it was an epic final and it’s sick because I’ll be in the top of the TTR rankings going down to New Zealand in August.”
Coming in second place behind Toutant and winning $10,000 USD was Matts Kulisek (CAN) who landed a frontside 1260 double cork and Mark McMorris (CAN) took third place earning $6,000 USD for his backside 1260 double cork. Other notable mentions include Gjermund Braaten (NOR) who also stomped a backside 1260 double cork to take fourth place which, when combined with his 2009/10 season-end bonus points, bumped him up into TTR World No. 1.
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