Season 09/10 of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour will see its
first event go down in Cardrona NZ this week. And it’s a crucial
decider of who will lead the Tour going into the Northern Hemisphere
winter! So with an amazing field of riders taking the trip down under
it will be an amazing show starting with the slopestyle on Friday.
With only the Season-End Bonus Points 08/09 as a buffer, it’s all very open - current Swatch TTR World Champion Peetu Piiroinen
is the only rider that has a chance to hold on to the Number 1 Spot by
coming 1st or 2nd in the slopestyle. But last season’s NZ Open SS 3rd
and current World Nr. 2 Chas Guldemond will give Peetu a run for his money (Peetu finishes 2nd on average in 5Star slopestole and Chas as well). For Antti Autti
it’s popping cherry time at the Open - first appearance of the
experienced Fin at the NZ Part of the BGOS - and with great slope and
pipe skills he will make sure it’s in the money and keeps him in that
TOP5 (Antti finishes 4th in 5Star SS on average).
These three riders have the best chance to remain in that TTR TOP3 but with Canadian Charles Reid and half of the FRENDS crew there (Danny Davis, Luke Mitrani, Jack Mitrani and Mason Aguirre) it won’t be easy. Ah yeah, and Scotty Lago and Danny Kass are also somewhere on the island.
For the women it’s between the following girls -
all of them with great slopestyle skills to push 08/09 Tour Champion
Kelly Clark off her throne: