Men's winner Roope Tonteri

Jamie Anderson during slope finals.

Jamie Anderson - women's slope winner.Roope Tonteri (FIN) and Jamie Anderson (USA) were victorious in today's 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.

The Progressive Course and SLS Scoring
The sun was shining bright over Laax today and riders were loving the perfectly groomed slopestyle course. The course started with a jib section consisting of a down rail, a steel jib ball, choice of a mailbox stall or wall ride into a choice of a kinked rail or a flat-down box. The jib section then rolled into a quarterpipe and three progressively larger kickers. The Snowboard Live Scoring (SLS) system was used for judging, which breaks down a riders run into three different aspects: tricks on the jib section, tricks on the jump section and a flow score, which looks at the overall impression of the rider's entire run. The jib and jump trick scores counted as 60 percent of a riders final score (jumps are weighted heavier than jibs) and the flow score counted as 40 percent.

New Female Tour Leader After Slopestyle Finals
The women dropped first in a six-person final, with all three top finalists putting down their best tricks on the first run. Jamie Anderson rode with her signature smooth style stomping a backside tailslide on the down rail, a Millerflip on the steel ball, tailblunt to fakie on the mailbox and a switch boardslide to 5-0 on the kinked rail in the jib section then threw a backside alley-oop on the quarterpipe into a backside 360, frontside 360 and a huge backside 180 Japan on the kicker line.

Jamie was pumped on her win saying, "The win feels great! I was in TTR World No. 3 and with my first place finish here at a 6Star event I moved into first place." She went on to say, "I would love to win the TTR World Tour title again. We'll see if it's meant to be. I'm going to do my best, ride strong and hope to do well."
Laax local, Sina Candrian (SUI), came in a close second place with a solid run and moved into Swatch TTR World No. 4 and American rider, Jordie Karlinski took home third place and moved into World No.12.

Nail-Biting Final Ends with New Face Atop a 6Star Podium
The men took to the course in the afternoon for a 10-man final stacked full of talent and Finnish rider, Roope Tonteri, pulled ahead of the pack on his final run to take the win. He put down a pivot to 270 out on the down rail, backside 360 nose bonk on the steel ball, an ally-oop 50-50 on the mailbox and a gap to boardslide on the box in the jib section. On the jump line, Roope did a Cab 720 on the quarterpipe and stomped a Cab 900, backside double cork 1260 and a Cab 1440 on the kicker line. Roope has been coming up through the ranks steadily, has already collected two World Rookie Champion Titles and was stoked with his first 6Star win today.

I was just pushing it today trying to do my best, Roope said after the finals, I still can t quite believe it, it all feels pretty unreal. I m going to head to the rest of the 6Star TTR events and try to stay in the Top 10, so I can get invites to the events next year. With his victory today, Roope maintains his spot in World No. 8. Reigning TTR Tour Champion, Peetu Piiroinen (FIN), put down a good run for second place moving him up to World No. 5 and Chas Guldemond (USA) had a good day on the course to take third place.

Follow the action LIVE as the Halfpipe Titles are Awarded on Saturday
There is one more day of action at the Burton European Open, which will feature men s and women s halfpipe finals. Riders have the opportunity to earn some more 6Star TTR Ranking points and each winner will also qualify into the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships. Watch all the action live at metacafe.com or on ttrworldtour.com