TTR World Snowboard Tour

TTR World Snowboard Tour

Industry	Snowboard
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Scuol, Switzerland
Key people	Reto Lamm, President
Website	www.ttrworldtour.com

TTR Pro Snowboarding is a new breed of sports governing body made up of a professional network of events, athletes, nations and industry partners. TTR has been built upon the sport's core values and unique culture with the goal of making snowboarding the most recognized progressive sport in the world. The overall objective is to uphold the progression of snowboarding by providing fair and open competition environments, including innovative judging and ranking systems, that allow for athletes to develop from rookies into world- class athletes. A non-profit organization, the TTR owns and operates the TTR World Snowboard Tour, the TTR World Ranking System and the World Snowboarding Championships. At the end of each TTR World Tour competitive season, TTR awards World Tour Champion titles in each of the following categories: Overall, Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Big Air. TTR has a strong partnership with the World Snowboard Federation (WSF), which consists of 38 National Snowboard Associations that exclusively work to develop and care for the sport of snowboarding at all levels (www.worldsnowboardfederation.org). The WSF coordinates all events on the 1-3Star level on the TTR World Tour. In addition, TTR and WSF jointly own the World Snowboarding Championships taking place for the first time in Oslo, Norway in February, 2012.

World Ranking

TTR Men's TOP 3

Season	1. Place	Points	2. Place	Points	3. Place	Points
2010/11	Peetu Piiroinen - Finland	936.98	Iouri Podladtchikov - Switzerland	864.19	Seppe Smits - Belgium	861.17
2009/10	Peetu Piiroinen - Finland	963.81	Iouri Podladtchikov - Switzerland	880.24	Markus Malin - Finland	779.38
2008/09	Peetu Piiroinen - Finland	940.57	Chas Guldemond - United States	873.84	Antti Autti - Finland	834.27
2007/08	Kevin Pearce - United States	998,72	Shaun White - United States	973.84	Peetu Piiroinen - Finland	946.75
2006/07	Shaun White - United States	986.23	Antti Autti - Finland	964.73	Travis Rice - United States	948.98
2005/06	Mathieu Crépel - France	858.91	Risto Mattila - Finland	853.31	Antti Autti - Finland	790.69

TTR Women's TOP 3

Season	1. Place	Points	2. Place	Points	3. Place	Points
2010/11	Jamie Anderson - United States	924.64	Kelly Clark - United States	881.43	Kjersti Ostgaard Buaas - Norway	838.22
2009/10	Enni Rukajärvi - Finland	858.11	Sina Candrian - Switzerland	852.77	Sarka Pancochova - Czech Republic	834.88
2008/09	Kelly Clark - United States	870.16	Lisa Wiik - Norway	829.63	Jamie Anderson - United States	821.35
2007/08	Jamie Anderson - United States	981.62	Torah Bright - Australia	969.77	Kelly Clark - United States	956.06
2006/07	Torah Bright - Australia	977.20	Jamie Anderson - United States	933.35	Cheryl Maas - Netherlands	908.87
2005/06	Cheryl Maas - Netherlands	426.79	Jenny Jones - United Kingdom	381.13	Natasza Zurek - Canada	373.84

The TTR World Snowboard Tour

The events that make up the TTR World Tour must be judged freestyle events with a scored final result for each rider competing. Events must run one or more of the following formats: slopestyle, halfpipe, big air, rail jams. Quarterpipe events are sometimes included as well. Creativity is actively encouraged at the individual events, allowing each organizer to incorporate innovative formats and course setups. The events themselves are conceived and run by organizers who are involved in and understand snowboard culture.

TTR tour events are divided up by a “Star” system ranging from 1Star events to 6Star events making for a clear division between amateur/rookie level events and professional level events. The TTR Star accreditation denotes the significance of the event on a global scale, quantity of TTR Ranking points obtainable, overall quality of the event and the level of competition, 6Star rating being the highest. The TTR World Tour is structured in a way that riders on all levels, from amateurs on up to professionals, can compete on the same global tour. All riders are also ranked on the same TTR World Ranking lists, which currently list over 3500 riders.

One of the most unique qualities of the Tour is the wide variety of competition formats, allowing for the event organizers and the riders to be creative and progressive. TTR strives to align judging systems that are used at the events around the globe. Detailed information on the TTR judging systems can be found on the website: http://www.ttrworldtour.com/about/judging The TTR Tour Champions are declared at the last 6Star event of the season, respective to discipline. The TTR Tour Champion titles are awarded to the male and female riders who have the best ranking result on the Overall, Slopestyle, Halfpipe or Big Air ranking lists at the end of the season. TTR awards Tour Champion Titles in the following categories: Slopestyle, Halfpipe, Overall and Big Air (men-only).

2011-2012 Contest Season

TTR 6STAR

• Air & Style, Beijing, China
• Air & Style, Innsbruck, Austria
• O’Neill Evolution, Davos, Switzerland
• Burton European Open, Laax, Switzerland
• Burton US Open, Vermont, United States of America
• World Snowboarding Championships, Oslo, Norway

TTR 5STAR

• Billabong Ante Up, Whistler, Canada
• Burton New Zealand Open, Cardrona, New Zealand
• U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, Copper Mountain, United States of America
• Relentless Big Air Stuttgart presented by Quiksilver, Stuttgart, Germany
• 10th Red Bull Nanshan Open, Beijing, China
• Burton Canadian Open, Calgary, Canada
• Roxy Sno Pro 2012, Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria
• Burn River Jump, Livigno, Italy
• U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, Mammoth Mountain, United States of America
• Nescafe Champs Leysin, Leysin, Switzerland
• Quiksilver Spring Battle, Flachauwinkl, Austria

Why TTR?

In unifying the global snowboarding community under one umbrella, the Tour and Organization strive to uphold the progression of snowboarding by providing fair and open competition environments. TTR is currently a one-of-a-kind organization in the snowboard community that works closely with some of the longest-standing and most reputable snowboard events in the world and actively welcomes feedback directly from the athletes.

TTR Rankings

Riders earn points towards each different ranking list based on the star level of the event and their final result in the given discipline in competition. See the website for detailed information and examples http://ttrworldtour.com/about/ttr-ranking-information.html TTR advanced the ranking system from one overall ranking into separate ranking lists per discipline in order to recognize how specialized the sport has become and how focused riders are with individual disciplines. The TTR World Tour features separate tour ranking lists for Overall, Halfpipe, Slopestyle and Big Air (men only). Tour rankings start at zero at the beginning of each season and only take results of the current season into account. At the last 6Star event of each season, the TTR will award the following TTR World Tour Champion Titles: TTR Overall Tour Champion, TTR Slopestyle Tour Champion, TTR Halfpipe Tour Champion and a TTR Big Air Tour Champion (men-only)

TTR Points lists

TTR Points Lists are based on a riders best results over a 52 week period and are updated once a week. They are used to determine a riderʼs eligibility to enter events on different levels. The points lists will be used to directly seed riders into semi-finals at 5Star and 6Star events by using a riderʼs position on the respective discipline points list. The ʻInvited Rider Protocolʼ and ʻQualified Rider Protocolʼ are both based on the TTR Points Lists. The TTR Points Lists are calculated for Halfpipe and Slopestyle for men and women and men-only for Big Air. A riderʼs position on the TTR Points Lists are determined by calculating an average of a riderʼs best TTR results over a rolling 52 week period and are updated every week on Thursday. Averages are calculated for the points lists as specified below: TTR Slopestyle Points List: Average of Best 4 results TTR Halfpipe Points List: Average of Best 3 results TTR Big Air Points List: Average of Best 3 results

Place	6Star event	5Star event	4Star event	3Star event	2Star event	1Star event
1.	1000	850	500	400	200	100
2.	942.30	800.95	471.15	376.92	188.46	94.23
3.	900.00	765.00	450.00	360.00	180.00	90.00
4.	868.06	737.85	434.03	347.22	173.61	86.81
5.	842.41	716.05	421.20	336.96	168.48	84.24

Prize money

There is a combined prize purse worth over $ 2.5 million for the season.

When? The TTR history

Founded in 2002 by industry innovators, the aim of the TTR is to maintain snowboardingʼs core values and make it the most recognized progressive sport in the world. With a focus on creativity, progression, and innovation, the organization and its Tour represent a new breed of rider-centric governing body for the sport.

References

• Official Homepage of the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour

• Independent snowboarding result database established by TTR Pro Snowboarding in 2009