Winter Dew Tour 2009-10

The Winter Dew Tour debuted in December 2008 and is a three-stop snowboard and freeski series. There are three major, multi-discipline events with a cumulative points system, and $1.5 million up for grabs based on contest results and year-end standings.

With stops at Breckenridge Ski Resort (Breckenridge, Colo., Dec. 18-20), Snowbasin Resort(Snowbasin, UT., Jan. 15-17), and Mount Snow (West Dover, Vt., Feb. 5-7), the 2009-2010 Winter Dew Tour ran from December through February and crowned six Dew Cup champions at Season's End.

Results

Results below are based on totals added up for the entire year. Only lists top 5.

Based on points accumulated throughout the year, the Winter Dew Tour honored a Male and Female Athlete of the Year in addition to crowning Dew Cup winners. By placing highly in Mount Snow, both Andreas Hatveit and Jamie Anderson took the lead in the points race to garner the prestigious title of Athlete of the Year. Special awards were given to a number of athletes who displayed noticable attributes, including Snowboard Rookie of the Year Sage Kotsenburg and Freeski Rookie of the Year Hatveit, Halldor Helgason with the Trick of the Year, Mike Riddle with Performance of the Year, and Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Elias Ambuhl.

Snowboard: Superpipe

After a turbulent superpipe season, the Toyota Championships were ready for a new group of athletes to prove themselves. Without a top two finish, last year's runner up Steve Fisher fell out of his top spot in Mount Snow, overtaken by JJ Thomas for the coveted Dew Cup. On the women's side, Kaitlyn Farrington stole the show- and The Title of Champion- with her win during the night final in Vermont.

Snowboard: Slopestyle

This year, the snowboard slopestyle competition was in the hands of youth, as sixteen-year-old friends Tyler Flanagan and Sage Kotsenburg battled it out on the men's side, and nineteen-year old Jamie Anderson came out of her tie with Spencer O'Brien, freshly twenty-one at the last stop, as the Champion. The men went into the final with first-place Flanagan barely ahead of Kotsenburg, but devastating falls took Flanagan out of the top three in the Toyota Championship, giving Kotsenburg the points he needed to win the Dew Cup.

Freeski: Superpipe

Entering the final stop with a nice cushion, Jossi Wells only needed a Top Five placing in the Mount Snow final to win the Dew Cup. After falling on his first run and facing tight competition from Simon Dumont and Tucker Perkins, Wells had to make a call between going big- and risking it all- or going safe and hoping to place within top five. Leaving the bag of tricks at the top of the pipe and relying on his style and amplitude, Wells was able to win the Dew Cup with the bare minimum- fifth place.

Freeski: Slopestyle

With the tightest race for the Dew Cup in the 2009-10 season, the stage was set for Mount Snow to be a showdown for the podium. With so many big names needing every point they could get due to ties for both first and third place , it was anyone's game. Tom Wallisch had to throw down with Rookie of the Year Andreas Hatveit for the top spot, with Sammy Carlson and Bobby Brown not far behind in third place. In the end, Brown overcame the challenging east coast weather to take the top spot in the Toyota Championship, and Hatveit's second place finish won him the overall Dew Cup.

External links

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