Scotty wins Dew Tour Men’s Snowboard Modified Superpipe
Published Mon 17 Dec 2018
PyeonChang Olympics bronze medalist Scotty James has won his second gold medal in as many weeks, top scoring at the Dew Tour Men's Snowboard Modified Superpipe in Colorado.
New features on the top and bottom in in Breckenridge made the Modified Superpipe the most talked about course on the hill.
The top hip was called the Shark Fin and sent riders into a large knuckled landing that set them up for a shortened length of superpipe. At the bottom of the pipe was a bowled out section on either side that kipped riders into similar knuckle landings that then lined them up for the largest hip on the hill that sent into a quarter pipe and a Tombstone banked wall to finish.
Ten snowboarders made up the leaderboard and each were given three runs with only their highest score counting. For most that came in the later runs, but for two of the top three it came on their first.
The highest score of the day came from the first run of Scotty James, and in his opinion the first, shark fin feature was his favorite.
James started off with a switch backside rodeo 540 melon, frontside 180 into pipe, switch backside 1080 mute, backside 1260 mute, frontside 1080 nose grab, and finished with a cab frontside 540 stalefish over tombstone.
James' first and best run scored him a 93.33 and the win on the day.
Men’s Snowboard Modified Superpipe Finals Results:
- Scotty James, 93.33
- Chase Josey, 88.33
- Toby Miller, 84.33
- Pat Burgener, 83.00
- Jake Pates, 80.33
- Danny Davis, 75.67
- Gabe Ferguson, 57.67
- Raibu Katayma, 56.67
- Taylor Gold, 35.33
- Ben Ferguson, 18.00