Written by Callie Conaghan
Shelly Gotlieb on her way to 2nd Place
New Zealand rider Shelly Gotlieb continues to kill the competition scene! Her recent second place in the Burton NZ Open Slopestyle ranks her in eighth position on the TTR World Snowboard Tour.
Jamie Anderson (USA) took her third straight New Zealand Open slopestyle title and had this to say about her win, I cant believe it, I love the Burton Opens and winning this event three times in a row is amazing, so Im ecstatic and so stoked to start of the year with a good result.
Jamies winning run earned her a score of 79.20 points and consisted of a boardslide-to-tailpress on the down bar, a frontside 180 out on the up box, switch backside 180 mute, backside 360 mute, and a backside 180 mute. Coming in second place behind Jamie was Burton rider, Shelly Gotlieb (NZL), who held it down on her home turf with a great second run earning her 74.56 points. Rounding out the podium in third place was Kjersti Buuas (NOR) who also had a good run that scored 73.60 points.
The newly developed Snowboard Live Scoring system (SLS) was used by the judges, which gives scores for each individual hit during a run that is then combined with a flow score to provide a more transparent final score. Viewers of the live webcast on GO211.com were able to see this system in action and watch real-time ranking changes, among other features of the site.
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