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Poland’s Paulina Ligocka (25 years old) and Finland’s Peetu Piiroinen (21 years old) won the 11th Burton European Open halfpipe event today. Each will take home US$ 15.000 in prize-money and also important points towards the BGOS and TTR rankings. Ursina Haller (SUI) and Ilkka-Eemeli Laari (FIN) earned second place and Akiko Miwa (JPN) and Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) took third place.

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Tags: 11th Burton European Open, BEO, BGOS, Burton Global Open Series, Canadian Open, Christian Haller, Enni Rukajärvi, Gian Simmen, Gjermund Braaten, Haller Ursina, Ilkka-Eemeli Laari, Laari Ilkka-Eemeli, Laax, Ligocka Paulina, Miwa Akiko, Piiroinen Peetu, Podladtchikov Iouri, Sina Candrian, Stale Sandbech, Swatch Ticket To Ride World Championship, The Sounds, TTR, Xaver Hoffman

Finnish riders Peetu Piiroinen (21 years old) and Enni Rukajärvi (19 years old) were the big winners of an exciting slopestyle finals up on Crap Sogn Gion today. Peetu claimed his 3rd BEO title today; while Enni secured her first win at the BEO. Both earned US$ 15.000 prize-money, 8.000 BGOS points as well as 1.000 TTR points. Mikkel Bang (NOR) and local rider Sina Candrian (SUI) took second and Gerjmund Braaten (NOR) and Sarka Pancochova (CZE) rounded out the podium.

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Tags: BEO, Burton European Open, Burton European Open Slopestyle, Burton Global Opens Series, Charlotte van Gils, Christian Haller, Crap Sogn Gion, Enni Rukajärvi, Gerjmund Braaten, Laax, Mikkel Bang, Peetu Piiroinen, Riders Palace Club, Sarka Pancochova, Sina Candrian, The Sounds

Sunshine and blue skies welcomed the riders today on the fourth day of the 2010 Burton European Open. 40 men who came through from the Pre-Qualifications and 50 women had two runs to prove their skills. The top 18 men and the top 13 ladies advance into the semi-finals where they will meet invited top-riders like last year’s BEO slopestyle winner Lisa Wiik and Swatch TTR World Champion 08/09 Peetu Piiroinen. Slovenian Luka Jeromel was dominating the men’s qualification and will go with confidence into the semi-finals. On the women’s side it was 12-year-old Ty Walker from the US who earned most points from the judges today.

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Tags: 2010 Burton European Open, BEO, Enni Rukajärvi, Lisa Wiik, Luka Jeromel, Peetu Piiroinen, Ty Walker

Today the juniors wrapped up their competitions with the halfpipe finals up on Crap Sogn Gion. Bluebird skies greeted the groms (up to 14 years old) this morning and the well known superpipe here in LAAX was in perfect condition for the youngest competitors of the BEO. The US riders dominated today with 9-year-old Chloe Kim and 12-year-old Seamus O’Connor taking home the halfpipe junior titles.

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Tags: BEO, Burton European Open, Chloe Kim, Crap Sogn Gion, David Hablützel, Kirra Kotsenburg, Laax, Seamus O’Connor, Tim Kevin Ravnjak, Ty Walker, Ville Paumola

The 11th Burton European Open Snowboarding Championships started it’s week-long “Circus” show today with the junior slopestyle competition here in LAAX, Switzerland. 54 little rippers up to 14 years old from fourteen nations were competing today up on Crap Sogn Gion. 13-year-old Swiss rider David Hablützel won the boys’s slopestyle competition and 12-year-old Ty Walker from the US stood on top of the girls slopestyle podium.

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Tags: BEO, Burton European Open, Burton European Open Snowboarding Championships, Chloe Kim, Circus, David Hablützel, Jan Kralj, Laax, Ramona Petrig, Tim Kevin Ravnjak, Ty Walker

The BEO celebrated it’s 10th anniversary this year and it was a spectacular contest, with crazy riding and partying!
Pull Up and Hip Hop from Pinard spend one week for SnowBroader in Laax. They had to take pics and film some footage of the contest but I heard that they mostly partied hard ending up doing naked power slides on the icy snow with Drew Stevenson at 4am.
Still they managed to come back with some pretty sick footage! Here is their 5 minute video summing up a full week of riding and partying. Check it out, it also features a cool little interview with half pipe winner Kevin Pearce.
Thanks to the BEO organisation and Laax for putting together such a great event in Europe. The Slope Style and Half Pipe were massive, perfectly shaped and allowed the riders to really express themselves. All the Parties and concerts were awesome, with lots of free booze Sick to get to see Stereo Total and The Streets!
It was a perfect birthday celebration and our crew was stoked to be there!

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We told you it was going to be insane and our reporter Pull Up who was standing on the coping couldn’t find the words to tell us how intense the Burton European Open Halfpipe finals were!
A monster Halfpipe and blue bird conditions proved to be the perfect combination for the riders to lay down mind boggling tricks that pushed Halfpipe progression to unseen levels.
Click for the whole story and a video with the highlights of the halfpipe finals!

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As our reporters Pull Up and Hip Hop just witnessed live and direct in Laax, Danny Davis just won the Slopestyle event in front of finnish ripper Peetu Piiroinen and the Flying Tomato with hippie hairs. This just makes it a Burton podium!
Danny scored an impressive 91 pts on his last run, just outscoring Peetu who continues his solid performances after winning the O’Neill Evolution last week-end. But the climax of the BEO is set to be tomorrow with the Halfpipe finals! Pearce and White have both won their semi-finals heats with insane runs and tomorrow they are going face-to-face for probably one of the most epic pipe battle ever. Definitively a show you don’t want to miss! So click here to watch it live!!

Anyway if you miss any of the BEO action, make sure to check back on SnowBroader in a few days as we are preparing a sick video report of the week long event with shot like the picture shown above of KP killing the pipe!

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The BEO is well under way and if you are not as lucky as our special reporters Pull Up and Hip Hop who are having a blast in Laax right now and preparing some sick video reports for you and us, make sure to tune in to the live event webcasts on GO211.com!

Webcasts will feature the men’s and women’s slopestyle and halfpipe semi-finals and finals. GO211.com will be providing cool interactive technologies (live scoring, live standings, competition rankings and rider bios) that will allow the viewer to take a more active role.
Sina Candrian (SUI), Silvia Mittermüller (GER), Cheryl Maas (NED), Peetu Piiroinen (FIN), Nicolas Müller (SUI), Antti Autti (FIN), David Benedek (GER), Heikki Sorsa (FIN), Mikkel Bang (NOR) are just a few of the top invited European riders who plan to compete for a piece of the $125,000 prize purse.

Click below to catch the entire events as they go down with LIVE webcasts on Go211.com during the following times:

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