If there is a contest that I look foward to each year, it would definitely be the US Open of Snowboarding. This was my 6th year announcing the event, but this year I did the live event for finals instead of the webcast. It was a long week for me, announcing all of the qualifer events and the semi/finals as well. They brought back the Quarterpipe event on friday night and that went off super well. Lots of good riding from some of the best transition riders in the world. Peter Line, and Seb Touts killed it all night, and NH boys Scotty Lago and Danny Garrity shralped as well. Lago ended up taking the win at the end of the night. On the halfpipe side of things, Danny Kass made history winning his 5th US Open title and absolutely killing it on his 3rd run in finals. Torah Bright won for the ladies with some super progressive tricks like switch backside 7s and starting her run with air to fakies. Slopestyle was super good seeing some riders doing all 4 nine hundreds down the SPT slope course. We also saw the double mango roll from one of our pre-qualifier riders. The highlight of my US Open experience this year was seeing my long time friend Chaz Guldemond win the slopestyle and take that overall Burton Global Open Series title this year. Chaz took home 145k on sunday!! This year was super fun helping T-Bird from Snowboarder Mag shape his announcing skills, and then working with Preston is always rad. Obviously a huge thanks needs to go out to Liam Griffin, Maria McNulty, Christy Nicolay, Preston Strout, Tom Monterosso, and all the riders for making a great event this year.
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Did I hear you talking with Ellis on the radio the other day?
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