US rider Mason Aguirre and Britain’s Jenny Jones won the Burton New Zealand Open last week, in a storm-hit contest.

High winds and low visibility forced the organisers to cancel the finals and pick the winners based on their semi-final results.

Dan Brisse (USA) added another 3rd place slopestyle finish, following his 3rd place at the opening TTR Five Star event last month, the Burton Abominable Snow Jam, pushing him into sixth place overall on the snowboarding tour.

Sensation of the contest, coming out off nowhere, was Alessandro Boyens (GER), who blew people away with a rarely seen double axis rotation to claim a TTR career high 2nd place. Edging Boyens out for first place by meager 0.5 point margin was Mason Aguirre (USA) claiming his first career TTR Five Star title, $5,000 NZD cash and 850 TTR Ranking Points.

Aguirre’s Burton New Zealand Open slopestyle title, added to the results posted at the Burton Abominable Snow Jam at Timberline Ski Area on Oregon's Mount Hood, sees him push into an early season TTR Tour lead, the first time he has held the penultimate Tour position.

After a delayed start for the Women’s slopestyle semi-final, a small gap in the weather allowed the 21 Semi-Final competitors to throw down in a two-run, best-run count format. Opening her TTR Tour Championship defense, Torah Bright (AUS) pulled off a respectable 4th place in her first event of the season, and looked to be warming up for the finals that did not arrive.

Hana Beaman (USA) staked a place on the podium, narrowly behind an impressive Claudia Fliri (SUI) who pulled in 800.95 TTR Ranking points and moved into the TTR Women’s Top 10. But it was a jubilant Jenny Jones (GBR) who lead the Semi-Finals and claimed $5,000 NZD cash, 850 TTR Ranking points and her second career TTR Five Star title for her endeavors.

In posting her third TTR Five Star result of the season, Hana Beaman pushed into the TTR Tour lead, putting a 100-plus point gap between herself and the previous leader, Kelly Clark (USA).