Torstein Horgmo, the 19-year-old prodigy from Norway has taken out the annual Stylewars event in Falls Creek Australia.

After three gruelling marathon days of jumping wombat holes and freestyle antics standing sideways on snow, it is over.

Torstein catapulted himself today from 6th position after day 2 to the number one spot. He was helped with serious weighting from the rider vote‚ which boosted him easily to the title of 2007 Grandmaster‚ “I’m so stoked to win, this event doesn’t even feel like a competition it’s been amazing, thanks to all the riders for the good times. Let’s party and have a good time.” Exclaimed Torstein as he walked off the stage with his bag of loot.

T-Money (as he’s now known down under) not only takes home the 7g cash prize for overall Stylewars Grandmaster, but also takes home the “one hitter” comp for his ninja skills on the biggest jump in competition history with a 150-foot frontside 10 or was it the 150-foot switch backside 9 or was it the 150-foot backside 540 stale!

Whichever trick it was, T-money bagged 10 g of our funny ozzy plastic cash plus two blinging necklaces - one gold, one silver!

The final day of riding was limited to the hip and triple jump park line due to high winds.

A two-hour session went down with the second hour reserved for a style session‚ where riders were spins were limited to 540 and style was the focus.

Mitch Allan from Australia was tweaking the be-jesus out of everything while Shayne Pospisil from USA was killing the style session with chicken wing spins. Logan Short of Canada was styling some sweet frontside 9’s and backside 7’s.

Torstein laid down some tech big runs that included switch backside 9 to front 10 to backside 7 followed by a noseslide on the hug rainbow.

In the coveted Bledisnow‚ (blood on snow) battle between team Australia and team New Zealand the Kiwi’s looked like smashing the Aussie’s, as they were going hard all week. 4 out of their team of five stepped to big tricks on the huge 120-foot booter but it also meant 3 were injured and couldn’t continue riding and accumulating valuable team points for the week. This meant the consistency of the Australian team gave the win and they again retain the coveted Garden Gnome. The Oz team all received brand new phones from Motorola.

Kiwi Roland Morley Brown - switch back 180. Photo: Alex Roberts

Torstein’s results here at Stylewars have pushed him from 5th to 2nd in the TTR Wold Tour rankings. Stylewars was a 3-star TTR event.

The final Stylewars top 10:

1. Torstein Horgmo (NOR) ˆ 2007 Grandmaster
2. Will Jackways (NZE)
3. Robbie Walker (AUS)
4. Toni-Markus Turunen (FIN)
5. Wyatt Caldwell (USA)
6. Shayne Pospisil (USA)
7. Ryan Tiene (AUS)
8. Stef Zeestraten (NZE)
9. Clint Allan (AUS)
10. Roland Morley Brown (NZE)

The after party went off in the hotel bar, DJ Katalyst and MC’s RUCL, HAU [Koolism] and ATOME tore the roof off the place playing tracks from their new release album “What’s Happening.” www.katalystmusic.com.au

Big Thanks to the Silver Ski Lodge at Falls Creek who put up with 70 crazy snowboarders and music heads for 5 days!
www.silverskilodge.com.au

Thanks to all supporters:
Oakley, DC, Volvo, Corona, Red Bull, Motorola, Falls Creek, Australia and New Zealand Snowboarding Magazine.

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