Innsbruck, Austria – In one of the most thrilling events of this season, exciting down to the very last run of the day, Breckenridge, Colo.’s Eric Willett won the Billabong Air&Style 2013 in Innsbruck on Saturday, defeating favorites like X Games Big Air Champion Mark McMorris in the superfinal. Second-place finisher Sebastien Toutant of Canada finished second to take home the World Snowboard Tour Big Air Trophy.

‘’More important to me was the fun we had here today and yesterday, riding with these legendary guys in the Jam session and some of my closest friends today,’’ said Willett.

“I won the Slopestyle Tour Trophy last year and was very happy to collect this one too. It’s an amazing feeling to be rewarded for your accomplishments over a season,” added Toutant, of L’Assomption, Quebec, who barely defeated Norwegian Stale Sandbech by 1.01 point in the Big Air final ranking.

Round 1 of the classic Air&Style head-to-head format eliminated Canadian Maxence Parrot, of Bromont, Quebec, who mathematically had the best chance of winning the World Snowboard Tour Big Air championship on Saturday night. His best run, a backside double cork 1080 mute with a frontboard 270 on the rails wasn’t enough to beat local Austrian favorite Clemens Schattschneider and advance to round two.

Things heated up in the following runs, when at the same time conditions were hardening as the snowfall got more dense. Norway’s Stale Sandbech brought on the highlight run, a backside triple cork 1440 mute and frontside lip slide, earning 93.33 points. Willett eliminated Belgian rider Seppe Smits, last season’s Big Air Champion.

In the Super Final, McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada was discouraged as he wasn’t able to cleanly land his runs after two beautiful triple corks in round three. His backside triple cork 1440 mute and cab 270 frontboard to fakie on the rails was the highest scored trick of the night, earning a striking 96 points. He was defeated by Norway’s Aleksander Ostreng, who executed a backside 1260 mute 180 on 180 out.

With the Big Air chapter for the 2012-2013 season closed, the riders on the World Snowboard Tour have now arrived in Laax, Switzerland, for the 6Star Burton European Open beginning today as both women and men started qualification rounds for Halfpipe and Slopestyle disciplines.