Breckenridge, CO – With past years in the back of everyone’s minds, Shaun White was a favorite to come in and take home another Dew Cup to add to his collection in the Snowboard Superpipe Final at the Dew Tour this past weekend in Breckenridge. As spectators saw in the semi-final, however, White is only human and occasionally slips an edge, and with the stiff competition this event was truly up for grabs.

By the halfway point of the competition, Sandy, Utah’s Louie Vito had laid down an insane first run that temporarily put him in first place with a score of a 90.00 that seemed unmatchable. Then White, of Carlsbad, Calif., rolled in and everything went out the window as White nailed every wall with perfection and pulled out a 95.25 and the top spot.

White’s first run held true and carried him to the top of the podium and awarded him the 2012 Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Dew Cup. White’s double mctwist 1260, or tomahawk as White prefers to reference it, was truly the trick that set his run apart from the rest, as he was the only one in the lineup with it in his arsenal.

That’s not all, for since White had secured a spot on the podium, and practically guaranteed a first place with only one rider left to go, White went for another trick that only he has in his bag, a double rodeo. Although he did not pull the double rodeo, he did take home the Dew Cup.

“I think that [the new single-stop event format] is great – the bigger, the better! When you make it a premier event like that it sets it up for everyone to bring their A-game,” said White, still taking in his victory. Looking toward the future at the 2014 Olympics to take place in Sochi, Russia, White added, “I started training a year ago, and this is all part of it. I’m just going to keep doing what I have set out to do.”

OFFICIAL RESULTS
Dew Tour – iON Mountain Championships
Breckenridge, CO – Dec. 16, 2012
Men’s Snowboard Superpipe

1. Shaun White 95.25
2. Louie Vito 90.00
3. Taku Hiraoka 81.50
4. Christian Haller 77.00
5. Ayumu Hirano 72.75