Lucas Magoon and Erin Comstock Took The Rail Jam Titles
Truckee, CA – The Vans Cup at Tahoe got off to a killer start Friday night under the lights at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort with jib masters Lucas Magoon and Erin Comstock nabbing the guy's and women’s titles in a Rail Jam comp before an enthusiastic crowd ready to start the weekend’s snowboard action at the West Coast’s biggest snowboard contest. Incline Village local Comstock took home $2,600 with smooth frontside boardslides on the down rail and powerful 50-50’s through the kinked rail, while Magoon, who has been torrid on the rail contest circuit this winter, grabbed $12,000 with the most technical combos on the rails against a larger men’s field.
Action continues through the weekend with many of snowboarding brightest stars such as Danny Kass, Andreas Wiig, Antti Autti, Hana Beaman, Leanne Pelosi and Kelly Clark competing in Saturday’s Slopestyle comp and Sunday’s Superpipe contest which is sure to be epic with more than $80,000 up for grabs.
The Rail Jam Battleground
2007 Vans Tahoe Cup Rail Jam Results:
Mens
1. Lucas Magoon (Silverthorn, CO) $12,000
2. Yale Cousino (Lincoln, VT) $8,000
3. Keegan Vailaika (Dana Point, CA) $4,000
Best Trick: Lucas killed it so they gave up on trying to name any of his tricks the best
Lucas Magoon dominates all rail jams
Yale Cuisno finished second place
Womens
1. Erin Comstock (Incline Village, NV) $2,600
2. Silvia Mittermuller (Munich, GER) $1,000
3. Leanne Pelosi (Calgary, CAN) $1,000
Best Trick: Marie Franceroy - boardslide through the kink
A boardslide through the kink won best trick for Marie Franceroy
Second place women's finisher Leanne Pelosi
Highlights:
- "Lucas Magoon can do anything he wants" - Dingo. It seems that in rail jams that certainly is a true statement. Lucas crushed it
- Erin Comstock won it for the women with a pretty strong win
- Mike Casanova said the rail set up was fun. To me it looked like it took a lot of people out, Hana Beaman, Yale Cuisno, Louie Vito, Ulli and others all packed pretty hard
- Jim Rippey was a judge
- It was a good time for everyone, especially all those smoking weed and drinking beer underage, ha, ha
Rahm Klampert
Aaron Bitner - 5-0
Michael Goldschmidt over to 270
Danny Kass and his dog
Lucas Magoon, Dingo and Mike Casanova
Andreas Wiig slammed in slope style practice but seems to be ok "Get this side of my face"
Snowboard fans who can’t make it up to the great snow we have at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort this weekend will be able to get their Vans Cup at Tahoe fix on the web by visiting vans.com on Sunday afternoon for live webcasts and highlights of the of the Vans Cup. Look for plenty of photos and live updates at throughout the weekend at vans.com. The Vans Cup at Tahoe television special debuts on FUEL TV in two parts on May 7 and May 21 at 9:30 PM ET/PT.
Schedule:
Saturday, March 3
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle Qualifying
11:30 PM – 3:00 PM Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle FINALS (web highlights
Sunday)
Sunday, March 4
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Men’s and Women’s Superpipe Qualifying
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM Men’s and Women’s Superpipe FINALS (live webcast)
The Vans Cup at Tahoe is made possible by the support of Rockstar Energy Drink, Scion, Snowboarder Magazine and FUEL TV, the 24/7 action sports lifestyle network.
Yale Cuisno and his friends were stoked on his second place win