Transworld Team Shootout Winner

Last week at the Transworld Snowboarding Magazine (click for more) head office in Carlsbad CA, photo editor Nick Hamilton and editor-in-chief Annie Fast finally announced the winners of the 1st Annual Team Shoot Out. Since this was all done in secret, neither of the teams knew what the others had built, what the photos looked like or how the video was edited until that night. The 4 teams gathered in the TWS gallery for first time photo and video viewing before the winner was announced. I must say, I was more than surprised when Nick unveiled my photo of LNP on the cover of the September issue and us (Rome Snowboards and Bear Mountain) as the winning team. I would like to thank everyone at Rome and Bear for making this all possible. You all kicked ass and helped make this event a success.

the day before I helped cut and mount the gallery photos

myself, Holly and Christian with TWS arts and crafts

my 10 photos submitted for judging

Frode Sandbech and his 10 photos

Andy Wright and his 10 photos

Video I shot of the awards

TWS Video of the awards

Rome Shootout Teaser

Here is the teaser to our Transworld Team Shootout video. Our team included LNP, Marie France Roy, Bjorn Leines, Will Lavigne and Eiki Helgason. I shot the photos, while John Cavan filmed and edited the video. Art Direction by Mike Paddock. We shot all this during 7 cold nights in April at Bear Mountain in California. A normal day during this shoot consisted of...

• 1pm wake up.
• 4pm drive to the hill and shuttle our camera gear up on snowcats.
• 5pm riders test out the feature for that night and the park crew dials in the changes needed.
• 10pm riders start hitting the features and I am almost set up.
• 12am start shooting.
• 4am we have the shots in the bag.
• 5am cook frozen pizza back at the house and mac off. (the act of emailing, facebooking and ichating on a mac book)
• 6am bed time.

The full video will be available on iTunes exclusively on July 27th. (not in available in Canada or Europe)

Transworld Team Shootout

There's a reason why you never saw this coming, why you never heard a word about it. Because it was all done in secret. TransWorld's Team Shoot Out had four of the best teams in snowboarding-Forum, DC, Burton and Rome-competing simultaneously at four separate resorts across the west.

Unlike any event in snowboarding, the all new Shoot Out focuses on creativity itself. As media leaders, TransWorld challenged the invited teams to produce the ultimate terrain park shoot and document it in video and photos to showcase the visual power of snowboarding. Let 'em build whatever they wanted to ride, shred it however they wanted and shoot it all in any way they saw fit. -TWS

• The contest goes down in a two week window, with seven days of build time and seven days of ride time.
• Each team consists of five riders, including one girl.
• A TWS photographer is assigned to each team. Burton (Frode Sandbech) DC (Andy Wright) Forum (Ian Ruhter) Rome (Scott Serfas)
• Each team must create a five minute final video (available on iTunes) and submit a gallery of ten photos for judging.
• Judging is broken into the event's three main components: video, photos, and overall creativity.
• The winning team is awarded the September cover of TWS.