Well after all the stress of not being able to get the live webcast thing to actually be live, I feel we here at POP have to redeem ourselves a little. So while we’re editing down the footage of the event, I thought I’d post some photos and a little teaser video to hold you over until we can get the video of the event up on the site Monday night.

The Burton Rail Event was easily one of the best rail events Australia has ever seen. Being held on an actually street rail, it’s not hard to see why. Mt Buller brought the epic setup (which included a drop-in ramp for speedy gap-to’s) and Burton brought 10 of Australia’s best snowboarders:

Marc Baker
Chris Boadle
Max Cookes
Chris Eacott
Alex Kutaysov
Aaron Maxwell
Tom Pelly
Nick Rochester
Robbie Walker
Mikey Williams

Chris Boadle and Mikey Williams took out equal 1st place and $1000 cash each (yep cash; in a suitcase!). Chris Boadle killed it with epic 270 gap-to-rail combos and a bullshit nollie gap-to back lip on the side rail. Mikey was large and in charge as always. He was the first to try the gap option and also the side kink rail which was pretty much a land first go. Other stand outs were Max Cookes’ massive 270 gap-to switch frontside boardslides, Chris Eacott’s fakie backtail’s and Robbie Walkers frontside 270 to something inbetween-a-frontside-boardslide-and-a-frontside-noseslide . Youngsters Tom Pelly and Nick Rochester put in a solid debut effort and are names to watch for fo’ sure! The only real injury of the night happened when the already injured (he had a previously broken hand in a cast) Marc Baker caught the lip of the jump and went down hard on the stairs.

Now get these into your eyeballs!

The setup.

Compulsory mullet photo.

For those that care to know Mikey Williams and Chris Eacott’s sticker/board setups.

And Tom Pelly shred weapon.

POP filmier Jan with the freshest event MC ever to hold a mic, Chris Jepson.

Robbie Walker chillin’ with the fans.

Rider view.

Mikey Williams strapped into the speed drop in ramp before anyone had even hit the rail. Yeah, he’s got bigger balls than any of us…

Who is this incredibly handsome Robbie Walker you keep speaking of?

Chris Eacott with one of those fakie backtails I told you about.

Marc Baker, nosepress to 180 out.

Marc Baker, frontside boardslide.

Mikey Williams gapping-to with some kid of rail combo.

Robbie SkyWalker.

Robbie TexasWalker.

Mikey and Eacott.

Chris and Mikey.

Crowd favourite Max Cookes.

Chris Boadle.

Aaron Maxwell’s first day on snow for the year and he’s dropping into this backtail 270 out!

MC Chris Jepson giving the money to Mikey Williams and Chris Boadle.

Marc Baker was competing with a broken hand before he fell. Here he learns about consequence… again.

[TEASER MISSING]

A little teaser for the full coverage of the event that we’ll be posting later Monday night.

Thanks to Marcus for the video and most of the photos. Sorry to make you hold a camera in the freezing cold. Don’t worry, your fingers will grow back I’m sure.