A purpose built 'stair feature' was in place which included, a flat to down ledge, a straight down flat rail and a banked c-box. Scaffolders were hard at work building the drop-in tower and after about three hours of shoveling the run-in and with many Redbulls consumed, the battle was ready to get underway.

As this was an 'invitational' places were limited to 60 competitors in total which included both skiers and snowboarders. The format was very relaxed, with three qualifying sessions of 15 riders all jamming for half an hour on any of the rails, there were no scores given by the judges and no rider ranking, instead only the best tricks were recorded in each session with four riders progressing to the 12 man final. Both the skiers and girls had the whole 1.5 hours to impress the judges with three making it to the final round.

The finals saw all the usual suspects getting through, Steve Ferg, Tim and Will J, RMB, Jah Harris and Leon Eru, as well as some 'wildcards' like Remarks Terrain Park ranger Nick Rochester, and Canadian ripper Dwayne who was stomping some of the nights cleanest switch frontsides on the down rail.

Everyone had an hour to throw down, with the judges each choosing a rail to mark on. And it was obvious everyone had warmed up throughout the night in front of the 2000 strong crowd as the level of riding was out of this world! But in the end it was the 'wildcards' destroying it and taking home the cash prizes. Nick Rochester killed the ledge with frontside 270 to frontside boardslide to 180 to boardslide to 180 out. Josh Clark with a butter to switch 270 to 270 out on the c-box. And Roland Morely-Brown on the down rail with butter to backside 270 to 270 out. In the girls it was another Canadian Leanne winning with nice frontside boardslides on the c-box, and in the ski division Nick Draxl teched it up on the ledge.

All up the night was a great success and plans are already being made for next year, there is even talk of doubling the amount of stairs on the feature! Many thanks go out to NZSKI.COM, S&C, Mission 6, and Redbull for putting on the sickest street jam Queenstown has ever seen. Also special mention to Sam Deavoll and Lance Watson for their time and skills in building the feature which will soon be in place up at the Remarkables Terrain Park.

Jarred Dowson