Perfect weather conditions continued for the 2010 men’s half pipe finals.  Iouri Padladchikov (SUI) took the top spot with his second drop putting down a huge crippler, double McTwist 1260, frontside 1080 tailgrab, and a Cab 720.  This competition marked the debut of the new Snowboard Live Scoring system (SLS), which takes a new approach to judging halfpipe runs.  Instead of looking at a rider's overall run like the Overall Impression system, the new SLS system scores each hit in a rider's run which are then combined with an overall flow score in order to provide a clear definition of how the judges arrive at a final score.  The SLS system was a success in today's halfpipe competition and seemed to be well received by the riders. cab 720 burton, channel-56star, crippler, double mctwist 1260, finals, frontside 1080 tailgrab, gjermund braaten, halfpipe, iouri padladchikov, kyle rattray, louie vito, new zealand, nz, open, snow, snowboarding, taku hiraoka, Snowboard