Hi. Just to clarify, no one at TransWorld votes on this list. We do an online poll of 125 pro riders and their votes determine both the nominees and the winners.
Carry on ...

Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. It's correct now. (Sorry Louie!) Louie was the first to drop back to back double corks in this contest.

It's a Resort Poll, so it's voted on by the readers of TransWorld SNOWboarding. We post the poll on this site and in the magazine in April. Make sure to vote next year.

There's gonna be an East Coast edition of the list!

Guy in the sky ...

Check the icons, within the Over $400 and Under $400 categories there are both all-mountain and park boards. We'll make it clearer next year ... this was the first year testing all mountain board in the Good Wood test.

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/gear/before-yo...

The icons indicate which boards ranked top ten in either park or all-mountain. This is the first year we've tested all mountain. (It comes across a little clearer in the October issue.) But within the Top Ten Over $400 rankings there are a number of all-mountain boards for steeps, tree, and pow.

We plan to add the "wide" icon back into the Buyer's Guide next year showing which boards are available in wider waist widths which should help narrow your search. While I did indeed write this article, my sources for were three board designers: JG at Burton, Sean Tedore at K2, and Dave Appel (formerly at Forum). I hope it sounds "more serious" now.
Was Andy MacDonald on the Airwalk snow team? Damn, that was a long time ago ...

Thanks for spending your Friday night with us! Hopefully we can do more of these to keep us all entertained while we're waiting for the snow to fall and the lifts to open. (Thanks to Todd, too ... I think he chatted his fingers to the bone.)