Boycott I say! Show the World Surf League who's boss (besides CEO Paul Speaker)!
It has been splashed across this website for almost two years and other websites too. And probably magazines. Etc. The losers’ Round 5 is for total losers and I don’t mean the surfers in Round 5. I mean, I do. They lost in Round 4. But I really mean the people who watch it.
Round 5 stretches World Surf League Championship Tour events a whole 2 hrs. 2 hrs of maybe pristine swell. 2 hrs of life to watch men who should have skunked off to drink in a lonely corner. What pressure is there in Round 4? I’ll answer for you. None. Which, in turn, makes Round 4 lame too because a “no losers round” is the ultimate losers round!
And it is time to be done with it, with Round 5, or whichever round is gumming up the works. This has been splashed across this website for almost two years and other websites too. But the World Surf League is not listening. CEO Paul Speaker has ABBA playing full volume in his Walkman while he rollerblades around Santa Monica in preparation for rollerblading around the Washington Redskins new stadium.
So let us show them with our numbers! Forward this to all your friends and tell them not to show up for Round 5. No logging in, no favoriting WSL Tweets, no nothing. Being anti-stuff is working for both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. It can work for us too!
Boycott Round 5!
P.S. Do you think CEO Paul Speaker subscribes to Google Alerts and has to read every one of these stories because they are the only ones that pop up featuring his name?
Your arguments and “friends” from that other site seem to be following you and trying to continue the theme here… sitting on the fence isn’t a pretty place to be, you might have to climb down on one side.
Paul Speaker will not be around forever! Time to start looking for a new punching bag…
we are not going to change nothing, BUT I’M IN!
Hey, Chas, the next good post material you get you should probably give to Rory. He needs to be fed ideas, since he’s really been struggling since his anti-surf shop and Gay Power Rankings posts.
The gay power ranking and the Hurley homo advertising campaign were his best material yet!
king of komeback…
I’m with Jimmy the Saint on introducing overlapping heats on more contests! I wouldn’t mind at least one no losers round if they were man on man. Give each surfer at least 2 surfs in each contest. Absolutely no heats with 3 man. What do you guys suggest?
TWO deleted comments??? What did I miss??? Was someone talking shit about Rosie (let me at ’em!!!) or was someone talking shit about Rory (meh…let ’em have at it)?
I was being quite unkind about some of Rosy’s older photographs. Fuckatron wants me to wear a muzzle for now on so it is what it is. I’ve been looking at attending some etiquette classes and being a bit more subtle when making offensive statements like the other contributors at BeachGrit. It’s a very political situation.
You almost joined Nicky Dee sipping cocktails on his extended vacation yesterday Wigg.
I would not enjoy exile in Israel with Nick Dee. I’m disappointed in myself. I had hoped to positively contribute to BeachGrit and protect it from becoming the Inertia. Perhaps at times I have gone too far but my heart was in the right place. If anyone is in town for Bells come say hi. Peace. Wiggs.
Why does the round 1 and 2 fiasco get ignored? If you lose you should fuck off.
They did this once and the guys hated it. Don’t you remember??? Same as the mid-year replacements that saw Gabs come on and blow minds.
I feel like there’s a lot of talk about man on man, can we boycott that?
Geez, leave the majestic Swedes of Abba out of this mess!
One huge thing that can and should be done is quit running the men’s and women’s at the same time. It fucks both the men and women over. One of the biggest problems the tour has is being able to live up to hype. They spend weeks and weeks hyping something then stop start stop start, switch back and forth between events for two weeks. You never know what you’re going to get. Its not like tennis (whats up Bobby!) where running men and women is easy because a tennis court is a tennis court.
Very astute observation about tennis courts.
I have a simple and underdeveloped mind when not properly hydrated with alcohol.
here’s what they should do:
– top 12 get a bye through round 1
– seeds 13-36 surf round 1 (Top ranks vs low ranks), losers go home
– in round 2, the seed you come up against is based once again on your season ranking. (Only 12 surfers left!)
– round 4 remains 3 man heats, but third place goes home
– that leaves the quarterfinalists, whose seedings are determined by their performances in rd 4 (1st from heat 1 vs 2nd from heat 2, etc etc)
– yadda yadda filipe wins
This saves 8 hours and is a bit more fair in terms of structure. Most importantly, NO no loser rounds.
Also, for fairness sake, if someone loses in round 1 they will receive the same amount of points as a top 12er losing in round 2.
Top 12 only competing in round 2 is old news. It used to be like that. 3 man heats with the loser knocked out means 2 guys can gang up on the third element. You can do better.
Old is not necessarily bad. Remember the mid-year cutoff? that was new, and shit. and how can they gang up on someone when there’s 3 man priority?
You’re right, I was talking shit. Still hate 3 man heats. Old top 12 starting in round 2 got thrown out because nobody cared to watch round 1.
And fuck off the reseed after round 2. In every other sport, if the underdog beats the top seed round one, he carries the top seed’s draw through to the final. Fair’s fair!
Most pro team sports reseed (i.e. Paul Speaker’s WSFL) after each round so it’s not really unusual.
Most? I can’t think of one.
The NFL reseeds. The NHL reseeds. Even MLB reseeds. I think that the NBA is the only one that doesn’t but I’m not 100% sure.
None of those reseed “after each round” of the playoffs…besides, this is every competition of an individual sport, not an end-of-season team sport playoff format.
boycott? there’s 1.6 billion people watching the CT and there’s only about 25 of us reading Beachgrit! it’ll never work!
It’ll be like the Trump campaign! We’ll be an angry, vile 25!
hey NC is that your voice in the quiky board short adds during the webcast? sounds heaps similar
No, but fuck you’re right! that’s weird.
‘but fuck’… (giggles)
We’re the 0.0001%
so is that why we have loser rounds ah like……..the ISA ‘s never ending contest format? Or is that there are so many people watching surfing we need to extend the format by having 2 x losers rounds , like all sports?
No non-elimination heats. Cut to 32 competitors, then man-on-man the whole of the contest. Or 3rd place Round 1 gets axed leaving 24 surfers. Round 2, man-on-man, cutting to 12. Round 3, three surfer heat, 3rd place eliminated. Then man-on-man on.
By the way…if we’re gonna protest…can it be about something more meaningful like Rosie’s somewhat frumpy beach attire? The lady is hot as you-know-what (I forget…when Rory talks about cock fighting and bitch slapping homeless people if this a family friendly site???) and she’s NOT wearing a bikini. What the hell is that about?
Boycott and do work? Fuck that!
Here’s my thing about Round 4…you get some damn good heats. Kelly, Mick and JJF at Pipe is just one example. Some other events…not so much but it is cool to see three of the top 10 guys in one heat.
Get rid of round four, have overlapping heats like they have at pipe, it would make a quicker and better show all round!
Now that is something I will agree on! I wouldn’t mind no losers if they were man on man. Give each surfer at least 2 surfs in each contest. Absolutely no heats with 3 man. What do you suggest?
If I’m boycotting, it’s R4. At least people go home in R5.
I mean that’s what I meant. Or something. I get confused about which I’m supposed to be angry about but Round 5 is coming up so… Boycott dear Trogan!
Well, I did, sorta. No way I was staying up that late to watch R5 last night.
I literally turn it off during round 4 and pretend to be finished watching for the night….. All girlfriends love surfing, til you watch 6 straight hours of heats and take over the television