$2,499 for shade with great views of the action!
Were you here just three days ago when we discussed the ticket prices for the upcoming Lemoore Pro hosted by Surf Ranch and Michelob Ultra Gold? You’d be forgiven for missing. World Cup soccer was in full swing and a large balloon that looks like an infant Donald Trump was getting much attention.
Quickly, the World Surf League released the ticket prices. $499 for a three-day VIP pass, $199 for a one-day VIP pass, $99 for hot sun and $7 Michelob Ultra Golds. Very very much more expensive than the region’s other entertainment options (if we stretch “the region” to include southern California’s Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, etc.).
I was still wondering, “Who on earth would want to pay for this? Am I missing some facet of professional surfing fandom that loves bleeding money for subpar experiences? Are professional surfing fans ultra-rich?” when the famous surf photographer Jack English sent over the World Surf League’s just revealed VIP ticket pricing for the upcoming US Open in Huntington Beach, California. And let us read.
VIP passes are available on a full event ($2,499 per person, July 28 – August 5) or daily ($299 per person) basis, and they include:
Access to the exclusive, shaded WSL VIP deck with great views of the action in the water, from 7 AM – 5 PM each day
Free catered breakfast, lunch and beverage
Exclusive event gift bag
30-minute behind-the-scenes tour of the event
VIP parking pass
For more details or to reserve your VIP passes today, email [email protected]. You can also purchases VIP passes during the event at the Welcome Center (first come, first served depending on availability).
Remember, this is the US Open in Huntington Beach, California.
Huntington Beach, California.
Seriously, I need to know, am I missing some facet of professional surfing fandom that loves bleeding money for subpar experiences? Are professional surfing fans ultra-rich?
Or is the World Surf League playing a giant prank?
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Doesn’t a 3 day VIP pass to Coachella cost $1,000??!! …….. Very loose butthole.
So Orange County surf fans are a bunch of entitled rich kids….breaking news. Don’t see them trying this in Brazil
Do you think a majority of the crowd can count higher than potato?
They are trying sell the lifestyle not the “sport”, all rich jocksniffers want to hang out with the cool kids.
The WSL… in the service of the bourgeoisie.
Shouldn’t there be a sort of sub-contest where the most hops to the beach wins?
will Bowie be there – taxidermy, of course.
https://www.dailymotion.com…
Thats a $2,499.00 increase from last year. Seems plausible.
“It’s time to… Kroon Along With Kreslly
I’m want to go to Surf ranch
Take me, take me, take me
Take me now
Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!
Surf ranch take me
There right now!”
Ok ok ok repost… rs
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Tap on celebrity footballers, golfers, actors, models ect to attend, rachet up ticket prices so the common man can only aspire to be in the shaded area then transition to pay per view model so the common man can engage via the media platform. Pretty standard sports delivery model, stop bitching and make sure you have data on you phone plan.
Not to change the subject, but it seems the Inertia boys, Dylan and Alex, zac are back up to their old tricks, if you disagree with something they say about their propaganda, they will ban you. I guess they are afraid of other people’s opinions and the truth. And they once said they stood for freedom of speech, that seems a little hypocritical now.
What about if yer polite as tea with the queen? Can you smuggle in some differing opinion?
Do you realize “freedom of speech” mean anything on privately owned (non-Federal) websites? Do you also realize no one gives a shit about the goddamn Inertia?
Exclusive event gift bag is a reference to a bag of blow right? VIP’s do blow.
Is it possible that this is how the WSL is bankrolling the whole shit show?
For $2500 “Gift bag” would include own portable dunny right? So in any ensuing riots could roll your own shit and piss onto the poor punters!!!
I remember surfing Northside the day of the finals last year. Paddling through the pier I saw Tomas waiting for the horn. Took every bit of me not to ask why he didn’t have an H after the T in his name. But I figured knowing he was going to lose, regardless if he surfed better than Kanoa, was enough the poor guy needed to endure.
Anyways, you can just walk on the beach for free. Plenty of fat dudes with their names tattooed on their forearms also bring their own beers you could possibly snag (if you considered malt liquor a beer).
And if you sit on the correct side of the fat guys (or gals), they provide lots of shade.
No surfer can watch huntington for 5 days straight
“Exclusive event gift bag”? Does it include a wallet with a chain, flat brim hat, and a pit bull puppy?
I read somewhere that the Platinum event gift bag even throws in some bad tattoos, an HB High School certificate of near completion, an event-long dose of casual and unrepentant racism or obliviousness (you choose), and an undying hatred for the Inland Empire and every east-west interstate that arrives at the beach. Also available with lifetime membership option.
for that price you should be guaranteed the chance to kick over a port-a-potty as well
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
These are tickets for the top brass in surf business….if you want in to rub palms with big surf money….got to pay!
The man whom wore the Fruit of the Loom waistband as a head band while playing B-ball up at Sunset Elementary in the early 90’s passed a year so ago. He went by Crocket.. Funny memory!
How much for adding the Africanized Bees experience? I mean…shit, if you’re gonna charge a price that stings, I Otto get stung.
I assume the shade is being provided by kelly himself. He is the master of throwing it. Just ask ADS.