The professional surf watching masses rejoice!
We surfers are an ornery bastard bunch who can’t agree on much at all. Can’t agree on which board is superior, which wave we should dance upon, if Jeep or Nissan makes a better surf car, when the Brazilian Storm will finally be over.
We argue and fight. Needle and cajole but there’s one thing surfers around the world, old and young, female and non-binary, constantly beg for in one, strong voice.
“Give us more rounds in our professional surfing contests!”
And it appears as if the World Surf League has listened.
The current Vissla Pro in Nick Carroll’s hometown of Avoca, Australia is a QS3000 and has 7 rounds before the quarterfinals.
I don’t know what’s happening in these rounds, as I am currently hiding downtown LA trying to make headway on book, but I assume it is very exciting. I also don’t know if the 7th round is common amongst the QS3000s, as I don’t watch them.
But I do hope that this 7th round concept is being road tested out before it is brought to the big leagues.
I don’t want any more surfers in the draw but I want many more no-consequence practice rounds.
Is it too much to dream that one day World Championship Tour events will take eight full days of competition to complete?
Is it too bold?
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No.
The next QS3000 in Brazil is rumoured to have 12 Rounds.
But Dante said there was only 9 Circles of Hell?
so many incomplete air revos
Hey let’s do the inverse!!!
Surf D-volution!
Let’s begin from final to round 1!!!
The real winner will be the one to lose in round 1 with the lowest heat score!!!
If you want to see more surfing – what about if something like 10 heats were all run at once – twenty surfers would paddle out, and all are surfing against the one surfer they were drawn against?
Nah, commonsense does not apply
Great for the viewers.
Yep, I love overlapping heats (Pipe ‘18 is a good example). More action, better for the viewers. Don’t understand why it’s not more commonplace. If the waves are pumping …
WSL rule book states …
“WSL Commissioner’s Office will consult with the Surfer Representatives in deciding whether to use the Overlapping system where two 2-Surfer heats are sent into the water to compete simultaneously pursuant to the WSL Event Planner.”
So is the commissioner not asking the surfers, or are the surfers saying no?
Definitely the surfers would be saying no if they were ever asked. Overlapping heats are good… in good waves and should be used more in any quality of surf.
Can definitely be turned up a notch, how’s this for a new rule to consider:
Royal Rumble of Surfing can be instigated by the WSL Commissioner by directive or consensus (where possible) at events where the surf is pumping or event is just going too boring for viewers. RRS means all invited surfers paddle out to the peak(s) and have a massive surf off. Pull backs, deliberate drop ins or multiple shit rides (including check turns on good waves) will be penalised by calling the surfer into the beach for the remainder of the heat. Winner is judged by 4 highest scored rides. Heat will run for 2hrs plus added time.
At my local boardriders everyone surfs twice it only fair
Test cricket aint got shit on a quey 3000.
Is there a way to make every round a “losers” round? Winning seems very un PC and rather distasteful.
I think I’ll have to repost this in every WSL article until…
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Give peas a chance?
That’s a repulsive pun, cb.
Like a fine mature cheese.
Savour the mold, the mites and the redolent odor.
Pair it with a carefully chosen Michelob Ultra made with Organic Grains.
Bean thinking about this.
I think you may have caught a bad case of throbotomy.
Is it deadly?
OR Visualize Whirled Peas.
Dam Chas it seems as though yellow beenie boys pre choke out comments lit a fire. Good on u!! A busy beaver one might call you.
They are clearly moving towards the viewers’ needs of a 24/7 HB channel where contest employees (CT) are required to work the beach for all daylight hours in any and all conditions 365 days a year. 12 hours ‘action’, 12 hours recap.
Is it too much to ask for one point per hour of competition? How can you demonstrate mastery of all Huntington beach conditions in less than 10,000 hours?
That’s easy, B.
To master HB all you gotta do is surf in any qs.
The addition of more rounds will hasten your mastery.
50 hrs per webcast viewer?
Close. 1976 viewers x 5 = 9880 hrs
Was there any explanation of why they included a 7th R ?
I’ve been catching a little of this off and on but it just looks like your normal qs grovel fest.
The surfings been good despite the waves.
It’s easy! Seven is the WSL’s lucky number!
By god, you’re right !
That makes perfect sense, Dirks exit strategy revealed.
Go like fuck for 7 years, add as much value as you can. Flog off !
WSL up for sale 2022.
32 surfers in round 1 and a further 128 surfers seeded into rounds 2 through 5. if they were onto it they would slide 3 non elimination rounds into it to really give the viewers that little something extra.
It’s the ‘7’ in ‘1976’.
where’s the brazzos? shaving themselves for the 6000?
More rounds means we’d get to watch the Keanu Asings and Ricardo Christies of the world surf more than 22 times in a year! Just what the doctor ordered! Yay!!
glad you mentioned Keanu. the commentators raised his name as one of the best backhand surfers of the era along with wilko who then backed the statement up with loss in round 6 (after a 5th round seeding).
Say something you only said because you don’t have anything else positive to say about the surfing, and only after exhausting your comments about how much a “character” someone is, enough times and eventually people will start to believe it!
… Keanu is one of the best 1307 backhand surfers in the world!
I seriously considered digging up some footage to see if I had missed something but decided that it was the commentators who were likely stark raving mad.
He did win France CT in chest high lefts…
Certifiably insane. I watched a random 2 minutes of onshore dribble with a moron commentator putting down seasonal change to not factoring in leap years. An idea that needed to go back in the oven just to reach half baked status.
WSL. Est. 1976.
Believe it, cuntee !
on home turf too..
Pole question……
Watch 3 hours of Keanu Asing
Watch 4 hours of Adriano De Souza vs WIllian Cardoza
thats some Matrix like shit….
Thats harsh on Ricardo !
Aeee, man!
I trust you’re being facetious or otherwise. Ric will continue not to disappoint when it gets heavy, just check out his last dance. Be careful which boat you throw Keanu Ass-sing into… Chur to the Churest, oceanyeti.