Blood, sex and tears!
It’s been a wild inaugural Surfival League season, I think very safe to say.
If you’ll remember, the Surfival League was launched as an alternative to Fantasy Surfer. A place where you could win real prizes (see here, here), one where you only root for one surfer, one where you didn’t have to worry about tiers, points, or budgets.
Simplified Fantasy.
Need a quick refresher?
Four rules.
1. Pick one surfer each event.
2. Surfer must advance past The Round of 32.
3. You can’t pick same surfer twice.
4. Winner takes $1,000 and a custom-shaped Panda Surfboard.
A little over three hundred BeachGrit commenters, WSL staff and fantasy dorks tried their hand predicting which surfer will have early round success.
We are now down to 11. That’s three percent of the Original League.
There were massive cullings at Pipeline (Seth Moniz, Julian Wilson), Margaret River (Jack Robinson), Rottnest (Callinan, Toledo, Colapinto), and Barra (Toledo, Colapinto, Igarashi).
Out of the 11 Surfivors, one Hobgood remains, one event remains.
All that’s left is to choose one surfer to win at Lowers (and combined heat score of winning heat to settle ties).
I asked Clifton, would a Surfival win be better than a 2001 crown?
“I only win things with an asterix next to them so yes it would be right up there,” said the Champ, adding if he did win he’d be giving his prize to the runner-up.
The finalists are,
And, ‘cause everyone’s money is on Gabriel Medina or Italo Ferreira, what if Conner, Filipe or Morgan wins?
Tie-breaker rules below!
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dude charged for sure…that drop at teahoopoupoo in campaign 2!
Rooting for the lone inlander (Colorado guy)!
*2001
The only surfer on tour able to beat Filipe, Italo and Medina (twice) on the same day is JJF. A Brazilian will win the title.
It’s a pretty silly format hey
CJ needs to drop the whole “asterisk on the World Title” thing. Was it a shortened year because of 9/11 or something? Who cares. Every person on tour that year competed under the same set of circumstances and he came out on top. Were some guys hoping to make a run with a longer contest season? It’s not CJ’s fault that those guys couldn’t beat him, however stuff played out that year. A World Titles a World Title. An asterisk just coddles the hurt feelings of everyone who didn’t win a World Title that year.
this
You’d think there was a WSL Final on.
Nope, just Sydney people not giving a fuk, good to see
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I would have won if hadn’t that damn Liam O’Brien potatoes beat Filipe at the cursed Rottnest Island. Humbled by the Surf Gods nonetheless.
So does that mean he wins a cauldron of magic potion or a roasted wild boar ?
Asterix?! Gaulish brother in arms to Obelix?
Ceej=Good Human.
*none needed
That’s what I was thinking. Total legend.
The fact that he constantly jokes about being an * world champ completely neuters all potential detractors.
So you just doxed 3 or 4 BG commenters.
Hi Jeff
Fuck, Now the World knows I’m CJ.
The * Badge will be a welcome addition.
*NEGATRON
Almost a real mod.
😢
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No Nega pet for you.
I always thought you were the nicest guy on tour
*thanks!